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Article: NEW MONOPOLY; It's the most successful board game inhistory. But it's in need of an update. So to reflect London's changing values, Simon Mills drags Monopoly into the 21st century.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2003
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Byline: SIMON MILLS
As a child I don't think I ever realised quite what a nasty, vindictive, capitalist pastime Monopoly really was.
Extorting a few hundred quid's worth of play cash from little brother and cackling away when he had to declare himself 'bust' didn't strike me as at all sinister.
Until I grew up and started playing the London property game for real, that is.
Monopoly - quite simply the most successful board game in history (more than 20 million sets have been sold over the past seven decades) - became less of a game and more of a reality during the Nineties real-estate boom when everyone seemed to be moonlighting as a ...
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