So remember that game monopoly and how in some way or manner we always use to cheat to beat the rest of our friends and family? Well our beloved Hasbro company has unvieled another monopoly game entitled Monopoly Live. Now in my opinion they should have stop making monopoly games along time ago, yet theres like a new one every 2-3 years. This new one is now computer operated. Where they once had chance cards and a banker, there is now a computer in the middle of the board that controls mostly the whole game. It tells you when to move your pieces and how much you have to pay to rent a property out and also controls how much money you chould have and how much you really spend.
In the article A Monopoly on Cheating, it talks about how the new game is to decrease and even cease the different ways people would usually cheat in the monopoly game. Since everything is computer run you can make out the bank with more money than you are supposed to or not pay your rent on someone elses property. Its also suppose to teach children at earlier ages not to cheat and that cheating is not the only way to win in life. A life long lesson.
In my opinion the game only takes away from the learning experience of children. Makes it so that the children don't have to do the hard labor such as actually count the money themselves and add and subtract the money they should pay to someone else. It really makes me think that computers are taking over even in the slightest ways. Children cant even play board games, which are usually the games parents want their children to play to get away from computerized games. Now they are everywhere.

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