The old-school gamer's Monopoly board
by Joystiq Staff 
{ Sep 4th 2006 at 10:05PM }
It seems one classic video game enthusiast has taken his free time and focused his efforts to creating the ultimate Monopoly for the nostalgic gamer. The complete makeover of the entire board is there with games such as Doom and Pong taking their respective places in substitution for the classic city streets. The creator has also transformed the cards, pieces and money that come along with the game.
It's a mighty fine effort and we applaud the dedication needed to make something like this happen. The only things that seem to be lacking in terms of quality to us are the cheapo looking player pieces and house and hotel pieces. Also, spelling "joystick" without a "q" is just plain wrong. Otherwise, bravo.
But we've got to know one thing from Joystiq Nation: Anyone got any beef with the importance of some of the games on the board compared to their price?
[Thanks, Stephen Q. Burwell]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ethan @ Sep 4th 2006 10:15PM
Alright Salesman, no need to bring this back up again.
Paul @ Sep 4th 2006 10:29PM
Tell the guy to offer his idea to a board game publisher (publisher?). A friend of mine got US$2.000 for a board game he designed.
But it may be a copyright licensing hell to sell these.
Jason @ Sep 4th 2006 10:36PM
NT! GG!
Garold @ Sep 4th 2006 11:04PM
Hey... I'm the guy who made the game.
The spaces are basically in reverse-chonological order... for some games I had to pick one release date (usually the most important, not necessarily the earliest). The games I picked do have an admittedly PC-bias in many cases (like including Rogue but not Final Fantasy), basically because I didn't have any of the game systems between Atari 2600 and Nintendo 64 and PC was where I learned to love gaming.
Mike @ Sep 5th 2006 3:33PM
All of the orange... Duck hunt and SMB in the first half of the game is just wrong
Nate @ Sep 4th 2006 11:56PM
Very, Very cool looking, if they made this into a real game i would definaltly buy it. Nice job.
Mr_Snuffle @ Sep 5th 2006 12:15AM
I'd like to see more of connection between the groups of games. Why not have it grouped by company or franchise?
isaac svensson @ Sep 5th 2006 1:30AM
hey, i'm thinkin' monkey island was a very nice touch- i appreciate that. thanks for giving gybrush a place of honor as a character on the board. while i'm at it, anyone remember the old LOTR board game that used hexagonal board pieces? my friend is recreating that board game. maybe i'm just not finding it, garoid, but how did you do your cards?
rockintom99 @ Sep 5th 2006 3:28AM
Rogue is nice and all, but why not Nethack? Much more awesome, and still updated to this day. (well, at least, not *too* long ago)
Garold @ Sep 5th 2006 11:17AM
Mr_Snuffle:
My original plan was to group the games roughly by genre and/or platform (i.e. one group for text adventures, one for NES games, etc.) but I found that there were too many games I wanted that didn't really fit any category (like SimCity or Oregon Trail). So I just decided to do it chronologically.
isaac svensson:
I basically used OpenOffice.org's business card functionality to make the cards, but I just printed them on regular cardstock paper and cut them out.
rockintom99:
It was a tough decision between Rogue and NetHack (I find NetHack superior in every way) but when it comes down to it, Rogue was definitely more innovative and influential. Realistically though, I probably should've left both out and opted for something even more important, like Final Fantasy or Civilization. I just happen to like roguelikes. :P
Peter Godly @ Sep 5th 2006 12:50PM
Garold - I totally agree with your decision to use Rogue, since it's the classic and original version of the game. I have fond memories of it.
However, I completely disagree with your grouping decision. It would have made a lot more sense if you picked 3 NES, 3 Genesis, 3 PC, 2 Mainframe, etc, and grouped them together.
Oregon Trail could easily be grouped with either one or two classic Apple II games that many of us remember in school - Lemonade Stand, and/or Artillery.
Paul Erickson @ Sep 5th 2006 2:50PM
That's a good point, Peter, but the distribution of classics is far from equal across the platforms.
For instance, he's got 7 PC games, by my count, and 5 NES, compared with 1 each for Apple and Sega - in my humble opinion, an accurate distribution.
Garold @ Sep 5th 2006 4:12PM
Like I said, it's strictly chronological. I didn't want to deal with the politics of choosing what games were more important, so I just gave the older ones more value. Trust me, if I'd ranked them by importance, Super Mario Bros. would've definitely been in the top two color groups.