Anti-Monopoly
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Anti-Monopoly is a board game made by San Francisco State University Professor Ralph Anspach, in response to Monopoly. In the original 1974 version the board is "monopolized" at the beginning of the game, and players compete to return the state of the board to a free market system. In a more recent version individual players choose at the beginning of the game to play either by monopolistic or competitive rules.
Anspach's game was subject to challenges in the courts. In 1983, after ten years of legal battles, Anspach won a trademark lawsuit in the US Supreme Court. The lawsuit had been brought over the use of the word "Monopoly".
A similar game (in that it inverts the objective of Monopoly, but with the aim of giving away money and property) was described/invented by science fiction author, Philip K. Dick.
External links
- Anti-Monopoly Home Page (http://www.antimonopoly.com)
- Go to Court, Go Directly to Court - article from the Washington Free Press (http://www.washingtonfreepress.org/36/court.html)Template:Board-game-stub