Genre(s) Strategy, board game Series Monopoly | Initial release date 1988 Platform Master System | |
Publishers Sega, SEGA of America, Inc. | ||
Monopoly is a 1988 video game based on the board game Monopoly, released on the Master System. Developed by Nexa Corporation and published by SEGA of America, this title was one of many inspired by the property.
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Gameplay
The game contains very similar gameplay to the board game it is based on, with various physical tasks being replaced by automation and digital representations.
Production
According to Game Freaks 365, the game was "one of the first real boardgames that was programmed" into a video game.
Critical reception
Jonathan Sutyak of Allgame deemed the video game a "perfect translation" of the board game, praising the detailed graphics while commenting on the unforgiving AI. ACE Magazine recommended the title due to it being an adaptation of a popular and fun board game, though noted that the small digital representation of the board meant it could be challenging to see clearly who owns which properties and how many houses/hotels they have. The Video Game Critic thought the game was "respectable" as a single-player game with computer opponents, but felt that it didn't replace the board game when it comes to multiplayer human play. 1UP! said the game's AI had "unbearable stupidity", though the graphics were impressive for its age. Game Freaks 365 described the game's sound effects as "terrible", and wrote that the gameplay didn't offer anything that the player couldn't get from the board game; the site also negatively compared it to the NES version released in 1991.