Happily Bankrupt at Monopoly | & Why You May or May Not Love the New Monopoly Revolution

 Now they have Monopoly Revolution, featuring a "revolutionary" circular game board, fake credit cards, and matching sound effects from the electronic banker--there's a chugging train for instance, when you land on Reading Railroad, or a door slamming on your face when you're sent to Jail.

And listen to this--Monopoly Revolution even plays music from the past five decades.  So one minute you're hearing Rhianna's Umbrella, the next Queen is declaring "I want to ride my bicycle."

No doubt, there's a lot of getting used to with the new Monopoly Revolution.

Thing You'll Miss About the Old-School Monopoly Boardgame

1. The tangible feel of cold cash in your hands, especially when you're on the receiving end.  There is still something to be said for counting physical cash, you know.


2. No more cards to flip over.  The Chance and Community Chest  cards are now rendered electronically.    (Said one person about the Community Chest cards, "...I hope they are updated. If I win a beauty contest, I want a lot more than $100.00.")

3. Now that there's electronic banking, no chance of cheating,

4.  You can't boast to the other players about how fat your wad of cash is.  Let's see you try that with a credit card.

5. With the classic Monopoly, it feels like you're really traveling from end to end.  In Revolution, true to its name, it feels like you're just going in circles.

6. No more tokens in the shape of a racecar, thimble, top hat, etc.

But hey, Hasbro is just keeping up with the times.  [Check out If America Were a Game of Monopoly].

The best places to own a property in Monopoly:  

Illinois Avenue, 
New York Avenue, 
B&O Railroad, 
& Reading Railroad


The least-landed-upon places:  
Mediterranean Avenue & Baltic Avenue.  

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Journal entry four years ago (May 25, 2007): 

"Played Monopoly yesterday, me, my sister Van, and Edge.  Haven't played that game in a good while.

When we were young and school was suspended because of typhoons with women's names, my cousins and I used to Monopoly.  We'd dressed up in our best heavy sweaters, nonchalant that there'd be tomorrow and that school uniforms would then have to be worn back.

There was urgency of the Monopoly board in front of us, and the dice and our tokens, and the crinkly paper bills in our hands.  Back then, I lamented the fact that my sister and I had to visit next door every time, just to play Monopoly with our cousins, because they happened to own it.
 

Now, more than a decade later, sharing funds with Edge, I finally get around to buying the darn board game.
 
And yesterday, I lost big time.  But, what with all the shrieks and laughter and nervous rolling of the dice, getting bankrupt has never been this fun."

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At Amazon, they're slashing the price of Monopoly Revolution by as much as 56%, from $39.99 to $17.65.  Don't worry; the classic old-school Monopoly boardgame is still around if your purist tendencies won't let you sleep.