Space-age card game

Cory Doctorow 6:24 am Thu Mar 25, 2010

Flickr user Thomasallenonline has posted a set of scans from a 1950s card-game called Space-O that sported superb artwork (and, inevitably, stupid gender stereotypes). This is an archetypal space-race artifact, a kind of Ur-Jetsononian demand for jetpacks in card-game form.

Space-O Card Game

(via Super Punch)

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