10 Controversial Board Games That Got BANNED

2. Public Assistance

Another economic parody board game, this time a right-wing tinged mockery of the American welfare system.

The tagline was ‘why bother working for a living’. That’ll show ‘em, game.

In the game you move around various tracks, switching between the track where you have a job, which is just a nightmare of rent, car payments and other burdens that plague good-old hard-working joes, or you can go on the welfare track where each space is full of things like, having an illegitimate child, doing some armed robbery, prostitution, snatching purses, dealing drugs lol.

It’s a punch-down joke of a game, brought to you by the Hammerhead Enterprises, the same company who made Capital Punishment, another game that sought to spin cash by pointing at misery and winking.

After a sustained letter writing campaign by what was then known as the American Public Welfare Association, Public Assistance was eventually banned from retailers.