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The Landlord’s Game
From rock-paper-scissors, to tennis, to Mario Kart, every game is a designed system and all games are grounded in the same design principles. One popular game in particular has a mixed reputation with game players and designers alike: Monopoly. Participants circle the board, buy property, build houses, collect money, draw cards and pay money when landing on a space owned by another player. The game can be slow, and its endings can be dark—the game ends when a player goes into total bankruptcy. Yet this was not always the case.
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I really wish you could find some of these obscure old versions of games. Board games a fricking interesting when you start reading about them and how culture almost always alters them if they live long enough, monopoly has always been a favorite of mine but very few ever want to play, let alone to the conclusion.
I don't think I ever played to a conclusion, other than giving up? It was always a serious game to me, Monopoly I mean.