… include real estate from around the country, selected by online vote. According to TIME’s coverage of the new edition, the properties in that version: In 2006, Hasbro released the “Here and Now” edition, meant to bring the game into the 21st century - in all its branded glory - with corporatized tokens including McDonald’s fries, a Starbucks coffee cup, a New Balance sneaker and a Toyota Prius. In 1978, to celebrate the legalization of gambling in Atlantic City, Parker Brothers released a new version called “Advance to Boardwalk,” which allowed players to build casinos, according to the Times. The game board has gone through a number of updates, too, and met with mixed reviews. It wasn’t the first upheaval among the tokens, which have at times included a purse, a lantern, an elephant, a horse and rider, and a rocking horse. Last year, following a vote on the Monopoly Facebook page, game lovers chose a new token - a cat, which triumphed over proposed tokens including a toy robot, a guitar, a helicopter, and a diamond ring - to replace the least popular of the existing tokens: the iron. According to Hasbro, which acquired Parker Brothers in 1991, more than 275 million Monopoly games - including more than 6 billion green houses and 2.25 billion red hotels - have been sold since 1935.Īnd while Monopoly remains a fixture in American homes, it has undergone periodic changes in an effort to stay relevant. Monopoly sales soon made Darrow so rich that he abandoned the heating trade for a hothouse hobby: growing orchids.

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