Caesarean Rhapsody

To keep up with the break neck speed with which games of today are changing, the world’s largest selling game of one time, Monopoly (and not GTA: San Andreas), has now adopted plastic cash instead of paper notes. After EA games led the foray into in-game advertising with popular titles like NFS and FIFA, board game designers decided to get a piece of the action, and of course the moolah. An electronic reader will now show the amount of cash a player holds in his account from a debit card. A sigh of relief that you won’t have to now pick up gazillions of thin paper pieces after your cousins are done with them on a lazy sunday afternoon. But then the purist in me would still like to have those multi-coloured notes and smell a freshly opened pack.

For now though keeping aside the conservative me, I would like to gaze agape at the kind of advancement in entertainment. A few years back I didn’t even know things like Playstation. Now kids younger than me, and of course born to more affluent parents, can coax their hapless guardians into getting them the XBox 360 (which I so badly want after the demo I got the other day at Forum).

I’m guessing next they’re gonna come up with a GPS to hunt down the notorious Mr. X in the massively popular Scotland Yard or a fingerprint scanner in Cluedo. Hmmm….interesting.