I never even realized such a thing existed, but apparently Hasbro (which now owns the Monopoly brand) had released a computer version of the famous real estate game, completely updated for 2007-- as in, there are Hybrid cars and RAZRs in the game (yeah, yeah, I'll get to that in a second), and luxury tax now costs you $150,000, instead of the quaint old $75. And it's now been released for the Mac-- you can pick it up for $20 over at Macgamestore, or grab the demo for free at Macgamefiles.Gamespot users thought the PC version was pretty all right, so if you like the game a lot but don't always have the real opponents around to sit through the whole thing with you, this might be right up your alley.
But of course, what I'd like to see, in either virtual or realspace, is an actual Apple-branded edition of Monopoly-- the Newton and Lisa can be Mediterranean and Baltimore, and Park Place and Boardwalk get to be the iPhone and the iPod touch. You can have little Jobs and Woz figurines to move around the board (the shoe stays-- love the shoe), although I'm not sure what the railroads would be-- Apple keynotes at Mac conferences? Get on that, Hasbro!
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9-21-2007 @ 9:16AM
Jehan Alvani said...
The racecar could be replaced with Woz's old Z. The 280 or the 350, I don't think it would matter which.
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9-21-2007 @ 9:31AM
g.Park said...
Isn't monopoly more of a Microsoft thing?
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9-21-2007 @ 9:32AM
Donald said...
Simple solution: Make MacWorld and WWDC Chance and Community Chest respectively.
There's always something interesting, whether it's good or not is another matter.
And what would jail be? Stuck using Vista?
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9-21-2007 @ 10:00AM
David Burns said...
Mediterranian and BALTIC Avenue.
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9-21-2007 @ 10:02AM
David Burns said...
Mediterranean and BALTIC Avenue.
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9-21-2007 @ 10:09AM
Geoff said...
Publisher: Real Arcade? No thanks.
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9-21-2007 @ 10:18AM
Luigi193 said...
It makes me go into full screen and change my resolution...has 2 programs running at the same time and is in letterbox format...
THATS SO OS 9!!!
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9-21-2007 @ 10:21AM
SubGenius said...
The shoe should be New Balance and not Nike+.
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9-21-2007 @ 10:29AM
mentalsticks said...
I thought luxury tax was $0 nowadays.
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9-21-2007 @ 10:37AM
DamienG said...
I thought that Monopoly was no longer owned by by one since it is over 75 years old, and has become public domain? I figured that is why you see so many different versions of Monopoly out there nowadays. You can find one for just about any subject - Golf, Star Wars, Computer Industry, what ever you are looking for.
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9-21-2007 @ 10:56AM
Drupa said...
This is news?
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9-21-2007 @ 11:26AM
lana said...
it won't launch if littlesnitch is active. instead, it shows a naggy message and wants to "validate" a "serial number" (which doesn't exist). i've put this crap in the trashcan. i rest this case.
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9-21-2007 @ 11:31AM
Sidep said...
i have this game for my mobile phone, its fun, and certainly wastes time, but why in the world would you want a full version on a computer, the eye candy isn't particularly sweet if you ask me.
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9-21-2007 @ 11:51AM
Otsego_Undead said...
I think if this was specifically for Apple TV it would make more sense. Hell release a ton of board games for Apple TV. Be another compelling argument to buy one.
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9-21-2007 @ 12:51PM
Stephen Waits said...
Monopoly.. meh. Pretty hard to get excited about a boring board game implemented as a boring video game. I suggest you go to http://bgg.cc/ for some board games with actual fun.
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9-21-2007 @ 1:59PM
G said...
Monopoly is extremely fun if you take the time to learn how to play properly. I'll admit that I never did play the 'full' game with mortgages and such until someone released a version for Macs 10 years ago. I went looking around for a good Monopoly game for OS X recently, but didn't find much which wasn't either old or didn't "crash a lot." The demo for this new version seems to work fine, but I'm still not buying it. Why? There is no option to play with traditional prices and properties. What a waste of time for these developers to release this without the option to NOT be "here and now" (the reason we play games, no?).
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9-21-2007 @ 2:33PM
Ian said...
"I wanna be the Segway"
"No! I wanna be the Segway!"
"MOM!!!"
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9-21-2007 @ 4:09PM
Luis Dreams said...
It would be great if you can play other players on the net. Great game though!
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9-21-2007 @ 4:53PM
Dennis Bates said...
Sorry, Ian, but on the Apple version, the Segway won't be a separate token. Certainly Woz will be riding around the board on one.
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9-22-2007 @ 2:25AM
ramone said...
Luigi -- The default is fullscreen but in Options you can set it to play in a window.
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