# San Diego (and other) Monopoly games **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421 "2003-05-01T17:08:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/1 "2003-05-01T17:08:25Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/2 "2003-05-01T17:27:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/3 "2003-05-01T17:38:40Z")
There are tons of specialty games. Someday I will own them all _muah ha ha ha_ you can find many at [usaopoly.com](http://usaopoly.com) and at [redhotel.net](http://redhotel.net) my personal collection (minus what I got for christmas I’m a slow updater) is here: [http://www.kaczorzoo.net/monopoly/](http://www.kaczorzoo.net/monopoly/) Lots of fun ones… IIRC Dagobah is the cheapies on one of the star wars ones. I was not impressed with the America edition though. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/4 "2003-05-01T20:16:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/5 "2003-05-01T20:19:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Greg Charles \* > **Amusingly, Baltic and Mediterranean (aka, the crap properties) become the Chargers and Padres.** Sadly, this is not far from the truth. Oh wait, they’re “rebuilding”. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/6 "2003-05-01T20:21:09Z")
There’s already an Atlanta one, an America one, and a Simpsons one that I’ve seen. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/7 "2003-05-04T02:02:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/8 "2003-05-04T02:10:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/9 "2003-05-04T04:27:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/10 "2003-05-04T11:28:01Z")
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… Monopoly rules 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/11 "2003-05-04T11:33:13Z")
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… Monopoly rules 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/12 "2003-05-04T11:55:41Z")
You can get [Monopoly in the UK](http://www.ukshop247.co.uk/firebox/151.php) 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. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/13 "2003-05-04T11:56:57Z")
The main one over here is London of course. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/14 "2003-05-04T13:39:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/15 "2003-05-04T13:56:00Z")
I have multiple editions. The 1st 2 I pulled off the shelf are the Maine Edition and the .com edition Maine Cheapo= Baxter and Acadia St Park Expensive= White Pine Tree and Lobster Tax is state tax Some Skiareas make the orange THe .com Cheapo = > **[Sports Picks, Vegas Odds, Betting Lines, and Expert Analysis - SportsLine.com](https://www.sportsline.com/)** > > SportsLine brings you premium real-time sports betting information, Las Vegas odds, picks and projections. Bet on your favorite sports with confidence. and [foxsports.com](http://foxsports.com) expensive = yahoo and excite@home tax is an income tax 10% or 200,000,000 (all are in millions) Lux tax is ISP fee ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/16 "2003-05-04T18:40:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*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. \*\* There’s still a Dublin Monopoly. The Boardwalk and Park Place are Ailesbury Road and Shrewsbury Road (not necessarily in that order). O’Connell Street is one of the yellow properties. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-diego-and-other-monopoly-games/172421/17 "2003-05-04T19:04:23Z")
I also have a monopoly version with corporations as streets. Cheapest one: Gillette. Most expensive one: British Telecom