Over the years, Monopoly has been released for different operating systems on the PC and Macintosh platforms. The first of the legally licensed commercial adaptations were released in 1985 with the release of Monopoly for the BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. The company began enforcing its copyright and trademark on Monopoly. Parker Brothers was unaware of the games until it learned of one version that stated that it was 'A Parker Brother game' on the title screen.
Many unlicensed, non-commercial computer games based on Monopoly, distributed on bulletin board systems and public domain software disks, appeared in the early history of the personal computer. Players move around the gameboard buying or trading properties, developing their properties with houses and hotels, and collecting rent from their opponents, the ultimate goal being to drive them into bankruptcy. It is produced by the United States game and toy company Hasbro. Subtitled 'The Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game', the game is named after the economic concept of monopoly-the domination of a market by a single entity. Monopoly is an American-originated board game originally published by Parker Brothers. This game can be played also in a versions for NES and SMS. If the game emulation is slow, try to speed it up by reloading this page without ads or choose another emulator from this table.
