What a great idea! Instead of forcing everyone to trudge through the same Atlantic City streets, let’s cash in on home town pride (and the tourist trade) by creating different versions of Monopoly for other cities.
Ever a sucker for a good marketing ploy, I picked up a San Diego Monopoly game the other day. It’s pretty cool. Instead of streets, they use sites and institutions. Board Walk and Park Place become the San Diego Zoo and Sea World respectively. (I’m pleased they got the order right.) Amusingly, Baltic and Mediterranean (aka, the crap properties) become the Chargers and Padres. Adding insult to injury, the “10% or $200 Tax” square is labelled “Ballpark Tax”. :rolleyes:
Who else has seen a specialized Monopoly game? What gets trashed, i.e., “Baltic”-ized in your city?
There’s a Europe special edition of Monopoly (with Euro bills as money, of course) with European cities instead of streets, where London is the Boardwalk. The cheapest one is, IIRC, Tallinn or another one of the Baltic capitals.
I used to have a freeware Monopoly game that someone wrote for C64. I was a high school student near New Orleans at the time so I went into the program and changed the Atlantic City streets and railroads to New Orleans ones. I remember I used St. Charles Avenue (the one with the streetcars) as Boardwalk.
Yes, San Diego sports teams do a lot of rebuilding, don’t they? So there’s at Atlanta and America Monopoly. What’s the cheap property in Atlanta? For the America version, I’m guessing Cleveland, or maybe Gary, Indiana.
There are various ones for kids; my son has a dinosaur one.
Also, I have one someone gave me for christmas that I haven’t tackled yet, but you print a bunch of it yourself on a computer, so you plug in your family and such.
When I was a kid, we used to spend summers in Ireland… and even in the 1970s, there was an Irish version of Monopoly, in which all the properties were named after streets in Dublin.
If I recall correctly, the “Boardwalk” in that game was O’Connell Street. And, naturally, the money was all in pounds, not dollars.
I have ones in spanish and polish, scooby doo, power puff girls, the america one, wizard of oz, elvis, coke. astronomy, .com, a bunch of commemorative anniversary ones, looney tunes, pokemon, different assorted tin versions, the two different american star wars releases… the british ones are nicer… must. visit. ebay. las vegas, times square, disney, peanuts… (those are all the ones I can see from my desk
I’m looking for garfield now… he’s only been out a month or so…
I have ones in spanish and polish, scooby doo, power puff girls, the america one, wizard of oz, elvis, coke. astronomy, .com, a bunch of commemorative anniversary ones, looney tunes, pokemon, different assorted tin versions, the two different american star wars releases… the british ones are nicer… must. visit. ebay. las vegas, times square, disney, peanuts… (those are all the ones I can see from my desk
I’m looking for garfield now… he’s only been out a month or so…
You can get Monopoly in the UK for the cities of Liverpool, Edinburgh, Norwich, Bristol, Sunderland, Birmingham, Glasgow, Coventry, Newcastle and Gateshead, the counties of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Essex, Kent and Devon, the countries of Wales and Northern Ireland, and special versions for Leeds University, Newcastle University and some soccer teams.
The standard German version, btw, uses ficitional street names. The first German monopoly version, issued in 1936, used Berlin street names, but the Nazis didn’t like the game, so producton was AFAIK banned, at least discontinued. After the war a neutral version came out that doesn’t stick to any particular city; most street names in it are more “generic,” so you’ll likely find any of them in a number of cities.
