I recently flew British Airways and the time flew by (heh) because of a really well-designed Monopoly game.
I’d be jolly grateful if anyone can tell me where to download it (or else suggest a decent online version of the game.)
It was called ‘Hasbro Monopoly’ (but that may just be for copyright reasons.)
There were 4 players (up to 2 humans allowed.) Each had an associated colour and a piece (e.g. top hat or dog etc.)
The board was clearly shown, as were the dice rolls. (You clicked on a hand symbol to get the computer to roll dice and a dice symbol for your roll.)
On the board, owned properties had a strip of the owner’s colour.
You could build houses, mortgage and trade with other players.
The game knew the rules, especially that landing on an un-owned property but not buying it led to an immediate auction.
I bet the inflight system used Android? You can probably play it on PC using BlueStacks if you must. Or I think one of the newer Windowses can run android apps, but haven’t tried that system.
About 20 years ago I had a lovely version for the PC – it was very simple, limiting the sounds to nothing but dice rolls, tap-tap-tap of moving markers, maybe a cash drawer sound when money changed hands, and I think cards flipping over when drawn. No music, no corny cheering or woo-hoo sounds, etc, and no silly animated graphics (shooting stars, etc.) like every damn game today. I loved that thing and played it constantly, and I’ve thought about starting basically this thread, so thanks OP.
In the version I’m talking about, best of all, you had God rights if desired. First, you had complete control over the players, whether human, “human,” or computer. (That is, you could set each of four players to human or computer, but you could of course be multiple humans yourself.) In God mode, you could simply assign properties and limitless money to any player. You could also set all four players to computers, then speed up gameplay.
The statistics of Monopoly have always fascinated me, so I’d make up scenarios like giving one computer player the Oranges, another the Reds, and deny monopolies (and prohibit trades) to the other two players but give them 1,000,000 each to keep them in business for a good long while. Then speed up the game play*, go to bed, and see who won in the morning (the Oranges, of course). Or give one player all 4 railroads and nothing else, which would generally keep them afloat forever resulting in a stalemate.
*If I’d seen Dark Mirror at the time, this would have given me pause. Poor tormented computer players.
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