@@1984Brandon I wasn't aware of that untill watching this video. Kinda reminds me of the " battle" Between nikola tesla and edison Edison got all the spotlight
I really like how the auction theme sounds like a boss theme in a sidescroller. What is your usual Monopoly strategy? I trade almost everything to get all orange/magenta. Houses and hotels don't cost a ton, but they still do a ton of damage to opponents
Amen, it amazes me that despite technological advances & multiple attempts by multiple developers, this still stands the test of time as the best version of Monopoly.
I'm going to have to get it, but I personally loved the version that Westwood studios did for PC. It had awesome cut scenes in many places and a lot of advantages over the boardgame version. I think the only version that I've found that I like better is the card game version.
This one has always been my favorite video game version of Monopoly. I feel like later consoles chased after superior graphics, fancy animations, and more to try and improve upon presentation but simply slowed down the pacing. NES Monopoly found that balance with pace and charm that lets it just roll. Really glad you mentioned the sound as well. It is almost an ASMR game. ... but then you land on luxury tax.
The Genesis version is the one I always played when I was younger. I always liked the cop's Irish brogue, and thought it brought some personality to a game that can sometimes lack in that department. "Dont'cha be comin' back here, now".
Great review as always! I always enjoy when you, or other reviewers, go the extra mile with your research. I hadn't ever heard of The Landlord's Game or Elizabeth Magie before, so thanks for helping to shine a spotlight on her and her creation.
Oh my gosh, I had this NES game as a kid too. Before I got it, I used to play the board game against my stuft animals because no one wanted to play Monopoly with me, lol.
It's surprising how much charm some developers managed to build into "simple" games, and that effort wasn't replicated on more powerful systems. One of my favourite NES titles is Lunar Pool for the same reason.
There was a Monopoly on the original XBox called Monopoly Party that was far superior to any other one I've ever played. I used to be able to play about three games in a little over an hour in a 4 player game with 3 computer players because it was designed to flow quickly. It was fantastic. And the graphics and music were good enough for the game for it to be attractive and timeless. It even has multiple boards with different themes to choose from. I highly recommend if you like Monopoly.
NES monopoly has that right amount of pacing, animations, and oddly eerie track for the console that fit it perfectly. I found the sound effects to draw me in a way that reminisced on other games of the console. perfect iteration. Not too flashy!
The sound effects live rent free in my head, from the 'don't be coming back now' to the theme that plays when houses are built, it has stood the test of time.
I loved Monopoly as a kid. I felt like I was playing an adult board game when I finally figured it out. I think the NES version helped me learn how to play it better. I agree about this just being the best version. There are so many little things like those sound effects. This is sort of the same reason I find the NES and GB versions of Tetris to be the only ones I like. I would rent this version several times and even managed to get some adults to play it with me. Eventually I got the copy from the rental store when they were selling older games. I spent many times playing this by myself. I didn't like to lose, so I would turn myself into a computer player, take control of the computer players, trade things to myself that I wanted, then turn myself back into a human. I tried to be fair with the trades but you just never wanted that fish bone in the trash can at the end. I agree that it softened the idea of monopolies and property not being so messed up in our society. I feel like we need that original version more than ever now.
I think I rented this once, but my family used to play physical Monopoly during power outages. These often happened during blizzards, so we'd be huddled around the dining room table kept warm with winter jackets and lit by candlelight. Games lasted a really long time due to doing the whole Free Parking thing, but we'd often make it through.
Monopoly for the NES was the first time I heard a voice from a video game. The "Don't be coming back now" of the Get out of Jail action blew my mind. If the AI was just a little more polished (Don't get me wrong it was amazing for the time) it would without a doubt be a perfect version of Monopoly.
So glad you mentioned Lizze Magie in this video. It is great that recent books and articles are revealing how the game was originally invented instead of the Gospel of Darrow that Parker Brothers put out for so long. If you haven't read it (or listened to the audio book), I highly suggest Mary Pilon's "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game." The author does a deep dive into Lizze Magie, her contemporaries, and how Ralph Ansbach (the creator of Anti-Monopoly) started bringing this all to light.
I still can't believe they took a game about how terrible -vampires- landlords are and somehow made the win condition becoming the biggest -vampire- landlord.
