New Depression Family Game

[don]

This is the 1935 edition of the classic free market to monopoly board game.

What will be the games of the 2nd Great Depression?

[don]

Re: New Depression Family Game

I'll start with an old classic.

Pick-Up-Sticks.

It features Zen-like simplicity (sounds good, I don't know jack about Zen) with deep insight.

Every game is built on ever-increasing success... with an ever-building pressure of assured eventual disaster.

Most player's end up screaming they can't possibly go on.

Sound familiar ;)



It's Bernie Madoff favorite family game.

His sons' kids play it all the time with Grandpa at his condo :rolleyes:

[Chomsky]

Re: New Depression Family Game

McMansion!

Outfit your very own McMansion with marble tile floors, 5-car garages, 57-inch plasma flat-screen TVs, granite countertops, saunas, walk-in humidors -- the sky's the limit!

[D-Mack]

Re: New Depression Family Game

http://www.7x7toys.com/wp-content/up..._hg00114lg.jpg


The electronic banking version is out.


I guess they could include Bernanke's electronic printing press

[swgprop]

Re: New Depression Family Game

This time around perhaps something a little less extravagant.

[metalman]

Re: New Depression Family Game

This is the 1935 edition of the classic free market to monopoly board game.

What will be the games of the 2nd Great Depression?

http://www.1980-games.com/us/reflexi...le-trouble.php

[walenk]

Kind Hearts and Coronets

A perenial generational favorite, now gone global!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041546/ ;)

[Starving Steve]

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If you combine the hotels and houses and the money from two Monopoly games, you can play a George Bush version of the game of Monopoly. You have to allow creative finance and de-regulation of all building activity.

The result of combining two Monopoly games together and de-regulating is that the cost of living ( going around the board ) goes up. The game ends quickly with a massive bust--- about where we are now in the real world economy, especially in the American economy.

If you are creative enough, you can nurse a few more circuits around the board with debt forgiveness ( TARP injections ) and more creative finance. But the end of the game comes with the sudden-death bust of the same losers as before--- but their bankrutcies are even grander and messier than before... All the doctoring of the rules of the game doesn't change the results for very long, and that is the key lesson to learn from playing George Bush Monopoly.

[unlucky]

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Suggested new monopoly rules:

1. At the start of the games, all the properties are divided out between the players and the houses and hotels are already built. However, the players have no cash.
2. During each turn, if you land on a property belonging to you must pay interest to the bank. If you can't pay, the houses, hotels, and finally the property itself are "fore-closed" and returned to the bank.
3. If you land on "community chest" you get a bail-out equal to 10% of the value of your current property.
4. If you land on "chance" you are revealed as a fraudster and must go to jail, or pay an acceptable bribe to one of the other players.

[strittmatter]

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McMansion!

Outfit your very own McMansion with marble tile floors, 5-car garages, 57-inch plasma flat-screen TVs, granite countertops, saunas, walk-in humidors -- the sky's the limit!

and don't forget to send off for your monthly subscription to the all new colorful and glossy - Forclosure Living - yearly payment in advance, money orders only.

[GRG55]

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...Most player's end up screaming they can't possibly go on...

How about "Guess-The-Next-Bankrupcy"

Nortel Files for Bankruptcy Amid Credit Squeeze

Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Nortel Networks Corp., North America’s biggest maker of telephone equipment, filed for bankruptcy protection in Wilmington, Delaware, amid the global credit crunch and declining sales...

At the peak of the dot-com craziness this company had a market cap of about $200 Billion and represented about 40% of the entire Toronto Stock Exchange Index valuation.

[don]

Re: New Depression Family Game

NewChess

A solitaire game.

All the pawns are lined up in two rows nearest the player. Colors are not relevant to play but there may be a Black/White variant in the near future.

Object of the game is to move all the pawns off the far edge of the board to their demise.

A game that's both symbolic and disturbing.


"You Won"

Warning: Not a cathartic for personal economic distress. If you are taking prescribed mood altering drugs, check with your physician before playing.

[BigLandbaron]

Re: New Depression Family Game

I just spotted this one today ... it's a blast!

http://www.thebailoutgame.us/