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Monopoly - UK or Irish Edition

  • 21-03-2012 10:47am
    #1
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭


    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

  • #2
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


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


  • #3
    Canis Lupus
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    UK is the definitive one.


  • #4
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Riveting thread.


  • #5
    pickarooney
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    UK one growing up, French one now. It's years since I played it.


  • #6
    Mr. Presentable
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    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    UK is the definitive one.

    How? Please explain


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  • #7
    mike65
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    Still play UK one every now and again (my niece cheats so its not much fun :( )


  • #8
    pickarooney
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    Mr. Presentable wrote: »
    How? Please explain

    As the original version it defined the game, no?


  • #9
    cojack101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 330 ✭✭cojack101


    John Wayne Collector's Edition


  • #10
    Run_to_da_hills
    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


  • #11
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    pickarooney wrote: »
    As the original version it defined the game, no?

    No-one's picking it in the poll!


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  • #12
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    I have the English and Irish version.


  • #13
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,763 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #14
    kfallon
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    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:


  • #15
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    I WANT THE MUPPETS MONOPOLY!!! :mad:


  • #16
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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 :/


  • #17
    theteal
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    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?


  • #18
    stevedublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    Cool Mo D
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    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


  • #20
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    pickarooney wrote: »
    As the original version it defined the game, no?

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


  • #21
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,763 ✭✭✭✭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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  • #22
    conorhal
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    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'....


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
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    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!


  • #24
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,741 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.


  • #25
    Run_to_da_hills
    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


  • #26
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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!


  • #27
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


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


  • #28
    biko
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    CiaranMT wrote: »
    Dead forum :/
    It's "dead" because people try to use AH instead.

    Thread moved from After Hours.


  • #29
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    Beefy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭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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