Monopoly

About Monopoly

Monopoly is a video game based on the board game Monopoly, published for the Commodore 64 in 1984 by Leisure Genius. Versions were later released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, MS-DOS, MSX, Tatung Einstein, Thomson MO, Thomson TO, and ZX Spectrum. This title was one of many inspired by the property.

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Gameplay

The game contains very similar gameplay to the board game it is based on, with various physical tasks being replaced by automation and digital representations.

Reception

The game replaced Ghostbusters at the top of the Boots Commodore 64 chart in late 1984.

Computer Shopper praised the game for its graphics and animation, and deemed it "excellent value". Your Spectrum thought the game was an "excellent conversion" of the board game, while Sinclair User wrote that the game was "very boring".

In 1990, M. Evan Brooks reviewed the computer editions of Risk, Monopoly, Scrabble, and Clue for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Monopoly has been released in numerous shareware and public domain versions which thereby weaken its standing."

When the game was released for the Amiga in 1991, Amiga Power deemed it a "sound conversion" albeit more expensive than its source material, while another from the same publication said it was competent but "arguably quite pointless".

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Notable quotes

“Advertising is an important characteristic of modern capitalism and a contributory factor in the establishment and maintenance of monopoly positions.”
— Keith Cowling and Philip R. Tomlinson, "Monopoly capitalism", in Dennis C. Mueller (editor), The Oxford Handbook of Capitalism, Oxford University Press, 2012, page 303 (ISBN 9780195391176).
“The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.”
— , "Annual survey of economic theory: The theory of monopoly," , Volume 3, Number 1, Jan., 1935, p. 8.
“Ironically, contrary to the consensus of historians, it was not the existence of monopoly which caused the federal government to intervene in the economy, but the lack of it.”
— Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservative, Chicago: IL, Quadrangle Publishing Co. (1967) pp. 4-5
“The methods by which the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Fields, Rockefellers, Mackays, Floods, O'Briens, and the coal and iron and salt Pashas are heaping up enormous fortunes are methods, not of creation of wealth, but of the redistribution of the wealth of the masses into the pockets of monopolists.”
— Henry Demarest Lloyd, Quoted in Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903, A Biography by Caro Lloyd, 1912, page 53
“The most obvious negative feature of capitalism is that it can produce private monopolies that restrict output and thereby harm consumers.”
— Dennis C. Mueller, "Introduction", in Dennis C. Mueller (editor), The Oxford Handbook of Capitalism, Oxford University Press, 2012, page 5 (ISBN 9780195391176).
“[...] the lies that people tell [...] the people who have monopolies pretend not to. [...] you don't want to get regulated by the government [...] So if the monopolists pretend not to have monopolies, the non-monopolists pretend to have monopolies. [...] If you are a non-monopolist, you will rhetorically describe your market as super-small [...] you are the only person in that market.”
— Peter Thiel (quote at 5:33 of 50:27 in video)

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