Now There Is Monopoly, Which Is Ruining Your Brain.
Just in time for June 7th, game maker Hasbro announced the upcoming release of a “mind-blowing” version of Monopoly. Called “Billionaire Mind-blowing,” the game will feature properties with names like “Uncle Place” and “Cooked Yard” instead of the waterfront and Vermont Avenue, as well as “Slop” and “Chatter” cards instead of “Chance” and “Community Box” cards, because kids love cardboard versions of TikTok trends.
Brainrot Billionaire isn’t just a remake of the old game; it features fewer boards and simplified rules that even the most dimwitted among us will understand. The game will be released in August for $19.95, but you can pre-order it today on Walmart’s website.
This isn’t the first Monopoly game to span multiple generations.
Hasbro has already tried to win the younger generation’s wallets with memes. I’m sure you’re all still playing ” Monopoly for Millennials ,” a version of the game released by Hasbro in 2018 where the goal isn’t to accumulate money and crush your opponents with the power of capitalism, but to have experiences doing typical millennial things, like attending a music festival or a meditation retreat.
There are many more versions of the game Monopoly than you might think.
Since the original game’s release in 1935, countless versions of Monopoly have been released. Hasbro licenses the Monopoly name to third parties and prints custom versions for corporations , so it’s impossible to know how many variations of the game actually exist. A list of Monopoly games, maintained by the Monopoly Wiki community, documents over 1,000 versions, including “Socialist Monopoly” (if you want to work together for the good of society), ” David Bowie Monopoly” (because that’s what he would have wanted), and three different Garfield-themed Monopoly variants . If you only count Monopoly games that modify the core rules of the game (such as “Rogue Monopoly “), there are between 200 and 300 official variants released by Hasbro.