About this item
A complete and (almost) unused set from 2005 of board game Anti-Monopoly, the response to Monopoly. In original box, with all pieces and accessories present (contents below) and in excellent condition. With wooden player pieces (pawns), houses and apartments. Produced by University Games Corporation, San Francisco.
Contents:
Board (folds four-ways)
3 wooden blue 'monopolist' pawns
3 wooden green 'competitor' pawns
25 'monopolist' cards
25 'competitor' cards
28 title cards / mortgage notes
Money (1000s): 50x$1, 40x$5, 50x$10, 50x$50, 50x$100, 20x$500
Dice
35 wooden red houses
15 wooden black apartments
Rules
In excellent, as new (probably never used, if at all) condition, with all pieces and accessories present, cards and money immaculate, board pristine, box clean and undamaged (evidence of one minor corner drop).
From Wikipedia: Anti-Monopoly was created by San Francisco State University professor Ralph Anspach. The game was to produced in 1973 as 'Bust the Trust' but the title was changed to Anti-Monopoly, resulting in a ten-year lawsuit which Anspach eventually won. The game is still distributed in the US (and apparently the Netherlands and Australia).
Anspach created Anti-Monopoly in part as a response to the 'lessons' of Monopoly, which he believed created the impression that monopolies were desirable. The original Anti-Monopoly begins with the board in a 'monopolised' state, the result of a completed Monopoly game. Instead of properties and utilities, 'properties' in Anti-Monopoly are individual businesses that have been brought under single ownership. Players take the role of federal 'case workers', attempting to return the state of the board to a free market system by bringing indictments against each monopolised business.
The 2005 version of Anti-Monopoly dates from 1984, when it appeared as Anti-Monopoly II. In this version players choose to play either by 'monopolist' or 'competitor' rules at the start of the game, with different rules (amongst others) for renting and improving property.
- Age level:
- Family
- Condition:
- Used: very good
- Modern/vintage:
- Modern
- Title:
- Anti-Monopoly
- Type:
- Business games
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