Here it is: not just a trading game, but a trading game construction set! In full, lush color! The game included with the distribution is only one of infinitely many games you can construct. You specify the colors, the number of squares in a color group, the mortgage rate, the costs of “justice,” buying, selling, building, etc, the names of the properties, even the messages that the game flashes as you play. You’re not just limited to railroads. You can have airlines, bus lines, trucking companies, and maritime shipping companies. You can have gas, telephone, cable, sewage, in addition to water & electricity companies, each with their own quirky rates. You can have farms. You can have as many as you want, wherever you want them. Add your own sounds and even color icons. Your card decks can contain whatever bizarre windfalls and stumbling blocks you can come up with. You don’t even have to use card decks if you don’t want them.
Are you a fan of Parker Brothers’ proprietary trading game? Like we said, you can set up this game however you want, although we think that particular configuration is one of the more limited ones. But… Di gustibus non disputandum est.
So what’s the catch? Well, your part is to be an extraordinarily decent human being (applause, kudos, and good karma) and send us the shareware fee of $15. We send you the latest version with the sounds, the editor , and the editor manual. Or… be an ordinary garden variety leech, hiss, boo and rip us off. The only guaranteed bad thing that will happen to leeches is that they absolutely can’t access the editor. (Go ahead... try it!) We don’t think your teeth will fall out if you don’t register, but we can’t absolutely guarantee it!
