The European Central Bank is not the only one who wants to get rid of 500 euro. The toy adapts the popular Hasbro board game Monopoly to the era of electronic payments by selling a new version without cash and a scanner that takes digital account transactions. In addition, the only risk is not to end the cartel. If the player leaves him a letter of financial turmoil may also end up ruined.
The multicolored notes are changed in Monopoly Ultimate Banking by cards of fictitious credit and a digital scanner that records the operations performed on board. And as in real life, besides buying and selling, the new payment system allows you to transfer funds between users when the plastic money and property are scanned. It also gives a twist to the game by incorporating between 29 cards cards do fluctuate with events in real time the value of the assets held in property, as the financial turmoil.
The idea of ending cash money is not new. Hasbro tried a decade ago. But in the first version of the board game by credit card, 2006, there was no digital accounts but a calculator species that is used to manually record the gains and losses of each player are incorporated. Although in 2012 came another version also renewed card without notes (which is for sale in toy stores today) it has not been a popular alternative to the traditional game with paper money.
Another attempt to play card
the scanner will now be included in the game, in principle, is much more effective because counting the money and property is done automatically. That leaves little room for traps for aspiring tycoons. that of taking money to the opponent or taking advantage of a chance to be saved under the manga color photocopied notes over. Each card has a barcode, the electronic reader recognizes each transaction.
Hasbro plans to release in this new Monopoly in the fall for $ 25 in the US (the change would be about 22 euros) , ahead of the upcoming holiday shopping season in the United States. The board game went on sale in 1935. Now part of the American and global popular culture. It is distributed in more than one hundred countries. Hasbro does not indicate when it will reach the Ultimate Banking version to other regions.
The American toy company closed the year with an increase of 20% in sales, to 4.450 million. Of this total, 1,275,000 correspond to the division games, including Monopoly. Net sales in this segment grew by 11% in the fourth quarter to 465 million. The company said Tuesday the bell for the start of the session on Wall Street, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of PlayDoh.
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