Monopoly

For the Sega Mega Drive game, see Monopoly (Mega Drive). For the Sega SC-3000 game, see Monopoly (SC-3000).

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Monopoly
System(s): Sega Master System
Publisher: Sega of America (US), Sega Enterprises, Ltd. (EU)
Developer: Nexa
Distributor: Tonka (US)
Licensor: Parker Brothers
Genre: Table
Number of players: 1-10
Release Date RRP Code US 1988-09 5500 EU 1988 MK-5500-50 UK 1988-10 £24.9524.95 MK-5500-50 SE 19xx

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Monopoly is a licensed game based upon the Monopoly board game, and was developed by Nexa and published by Sega for the Sega Master System. Up to 10 players can play in a single game, any of whom can be computer-controlled. The cartridge features a battery back-up RAM, so games can be saved and resumed later.

Another Monopoly game was released for the Mega Drive in 1992, published by Parker Brothers who also manufacture the board game.

History

Development

Monopoly was the first Master System game to be developed in the US in an attempt to capture the mood of the American public, who at this point were greatly favouring Nintendo's rival console, the NES, over Sega and their Master System. All previous games, despite sometimes being localised, were developed by Sega and other companies within Japan, although ironically the project originally started with Chinese developers at the helm.

Development on Monopoly took about six months - three months in Nexa were brought on-board to "save" the project after initial testing was not considered to be up to Sega's standards. It was also released at least twice in the US - initial print runs (identifiable by incorrect use of a capital "P") contained an Easter egg programmed by Kevin Seghetti, which Sega had Nexa remove shortly after launch.

Production credits

• Project Leader: R. Anton Widjaja
• Programmers: Steve Hanawa, Bill Chau, Jinda Pan, Kevin T. Seghetti, Scott L. Statton
• Artists: Dan Guerra, Tim Dunn

Magazine articles

Main article: Monopoly/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

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Publication Score Source

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Publication Version Score (UK) 71 (UK) 69 (UK) 69 (UK) PAL 69 (DK) 75 (UK) PAL 79 (UK) 64 (UK) 69 (UK) PAL 88 (UK) PAL 75 (UK) 69 (UK) PAL 79 (FR) 55

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Monopoly

Master System, US
Cover
Cart Manual Poster

Master System, EU
Cover

Master System, EU ("No Limits")
Cover

Master System, SE

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 026d94a4 MD5 f2d360f60acd4ca1e50ab301e20de581 SHA-1 6bad7176011dd4bbd007498d167399daacde173d	128kB		Cartridge (EU)
✔	CRC32 69538469 MD5 b887836983fccb5ec706630cf835939f SHA-1 8dd7bb4f666f70f7f57687823d0068c9100af8e5	128kB		Cartridge (US)
?	CRC32 7e9d87fc MD5 19e6167c6bad839603240adeda122ac7 SHA-1 68830fb46a010cf2f2d04bdc69e3759f6d42b8de	128kB		EPROM cartridge				Page
?	CRC32 e0d1049b MD5 c7b4aa45ded97242b9e20f7a76c6fbd2 SHA-1 6d100d43cddfb761d3560786c26e345873452a4b	128kB		EPROM cartridge				Page