Mouse Trap: The Board Game Milton Bradley Called ‘Plastic Junk’
Mouse Trap is a board game Ideal released in 1963 in which players crank-build a 20-plus-piece Rube Goldberg machine and then try to drop a plastic cage on each other’s mouse pieces. Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers both rejected it before Ideal picked it up and sold 1.2 million copies in its first year alone….