I am a big fan but I wish there was a way to make the game go quicker, especially for kids now with the options they have for entertainment it's hard to get wm to play monopoly
what an awesome underappreciated game! ive played this with my friends a few times and its always been a blast, despite how old and limited the hardware is. the game holds up to this day and has honestly aged like fine wine in a time filled with board game video games that waste your time with long and uninteresting animations
FINALLY! Someone sings the praises of this game! I have played just about every digital version of Monopoly N64 and earlier. The NES one is just by far the most fun. It's fast paced and has a lot of charm. Most of the fun of this game comes from just trying to exploit the AI as much as you possibly can before they team together to crush you and everyone else! The fact you can just trade at LITERALLY ANYTIME during the course of any person's turn should be used and abused whenever possible! Great vid, Pam!
Very cool piece. I have fond memories playing this with my cousins when we had sleep overs growing up. We used to make a blanket fort around the TV in my room and keep the volume down once it got late so the light from the TV wouldn't be seen under the door and we could sneak staying up to the wee hours of the morning playing! Lol.
You don't think people and corporations buying up all the available properties so they can rent them out has anything to do with the fact that many can't afford their own houses now?
@@tonyp9313 Number of people who buy a property as an investment *not* intending to extract more money out of the people they will rent it to than they bought it for: 0 It isn't philanthropic to profit off other peoples' needs. I'm not saying it's therefore *necessarily* evil, but it's not some generous act. And it's an industry rife with abuse and exploitation and (take a drink) monopoly, as those who make more profit at it can just buy up more land and make more profit in a cycle that only ends where we dictate it to with restriction and legislation.
@@tonyp9313 😂 Seeing as the person who *runs* this channel put the commentary in her video and didn't seem to have a problem with my comment, I'm not too concerned about "staying on topic" to suit your comfort level, thanks. Pam can and should make videos about whatever she wants, and I'm always happy to see some commentary about other stuff that matters in her work.
@@tonyp9313 Because she had something she wanted to say, and it's her channel, so she said it. Presumably The Quarry didn't present her with an obvious opportunity to make an unrelated but important point. Nobody's forced to watch. Her audience seems to largely be in favor of her talking about whatever she wants. As a Patreon supporter, I certainly am.
I used to play this as a kid as well and still do as an adult, once in a while. It's my favorite version so, I appreciate the well made video on it. I've also specifically always loved the sounds, jingles and voices in this version. Lovely video. When I moved into my own place, amusingly, the first day I was there, I had a CRT, an NES and Monopoly playing itself in a game of all computers, as a background thing while I unpacked things.
I've loved this version of Monopoly since I was a kid and never really tried the ones on later consoles since I never really felt like I needed a "better" version. It's a great NES title that not a lot of people talk about even though it still holds up as well as the board game.
I had an early 90s Apple Mac computer and had monopoly. You could rob the bank and take all the money, but if you rob the bank after rolling doubles you go to jail.
Fond memories of this game. My parents always saw video games as a "work of the devil" but they were very all right with NES Monopoly. They would actually rent it so the family could spend an evening playing it together. Also agree that no other version of video game Monopoly every quite measured up to this one. I think most devs who make a Monopoly game are just coasting on the established popularity of the name.
This video is great! It reminds me a lot of the style of older game reviews (in a good way, it's really well presented and informative). I also really liked the section about the origins of the game and the general progressivism throughout.
I don't think people realize how well this game sold on the NES. I don't have figures, but it lurked on and off in the Nintendo Power Top 30 (and later 20) for more than three years. Basically, those charts were formulated by surveying players' five most favorite games as well as looking at sales figures. I can't imagine that many kids were ranking Monopoly among their favorite games, so the sales must have accounted for a lot to make up the difference.
Although not as fancy, there's a version of Trivial Pursuit on the Master System that is the best video game version I've ever played. It's from the early 90s and aimed at a more British-centric audience, so I'm not sure it reached your shores of the Atlantic. However, it's still fun to mess around with to this day.
It’s crazy to me that someone is making a video about NES Monopoly in 2022. Also pretty crazy about the Landlord’s Game. Thanks for helping to bring that to light.
cool history lesson , nice to learn about the landlords game. i used to exploit the computer when they wanted a monopoly and id ask for everything they had, sometimes id mess up and they'd bankrupt me with their monopoly. I think i only played the snes version they wouldn't give you everything but it was close enough.
