It is well known amongst my meatspace friends that I love Monopoly. My friend Stilts and I play almost every time we see each other. When I saw that Monopoly was featured as one of the games in the aptly titled (but wordy) Monopoly - Boggle - Yahtzee - Battleship cartridge for the Nintendo DS, I got excited. The game was published last year by Atari and created by Sensory Sweep. My hope was to play Monopoly over the Nintendo DS’s built-in WiFi, so that Stilts and I could argue over trading the oranges for the blues and who was the bigger bastard during auctions. However, as I delved more deeply into the game, I knew I was going to be disappointed.

Read the rest of this entry »

Monopoly, one of my favorite board games (both for gameplay and as a cheap personality test) is getting an update. As written about a few days ago in this Ars Technica article, Hasbro intends to update the properties on the board with modern US equivalents and more market-current prices. I guess this means they will revamp the money system as well …. I cringe to imagine the satisfaction on Stilts’ face if he had to count out $20,000 with $1 bills.

If you can endure the Flash presentation, there is an online vote being held at Hasbro.com to help determine what the new properties will be. I personally hope that Park Place is replaced with Hollywood or Rodeo Drive.