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Monopoly City Streets: A Google Powered Online Monopoly Game

Monopoly  City Streets is a live global game of MONOPOLY that turns the world’s cities into a giant Monopoly City game board using Google Maps. You can virtually own any street across the world and play to become the richest property magnate in the world.

Unlike the traditional board game edition, there are no playing pieces or movements. Rent is paid out by the game itself each day, which are based on the properties you buy for the site, and not by other players. You get to earn rent from your properties every day, even if you don’t play. Your rent is calculated automatically by the game so that you can focus more on your property buying rather than being good at math.

You’ll start with a bank balance of 3 Million Monopoly Dollars. You can start by buying and owning the very street you live in. Then follow it up by buying friend’s streets, your neighborhood, your town, cities, and the world. You can own virtually any street across the globe.

The game will be live and open until January 31, 2010.

We want to watch the popularity of the site in the coming months and see how consumers react. But at the present time, we are planning on closing the application on Jan. 31, 2010. We can’t speculate on what we may decide to do at that point.

Play against the world and enjoy a live and global game of MONOPOLY.

Tags: Google, google maps, monopoly, Monopoly Streets

Googolopoly: The Google Monopoly Board Game

Are you prepared to monopolize the Internet? Maybe you should try this game out first before thinking of a plan to monopolize the entirety of the internet. Googolopoly is an internet board game created by the guys at Box.net which is similar to the popular board game Monopoly and is based on the idea of the monster company Google taking over the internet.

The Goal of the game is to organize all of the world’s information by buying internet properties or by building it yourself. Once you have acquired a company or built a product, you can invest in developers and servers which are pretty much like what Google is doing nowadays.

Googolopoly is neither a desktop game nor online game that you can play in you computers (maybe in the future). It’s a true blue classic board game, which you can download at box.net, in the form of a PDF. The file (19.6MB) contains all the essentials of the game including tokens, certificates, cards, company deeds and the whole board game itself. Enjoy Googolopolizing!

Update: Those of your who are trying to download Googolopoly from Box.net, you will now get a pdf  saying that the printable board game was taken down due to problems with hasbro. However, if you still want to get a copy of the file, you can download it here.

Tags: board game, Games, Google, googolopoly, monopoly, pdf