I've been telling people that the NES version of Monopoly is the best Monopoly for like twenty years now. So glad to see that there are people who agree!
I have been preaching this for years!! It is my all time favorite way to play monopoly! It is a very fast pace version of the game. Also no dealing out pieces and money and property.
I always enjoyed this version of Monopoly for all of the reasons that you highlighted. Simply the best way to play, IMO. Loved your detailing of the history of the game, I was unaware of the origins. Great Review very interesting.
Thought the music sounded very similar to that in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves for the NES, and as expected, Paul Webb was the composer of that game as well.
When i was very young I remember watching my mom always play Tetris, Dr Mario, and....Monopoly. This video was so much nostalgia for me. I'm glad to see someone else appreciated this game as much as my mom. Now I want to dust off her copy of it and fire it up
We somehow had Monopoly on a floppy disk full of games for our Commodore 64 when I was a kid. To this day, the sequence of that specific dice roll, piece movement (usually five), and go to jail sound effects (in that order usually) continues to haunt me whenever I think of digital versions of Monopoly. Even for fans of the C64’s SID chip, those sound effects were grating.
I agree that this may be the best version. We used to play this a lot years ago due to it being so easy to set everything up and not worrying about who handles the bank money, it's such a great version of the board game. And with the amount of time we spent on it we discovered that there is a game breaking exploit that can be triggered by the player that can be effective even against human players without them noticing. If you hold "down" on the d-pad while your turn is active the game will "glitch" and skip the pay screen when landing on the opponents properties and thus avoid losing any money, there is no initial setup required for this to work so anybody can exploit it when needed, unless your watching closely for the "skip".
You're right about who wants to play Monopoly. When I got the board game for Christmas one year, I swear I played it once with a group of people and after that nobody ever wanted to play. This seems like a good solution
this is my favorite NES game. This was the only NES game I ever bought with my own money that I saved myself. I loved this game and played it to death back in the day. Sadly the cartridge got lost at some point when I lived in my house as a Jr. and Sr. in HS since I mostly stopped playing my NES by that point. I still remember this game fondly and loved playing it all the time.
I grew up renting the N64 version of Monopoly a lot and loved the gentle yet catchy background music, the wacky sound effects, and all the little character animations. I think a lot of it just boils down to nostalgia; intrinsically every version of Monopoly is basically the same, it's just the little details of whichever one we each played that stick out to us the most.
Yes I agree, this is the best computer Monopoly out there. I just purchased the newest form of Monopoly on Steam a few weeks ago. The graphics are really good and they clearly spent a lot of time on it, but all the features, like the sound effects, voices, animations, etc eventually get old and slow things down too much. The NES Monopoly was much more fast-paced, not so much waiting for things to happen. The sound effects and voices were “WTF?” (Like ‘Don’t be coming back now’…WTF is that?) and yet they were somehow memorable. Also the controls on the NES were simple, unlike the computer version, which required mouse clicks combined with keyboard use that wasn’t user friendly.
Great video. I was obsessed with this game as a kid. I was probably 10 or 11 when it came out, and my 3 best friends and I would play it for hours and hours every weekend.
The NES version of Monopoly was what got me thinking about the rules. I went on to review the actual rules, and was kind of surprised to discover that things like all money going into the middle of the board, and whoever lands on Free Parking gets it, or things like lending money to other players, or whatever other house rules weren't part of the actual game. So, one fateful year at the family Christmas clusterfuck, I suggested that we play the game by the actual rules. If you tried to do something that wasn't in the rules, it's denied. It was AMAZING how much faster the game went.
So true I loved playing this game, still have a burn around once and a while, try to get my kids to play but they just want no part of it, so like you I play the computer just wish the board game hotels was more popular on consoles. Thanks for the Great video.
The script for this review was super well made. It really shows that you like this game and that i means a lot to you (specially as you usted to play it many years ago) The ending part explaining the origins of monopoly was also super interesting to know and well said about how housing is more a right of every human being.
