History of the board game Monopoly "Advance to Boardwalk" from 1985. There have been six card games: "Water Works" from 1972, "Free Parking" from 1988, "Express Monopoly" from 1993, "" from 1999, "Monopoly Deal" from 2008 and "Monopoly Millionaire Deal" from 2012. Finally, there have been two dice games: "Don't Go to Jail" from 1991 and an update, "Monopoly Express", (2006–2007). A second product line of games and licenses exists in "Monopoly Junior", first published in 1990. In the late 1980s, official editions of "Monopoly" appeared for the Sega Master System and the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128. A television game show, produced by King World
History of the board game Monopoly That same decade, the game became popular around the community of Reading, Pennsylvania. Another former student of Scott Nearing, Thomas Wilson, taught the game to his cousin, Charles Muhlenberg, around 1915–1916. The original patent on "The Landlord's Game" expired in 1921. By this time, the hand-made games became known simply as "Monopoly". Charles Muhlenberg and his wife, Wilma, taught the game to Wilma's brothers, Louis and Ferdinand "Fred" Thun, in the early 1920s. Simultaneous to these events, Magie moved back to Illinois, and married Andrew Phillips. She moved to the Washington, D.C. area with her husband by 1923, and re-patented