Toy Fair 2016 is underway in New York and Hasbro is taking the opportunity to detail some fresh products. Our favorite is the new Monopoly Ultimate Banking game that brings this classic title into the 21st century with a new digital format. Gone are the days of counting (and cheating) with dollar bills, now each property’s value is managed digitally alongside your bank account.
Monopoly’s Ultimate Banking edition comes with a tiny ATM that is used to track each financial transaction in the game. While this isn’t the first time Hasbro has tried to take the classic title digital, the hope is that this version will be much improved over previous iterations. Gameplay is largely the same, except that every player has a credit card which is scanned on the card reader. The handheld device tracks each property and credits or debits players when necessary.
The latest Monopoly title is set to hit shelves in the fall for $25. In the meantime, you’ll have to stick to Hasbro’s many, many recreations of this popular board game.
Source: Toy Land
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I would have to say that the Star Wars episode 1 was awesome… i loved the gold republic coins…
But the best design was the monopoly revolution…
My only issue with digital versions of monopoly is that you dont get the same feeling when you have a lot of money — the digital version it’s just numbers…but the non-digital version shows your wealth with all the paper money in front of you… and you can taunt players by waffing the money about… plus you can make up extra rules such as “fines go in the middle…if you land on free parking you get the money from the center”
What would be awesome is having a digital app that goes with the game…
the device above in the picture looks huge and cheaply made… 🙁