Funny story about Monopoly on NES. My sister's husband was playing it as she left for work. When she came back home 8 hours later, he was still playing it. He said he kept checking if he had any calls and he didn't, so he just kept playing. I honestly cannot imagine playing any game, much less Monopoly, for 8 hours.
Looks like it has a lot of charm - nice review! Thanks also for pointing out Elizabeth McGee's role in the history of the game - there is an interesting book out there called The Monopolists which covers the history in detail.
I remember the NES game, it was released in 1991 by Parker Brothers which is now Hasbro. This was seven years after Parker Brothers made a handful of video games for the Atari 2600 including arcade ports of “Frogger”, “Popeye” and others, along with a few “Star Wars” games. Before the NES version, the first one was for the Sega Master System back in the late 1980’s as their first video game adaptation based on the board game, and then it was later released on so many consoles and computers over the years, along with the recent versions for the iOS and Android devices. It was a really long game, but it plays well than the board game.
So, the Monopoly board game is an example of its own philosophy: using brute force backed up by law to exploit other people (such as the woman who invented the game).
NES version is definitely the best. The AI in my opinion is more realistic. They may give up everything to complete a color, but also WANT everything you have before they let you complete one. Also the Landlord Game has got some recognition. They have a copy on display at the Children's museum I bring my son to.
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If you want to learn more about the origins of Monopoly check out this video from the Smithsonian ruclips.net/video/qQfEdFuvEHQ/видео.html
What irony that a Parker Brother's corporation exploited the Elizabeth Magie version. Because of the Charles Darrow guy's greed.
I really liked the commentary and addition of the original creator. Awesome video 👍👍👍
@Marko Polo That was probably a scam as I received the same notification(s).
Hahaha, cute fun video :)
Great humor
@@1984Brandon I wasn't aware of that untill watching this video.
Kinda reminds me of the " battle"
Between nikola tesla and edison
Edison got all the spotlight
That "DON'T BE COMING BACK NOW!" might be the most sinister voice I ever heard in an NES game.
I really like how the auction theme sounds like a boss theme in a sidescroller. What is your usual Monopoly strategy? I trade almost everything to get all orange/magenta. Houses and hotels don't cost a ton, but they still do a ton of damage to opponents
I like to get the orange and red corner and the railroads.
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My two favorite retro reviewers in one place? Awesome. I hope you have a great rest of your day.
I like how all the bidders are wearing top hats during the bid wars. lol
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Pam > The rest of us > Landlords
Those shots at landlords made my heart swell.
Monopoly taught me success means squeezing every dollar out of my friends and taking their possessions
but I was a thimble so that made it okay
Thimbles can't be expected to adhere to human morals.
Amen, it amazes me that despite technological advances & multiple attempts by multiple developers, this still stands the test of time as the best version of Monopoly.
With only the Minecraft version Achievement Hunter made years ago the second best.
I'm going to have to get it, but I personally loved the version that Westwood studios did for PC. It had awesome cut scenes in many places and a lot of advantages over the boardgame version. I think the only version that I've found that I like better is the card game version.
Maybe the devs should start thinking about making the game simple again?
Is it actually that good?
@@SmallSpoonBrigade Nice! I just found it on winworld - I bet it'll work just fine on my 386 SX 16 :D
This one has always been my favorite video game version of Monopoly. I feel like later consoles chased after superior graphics, fancy animations, and more to try and improve upon presentation but simply slowed down the pacing. NES Monopoly found that balance with pace and charm that lets it just roll.
Really glad you mentioned the sound as well. It is almost an ASMR game. ... but then you land on luxury tax.
Yes, the pace is so good. The fancier animations just slow things down.
The Genesis version is the one I always played when I was younger. I always liked the cop's Irish brogue, and thought it brought some personality to a game that can sometimes lack in that department. "Dont'cha be comin' back here, now".
Great review as always! I always enjoy when you, or other reviewers, go the extra mile with your research. I hadn't ever heard of The Landlord's Game or Elizabeth Magie before, so thanks for helping to shine a spotlight on her and her creation.
I just found out about the history of the game this year so I thought it'd be an interesting aspect to include.
@@Cannotbetamed1 you look at least a decade too young to have grown up playing NES
"go the extra mile with your research"
Going to wikipedia is an extra mile to you? Or just doing a web search?
