Osaka version of board game Monopoly enjoying strong popularity

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TeruSensei at 09:22 AM JST - 12th March

I wanted to buy one while I was in Osaka in January, but I forgot to.
NeoJamal at 10:06 AM JST - 12th March

Do "Community Chest" cards get replaced by "Welfare"?
saborichan at 10:07 AM JST - 12th March

"Invent" isn't the right word. Adapt, maybe. Nothing new was created in this game, just the name changes we have seen in many different versions of Monopoly.

I'd like to see this board.
meanmutha at 10:40 AM JST - 12th March

He should have used different vocabulary. Ask any kid on the street here and he will tell you the Japanese invented the car, radio, TV and iPod.
IchyaWarFare at 02:19 PM JST - 12th March

I do not need anything to remind me of Osaka. I will pass on this.
Yelnats at 04:08 PM JST - 12th March

He was not even born when the game was invented, so what is with that? Chance cards will be ride you bike in traffic cards, and community chest will become cards written by bureaucrats at your local shiyakusho.
shiuu at 04:41 PM JST - 12th March

I'd be more interested in seeing what they use for the "low rent" properties. Shinimamiya and Tengachaya are two that come to mind. Although, to be honest, the whole city is pretty "low rent" so it's probably had for anyone to tell the difference.
Nessie at 04:44 PM JST - 12th March

be more interested in seeing what they use for the "low rent" properties

An excellent point, Shiuu.
NuckinFutz at 04:54 PM JST - 12th March

Community Chest would most likely become "Slush Funds" Chance would translate to "Collusion" To get out of jail you'd have to pay bribe money to the appropriate local officials and you wouldn't be able to pass go without dropping some cash in the right Yakuza hands.

Tokens would be empty beer cans, pistols, a rusty bike etc.....
Wottock_Hunt at 05:15 PM JST - 12th March

What's so great about this? You can buy your own personalised Monopoly set online for about 80 quid. Who wants to think about Osaka when you can recall Maria Feeney in Barnes Halls?

Sigh...they were not long, those days of wine and roses...
Mark_McCracken at 06:09 PM JST - 12th March

"Horai Co, a meat bun company, Zuboraya, a fugu restaurant, Seed, Morisawa and Co and Takara Belmont Corp."

Not the first Osaka based companies that come to mind. Does the game have famous Osaka companies like Panasonic, Sumitomo and Yoshimoto?
Pukey2 at 09:58 PM JST - 12th March

The main feature of the Osaka version is that some notable businesses in Osaka, known as a city of merchants, appear in it.

Well, Japanese companies sure know the meaning of 'monopoly'.
yawmin at 01:34 AM JST - 13th March

my favorite town, osaka~
Ah_so at 05:56 PM JST - 13th March

Apparently in the Japanese version, every 20 rounds the real estate prices halve and you need a brand you set houses because the old ones fall apart.
Richard_the_First at 07:19 PM JST - 14th March

And you have to bribe, sorry, pay 'gift' money to the new owners of the little, red houses.