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September
2009
Google
Monopolises online game industry
Google
Monopolises online game industry. This could be
very addictive: Google is teaming up with board
game maker Hasbro to launch a Google Maps version
of Monopoly. Monopoly City Streets, which launches
Wednesday, allows users to compete in a live,
worldwide version of the popular game, creating
the biggest Monopoly tournament ever played.
Hasbro
Hasbro
is a U.S.-based, multinational toy and boardgame
company. It is one of the largest toy makers in
the world. The corporate headquarters is located
in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States. The
majority of its products, however, are manufactured
overseas.
History
In
1923, two brothers—Henry and Helal Hassenfeld—founded
Hassenfeld Brothers, a textile remnant company.
Over the next two decades, the company expanded
to produce pencil boxes and school supplies. In
the 1940s, Hassenfeld Brothers produced doctor
and nurse kits, its first toys. Hassenfeld Brothers'
first toy hit was Mr. Potato Head, which the company
purchased from inventor George Lerner in 1952.
The toy was a smash success. In 1964, Hassenfeld
Brothers produced the G.I. Joe toy, which they
termed an "action figure" in order to
market the toy to boys who wouldn't want to play
with "dolls". The company shortened
its name to Hasbro Industries in 1968. In 1983,
Hasbro produced another successful toy franchise,
My Little Pony. The company acquired the Milton
Bradley Company in 1984, bringing The Game of
Life, Candy Land, Twister, Chutes and Ladders
and Yahtzee into the Hasbro fold. Hasbro continued
its success in 1984 with the release of the first
Transformers toys.
The
Transformers Jumpstarters toys were the subject
of a lawsuit by Hasbro in 1985 where they sued
a toy manufacturer for selling toys based on their
design. Hasbro won the suit.
In 1986, Hasbro acquired Playskool, which purchased
Mr. Potato Head from Hasbro that year.
Hasbro, Inc. is now the parent company of several
subsidiaries. The toys and games produced by these
companies retain their brand identity, which is
an important advertising consideration. Many of
Hasbro's games have been around so long that they
have entered into popular culture. In 1998 Hasbro
bought Avalon Hill for $6 million and in 1999
Wizards of the Coast was bought in a deal worth
$325 million. Wizards of the Coast is now a subsidiary
of Hasbro and has Avalon Hill as its division.
In 2001 money-losing Hasbro Interactive, a subsidiary
formed in 1995, was sold to French software concern
Infogrames for $100 million.
Some of the Hasbro-owned subsidiaries are/were:
Avalon Hill (an imprint of Wizards of the Coast,
see below)
Claster Television
Coleco
Galoob
Kenner
Maisto
Milton Bradley
Parker Brothers
Playskool
Selchow and Righter
Tiger Electronics
Tonka
Wizards of the Coast
Wrebbit
The largest subsidiary of Hasbro was probably
Kenner (in Cincinnati, Ohio). Kenner was the toy
company that was behind the success of the Star
Wars, Play-Doh, Super Powers, M.A.S.K., Strawberry
Shortcake and Care Bears toy lines. When Tonka
and then later Hasbro acquired Kenner, the Kenner
location became the foremost producer for Hasbro
"boys toys", leading production on the
high-profile lines of 12" G.I. Joe releases
of the nineties, and the Transformers, Batman
and Star Wars toys. However, after sales declined
in 2000 after the Star Wars toy market saturation
implosion, Hasbro faced a difficult decision in
cutting back its spending in order to continue
to cater to their primary buyers. They decided
to close the entire Cincinnati plant, relocating
about 100 employees and laying off over 400. This
decision, while good for Hasbro, created a ripple
effect on the Cincinnati job market which continued
to push businesses out of Cincinnati, which, with
Procter & Gamble and Hasbro, had managed to
be the midwest city for corporate advertising
and graphic design.
