Players Develop Skyscrapers in New Monopoly Game
Hasbro has a new edition of Monopoly for players who fantasize about having clout, women and power like Donald Trump. The new Monopoly City, released as a board game, and Monopoly City Streets, an online game version, packs in the fun and gives players $3 million to buy streets, instead of tiny houses.
Although the addictiveness of the game is the same as the original, you will experience some big, exciting changes. If you are usually the Monopoly banker, you will certainly feel the effect of inflation, as you dole out $10,000 bills instead of $1 bills. Also new, forget about feeling smug with your little hotel on Boardwalk, players in this high stakes game race to buy skyscrapers, stadiums, wind farms, sewage plants and garbage dumps. And, not only can players collect hefty rents, they can bulldoze property and sabotage buildings to bring their values down.
For those of us questioning why Hasbro would release the game in the midst of an economic crisis, the company reports that the game was in development before the melt down began. And, ironically, the original Monopoly became popular with would-be tycoons during another economic crisis– The Great Depression, when Parker Brothers acquired it in 1935.
Present real estate crash aside, Donetta Allen, spokeswoman for Hasbro, has this to say about the widely popular game ”It’s about the dream. Monopoly has always been about that - the aspiration, I can’t do it in real life. I want to do it on the board game.”
There is one BIG difference between Monopoly City game and developing property in real life…. there’s no creative financing. The game is cash only. No debt. No mortgage backed securities. No credit default swaps. Sorry, Trump.
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