[paulat]

What a hideous idea!! Kids get no conception of what money is!!

[Hydroshock]

Great way to teach kids to be in debt for the rest of their lives.

[MeanWestTexan]

My sister was always the banker and she embezzeled.

I see this as a good thing.

[Spktyr]

Ever had a Monopoly set that was more than a couple of years old? The 'money' just disappears after a while.

[Joe Bonforte]

New Monopoly. Looks a lot like New Coke to me.

[BritExPatInFla]

They haven't for some time, now. Cash is becoming quickly outdated, when was the last time you 'Cashed' a check, rather than deposit it all, or most of it, then using an ATM/Debit or credit card for most of your purchases.

[Sacajaweau]

Between Monopoly and playing grocery store,I taught my children and grandchildren to add and subtract and all that stuff. I'm into Geometry with my 8 & 11 year old grandchildren now.

So we'll keep our old Monopoly game and still play store with real bills & coins. (We won't talk about how much they learned playing poker! :-)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Sounds about right. Have you ever seen a 5 year old kid buy a candy bar when he can't count change? He just holds out a handful of change and trusts the clerk to take the right amount. The other day at Mini-Mart, I saw a girl who was like 14 or 15 do this. Pretty appalling.

[OSHA]

If you loose all the money on your account card can you get a welfare debit card?

[tortoise]

Counting the money slows down game play. When I was growing up, me and my brothers operated calculators to keep track of our balances. Of course, we played a fast and furious pace -- with competent players it takes a lot of iterations for the game to settle out.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Calculators in the classroom was the beginning of the end.

[Sir Gawain]

The Nintendo version in the 80s counted it for you. Game goes a lot faster.

[Sofa King]

They should create a new version called "Bankrupt" where people play to see who can spend themselves into life long credit card debt the fastest.

[Gay State Conservative]

If they designed Monopoly today,the street names would be from Chappaqua,NY or Martha's Vineyard.

[Red Badger]

Kids get no conception of what money is!!

They've always been that way!..........

[Tzimisce]

I need to make "Socialist: the Board Game" where players try to buy up/sieze through legislation all the private property on the board. Run out of money? Raise taxes and buy more. Once all the property is gone the game is over and everyone loses.

Coming for that Politically Incorrect winter holiday that everyone celebrates....

[Zakeet]

Did this electronic monopoly money stuff myself about 30 years ago with an HP calculator. Then, like an idiot I taught my daughters how to do the same thing. They not only learned basic programming skills, but found out they could clean out their old man in about one tenth the time.

[HungarianGypsy]

Need to get one before they change these. Especially since this is also going to be the new version in the U.S.