Despite its mainstream appeal, ask most big board game fans if they want to play a game of Monopoly and they’ll likely roll their eyes or grimace at the mere suggestion. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. If you say you’re into board games, it’s not unlikely someone will assume you spend your nights playing Monopoly with your mates. If you want an example of just how omnipresent it is, there’s even a McDonald's Monopoly promotion.
And yet, to this day, Monopoly is still one of the largest board games in the world - available in 37 different languages in toy and book shops the world over. We’ve seen massive innovations in play and design across the industry, whole new genres lift their heads from the primordial soup and designs that would literally not have been possible at the time Monopoly was first published.īoard games, and everything related to them, are better now than they have ever been.
Tabletop games have come a long way since the 1930s when the Parker Brothers first unleashed the game of Monopoly onto the world.
