Risk is a
strategy board game produced by
Parker Brothers (now a division of
Hasbro).
Winning Moves also makes a classic 1959 version. It was invented by French
film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957 as
La Conquête du Monde ("The Conquest of the World") in
France. It was later bought by Parker Brothers and released in 1959 with some modifications to the rules as
Risk: The Continental Game, then as
Risk: The Game of Global Domination.