Oh my gosh, I had this NES game as a kid too. Before I got it, I used to play the board game against my stuft animals because no one wanted to play Monopoly with me, lol.
It's surprising how much charm some developers managed to build into "simple" games, and that effort wasn't replicated on more powerful systems. One of my favourite NES titles is Lunar Pool for the same reason.
I loved cool spot the video game
@@Stylez-13 oh yeah I remember that game! Lol
Makes you feel like real life.
There was a Monopoly on the original XBox called Monopoly Party that was far superior to any other one I've ever played. I used to be able to play about three games in a little over an hour in a 4 player game with 3 computer players because it was designed to flow quickly. It was fantastic. And the graphics and music were good enough for the game for it to be attractive and timeless. It even has multiple boards with different themes to choose from. I highly recommend if you like Monopoly.
NES monopoly has that right amount of pacing, animations, and oddly eerie track for the console that fit it perfectly. I found the sound effects to draw me in a way that reminisced on other games of the console. perfect iteration. Not too flashy!
The sound effects live rent free in my head, from the 'don't be coming back now' to the theme that plays when houses are built, it has stood the test of time.
For some reason the sound of the dice flashing when you roll 3 doubles & go to jail STILL elicits a primal fear in me for some reason.
I loved Monopoly as a kid. I felt like I was playing an adult board game when I finally figured it out. I think the NES version helped me learn how to play it better.
I agree about this just being the best version. There are so many little things like those sound effects. This is sort of the same reason I find the NES and GB versions of Tetris to be the only ones I like.
I would rent this version several times and even managed to get some adults to play it with me. Eventually I got the copy from the rental store when they were selling older games.
I spent many times playing this by myself. I didn't like to lose, so I would turn myself into a computer player, take control of the computer players, trade things to myself that I wanted, then turn myself back into a human. I tried to be fair with the trades but you just never wanted that fish bone in the trash can at the end.
I agree that it softened the idea of monopolies and property not being so messed up in our society. I feel like we need that original version more than ever now.
Ah, I never thought of turning my player into a computer to get what I wanted in trades.
The graphics and animations are really good for NES.
8:39 "Housing should be a human right." That simple line hit me oddly profoundly.
This is probably my favorite format of video from you. Great work Pam!!
Thank you!
i have fond memories of this version. i'll never forget the auction music and the disappointment of it not returning to the snes version.
I think I rented this once, but my family used to play physical Monopoly during power outages. These often happened during blizzards, so we'd be huddled around the dining room table kept warm with winter jackets and lit by candlelight. Games lasted a really long time due to doing the whole Free Parking thing, but we'd often make it through.
Monopoly for the NES was the first time I heard a voice from a video game. The "Don't be coming back now" of the Get out of Jail action blew my mind. If the AI was just a little more polished (Don't get me wrong it was amazing for the time) it would without a doubt be a perfect version of Monopoly.
I didn't realize how much I needed to hear someone call out Monopoly until now.
"...and they all look like rich assholes." 😂😂😂 I actually lolled at that! I've never played the nes monopoly but this was a great video
I never would have thought that NES Monopoly was that solid.
So glad you mentioned Lizze Magie in this video. It is great that recent books and articles are revealing how the game was originally invented instead of the Gospel of Darrow that Parker Brothers put out for so long. If you haven't read it (or listened to the audio book), I highly suggest Mary Pilon's "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game." The author does a deep dive into Lizze Magie, her contemporaries, and how Ralph Ansbach (the creator of Anti-Monopoly) started bringing this all to light.
Thanks for the recommendation
My favorite thing of this game is the sounds when someone is sent to jail, including the loud whistle and the turn in jail, XD
I still can't believe they took a game about how terrible -vampires- landlords are and somehow made the win condition becoming the biggest -vampire- landlord.
