Poor Oswald Jacoby. Sure, he was largely responsible for the backgammon boom of the 70s. So much so, that his picture adorned the game box:
But then, the old man-young boy bonding in a library just wasn't deemed sexy enough.* Or at least not the right type of sexy. So they repackaged it like this:
I can't tell if that guy's hand is on the chair or her thigh, but there's no mistaking the gleam in his eye. However he is losing the game by a huge amount, so perhaps he's just trying to change the subject from backgammon. Also of note: The board and pieces pictured have gotten way crappier.
* For Republican Congressmen, Catholic priests, and gay-hatin', meth-snortin', evangelical con-men it's just the RIGHT kind of sexy.