Can’t find the right game to purchase for Christmas? Have you considered Monopoly: Eminent Domain Special Edition?
You may remember playing classic Monopoly as a youngster.
Sure the games took forever, but remember the fun you had buying
property, setting up houses and hotels? Remember the pride you took in
actually owning property and protecting that property from interlopers?Well,
in the new Monopoly Eminent Domain Edition, you can take as much pride
in your property as you want, but remember – in today’s version, that
property is temporary. Thanks to SCOTUS’ Kelo decision,
this new game version reflects the new American reality that, as long
as a developer wants your land and government wants more tax revenue,
your property can taken on a whim, and there’s not a damn thing you can
do about it!
Others in the Eminent Domain Game(Tm) line from Hasbro include:
- Candy Land: All sweeteners are owned by the state. Each player must ask (or bribe) the legislators for their allotment.
- Barrel of Monkeys: You must apply for a special, limited license for each monkey in the chain. Opponents may ask the monkey board to revoke your license if they have a bigger chain. (Pardon me. Do you have a license for your minkey?)
- Battleship: Your opponent may apply to the legislature to have their ships repaired at tax-funded dockyards.
- Hi Ho! Cherry-O: Your opponent may seize your cherry orchard if they can convince the local board that they can produce more cherries, and thus more taxes, than you.
- Hungry, Hungry Hippos: Strangely enough, this game does not need modification.