Monopoly Electronic Banking Edition

Loved it the game its a classic if you haven’t played it I highly recommend it just know you will be playing for a few hours yes it is addicting so play at your own risk hahaha

I bought this for my son's 7th birthday, and we had a blast playing it. He had played Monopoly Jr. before, but never "real" Monopoly, and he loved it. I like that it sort of gives kids the whole concept of a debit card. My husband was banker, and although it seemed cumbersome to have the credit tracking system, he said he much preferred it over paper money. The only thing I didn't like was that without paper money, you have to keep asking the banker what your balance is because you can't get an idea of what your worth is without the paper money in front of you. It is kind of interesting to play with such high value properties, too, after playing the classic game for so many years. We liked the cool, modern playing pieces. Fun was had by all! :)

It's good to see this old classic brought to modern times. I used to love playing this game when i was younger but as we live in today fast paced world it seem to take too long to play a game. I guess years ago we had more time. Anyway with the new credit / debit card the game move much more quickly. you would not think the money would take so much time but it's made simple to transfer amounts between player which i think makes up alot of the time. No more stopping to make change or go the banker for different domoninations. And with a press of a button you know exactly how much total money you have as well as the other players.

I bought this product as Christmas gift for my dad. He is a big monopoly fan. He already has a monopoly game but the old version. He takes his monopoly game on every trip that we do, so I guessed this was a fun way to change the way we play. He loves the new version of monopoly, he was very pleased, and I recommend this product for any monopoly fan. Some say that with the electronic way the game is much slower but when we play we are never in a rush, we always play for average 5 hours, an no one likes to be the bank.

This is great since you don't need to have all the money everywhere, but it still takes time to enter in all the payments, etc. Now to be fair, there are only three of us playing at a time and this may make a difference. If there were many people playing, or even a person just being the banker and not playing, it would be better. You are still waiting to have the banker enter in the values and such, so the play time is still slowed down.There is no real money-counting educational value to the toy since it's just like using an ATM machine, more or less. You do have to do some math when deciding whether to buy a property or upgrade to more houses or hotels.The real (and only) plus to this game is that you don't have the money all over the place and you don't have to count it out in the beginning or put it away at the end of the game. This was all I expected when I bought the game so we're perfectly happy with it and enjoy more room on the table. Worth the money? Absolutely! :)

Just played this game last night with the in-laws. They're great -- the game isn't. Every player gets a "debit" card to use instead of the paper money used in the original game. It sounds like a great idea. But reality quickly gets in the way. The modified banking system not only slows down game play, but it leads to less player interaction.In addition, unless individual plays keep mental note of how much is left on their card, they must go back to the banker to see how much the card has left.Overall, the electronic banking was a detraction rather than an enhancement.Monopoly Electronic Banking Edition

I have played on the computer so hated the idea of all that loose money and needing to add it all,etc. This takes care of all that. There are a few rules on the computer that are not for this one but I add them just fine. All tax, etc. goes into free parking (use a pad and pen to keep track of that), if you get a roll that puts you right on go..you get double. (4 mil instead of 2 mil) but just add the extra 2mil with the card. Would like more choices for marker/tokens but other then that, I find no fault with it.

I'm by no means a Monopoly purist - if they can make it better, then I'm all for trying it. As someone who has pretty much done away with money in real life, I was especially interested in this credit card edition. It's fun, but still kinda flawed.The first problem, is that the Banker could potentially screw up everything. With people throwing their debit cards at you for transactions, it's easy to get mixed up who has which card and whether or not it should be in the + or - side of the card reader. If you make a mistake, and are aware of it, it's easy to hit clear and it will reverse what you did as long as the cards are still inserted. If you don't realize until later though, there's really no way of knowing how to fix it since most people aren't aware of how much money they have or how much other people have.The cards also take out a lot of the strategy of the game and makes it even more a game of rolling dice and less analyzing the competition and planning moves accordingly. And perhaps even more importantly, it didn't really make the game go by quicker. Since the math was never really tricky, the paper money didn't seem to be a time consumer until it was time to put everything away. The education isn't really there either.. you learn a bit about decimals, but still the computer is adding and subtracting everything for you so all you got to do is punch in a number or two.Overall, I'm not especially impressed and am not expecting this to sweep the nation or revolutionize the classic game.