Monopoly Here and Now released at Macgamestore

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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Chris

Luigi -- The default is fullscreen but in Options you can set it to play in a window.

September 22 2007 at 2:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dennis Bates

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.

September 21 2007 at 4:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

DVDreams

It would be great if you can play other players on the net. Great game though!

September 21 2007 at 2:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ian

"I wanna be the Segway"

"No! I wanna be the Segway!"

"MOM!!!"

September 21 2007 at 2:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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?).

September 21 2007 at 1:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stephen Waits

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.

September 21 2007 at 12:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Otsego_Undead

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.

September 21 2007 at 11:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sidep

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.

September 21 2007 at 11:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

lana

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.

September 21 2007 at 11:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Drupa

This is news?

September 21 2007 at 10:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply