Weekend Discussion Thread: MST3K Monopoly? And more?

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1. saherrin says:

   February 7, 2012 at 11:16 am

   I do llike theClue game but you are forgetting one important weapon – a forklift.

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2. Roland Warner says:

   February 7, 2012 at 5:29 pm

   Okay, so my Make-Your-Own-Opoly game: Note that this was done early on my MST3k fandom. Had I done it later on, it would’ve gotten deeper into the MST3k lore and probably been a little more obsessively accurate with property placement. For instance, I would’ve done “Deep 13” and “Satellite of Love” for Park Place and Boardwalk. It’s also not a one-for-one Monopoly remake, and ventures off at points to keep the copyright lawyers at bay.

   This is a long post, but there’s a lot of detail put into this game. Just to hint at the age, the game came with a program you can create the signs for the properties on it, and the program came on a 3-1/2 inch floppy disk. Just for laughs, I tried to include the silly punctuation errors and capitalizations I typed out when I created it.

   I called it “MiSTie-Opoly” and the front of the box declares that you receive “Free Torgo’s Pizza with every game you purchase!” and below it “Torgo game piece Not included”. For money, I made Ram Chip dollars in increments of $100, $500, $1000, and $5000.

   Here’s what’s on the board: On Go, I put a picture of Mike dressed as Jack Perkins below that saying “Welcome to MiSTie-Opoly”. The starting two properties are TV’s Frank’s Room” and “Dr. Forrester’s Laboratory”. Between them is “Gypsy’s Station” utility. The next three properties are “Mitchell’s House”, “Eegah’s Cave” and “The Master’s Valley Lodge”. For jail (Lose a Turn here) is “Dr. Erhardt’s Hiding Space” with a picture of Drs. Forrester and Erhardt.

   The next three properties are “KTMA-32”, “Comedy Central” and “The Sci-Fi Channel” Then comes Play Lotto, a roll-the-dice gambling spot. After that comes “Car-tuner”, “Chin-derwear” and “Joel’s Electric Bag Pipes”. The Free Parking (Free Space) is our very own “Satellite News Website” with a picture of the ever-classic Satellite News logo (Please don’t sue!).

   Along the top row, we have “Magic Voice’s Space”, “Crow T. Robot’s Holocabana”, and “Tom Servo’s Bedroom”. The game does this Good News/Bad News thing in place of Community Chest/Chance. Then comes “Mr. B Natural”, “The Undersea Kingdom of Atlantis”, and “Old Timer Billy Slater’s Junior Rodeo Daredevils”. After that is Fate, a roll for good/bad news card instead of Go to Jail.

   Then comes “Pearl Forrester’s Widowmaker”, “Professor Bobo’s Earth in the Year 2525” and “Observer’s Home World”. The next special “utility” is a transportation company, for which I have “Deus Ex Machina Escape Pod in a box of Hamdingers”. For the two top tier properties, we have “Michael J. Nelson” for Park Place and “Joel Robinson” for Boardwalk.

   Here are the Good News cards I made up:
   Joe Estevez tries to look menacing. Collect $100
   Tom Servo kicks Rick Sloane in the shins. Collect $500
   Trumpy can do Magic! Collect $100 from each player.
   Crow redesigns the Satellite of Love. Collect $100
   Turkey Volume Guessing Man pays a visit. Each player collects $100
   You barely survive “Monster A Go-Go”. Collect $200
   Lembach is staying. Collect $100
   Mike helps Gypsy Save Joel’s life. Collect $1000
   “Manos: the Hands of Fate” finally ends. Collect $500
   Deep 13 is audited. Collect $100 for each property you own.
   Joel visits the Satellite of Love. Collect $1000
   No more Cop/Donut jokes. Collect $500

   Now for the Bad News:
   Mike destroys another world,pay $1,500 in damages.
   You try to figure out which way Crow faces in the theater, go to “Dr. Erhardt’s Hiding Space”. Do not collect $2000
   Frank has come to steal your soul. Pay $1,500 to get it back.
   “By now my lungs were aching for air.” Pay $100 to get more air.
   “Plan 9 from Outer Space” is considered for the show. Pay $500 to change the Brains’ minds.
   Before you can become Pure Matter at the Edge of the Universe, you must pay $100 for each property you own.
   Channel Logo is placed over Crow’s head. Pay $100 to each player in order to move it back to the left.
   Torgo’s pizza takes so long to be delivered, that each property owner pays $100 to wait.
   Joel leaves the Satellite of Love. Pay $1,000 to find a replacement (The best you can find is a temp worker.)
   Mike is Urkel! Pay $500 to make him stop, PLEASE!!!
   You barely survive “Red Zone Cuba”. Pay $500 for therapy
   What’re you going to do about Hogboblins? Pay $500 to get rid of them.

   There you go. I think I’ve only played this once since I made it. It mostly sits in my closet gathering dust, and occasionally I come across it and chuckle at it. I have pictures of it, but they aren’t anything special. If people really want, I’ll post them, but overall it isn’t too far from what Monopoly actually looks like.

   What do you think, sirs?

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3. The the Eye Creatures says:

   February 7, 2012 at 9:17 pm

   A lot of people are coming up with great ideas for Monopoly(and great product ideas in general). I say we pool our best Monopoly ideas and submit themto Best Brains for USAopoly to consider. We may have a real product here.

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4. Matty'O says:

   February 8, 2012 at 3:01 am

   I have two words for y’all: Ring Tones! (or is that one word these days?)

   Think of it. Imagine all the quips, riffs, and songs from Mystery Science you’d love to have for your cell phone. Want the Rowsdower theme song? Boom! Downloaded. Think a short clip of J/M&TB calling out “Movie Sign!!!” would make a great notice for your texts? Boom! Downloaded.

   Yea, technically this is already possible to do yourself with the right mix of YouTube clips, the free YouTube to MP3 conversion site, some sound editing software, and that online service that can send MP3 clips to your cell as a text (that’s how I made my Venture Bors. ringtone), but professionally cleaned up tones might sound better.

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5. Gamera says:

   February 8, 2012 at 11:36 pm

   Id put stuff like…”opps! You just shot johnny Mathis” or property like “Rosdower’s Truck” or the “southern sun’s basement”

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6. Sitting Duck says:

   February 9, 2012 at 9:19 am

   Here’s a thought on corner spaces. Make the Jail space the Theater and the Go to Jail space Movie Sign. Free Parking could be Commercial Sign. Not sure what the Go space could be renamed.

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