Monopoly is one of my favourite board games. In my younger years, it was the game of choice on rainy days when we couldn't play football. The set we used to play with was from the 70s and belonged to my mum. Money has been lost over the course of many years, so it is now supplemented with money from the Game of Life and Operation! Games took hours, but you received a ruthless lesson in how to handle money. Poor investments and you would pay later!
I discovered that anti-capitalist passengers of the Offended Bus created Anti-Monopoly where you have to turn the board back to a free-market economy. Doesn't sound as much fun, but still better than the modern versions.
Most new Monopoly versions (Here and Now, etc.) have no money. All payment is on a credit-card. Surely this cannot be right. By having paper currency in your hand, you got a feel for money and along with that came a value. Can it be said that 'invisible' money is absent of this value and is essentially skipping out the part of growing up where you feel what money is like? I know that society today is mainly card-based, represented in the newest versions of the board game, but surely it would do no harm to get some experience with paper cash...whether it is Monopoly money or not!!!
2 comments:
Bah, Monopoly! Give me LIFE any day over that!
By the way, the game of Operation I'm used to doesn't include money... do you have a different version here?
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