What happened to Monopoly?

[California Tanker]

http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/monopoly-ditches-cash-goes-plastic/

Surely punching the buttons has got to be more time consuming than counting notes.

NTM

[godfry n. glad]

Now the banker has to be a hacker to steal from the bank?

[Julie]

but but but...will they add in the land on free parking get to get all the money that was collected (For incom tax from having to pay out chance cards whatnot)

Its not an offical rule but everyone I know plays with it.....It just wouldnt be right without it.

/me is off to the toy store to buy several extra sets of money...I'm never going plastic!

Plus I play with my 7 year old, he's learning math and money management skills and has the cahs infront of him to *see* what he has. The plastic card just wouldnt teach the same lesson!

[MonCapitan2002]

I guess I should get one of the existing copies of the game. I have no interest in getting an advertising vehicle for Visa.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

I guess I should get one of the existing copies of the game. I have no interest in getting an advertising vehicle for Visa.

I already have an old one, two actually(one is a Star Wars edition) but I think I'll get a new old one. Ugh, I'm with MonCap on this on hating the built in advertisement. When is enough enough for these people? *barf* They better leave Jenga alone, that's all I'm sayin'.

[quiet bear]

I don't think I ever finished a game of Monopoly. Started plenty, never finished.

[Leesifer]

Its not an offical rule but everyone I know plays with it.....It just wouldnt be right without it.

:yup:

[Adam]

I actually like it. I keep saying that we need to hurry up and get rid of physical money, anyway. I'd prefer if the change wasn't in the form of an advertisement for Visa, but it's not like Parker Bros. is a public institution that shouldn't ethically be advertising other companies.

[viscousmemories]

I've always played with that rule too, Julie. That said, I think this is a good change. Whenever my siblings and I would play we'd keep all our accounts on paper anyway, since there were always loans, bribes and other economic complications involved.

[Adam]

I always play with the Free Parking rule as well, although it throws game balance all to hell. I think it's debatable whether or not Monopoly is a 'real' game or a 'social' game anyway, though, so that's fine with me.

Social games, for the purpose of the above sentence, are games where the outcome is more or less random, and the point is more to have an excuse to sit around a table and talk than to actually play the game.

[viscousmemories]

There was no such thing as a 'social' game in my family. We played Boggle for blood.

[Adam]

The corners of the Boggle cube are sharp, too. :stab:

[Julie]

Monopoly is a blood sport in my circle of friends. Its not unheard of for a game to last for 5-6 hours.

/me wonders if her friends and herself are weird...late 20's and we rent pornos and play monopoly instead of going out clubbing.

[Smilin]

what better to go with Monopoly other than a porno!.....eh?

[Adam]

Silly, Julie, porno is for Trivial Pursuit, not Monopoly.

I dunno about weird...no one I know spent a lot of time out clubbing in their late 20's. We all sort of outgrew it in our early 20's.

[wei yau]

I'm conflicted about this, the nostalgic side of me wants to keep the money. But, the more practical side of me remembers that my cousin, as banker, would often steal money from the bank to add to his stash.

[Julie]

Silly, Julie, porno is for Trivial Pursuit, not Monopoly.

I dunno about weird...no one I know spent a lot of time out clubbing in their late 20's. We all sort of outgrew it in our early 20's.

They won't play Trivial Pursuit with me anymore. I'm the queen of usless information.

Porn also goes well with Balderdash.

[Crumb]

It won't be the same without the cash.

[livius drusus]

Nice scam Parker is running. They get sponsored by Visa for the duration, while giving themselves the perfect opening for a massively overpriced extra-special "classic cash" edition.

[Dingfod]

It won't be the same without the cash.You could always use the new money, it look like Monopoly money anyway.

http://www.frbatlanta.org/publica/finan_update/2005/v18n4/images/new-ten-dollar-note.jpg

[Adam]

When I was a kid, I always thought it would be cool to be rich enough to play Monopoly with real money.

[Dingfod]

The story that there was a Monopoly game found in someone's attic with real money in place of the play money was probably one of the earliest urban legends I ever heard from a friend of a friend's cousin's doctor's vet assistant's manicurist's neighbor's kid.

[livius drusus]

Damn. See, this is what happens when you're an only child and you have to play board games with your parents. You miss out on all the bullshit myths kids pass around. :darn:

[quiet bear]

I always called dibs on the race car. Second choice, the shoe. Never be last, you get stuck with the iron.

[MonCapitan2002]

Damn. See, this is what happens when you're an only child and you have to play board games with your parents. You miss out on all the bullshit myths kids pass around. :darn:
I have three siblings and I never heard of that urban legend.

[livius drusus]

I always called dibs on the race car. Second choice, the shoe. Never be last, you get stuck with the iron.
The thimble was where it's at for me. It fit on my fingertips so snugly.

I have three siblings and I never heard of that urban legend.

Okey dokey then. I'm glad to hear I didn't miss a thing. :pleased:

[MonCapitan2002]

I am not saying you missed anything, now. All I am saying is that you aren't the only one who missed out on Monopoly related urban legends.

[Corona688]

Any bets on how long it'll take them to release a 'classic' edition that costs even more?

[Adam]

Am I the only one who liked the iron? It was my second choice after the battleship.

[Legs]

I was always the thimble. My sister was the scotty dog.

[California Tanker]

I went for the Battleship.

The US Army special edition doesn't come with a tank as an option. I am so seriously miffed by this that I didn't get it.

NTM

[ms_ann_thrope]

Am I the only one who liked the iron? It was my second choice after the battleship.The iron was always my first choice. Shoe was second choice.

[MonCapitan2002]

Any bets on how long it'll take them to release a 'classic' edition that costs even more?
The day after the original edition is gone from store shelves.

[Joshua Adams]

Hope not. I want to ebay my old copy for ten thousand dollars. :pleased:

[livius drusus]

Actually, they've already got the extortionate special edition Monopoly thing covered (http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/Product.asp?Params=Category=16-776|PageID=3074|Level=2-3|Link=PI|special=search|ID=SearchClicked|i=1#). Anybody got $4900 I can bum?

[beyelzu]

damn 4900 is excessive. it doesnt even have like gold pieces or money and deeds that look cooler than the regular set. so sad.

[livius drusus]

Yeah, but the pewter gamepieces are hot, you can't deny it.

[Dingfod]

$4900 is pretty steep for a leather covered wooden box. I think I'm in the wrong bidness.

[beyelzu]

i dont know, selling hip boots for ten dollars seems like a pretty good bidness to be in.

:tmgrin:

[Dingfod]

No, that would be fucking Bullock and that fucking Jew, my [Swearengen's] bidness is whiskey, beer, pussy, and poker. For the moment, it would seem damn fucking lucrative.

[wei yau]

Bullock. Cocksucker.

Swedgin, Wu. Hing-dai!

[beyelzu]

No, that would be fucking Bullock and that fucking Jew, my [Swearengen's] bidness is whiskey, beer, pussy, and poker. For the moment, it would seem damn fucking lucrative.
indeed but i was going off the first episode when bullock is the only one who says bidness, that i can recall.

also dont forget selling "worthless" claims to unsuspecting greenhorns.

you really took a bath in that one :tmgrin:

[Dingfod]

Yes, Wu. Hing-dai!

[wei yau]

bey, you are lucky that no one here is "Dan". You wouldn't be such a pretty smoking dick if you only had one eye.

...oh..wait a minute.....