Over the years the game of Risk has become the ultimate military strategy game.
There have been changes and variations added to the rules; the map art has been redrawn numerous times and the armies have been redesigned several times as well.
But the object of the game has always remained the same; Conquer the world!
In1959 Parker Brothers published the first Risk game in the United states. At the time it was called the Risk Continental game: Continental referring to the continent you are trying to capture and "Risk" as legend has it, are the initials of a Parker Brothers salesman's grandchildren