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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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Jehan Alvani said 9:16AM on 9-21-2007
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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g.Park said 9:31AM on 9-21-2007
Isn't monopoly more of a Microsoft thing?
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Donald said 9:32AM on 9-21-2007
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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David Burns said 10:00AM on 9-21-2007
Mediterranian and BALTIC Avenue.
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David Burns said 10:02AM on 9-21-2007
Mediterranean and BALTIC Avenue.
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Geoff said 10:09AM on 9-21-2007
Publisher: Real Arcade? No thanks.
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Luigi193 said 10:18AM on 9-21-2007
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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SubGenius said 10:21AM on 9-21-2007
The shoe should be New Balance and not Nike+.
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mentalsticks said 10:29AM on 9-21-2007
I thought luxury tax was $0 nowadays.
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DamienG said 10:37AM on 9-21-2007
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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Drupa said 10:56AM on 9-21-2007
This is news?
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lana said 11:26AM on 9-21-2007
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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Sidep said 11:31AM on 9-21-2007
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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Otsego_Undead said 11:51AM on 9-21-2007
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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Stephen Waits said 12:51PM on 9-21-2007
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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G said 1:59PM on 9-21-2007
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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Ian said 2:33PM on 9-21-2007
"I wanna be the Segway"
"No! I wanna be the Segway!"
"MOM!!!"
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Luis Dreams said 4:09PM on 9-21-2007
It would be great if you can play other players on the net. Great game though!
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Dennis Bates said 4:53PM on 9-21-2007
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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ramone said 2:25AM on 9-22-2007
Luigi -- The default is fullscreen but in Options you can set it to play in a window.
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