Monopoly on the phone is the same way where the computers don't stop bugging you about trades
Monopoly is by far one of the few games I play with my friends for weeks at a time. Great memories
I am a big fan but I wish there was a way to make the game go quicker, especially for kids now with the options they have for entertainment it's hard to get wm to play monopoly
what an awesome underappreciated game! ive played this with my friends a few times and its always been a blast, despite how old and limited the hardware is. the game holds up to this day and has honestly aged like fine wine in a time filled with board game video games that waste your time with long and uninteresting animations
FINALLY! Someone sings the praises of this game! I have played just about every digital version of Monopoly N64 and earlier. The NES one is just by far the most fun. It's fast paced and has a lot of charm. Most of the fun of this game comes from just trying to exploit the AI as much as you possibly can before they team together to crush you and everyone else! The fact you can just trade at LITERALLY ANYTIME during the course of any person's turn should be used and abused whenever possible! Great vid, Pam!
Thank you!
Very cool piece. I have fond memories playing this with my cousins when we had sleep overs growing up. We used to make a blanket fort around the TV in my room and keep the volume down once it got late so the light from the TV wouldn't be seen under the door and we could sneak staying up to the wee hours of the morning playing! Lol.
Haha, so tricks to pull to get to stay up late playing video games.
@@Cannotbetamed1 absolutely! Great times and memories. Thanks for the awesome content as always.
OMG the cash register eating your money sound. so many memories!!
A solid history lesson, neat trivia about game ports, and an excuse to dunk on landlords. A+. 👏👏
You don't think people and corporations buying up all the available properties so they can rent them out has anything to do with the fact that many can't afford their own houses now?
@@tonyp9313 Number of people who buy a property as an investment *not* intending to extract more money out of the people they will rent it to than they bought it for: 0
It isn't philanthropic to profit off other peoples' needs. I'm not saying it's therefore *necessarily* evil, but it's not some generous act. And it's an industry rife with abuse and exploitation and (take a drink) monopoly, as those who make more profit at it can just buy up more land and make more profit in a cycle that only ends where we dictate it to with restriction and legislation.
@@tonyp9313 😂 Seeing as the person who *runs* this channel put the commentary in her video and didn't seem to have a problem with my comment, I'm not too concerned about "staying on topic" to suit your comfort level, thanks. Pam can and should make videos about whatever she wants, and I'm always happy to see some commentary about other stuff that matters in her work.
@@tonyp9313 Good luck with that. 👍
@@tonyp9313 Because she had something she wanted to say, and it's her channel, so she said it. Presumably The Quarry didn't present her with an obvious opportunity to make an unrelated but important point. Nobody's forced to watch. Her audience seems to largely be in favor of her talking about whatever she wants. As a Patreon supporter, I certainly am.
I used to play this as a kid as well and still do as an adult, once in a while. It's my favorite version so, I appreciate the well made video on it. I've also specifically always loved the sounds, jingles and voices in this version. Lovely video. When I moved into my own place, amusingly, the first day I was there, I had a CRT, an NES and Monopoly playing itself in a game of all computers, as a background thing while I unpacked things.
You didn't need to go so hard on Monopoly's history but I'm so absolutely glad you did! Great work!
Thank you!
I used to give all the AI opponents max money, and set them against each other. I'd fall asleep just listening to the sounds.
I've loved this version of Monopoly since I was a kid and never really tried the ones on later consoles since I never really felt like I needed a "better" version. It's a great NES title that not a lot of people talk about even though it still holds up as well as the board game.
Thanks for that little history lesson at the end. Used to play Monopoly a lot when I was a kid. Had no idea of it's origins.
I had an early 90s Apple Mac computer and had monopoly. You could rob the bank and take all the money, but if you rob the bank after rolling doubles you go to jail.
In the early 2000s, Hasbro board games on CD were the prizes in cereal boxes. That version of Monopoly is my favourite.
1:06 Thank you for not being afraid to put this out there. 👍
Fond memories of this game. My parents always saw video games as a "work of the devil" but they were very all right with NES Monopoly. They would actually rent it so the family could spend an evening playing it together. Also agree that no other version of video game Monopoly every quite measured up to this one. I think most devs who make a Monopoly game are just coasting on the established popularity of the name.
when i was a kid me and my aunt used to play this all the time, we even used the property cards from the board game to keep track more easily.
This video is great! It reminds me a lot of the style of older game reviews (in a good way, it's really well presented and informative). I also really liked the section about the origins of the game and the general progressivism throughout.
Thanks so much!
