Google’s ‘Monopoly City Streets’ — Play Monopoly Against Users Worldwide Using Google Maps

Published on September 8th, 2009

Posted by Uncle Dave in Games, The Internet, computers

This is pretty cool and impressive, but it begs the question: Is there any part of the computing world that Google won’t eventually get into?

This could be very addictive: Google (Google) is teaming up with board game maker Hasbro to launch a Google Maps (Google Maps) version of Monopoly (Monopoly). Monopoly City Streets, which launches Wednesday, allows users to compete in a live, worldwide version of the popular game, creating the biggest Monopoly tournament ever played.

It’s an ambitious venture that we’ll confess to being fairly excited about: players will literally be able to buy any street in the world, and compete with every other player on the “board”. You start with 3 million Monopoly dollars, and can build not only hotels and houses but also football stadiums, castles and skyscrapers, reports the UK’s Guardian. Downing Street in the UK will cost $231,000, while Pennsylvania Avenue will cost $2 million.

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# 1 qb said, on September 8th, 2009 at 5:11 am

There goes my winter.

# 2 Dallas said, on September 8th, 2009 at 5:17 am

Nice. I’d like to build a gay bar across the street from the Bush’s.

# 3 wirelessg said, on September 8th, 2009 at 5:33 am

It’s nice to see Google finally embrace the Monopoly moniker.

# 4 chuck said, on September 8th, 2009 at 6:56 am

How long until it gets hacked and some guy living in his mom’s basement ends up owning the world?

Will it follow the Monopoly game rules closely? In the game, a roll of the dice determines who will land on your property. It would be interesting to see what city-planning effect there would be. i.e. If I build a football stadium on my street, will it affect the value of the football stadium on the next street?

# 5 Postman said, on September 8th, 2009 at 7:07 am

This will be good. Young Microsoft haters are gonna get a kick(in the nuts) out of this. Those of us old enough to see this cycle go around a few times should see what is comming.

This is the beginning of the end of Google. In Less than 10 years, here is a company that rose to industry dominance, and now they have lost focus, and have been unable to exand out of their core competence, and now they will fade. In the next couple of years they will cede their role to Microsoft as that company for all the ways it lacks greatness, it does it in a very consistent game. Get in second place and stay there until the leader falters, then they win. This is how Microsoft defeated, IBM, Ashton Tate, Borland, and Apple. (I probably missed a few other companies they felled) Google is obviously next.

ROFL.

# 6 brm said, on September 8th, 2009 at 8:51 am

http://begthequestion.info/

# 7 Uncle Dave said, on September 8th, 2009 at 9:18 am

#6: Obviously, the writer of your link does not believe in the concept of ‘living languages’ which embiggen and cromulently change over time.

# 8 Kanjy said, on September 8th, 2009 at 11:34 am

#7: So you’re fine with people answering “absolutely” instead of “yes” to every question?

# 9 jess said, on September 9th, 2009 at 6:33 am

how i can play this game?

# 10 Isa Lube said, on September 9th, 2009 at 10:18 am

Great, I think it’s a great idea. I always loved to play Monopoly when I was a kid and would love to try in online.

# 11 OSUJoe said, on September 10th, 2009 at 11:54 pm

I am just wondering when people will figure out that THIS IS NOT A F^CKING GOOGLE endeavor! Christ. There are a thousand apps out there that use Google maps, and that is all this game is doing.. using Google maps… Hasbro is the entity behind it… they even said “Google has nothing to do with this game, other than letting us use their maps”.

# 12 ukfatboy said, on September 14th, 2009 at 7:31 am

The games is going to be reset some point this week . Clean start for eveybody.

I love this game so I’ve set up my first ever website at :-

http://www.wincitystreets.com

Wincitystreets is an unofficial community for players of the fantastic free global online game Monopoly City Streets.

Our forum allows you to keep up to date with everything to do with the game and to see what everybody else’s up to.

The forums include sections on the rules FAQS , gameplay, strategy, tips and tricks.

You can create your own blogs and follow other players thoughts, campaigns and disasters.

Registering is easy and free. So please join in !

# 13 City Streets Board said, on September 16th, 2009 at 10:40 am

awesome game. Hope they keep it live.
http://citystreetsboard.com/forums/

# 14 Chuck Han said, on September 30th, 2009 at 10:15 am

If you want to see the Monopoly competition buildings on your iPhone in 3D, you can do so with NaviCAD (http://www.navicad.com). Just type in “monopolycompetition09″ in the search interface and tap a result. Note that NaviCAD is only a viewing/navigating app. Any suggestions are welcome–send an email to feedback@navicad.com.

thanks, Chuck Han (one of the NaviCAD developers)

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