The quintessential feature of “find out how the board game was invented” educational dramatisations, the likes of which you’d see on bundles of kids shows; we first encountered it on the Jeremy Beadle-helmed Eureka, a Beeb show where real people re-enacted the origins of inventions over a bleached-out background limbo of white Chromakey. Similarly, Monopoly’s appeal lay largely in the 3D renderings of houses, hotels and beautiful pewter playing pieces set against a flat board of Old London Town, Pennsylvania, or wherever.