Customer Reviews

Monopoly Electronic Banking Edition

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While this might at first appear like a gimic, Monopoly with electronic banking makes, setup, cleanup and playing so much easier.
No money to count out. Transactions are done through the well thought out banking calculator.
It's also a nice touch that the money has been increased to thousands and millions to account for inflation.
This might not be the choice for Monopoly purists, but it's a lot of fun.
The only pet peeve of mine is the board that is "split" to fold smaller. These are now used in most Monopoly sets and they just don't hold up as well as the traditional folding board and the split is an annoyance when playing.
Still this is a great Monopoly set.

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This is great since you don't need to have all the money everywhere, but it still takes time to enter in all the payments, etc. Now to be fair, there are only three of us playing at a time and this may make a difference. If there were many people playing, or even a person just being the banker and not playing, it would be better. You are still waiting to have the banker enter in the values and such, so the play time is still slowed down.

There is no real money-counting educational value to the toy since it's just like using an ATM machine, more or less. You do have to do some math when deciding whether to buy a property or upgrade to more houses or hotels.

The real (and only) plus to this game is that you don't have the money all over the place and you don't have to count it out in the beginning or put it away at the end of the game. This was all I expected when I bought the game so we're perfectly happy with it and enjoy more room on the table. Worth the money? Absolutely! :)

We are all long time Monopoly players and had so much fun with this modern version. My only two suggestions for playing this game are to have someone only be the banker (because you will be busy) and get ready to have lots of fun and laughs.

Monopoly gets a facelift in this new version of the classic game: railroads are now airports, utilities are now web providers and the property titles have been changed to places like Waikiki Beach and Hollywood (although the color schemes and ranking system stay the same) . Rather than dealing with small denominations, players now toss around millions of dollars, as everything seems to in denominations 1,000 times greater than the original game. A fan of the classic game will find these new innovations interesting, as seeing how the

The only problems I had with the game resulted from the new electronic banking system. The biggest flaw is that everyone's debit card looks the same. When one player lands on a "collect X from each player" card and the banker gets handed 6 cards, it's very easy to get them mixed up. When my family played, we had to stop twice, back up and do an audit to correct errors my sister made controlling the banking system. The e-cash also kills the Free Parking Rule, where players put taxes and fines in the middle until someone lands on Free Parking and collects it. We adapted by giving the player who lands on Free Parking the same amount of cash as passing Go, but something is lost by not getting to see the pot in the middle grow.

I was so excited when I first saw this toy advertised! My husband and I have a small collection of Monopoly games, so thius seemed like the perfect gift this Christmas. We opened before Christmas though- we just couldnt wait! I really liked that the game was so much less messy without all the paper money. The problem I had with it was that my husband, the banker, always knew how much money I had, and I felt a loit less in control of my money. We ended up passing the "credit card machine" back and forth and that helped a little. It was just not as interactive without the paper money and the game got boring really fast. Maybe we will try it out again and change our minds, but for now it will sit in the game closet with the rest of the monopoly games.

We bought this for our teenagers 3 months ago and they cannot stop playing it. It is the best version of Monopoly ever! I haven't played Monopoly since I was in my 20s and though I loved the concept of the game I hated sorting and picking up all the money, set up took so long that by the time I was set to play I didn't want to play anymore. I wanted my kids to enjoy Monopoly and I thought this was a great solution.

This game is pricey and I read all of the reviews on here before I bought it. I almost didn't buy because of some of the complaints on the reviews. However, I took a chance and after loving this game I thought I would comment on the negative reviews and their complaints:

First complaint: "The electronic banking takes a while to do transactions." It makes me wonder if they read the directions on the machine and realize that you can put cards in the negative and positive slots at the same time, type in the amount being transacted and it will automatically deduct and add to the appropriate cards. Besides the 2 cards that say, "Pay Each Player 500K", I don't know how that can be slower than actually exchanging paper cash!