I don't think people realize how well this game sold on the NES. I don't have figures, but it lurked on and off in the Nintendo Power Top 30 (and later 20) for more than three years. Basically, those charts were formulated by surveying players' five most favorite games as well as looking at sales figures. I can't imagine that many kids were ranking Monopoly among their favorite games, so the sales must have accounted for a lot to make up the difference.
great video. Love these deep dives into NES games. It's amazing how many options and setting the NES version had.
Fun fact! The Sega Master System version misspelled Monopoly as Mono Poly on the game cart.
Sounds like an early introduction to solo-polyamory. Very progressive for the 1980's 😆
Thanks for adding the extra educational background.
No problem!
Although not as fancy, there's a version of Trivial Pursuit on the Master System that is the best video game version I've ever played. It's from the early 90s and aimed at a more British-centric audience, so I'm not sure it reached your shores of the Atlantic. However, it's still fun to mess around with to this day.
I'll have to try that out.
Great review! I appreciate the background info.
Thanks
It’s crazy to me that someone is making a video about NES Monopoly in 2022. Also pretty crazy about the Landlord’s Game. Thanks for helping to bring that to light.
cool history lesson , nice to learn about the landlords game. i used to exploit the computer when they wanted a monopoly and id ask for everything they had, sometimes id mess up and they'd bankrupt me with their monopoly. I think i only played the snes version they wouldn't give you everything but it was close enough.
LOVED this version as a kid. Excellent review
I always LOVED the NES Monopoly!! All the cute animations and sound effects totally sold me as a kid :)
Barely a minute in and Pam's slating landlords. Love it.
I can't help myself when talking about a game about being a landlord.
My favorite Monopoly video game was the Windows '95,'98 version made by Westwood. Haven't played it in many years and would love to play it again.
I loved the Westwood Monopoly on PC. Its jazz soundtrack by Frank Klepacki went way harder than it needed to and the animations had so much character.
I feel you, boardgames used to be a huge part of my life I played quite a few battletech/city tech campaigns
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I always knew you were cool, but this video definitely reinforces that. 🍞🌹
I've been telling people that the NES version of Monopoly is the best Monopoly for like twenty years now. So glad to see that there are people who agree!
The algorithm randomly brought me here just now, glad to have found your channel, nice video!
Welcome!
I have been preaching this for years!! It is my all time favorite way to play monopoly! It is a very fast pace version of the game. Also no dealing out pieces and money and property.
Excellent and informative overview of the larger topic. Great work.
Much appreciated!
I always enjoyed this version of Monopoly for all of the reasons that you highlighted. Simply the best way to play, IMO. Loved your detailing of the history of the game, I was unaware of the origins. Great Review very interesting.
Thought the music sounded very similar to that in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves for the NES, and as expected, Paul Webb was the composer of that game as well.
I love the tone and the amount of research and information in this video. This is some great content here.
Thanks!
When i was very young I remember watching my mom always play Tetris, Dr Mario, and....Monopoly. This video was so much nostalgia for me. I'm glad to see someone else appreciated this game as much as my mom. Now I want to dust off her copy of it and fire it up
We somehow had Monopoly on a floppy disk full of games for our Commodore 64 when I was a kid. To this day, the sequence of that specific dice roll, piece movement (usually five), and go to jail sound effects (in that order usually) continues to haunt me whenever I think of digital versions of Monopoly. Even for fans of the C64’s SID chip, those sound effects were grating.
I agree that this may be the best version. We used to play this a lot years ago due to it being so easy to set everything up and not worrying about who handles the bank money, it's such a great version of the board game. And with the amount of time we spent on it we discovered that there is a game breaking exploit that can be triggered by the player that can be effective even against human players without them noticing.
If you hold "down" on the d-pad while your turn is active the game will "glitch" and skip the pay screen when landing on the opponents properties and thus avoid losing any money, there is no initial setup required for this to work so anybody can exploit it when needed, unless your watching closely for the "skip".
You're right about who wants to play Monopoly. When I got the board game for Christmas one year, I swear I played it once with a group of people and after that nobody ever wanted to play. This seems like a good solution
this is my favorite NES game. This was the only NES game I ever bought with my own money that I saved myself. I loved this game and played it to death back in the day. Sadly the cartridge got lost at some point when I lived in my house as a Jr. and Sr. in HS since I mostly stopped playing my NES by that point. I still remember this game fondly and loved playing it all the time.
