Princesse Peach, FTW!

This game hates me.
Yes, especially the Nintendo edition.

There was pushing, shoving, smacking, swearing and paper money being thrown. Yet, I still didn't win.

It's a sort of tradition in my family to play this on Christmas morning...after the presents have been opened and the new Lego sets and kitchen sets have been played with we all sit down to monopoly. Usually it's as many people was we can surrounding the board. Usually there's people playing favorites and money trading hands and people smacking the floor when someone got to Park Place before them. Usually it's one of the most fantastic family times we have all year...

We played this tonight with some friends, around a table (a foreign notion to me, we usually play on the living room rug. Spralled out and comfortable so that the game is free to last for hours.)

It was a good game, I started out strong and was fairly confident about this one...but no...as soon as the invincibility went up on Mario and Luigi (i.e. Boardwalk and Park Place) I was a goner.

Have I mentioned that not once have I ever won a freaking game of monopoly??

While it was still a losing game at least it was lost with a bit more interest than all the others... instead of calling out someone for landing on Pennsylvania Ave. You're calling them out for Link and Gannon and quite frankly, even if you're not a gamer. It was pretty cool.

(Yet I do wonder why 'jail' and 'free parking' were the same..shouldn't they at least be 'prision' and 'safe haven' or something? There was also unimaginable disappointment to have these uber cool properties only to put plain ordinary 'houses' and 'hotels' on them...they could have been cool stars or coupas or something. C'mon Hasboro! Imagination!)

Over all, I have skattered thoughts about this game and this night.
It comes down to the fact that I suck at monopoly...but I always play it anyways.
And that losing to someone who is a Donkey Kong Barrels is a whole lot cooler than losing to a stupid ship.