John Green reviews a new computerized version of the board game Monopoly and doesn't like it, nor does he like the original, classic game. As most connoisseurs of board games will tell you, Monopoly was never a very good game. Whatever fondness I have for it is largely because I played it with my grandparents and they loved it and since I loved them…
Green explains a lot of what's wrong with the game and also with its history. It reportedly was not really invented by the guy who got the money and credit for inventing it. As for the game itself, I long ago bought and tried to play a PC adaptation of it and when I did, I realized something: If ever a game was no fun to play against a computer opponent, this was it. It did create some fun in human interaction, trying to psych out your friends and determine their greed points and there was a certain satisfaction when they erected a killer color group covered with hotels and you rolled the one dice combo that will allow you to skip through it without landing and paying rent you could not afford. There's zero fun doing that against a computer. Here's John Green to tell you more…