Second Complaint: "One person has to be the banker and I never know how much is on my card." The banking device is the size of a calculator and we do not designate a banker we just pass the machine to each person during their turn. We have not played with more than 3 people so maybe when you add more people in this is harder. But if you want to keep track of how much is on your card; have the banker tell you your amount after each transaction and WRITE IT DOWN!

Third Complaint: "The Credit Card doesn't show my balance" Again write down your balance after each turn if you are worried, or just slide the card into the machine and it shows your balance.

Fourth Complaint: "I like dealing in cash, I can't bluff on how much cash I have" Then don't buy this version. I personally hate the mess of cash, and never got into a game deep enough to bluff. We also have young children in our house and if we leave the game out or they get in to the box, it is all over. We have The Game of Life and occasionally they climb the shelves to get at it and totally make a mess out of that game. We will probably be buying the electronic version of that game next.

Fifth Complaint: "They Changed The Properties" Yea they did, I like the old version too. But my kids think it is cool that they can buy Fenway Park. Plus, there were a couple of places they had not heard of so they looked them up and found out info on those places. That was cool.

So that is my take on the new Monopoly, for us it works and we will be playing a long time.

This game is great fun, everyone from my 8 yr old to the oldest teenager loves it. With the new banking system the games moves along much faster and the kids love seeing their account balance go up. Great fun for all!

It's nice to do away with all the paper money. It takes away the money counting skills younger kids should learn but makes the game much more enjoyable for older kids. (I'm 24 and my sister is 25 and we both still play board/video games.) Instead of spending a few hundred dollars to buy a property then rent for like 60 dollars everything has been changed to thousands and millions. Like 600K ($600,000) or 1.2M ($1,200,000). The places are from the "Here and Now Edition" not the original so you won't see Park Place or Boardwalk anymore... they have been replaced with Fenway Park and Times Square. Also, whoever decided to put the Liberty Bell and The White House on this game needs to be fired. Out national treasures are not and never will be put up for auction to the highest bidder like this game suggests. I realise it's just a game but it still bothers me. I would prefer the electronic banking edition also came in the original places like Marvin Gardens or Boardwalk. Then again, I was raised playing the original version.

Okay, back to the actual review. There are too few houses and hotels and I don't care for the tokens. Who would honestly pick the Altoids tin? Why is that even a "Here and Now" thing? Should of been a Laptop computer or some new Sports car. The electronic banking machine (Looks much like a regular calculator) is very simple to use so younger kids shouldn't have a problem with it after being shown how to do it.

Our 8 year old recently discovered the joy of Monopoly, and we decided to expand our game collection with the Electronic Banking Edition. What a great addition to the Monopoly line!

The new "debit card" system took only a few turns to get used to, and we all enjoyed demanding rent payments of $250k and getting an amazing $2 million for passing Go. The updated properties are not only a nice change, but offer an opportunity to talk about landmarks and history with the young one.

We quickly found "workarounds" for custom rules such as the Free Parking rule. An extra spiral bound notebook tucked in the box allows for manual bookkeeping of those taxes and fines paid to what was the center of the board. It's also handy as an extra "job" for those families with players who insist on handing out the deeds or being banker; someone's always left out.

The lack of paper money involved is my favorite part of the game. It gets rather annoying to have to create homemade Monopoly money or to make players trade in their $100s for $500s because the bank has run out. With the debit card system, the bank never runs out!

Dont get me wrong, this version of monopoly is a lot of fun, but it has some draw backs. For one, you almost have to have a dedicated banker because transactions will take place almost every turn and it gets a little arduos after a while. Once we had all of the property in play, it seemed like our banker was almost constantly running cards and we were finding mistakes. One thing we decided to do for next time is to keep a check log of our expenses and incomes, that way we knew how much we had at all times and it might make things run a little smoother.

Another big draw back is that there is little room to customize your game. We always played that landing on free parking won you all of the tax money players had paid. This is non-existant unless you keep a log of how much has been paid. Hasbro could have made some easy enhancements to make the game more enjoyable. In all though as mentioned before, the game is good and the new interface is fun.