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Monopoly - UK or Irish Edition

  • 21-03-2012 10:47am
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    Pop quiz hotshots, which do you have?

    Poll incoming.

    Which Monopoly edition do you have? 39 votes

    UK
    0% 0 votes
    Irish
    23% 9 votes
    Other (Atari Jaguar lovers vote here)
    76% 30 votes


Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    I had simpsons monopoly until my GFs nephew f***ing puked on the board :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    UK is the definitive one.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Riveting thread.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 34,942 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    UK one growing up, French one now. It's years since I played it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    UK is the definitive one.

    How? Please explain


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Still play UK one every now and again (my niece cheats so its not much fun :( )


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 34,942 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    How? Please explain

    As the original version it defined the game, no?


  • Registered Users Posts: 330 ✭✭cojack101


    John Wayne Collector's Edition


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    We had both editions. As kids we would combine them across the floor with a car ferry running between them, this was well over a decade before the Sterling Breakup. We added rules. The game would go on over a weekend. Its a wonder Waddingtons / Parker Bros didn't come up with this one :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    As the original version it defined the game, no?

    No-one's picking it in the poll!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    I have the English and Irish version.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,875 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Settlers of Catan FTW. Much better game.

    Oh, and -- http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1358

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    I have this one, robbed took pilfered bought it from the factory when I worked there, here we go.....

    http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1308340531-02.jpg

    :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    I WANT THE MUPPETS MONOPOLY!!! :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Settlers of Catan FTW. Much better game.

    Oh, and -- http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1358

    Dead forum :/


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    It has to be the Irish one - although it's been ~15 years since i've seen the board. I could never figure out why kimmage was cheaper than crumlin :confused:

    Anyway, has it changed much through the idiotic bubble years?


  • Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭stevedublin


    theteal wrote: »
    Anyway, has it changed much through the idiotic bubble years?

    Ghost estates in Leitrim and Laois could be used for the cheapest squares.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭Cool Mo D


    As the original version it defined the game, no?

    How is the English one the original? It's an American game.

    This is what the original version looks like: http://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/monopoly1.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    As the original version it defined the game, no?

    The original version, invented in USA, was set in New Jersey, I am pretty sure


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,875 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    CiaranMT wrote: »
    Dead forum :/

    What? There was a monoply thread there not two weeks ago!!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,975 ✭✭✭conorhal



    The Irish edition has been renamed the NAMA edition...

    You have bought a house in a ghost estate, loose 250,000 euro.

    You developed a hotel in the IFSC that now lies empty. Loose 8,6 million euro.

    You're holiday apartment in Croatia still lies unfinished, loose 180,000 euro.

    You have drawn the 'get bailed out by the state card', skip over 'go directly to jail' and proceed directly to 'resident in the UK for bankruptcy purposes'....


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ Kara Scary Whirlpool


    I have the crazy cash one :D
    There's a smile street and a rainbow lane! And you get money from an ATM!!!
    It's awesome!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 34,942 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Cool Mo D wrote: »
    How is the English one the original? It's an American game.

    This is what the original version looks like: http://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/monopoly1.jpg

    Colour me dumb. I was sure Waddington's had invented it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    What? There was a monoply thread there not two weeks ago!!

    Obviously that thread doesn't have the monopoly. :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    What? There was a monoply thread there not two weeks ago!!

    4 replies in two weeks, I figured I'd get a better response here!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    We had the English one, taking back some land! And shrewsberry tastes good.


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    CiaranMT wrote: »
    Dead forum :/
    It's "dead" because people try to use AH instead.

    Thread moved from After Hours.


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    The UK one. Had it growing up in London, took it with me when I moved here. Loved that game, had some real long marathon sessions playing it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Whilst it is an American game and was originally based around New Jersey, outside America the London one is generally seen as being the 'normal' game in the English-speaking World. I know a few Aussies who have done the Monopoly Pub Crawl around London because that is the version of the game that they grew up with, for example.

    I think it's good that Ireland seemingly prefers it's own one though.


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