Monopoly Download Game

The Monopoly download for the computer has brought a venerable and traditional pastime into the computer age enabling the game to be played by multiple players with minimum setup time and even to play with those who are not in the same location by linking systems together over the internet.

Monopoly As a board game has been around in one form or other since 1903 when a woman named Elizabeth Maggie invented and eventually patented The Landlords Game. http://www.monopoly-history.com/ She later made some improvements and when the patent ran out in 1921 she filed again and was granted a new patent was granted in 1924. In 1934 a gentleman named Charles Darrow acquired a set of rules for the game and obtained a copyright and began manufacturing his version. During this time many other small endeavors also began making small amounts of their version of the game. Parker Brothers became interested in the game and procured Darrow’s version, but when they went to get a patent in his name they found out that the patent for The Landlord game was still in effect so they went to see the original inventor and purchased her patent. And this became the version of the game we are familiar with today. http://www.monopoly-history.com/

There are several versions of downloadable Monopoly out there but the one I will use as an example is at aStatix.com.http://www.astatix.com/monopoly.php When you select the download button here you will be downloading the iWin games manager which will set you up in a queue to wait your turn to download the game. The download will take different amounts of time. The connection use =d here is fairly fast so it only took about 3 minutes to down load and then another 5 minutes to install the game. This particular version is a demo game and as such only has an hour of play and then you must buy the full version if you want to continue to play. The accompanying video gives instruction for downloading a different version of the game. http://www.astatix.com/monopoly.php