Monopoly City Streets: A new take on an old classic…

Few games have spanned the generations like Monopoly.  Created in the 1930’s and despite decades of technological change, advancements in toys, the advent of video games, and shortening attention spans, Hasbro’s classic and its many incarnations continue to reign as one of the most popular board games of all time. Recently, the company began a massive, continuous online version of the game called Monopoly City Streets.  A hybrid of Google Maps and traditional Monopoly, the concept of the game is pretty simple.  Users sign up for an account at which time a stash of Monopoly money is deposited into their account, just like at the beginning of the board game.  This money is then used to buy actual streets throughout the world, construct various types of rent yielding buildings on those streets, and make deals with other players of the game. The game is unique because of its massive scale.  People from around the world can search for and buy almost any street.  Each day, any buildi ...