Technology Marches On…
It appears that Parker Brothers has done away with the multi-colored money in their famous Monopoly game and replaced them with debit cards.
Now, if they would just do something about the game being almost entirely luck-driven and boring….
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July 25th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Debit cards! I use my debit card all the time, but that’s just not right in a Monopoly game! Half the fun is in collecting giant rent payments in stacks of florescent money! Fortunately it appears that this new version is just a specialty British edition.
As for Monopoly being boring and luck-driven, that’s only the first half the game. The real game starts once all the property is purchased and the bartering begins.
Though I’ve never played it, I’ve actually read a variation of the rules in which most of the property is distributed evenly at the beginning of the game so you can get right to the fun part.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:57 am
I can’t buy into the idea that Hasbro will eliminate all paper money from their Monopoly games. I know Electronic Monopoly has been popular this year but playing the game of Monopoly is such a tradition in this country that doing away with the money completely feels a bit like the launch of New Coke - the traditionalists, myself included, want their Monopoly with the dollar bills!
John B.
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