I grew up renting the N64 version of Monopoly a lot and loved the gentle yet catchy background music, the wacky sound effects, and all the little character animations. I think a lot of it just boils down to nostalgia; intrinsically every version of Monopoly is basically the same, it's just the little details of whichever one we each played that stick out to us the most.
Yes I agree, this is the best computer Monopoly out there. I just purchased the newest form of Monopoly on Steam a few weeks ago. The graphics are really good and they clearly spent a lot of time on it, but all the features, like the sound effects, voices, animations, etc eventually get old and slow things down too much. The NES Monopoly was much more fast-paced, not so much waiting for things to happen. The sound effects and voices were “WTF?” (Like ‘Don’t be coming back now’…WTF is that?) and yet they were somehow memorable. Also the controls on the NES were simple, unlike the computer version, which required mouse clicks combined with keyboard use that wasn’t user friendly.
This is so cool Pam, thank you so much for reviewing it! 🙆♀️
Loved playing this version.
The awkward dice rolling hand animation makes me laugh everytime. lol
Finally, someone else who appreciates NES Monopoly!
Man I only played that version of Monopoly once when I was a kid on the SNES lol.
Great video.
I was obsessed with this game as a kid. I was probably 10 or 11 when it came out, and my 3 best friends and I would play it for hours and hours every weekend.
Thanks!
The NES version of Monopoly was what got me thinking about the rules. I went on to review the actual rules, and was kind of surprised to discover that things like all money going into the middle of the board, and whoever lands on Free Parking gets it, or things like lending money to other players, or whatever other house rules weren't part of the actual game. So, one fateful year at the family Christmas clusterfuck, I suggested that we play the game by the actual rules. If you tried to do something that wasn't in the rules, it's denied. It was AMAZING how much faster the game went.
So true I loved playing this game, still have a burn around once and a while, try to get my kids to play but they just want no part of it, so like you I play the computer just wish the board game hotels was more popular on consoles.
Thanks for the Great video.
Wow did not know about "The Landlord's Game" really good info there
Venezuelan developers should make a full-blown triple-A game of The Landlord's Game that can only be played on RTX computers.
The script for this review was super well made. It really shows that you like this game and that i means a lot to you (specially as you usted to play it many years ago)
The ending part explaining the origins of monopoly was also super interesting to know and well said about how housing is more a right of every human being.
This is the type of content I look for.
I LOVED Monopoly on NES. Something about the graphics and sound/music, but I can't say why in any more detail than that. It was just more *fun*
Funny story about Monopoly on NES. My sister's husband was playing it as she left for work. When she came back home 8 hours later, he was still playing it. He said he kept checking if he had any calls and he didn't, so he just kept playing. I honestly cannot imagine playing any game, much less Monopoly, for 8 hours.
Looks like it has a lot of charm - nice review!
Thanks also for pointing out Elizabeth McGee's role in the history of the game - there is an interesting book out there called The Monopolists which covers the history in detail.
I played this for windows 3.1.1; very similar experience. I recall having a good time with it, but childhood is funny
I remember the NES game, it was released in 1991 by Parker Brothers which is now Hasbro. This was seven years after Parker Brothers made a handful of video games for the Atari 2600 including arcade ports of “Frogger”, “Popeye” and others, along with a few “Star Wars” games.
Before the NES version, the first one was for the Sega Master System back in the late 1980’s as their first video game adaptation based on the board game, and then it was later released on so many consoles and computers over the years, along with the recent versions for the iOS and Android devices.
It was a really long game, but it plays well than the board game.
Totally agree with your ending statement 100%
“Being a landlord is a real job”that made me laugh 😂
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You sound like someone who doesn't have a real job.
I never knew that level of history behind this game.
So, the Monopoly board game is an example of its own philosophy: using brute force backed up by law to exploit other people (such as the woman who invented the game).
the eating register was the #1 reason I always went back to this one
I never knew the full story behind this. Thank you for the video!
NES version is definitely the best. The AI in my opinion is more realistic. They may give up everything to complete a color, but also WANT everything you have before they let you complete one. Also the Landlord Game has got some recognition. They have a copy on display at the Children's museum I bring my son to.