Monopoly
		(Win95/98/Me/XP) (CD in Sleeve) (MONOPOLYPO)

See also newer versions Monopoly

Parker Brothers / Westwood Studios / Virgin Games / Hasbro Interactive

Game / Board

Ratings:

5 stars from Computer Gaming World

4 1/2 stars from CD-ROM Today

Bronze - Strategy/Puzzle Game Title from New Media's 1996 Invision Awards

Parker Brothers Real Estate Trading Game

Hop on board the CD-Rom version of the Monopoly game, the best-selling board game of all time. Rich Uncle Pennybags is your animated Master of Ceremonies as Depression-era Atlantic City comes to life - from the rolling lawns of Park Place to the lowly backyards of Baltic Avenue. You'll be entertained by animation, state-of-the-art 3D graphics and 16-bit digital sound while you perform all the wheeling and dealing feats that have made the Monopoly game the most popular in the world.

Animation & Sound: Over 800 witty animations...tokens skip, race, and gallop around the board...1930's ragtime music orchestrates all the action.

Internet: Play around the country and around the world over the Internet, against up to 5 players with their own copies of the game.

International: Compete simultaneously in multiple languages...the game performs translations and currency exchanges in real time.

Graphics: State-of-the-art, high-resolution 3D graphics animate tokens, develop properties, and more.

Customized: Create your own computer opponents...pit your man-made mogul against another player's or take on one of many opponents included in the game.

Players: All-family appeal...the best-selling game of all time.

System: Up to 6 can play over the Internet or on a local area network.

Requirements:

Windows: IBM or 100% compatible 486/33 MHZ or better, Windows 95/98/ME/XP, 8 megabytes of RAM or better, VGA card, hard drive with 10 megabytes non-compressed free space, double speed CD-ROM drive, SoundBlaser or compatible sound card, Microsoft compatible mouse and mouse driver.

Tested OK on Windows XP.

Reviews:

Computer Gaming World, February 1996

"This new version of Monopoly, however, does the old American boardgame classic proud. Some of the computer opponents are annoyingly unpredicatble. They can even be made to mimic human behavior patterns, from how it rates property, to how often it offers to trade, to how much money it keeps in the till.

"The program installs and runs beautifully from a Windows 95 operating system. Virtually every common variation on the rules can be used, including impossibilities like unlimited houses and hotels. The on-line Help is very throrough and covers virtually every aspect of the game, including the details of creating your own AIs and using the game on the Internet.

"Overall, Monopoly CD-ROM is a big improvement over previous versions, and is definitely the best available version of the game for your PC. It offers several hours of light entertaiment to the solitary gamer and a welcome opportunity for social gamers."

CD-ROM Today, December 1995

"If there's a board game that's better known and loved than Monopoly, I can't think of it. Parker Brothers' game of wheeling and dealing - with its plastic hotels, funny money, and little metal pieces - is an American institution. Bringing such a game to computer isn't really all that hard; the challenge is to create something beyond a mere flat, two dimensional representation of a game board. It's a trick that Monopoly CD-ROM has pulled off in spades."

"Animation, music, and Internet hooks may be so much flash, but at its heart this is an engaging and well-done computerization of an immensely popular board game. By providing real flexibility in game-play options and the power to play against a wide variety of computer and living opponents, Westwood has brought Monopoly to the PC with a bang."

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