Niek Ederveen, editor-in-chief of Game!, the magazine of the National Game Lovers’ Association, understands the changes.
“There have been a lot of adjustments in the past, and also a lot of game variants”, Ederveen knows. “A Star Warsversion, a Disney version, you name it. It is the first time that the content of the original texts has been adapted. “
Ederveen also sees that the texts on the Community Chest cards are changing as ‘a natural way’ to generate publicity. “Fans worldwide are being asked to vote, all in all, a smart way to generate attention.”
Chubby but ‘fairly brilliant’
Ederveen hardly plays the game anymore. “I am now tired of it, but I grew up with classics such as Monopoly. It is a kind of cultural heritage too.” That is why Ederveen thinks it is a pity in a way that the old texts are being lost.
“I still have to laugh about the old-fashioned. A question like that about second place in a beauty contest, for example, I find quite brilliant. In addition, a text like the one about the ‘mistake of the bank in your favor’ is a kind of common good. That Monopoly reference will be lost to the new generation of Monopoly players. But I think there are plenty of new things to be invented. “
The election for the cards will end in the fall, a precise date when the new cards will be introduced is unknown. For the time being, voting can be done all over the world. The content of the new texts is – as with the previous version – the same all over the world.
The Netherlands at the top
Whether the Dutch voters are not completely wiped out by voters from countries with huge populations such as India or the United States? That was not that bad. In fact, according to Hasbro, the Netherlands is currently at the top of the list of countries that voted the most.
The games maker does not have an intermediate ranking of the most popular card to date. Ter Hofsté does have a personal favorite. “The card: ‘You knit soft sweaters for the nude cats at the local animal shelter’, for sure.”
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