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February 10, 2007
Rich Uncle Pennybags Comes to Chico
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| The recent wet weather allowed for some indoor time with
my boy. We decided to move up from Candy
Land and Chutes
and Ladders to Monopoly this
week. He played very well for a 6 year-old, but I had to stop him from
kissing the money when he received rent. That's just bad form. "Rich Uncle
Pennybags" is the Monopoly mascot. We bought the standard old-school version of Monopoly (as opposed to the "Here and Now" or "Spongebob" versions). My wife and I both had particular tokens that we used as kids. Mine was the race car, and hers was the top hat. The game that I played as a kid came with wooden houses and hotels, and was probably from the 1950's. There's a Chico-Monopoly version of the game for sale down at Bird In Hand. I don't think it's modeled on our existing land use policies. After a weekend wheeling-and-dealing in the land development world of Monopoly, I had a new appreciation for all the land use laws we have. When I started thinking what a Monopoly game modeled on Chico might look like I came up with a corner of the board above, as well as some sample game cards. I haven't quite figured out how to work a mitigation bank into game play. There's also no strategic benefit to building "new urbanism" houses on your property yet. But if I can figure out those tricky additions to game play we could be looking at the most difficult version of Monopoly ever created. |
Posted by Lon at February 10, 2007 12:00 AM