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Daily Real Estate News | September 11, 2009 | Monopoly Gets Modern Makeover
Monopoly is going 21^st century.

The new version from Hasbro Games is called Monopoly City Streets, and it includes an online competition. The game gives each player $3 million and allows them to purchase any street on Google Maps. Washington, D.C.’s Pennsylvania Avenue starts at $2 million.

Players also can buy skyscrapers, wind farms, stadiums, and counter their opponents development efforts by buying hazards like prisons, sewage plants, and trash dumps. They earn money from rents—a skyscraper pays $100 million daily.

There’s no such thing as foreclosure; all transactions are done in cash. And there’s no free parking.

Source: The New York Times, Jennifer Lee (09/10/2009), and PC World, J.R. Raphael (09/08/2009)