The first generation of Monopoly, although it is the initial version in black and white, is surprisingly complete!

Zheng dice, buying and selling land, collecting tolls, depositing, withdrawing, redeeming land, loans, etc., to the middle Taiwan Provincial Bank, everything is very complete!

The stock market and the futures market are all available, and they are fully equipped, and even the scourge of the six and the lottery have appeared!

Players can earn money from the system or players in various ways, and finally eliminate other players and become a real monopoly!

This core gameplay has been retained throughout the Monopoly series!

Subsequent versions are all done within this framework.

The launch of the first generation of Monopoly has of course received the love of countless people.

But the most surprising thing is that the second generation of Monopoly, which basically takes shape of the entire Monopoly tone, lays the real core gameplay of the whole game.

After all, the second generation supports the use of the mouse, and all subsequent versions use it in the same way as the behavior from the second generation.

Moreover, there is another reason, which is the reason why Li Fangcheng chose to create in the way of the second generation of Monopoly.

That's the picture!

The first generation was a black-and-white DOS version without any color tones.

And the second generation of Monopoly is toned!

With Monopoly in Tone, the whole game comes alive!

Monopoly is not the first game of its kind in the world.

Earlier, this board game was born in the world.

Li Fangcheng also spent a lot of effort in order to buy all the copyrights of this game.

In the past, Li Fangcheng didn't know that the game Monopoly was from a board game, which led to the fact that when making this game, Ling Donghua accidentally sounded that a chess and card game released by Hong Kong City was very similar, and after a careful understanding, all the mysteries were revealed step by step.

In order to reflect the phenomenon and harm of the Japanese capitalists monopolizing the market at that time, Liz Metchi, a Georgian in Illinois, designed the "Big Landlord Game" according to the economic principles of Georgism, hoping to use the game as a more understandable medium to show people how the rich landlord became richer through renting, and the tenant became poorer.

Her original intention is to hope that children can learn about the social economy in the process of playing games, feel the hidden social inequality behind the prosperity of capitalism, so that they can keep questioning this phenomenon and make a difference when they grow up.

To put it bluntly, it's a very educational game.

It wasn't until 1903 that Mezzie tested The Landlord Game in Arden, Delaware, developed a set of rules, filed an application, and the following year, in 1904, the game was officially patented.

In other words, the inventor of this game is Metchi!

At first, Mezzie even thought about selling it himself, and opened his own company to release the game in 1906, but a small company couldn't sell even a copy of the big landlord game.

After an interval of three years, Mezzie wanted to work with Parker Brothers, but at this time, Parker Brothers felt that the gameplay was too complicated and controversial, so they did not buy the game.

In 1913, the rights to the game were finally sold, and it was sold to a British publishing company called The Recruit Company.

The game sold well in the North East of England, and when a professor brought the game to class, the game was quickly enjoyed by students, who then used their creativity to create a new version.

Later, after the game passed through this group of students, more and more people came into contact with it, and it was also revised many times, and finally became popular in many regions.

Of course, because the rules of the games after these students were transformed, they were not uniform enough, and even confused, so various versions were born.

Patents are generally granted for a period of 10 years.

Soon, it's time for the first patent grant!

The second time Meqi sold the patent to another company, during the decade, the development of the game was quite rapid, and even similar games began to appear in various places, various "landlord", "finance", "long rope and short rope" and other games appeared, and all achieved good reviews, so when the second copyright decade was approaching, a man with an eye for money, Charles Darrow took a fancy to the market of this game after playing a mutated version of this game.

So he redrew the map of the game, the map, while his wife and son used a different color to distinguish each area of the land in the board, and made land deed cards, opportunity cards, and lucky cards. In 1933, Charles submitted a sample of Monopoly to the Patent Office and began the patent application.

At this time, the Parker brothers have received the news of the big sale of the game Monopoly from the feedback from the market, and in order to get the ownership of the game as soon as possible, they negotiated with Charles, who made Monopoly, to buy it.

Parker paid only $500 for the rights to the original version, and then all the other variants, and from then on, Parker owned all the rights.

Charles, the most cunning businessman here, made millions of dollars in revenue from a pirated game and a similar patent repeated, and after Maitch revealed it at the time, she only said her original intention to make this game, and did not pursue it too much.

After a long time, everyone assumed that the copyright was really sold to Pike Brothers in the hands of Charles.

As for why there is a Monopoly game in the port market.

In fact, it was because after Parker got all the rights, in the process of making and selling soldiers, he took a copy and gave it to Norman, who came to the United States for a vacation, he is the son of Victor Watson Sr., the president of Waddington Games in the United Kingdom.

As a result, Watson didn't expect that his son Norman liked it so much that he couldn't go out at home all weekend, just to play this board game, so he called Parker Brothers to thank him, and reached a cooperation agreement very happily.

The agreement was that the European rights to the game were sold to Waddington Games.

So in 1965, this company released the world's first Chinese version of Monopoly, named Caiyuan Guangjin, and the location was in Hong Kong City!!

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