The original monopoly Game
Customize the familiar monopoly game, OR ....play the authentic game ,which
was stolen from its inventors.
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Your Own Personalized Monopoly. This game revives the custom of the original players to personalize their homemade monopoly with their own hometown properties.
The homemade monopoly had been played in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and many other American cities since about 1910--twenty odd years before a trumped-up corporate story claims it had been originally created by Charles B. Darrow, an associate of the current producers of Monopoly®. This folk game had been invented by the same woman, Elizabeth Maggie Phillips, who had also invented a forerunner game called "The Landlord's Game."
Her second invention was renamed "monopoly" because its play illustrates the unfair nature of getting rich by building words, it was designed to make fun of the same type of giants of industry who are now once again swallowing up more and more of our real economy. With impunity.
So pick your own neighborhood street names and mark them on your game equipment, using either wipe-off or permanent black soft tip markers--or even crayons. Or put some real world monopolists on the board. After all, they usually rent out real estate as part of their general business.
And if you become a virtual reality tycoon from real estate or other properties, remember you are getting rich by the fun of wheeling and dealing and ripping off the public.
 The ORIGINAL monopoly game which surfaced as Monopoly® after being knocked-off from Atlantic City Quaker teachers. Like other folk game players, these Quakers had personalized the monopoly folk game to which they had been introduced by players from Indianapolis. They also added other critical inventions to their inherited folk game. The result was the Atlantic City folk game, which plays just like familiar Monopoly (R).
They also had the players use their own, diversified personal objects as playing pieces--just as we do in our game. They played their monopoly on oil cloths. So we included a kind of oil cloth board which can also be rolled up and, presto, you have a portable monopoly game. How did this original game become Monopoly?
The inventors taught their game innocently to a copycat named Darrow, who fraudulently claimed to have invented what he had been taught. Apart from some new art work, the other differences between Monopoly and the Quaker game are the result of copying mistakes. Our game uses the authentic names.
The existence of the monopoly folk game and Atlantic City monopoly was deliberately expunged from history in a scheme to monopolize Monopoly (R) in the real world. The true story was finally uncovered dramatically by the inventor of the Anti-Monopoly game, while he was defending himself against a lawsuit, filed by the producers of the Monopoly game. You can read the whole story in "The Billion Dollar Monopoly® Swindle", by Dr. Ralph Anspach..
So ride the time warp to Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the early 1930's-- and give credit to the real inventors of Monopoly (R). |
