This is surely the biggest tragedy involving characters in games since they got rid of Clyde in the Ms. Pac-Man game.
How sad…
Clyde prefers the name Sue now. I think we should respect her wishes.
I figured you were copying the Monopoly card style. The style is what I was poking fun at. Boy, it’s been a few years since I actually looked at a Monopoly card… we used to go through and reassign meanings to the “Chance” and “Community Chest” cards, back in the day. We were nasty-minded people. I still am, but all my friends live too far away to play Monopoly with…
And your smiley is one of THEM, too!!!
Sue and Clyde appear to be two different ghosts, based on later games and Pac appearances. The name “Sue” comes from the sister of one of the two folks of General Computer Corporation, creators of Ms. Pac-Man.
Bwahaha… 
:smack:
It’s possible his name is Pennybags Monopoly, and if that’s the case, both names could work.
Bah. It’s probably some kind of tax dodge. He’s changed his name to throw the IRS off his track, so that he can continue to oppress the toiling masses while unjustly retaining more than his fair share of the proceeds of their labours. Typical of the imperialist running dogs of the bourgeois capitalistic system if you ask me.
What we need is a proper socialist version of Monopoly, in which everybody gets an equal share of all the money in the bank, and travels around the board not buying anything, to show up the innate futility of the consumerist system. And we’ll replace this Pennybags character with a genial reassuring socialist father figure, like “Big Brother” or “Uncle Joe”.
Steve (the Red Menace) Wright.
I dunno…I always just pay the $75, myself.
Back in the 80’s I picked up a “graphic novel” (soft cover comic book, really) that had been produced by the (then not former) Soviet Union entiteled “The Russian Revolution, what really happened”. Of course, it wasn’t what really happened, but it was delightful propaganda. Such things as the assasintation of the Romanovs, the defeat in Poland, and the failure of the German uprisings were neatly deleted.
What was fun about it was its style. It was a comic in the square formed Soviet arts style. The capitalists were always portrayed as old men wearing Uncle Sam top hats, with spectacles neatly covered their eyes so you can’t see their pupils. Soviet revolutionaries are always portrayed as monobrowed lantern jawed men wearing overalls and carrying a wrench. Still got the thing around somewhere, it was a hoot.
“Drat that Pennybags, between him and Scrooge McDuck all the good ankle is taken.”
Oh, Uncle Pennybags has gone the way of so many show-biz figures - choosing a name that was cool and easy to remember, rather than his birth name. Like Elton John, or … Oh, I don’t know, he’s the only one I can think of.
I personally was shocked, and tried to point out to the family the oddity of his being called “Mr. Monopoly,” but they made fun of me for caring.
Typical.
Exactly whose uncle is he anyway, eh?
My goodness! The transsexuals are everywhere!! :eek:
Why is there a small Pennybags in his coat-pocket waving a flag?
Mini-Mr. Monopoly? There really ought to be an apposite Austin Powers line here, but durn if I can come up with it! 
You know, I don’t remember seeing any missing eyes on the Monopoly cards. But then again, it’s been a long time since I’ve played it.
Obviously that little flag-waving guy must be a politician, since the evil aristocratic capitalist has him in his pocket. Or was that not intended as a clever visual pun?
Grumble Grumble… found this thread late. Monopoly is my FAVORITE thing in the world and I was quite unhappy when they changed the name. I wrote Hasbro, and the nice folks there indeed confirmed a lack of name recognition. Bah! I knew who he was as a little kid… sheesh.
I now have a 5 foot tall RUP on my wall in my hallway. Must add his picture to my website as soon as my hubby shows me how to use the new digital camera.
He will ALWAYS be pennybags to me.
I’m disappointed that the above links no longer work. Would have loved to see some original Monopoly artwork!
Jesus! There was one copy of this in our library, and I read it as a child! Thankfully, the library had wisely put it in the humor section, so I was even at my young age able to figure out it was propaganda.
I have to ask, though: if all he has in the bags are pennies, how rich can he possibly be?
Well Leaper… the game was made during the depression when a bag o pennies was more than an annoying paperweight.
As I recall reading somewhere (possibly American Heritage), Pennybags is based on financer Julius Kahn (Kahn even, in the picture they used, looked a little like Pennybags).
It could be, of course, that R.U.P retired to the Caymans with his, er, pennybags, and that Mr. Monopoly had to fill in.