The man who invented the board game Operation half a century ago now needs help paying for a real operation.
Friends of cash-strapped John Spinello have launched a crowd-funding project to raise money for his medical expenses.
The 77-year-old Illinois man needs $25,000 dollars for oral surgery not covered by his insurance.
He sold the rights to Operation, which he invented as an industrial design student at the University of Illinois in 1964, for just $500.
