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 History of the board game Monopoly The board game "Monopoly" has its origins in the early 20th century. The earliest known version of "Monopoly", known as "The Landlord's Game", was designed by an American, Elizabeth Magie, and first patented in 1904 but existed as early as 1902. Magie, a follower of Henry George, originally intended "The Landlord's Game" to illustrate the economic consequences of Ricardo's Law of Economic rent and the Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value taxation. A series of board games was developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land