on my usual nights out i have a crack on the itboxes which i usually do quite well on. i.e dond, pub quiz and monopoly. to my amazement this week i went on to the monopoly board as you do which took me straight onto the game, no picking your piece or anything. low and behold didnt win a bean, points to aim at were all over 6500 all the time.
just wondered if anyone else has noticed this?
is it an upgrade or something else going on?
It sounds like you were playing the previous version of Monopoly (Monopoly Deluxe). Were you always the Scottie dog on the playing board? If that is the case, the 6500+ points targets would have been for a Cashpot (always between £5 and £10 I believe) rather than for making the end game.
Personally, I always found that version of Monopoly a lot like the current one - pretty to look at and well put together, albeit with fewer bells and whistles than the current one *, but hopeless for any consistent winning.
* World Record Holder, Bells and Whistles Category, 2007
That version has been out a few years and can still be found on Ind:E cabinets I believe, as well as older versions of ItBoxes which is presumably what tootat was playing.
It was just as slow as the current version but with slightly fewer add-ons (e.g. the Waterworks and Electric Company games weren't there) but had the common fault of so many games at the time that getting from £2 to £1 took just as long as winning the first £1 did and there was no visible prize structure so you had no idea what you were up against - it could have been 200,000 points for £20 for all anyone knew. The Cashpot was slightly more achievable but it started at 10,000 points for £5 then I think reduced by 10 points per game, with the prize creeping up at an equally slow rate. All in all it was like Cops and Robbers - the gamble was deciding whether the pub's electricity supply would run out before the game did...
That said, NS, I believe both Hornby and ggdr managed big cashpot payouts on old Monopoly (I myself did not), and I saw Suri get quite close to a big cashpot before getting one wrong (perhaps coincidentally INCA appears to be a keen player going by scoreboards I've seen). So although the game always appeared bastardly difficult to me, clearly it was do-able for some.
Yep - can't claim this was a payer but did get the £20 cashpot once plus whatever prizes came along the ladder. For me this was one of those always worth a cred as if played in 'Thicko Arms' would often yield up a decent prize from the Go game or Just Visiting, thereby normally giving you a free look at it (if you had a spare 5 hours )
Istenem wrote:was there any other difference in gameplay?
could be that the bells and whistles have been shortened? monopoly is a very slow game.
I think that new Monopoly has indeed been tweaked - just played a few games and the piece choice has definitely gone. The way the questions come up has changed slightly as well. I started at 5,750 target on each of my three games, so maybe targets are a lot more predictable now (i.e. same target over a sequence of games). Difficult to conclude much more but I fancy the bonuses are slightly more generous but hard questions kick in slightly earlier. I didn't make it to an endgame so can't comment there, but one can only hope it's changed!
they are definately itboxes i am playing, issue 55 also.
in fact they have only been like this a couple of days. they used to play fine before, i.e you could choose your piece etc.
Nil Satis wrote:It sounds like you were playing the previous version of Monopoly (Monopoly Deluxe). Were you always the Scottie dog on the playing board?
no, not just the dog. it kept changing sfter the start of each new game.
wtf!!!!
also, it was a few weeks ago that they updated it to 2008 version, dont know if this did anything else to them
Nil Satis wrote:It sounds like you were playing the previous version of Monopoly (Monopoly Deluxe). Were you always the Scottie dog on the playing board?
no, not just the dog. it kept changing sfter the start of each new game.
wtf!!!!
also, it was a few weeks ago that they updated it to 2008 version, dont know if this did anything else to them
See my post tootat - I think other posters leapt to conclusions, but I agree with you that the ItBox 55 version of Monopoly has indeed been tweaked.
you get given the counter (seems a random choice)
question card don't bounce any more (which was annoying in the first place)
you get ten pseudoseconds rather than 15 (far too much still)
the free properties are much zippier at the beginning
pipes/go are still sluggish
questions seemed to be at the same levels
the endgame is exactly the same on first reckoning: offered £1, decline, have £1.50, play something else.
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