Digital Monopoly
We brought a new Monopoly. We had our cute little family evening where we played and ripped each other apart. Monopoly brings back memories of the hours spent with friends and siblings. But the new version has changed....
1. Railway stations replaced with airports
2. New hotspots of London are now on board
3. No more ships and irons as coins....now we have cell phones, aeroplanes and f1 cars
4. NO PAPER MONEY -- each one of us gets a debit card and an electroic device adds/removes money. This was a let down for me -- the machine is annoying and it feels like you're sitting next to an ATM. Also, being the banker is now work and not fun AND you can no longer cheat.
I went thru a phase where I thought Monopoly was evil mostly because my highly competitive friends who argue over one stupid deal for 30 minutes and end up fighting continuing to sulk for the rest of the day. Why would you want to PLAY something that creates conflict like that?
As always I lost. My little rollerblade coin barely moved away from taxes ad jail and i was soon broke. A sign that I shouldn't play or that I will never rollerblade.
1. Railway stations replaced with airports
2. New hotspots of London are now on board
3. No more ships and irons as coins....now we have cell phones, aeroplanes and f1 cars
4. NO PAPER MONEY -- each one of us gets a debit card and an electroic device adds/removes money. This was a let down for me -- the machine is annoying and it feels like you're sitting next to an ATM. Also, being the banker is now work and not fun AND you can no longer cheat.
I went thru a phase where I thought Monopoly was evil mostly because my highly competitive friends who argue over one stupid deal for 30 minutes and end up fighting continuing to sulk for the rest of the day. Why would you want to PLAY something that creates conflict like that?
As always I lost. My little rollerblade coin barely moved away from taxes ad jail and i was soon broke. A sign that I shouldn't play or that I will never rollerblade.
posted by apoorvi at
11:37 AM
1 Comments:
clarification: the highly-competitive friends 'played' a 'fun' (not evil) game, they fought, they dealt and then forgot about it when the game ended. It was a certain other person whose tears / sulking had a special affinity to the lavatories ;)
okay monopoly without paper money makes no sense. why would anyone want to play then?
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