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Monopoly City Streets: Google Maps Enable Real Street Buying

mashable.com — This could be very addictive: GoogleGoogle is teaming up with board game maker Hasbro to launch a Google MapsGoogle Maps version of Monopoly. A monopoly game to let you buy any street in the world.

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  • searcade, on 09/07/2009, -1/+78Has the submitter got Tourette's or something
  • Azuresilver, on 09/07/2009, -0/+53As long as I get to win second prize in a beauty contest I'm sold
  • amolkold, on 09/07/2009, -0/+51WTF is GoogleGoogle?
  • corbinat, on 09/07/2009, -0/+49The company that made Google MapsGoogle Maps.
  • VincentThomas, on 09/07/2009, -0/+37I am NOT looking forward to writing down how much property and money everyone in the world has when we put this away for the day and break it out again later.
  • twishart, on 09/07/2009, -1/+31FINALLY, I can OWN the corner of Young and Easy.
  • junkwheel, on 09/07/2009, -2/+28A GoogleGoogle, a boogleboogle doogle. Boogie boogie, a boogie woogie woogie. A maps google, a google boogle doogle. A hasbro dasbro, a wasbro dabsbro dabspro. A monopoly nopoly, a wopaly bobbleby nopplepy.
  • sloth15, on 09/07/2009, -0/+25This sounds like a whole lot of fun.

    You know, except for the compete lack of details of any kind.
  • redtapemedia, on 09/07/2009, -1/+25I thought Google already had a Monopoly... boom *tish*
  • EnTaroTassadar, on 09/07/2009, -0/+18Bill Cosby?
  • themastersb, on 09/07/2009, -0/+18They only want it because you do.
  • cyrix, on 09/07/2009, -0/+14BOB SAGET!!!!
  • TheSadRobut, on 09/07/2009, -2/+14I call Top Hat.
  • Sil369, on 09/07/2009, -0/+9Will it be free?
  • Spinducky08, on 09/07/2009, -0/+9"I'm gonna go get the papers get the papers"
  • HurricaneDC, on 09/07/2009, -0/+9I'm gonna purchase I-66 and build tons of toll booths to rape the commuters with :D
  • antipasta, on 09/07/2009, -0/+8And then there was Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice
  • diemunkiesdie, on 09/07/2009, -1/+9The submitter copied the first sentences from the article. After the article mentions Google, they put in a link to the site where the alt-text reads "Google". Since the submitter copied and pasted, but chose not to proofread his submission, the end result is the sentence reads "GoogleGoogle is teaming up ..."

    Pretty straightforward answer, but for some reason this question is always asked when someone submits something from mashable.com.
  • bloodhound01, on 09/07/2009, -1/+9*BAM*

    ***** this game!
  • LonesomeFighter, on 09/07/2009, -1/+9really? not the dog? i need to play Monopoly with you, people always fight me over the dog.
  • zyklon, on 09/07/2009, -0/+7First, I live in a town with a famous boardwalk. I'll shoot to kill anyone who comes by with that lame little iron.
    Second, I'm wondering if that main highway through Dubai is going to bankrupt me if I go through there.
  • gym7rjm, on 09/07/2009, -0/+6Does anyone know how the gameplay would work?
    How would you be able to make it once around the board without losing all your money?
  • jamesassbag, on 09/07/2009, -1/+7Racecar is mine
  • AndrewDB, on 09/07/2009, -1/+6Fine, I'm always the Battleship anyway..
  • stuffradio, on 09/07/2009, -0/+4I hope nobody shakes the earth while I sleep because we'd all lose our places :(
  • jerryparid, on 09/07/2009, -0/+4Googopoly $$$ to USD, what is the conversion rate?
  • inactive, on 09/07/2009, -0/+4http://www.monopolycitystreets.com/ for anyone interested. I have it bookmarked already. And http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/ for more information.
  • junkwheel, on 09/07/2009, -0/+4I would keep the Googopoly's.
  • inactive, on 09/07/2009, -0/+4I'm curious as to how movement is going to work in this. I mean, people have to land on your spaces for you to make money in monopoly, but if the bored is two dimensional and players scattered around it, how does that work out?
  • falser, on 09/07/2009, -0/+4There must be a googol possibilities in this game.
  • Funbox, on 09/08/2009, -0/+3Good call. They DID say "any" street.

    You'd think that with something like an interstate they'd divide it up, no? Or maybe it'd be an exception because you can't build commercial or residential places off the side of an interstate other than its service roads or something.
  • Dougman82, on 09/07/2009, -0/+3So can I buy Interstate 10?
  • kornwin, on 09/08/2009, -1/+4I call lego man.. we lost a piece.. :/
  • Latigoliath, on 09/08/2009, -0/+3LOLLOL
  • bringitontimx, on 09/08/2009, -0/+3Raw full!
  • Rapidfire068, on 09/08/2009, -0/+3its 4 in the morning grandma YOU WIN!!!
  • nellshini, on 09/07/2009, -1/+4I must be the only Thimble lover in the world.
  • Skootles, on 09/07/2009, -0/+2RIP Danny
  • srs2000, on 09/07/2009, -0/+2I call the bank.
    I'm so going to cheat and get bailouts.
  • linksus, on 09/08/2009, -0/+2New blog post : http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/
  • RocketGib, on 09/08/2009, -0/+2Did someone stutterstutter?
  • TheSadRobut, on 09/08/2009, -0/+2Maybe the money earned is based on Google searches? With some arbitrary multiplier based on how "developed" the property is.
  • Aidenag, on 09/08/2009, -0/+2This could be absolutely awesome. On the other hand, it could be the most epic fail in history. Sadly, we have zero details to go on for how the game play actually works until sept 9th it seems.
  • HurricaneDC, on 09/07/2009, -1/+3Why does it copy the alt text?
  • austingalaviz, on 09/08/2009, -0/+2On the brightside, whenever someone gets pissed off, they won't be able to say "***** this game!" fling the board and stomp off angrily.
  • HoldenMyOwn, on 09/08/2009, -0/+233.552357,-81.722467
    Corner of Whiskey Rd & Easy St
  • x2cprincess, on 09/08/2009, -1/+3You guys are crazy. I'll take the wheelbarrow every time.
  • dustincase, on 09/07/2009, -0/+2Google has already "sunk the money into it"

    Hasbro just needs to affiliate and it would be a done deal. It isn't be very hard to lay new applications over existing data. (For people who do that ***** daily, that is)
  • Jeff901, on 09/07/2009, -0/+2Sounds like fun!
  • redslash, on 09/07/2009, -0/+2This can't possibly be true unless Hasbro is sinking serious money into it. Every street in the world? The scale of this thing will have to be enormous.
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