In the early 21st century, Hasbro allowed for
the use of Mr. Potato Head in a community art
project similar to those with cows in Chicago
and pigs in Cincinnati. Painted and reoutfitted
versions of Mr. Potato Head by various artists
sprouted up all over Rhode Island and were welcome
additions in front of businesses and buildings
(including a New England staple, Dunkin Donuts)
for the duration of the project.
Hasbro would be the largest toy and game publisher
in the world if it were not for Mattel's Barbie
franchise.
In 2008, Hasbro acquired game maker Cranium, Inc.
for $77.5 million. The deal was announced on January
4 and closed on January 25.
Hasbro is collaborating with Discovery Communications
on a new channel, and will produce Marvel Comics
toys until 2017. The Walt Disney Company's purchase
of Marvel in 2009 came as a blow to Hasbro, as
it is likely Disney will give the Marvel license
to their rival Mattel. Hasbro had also hoped their
collaboration with Marvel would pad out their
channel's schedule with Marvel cartoons
Manufacture
Over
the years, Hasbro has outsourced the manufacture
of its products to third-party companies, mostly
in China. At the Chinese factories, which Hasbro
does not directly own or operate, migrant workers
are compensated with meager salaries for their
labor. At one such factory, in Dongguan, China,
basic assembly line jobs pay a little over one
hundred US dollars per month.
In 2007, a workers' rights group investigated
several of Hasbro's Chinese suppliers and found
that, in one instance, a toy factory in China's
Guangxi Province had hired 1000 junior high school
students. The same group discovered other widespread
labor violations, including unsafe working conditions,
mandatory overtime, verbal abuse and sexual harassment
of employees. Hasbro issued a statement, saying
that it would "act swiftly and decisively
in making any necessary changes" and had
"increased the intensity of [its] ongoing
safety review efforts." Critics counter that,
as Hasbro has no official regulatory control of
these factories, it responds to such investigations
by acquiring independent auditors, who make unannounced
visits to the East Asian subcontractors. Factory
managers are then "coached" in how to
fool the auditors.
Outside Asia, Hasbro owns and operates only two
manufacturing facilities, one in Waterford, Ireland,
the other in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA.
In recent years, the company has cut jobs at both
plants in response to increasing competition from
lower cost locations in China. At the end of 2006,
for example, Hasbro's Irish division laid off
more than one third of its workforce.
Toys and games
List
of Hasbro toys
Hasbro has several brands of toys and games aimed
at different demographics. Some of its better-known
toy lines are:
Army Ants
Battle Beasts
Cabbage Patch Kids (1989-1994)
Easy-Bake Oven
G.I. Joe
Jem
Lincoln Logs
Lite-Brite
M.A.S.K.
Mr. Potato Head
My Little Pony
Play-Doh
Pokémon
Spirograph
Star Wars
Tinkertoys
Transformers
NERF
Hasbro is the largest producer of board games
in the world as a result of its component brands,
such as Parker Brothers, Waddingtons, Milton Bradley,
Wizards of the Coast, and Avalon Hill (all acquisitions
since the 1980s). As a result it has well known
and top selling games such as:
List of Hasbro games
Axis and Allies
Battleship
Candy Land
Cranium
Clue (Cluedo)
Diplomacy
Dungeons & Dragons (role-playing game)
The Game of Life
Magic: The Gathering (Hasbro's top-selling brand)
Monopoly (best selling board game ever according
to the Guinness Book of World Records)
Ouija
Pictionary
Risk
Scrabble
Trivial Pursuit
Mirror-Mirror (Winner of ITV1's 'Design a Board
Game Competition')
Hasbro also produces many variations of most of
their games. For example, in addition to original
Scrabble, the game is also available as "Scrabble
Deluxe Edition", "Scrabble Deluxe Travel
Edition","Scrabble Junior", and
"Scrabble Onyx Edition".
Hasbro also offers games of physical skill such
as:
Bop It
Bull's Eye Ball
Jenga
Hasbro began a short-lived computer and video
game development and publishing venture called
Hasbro Interactive in the 1990s, but disbanded
it in late 1999. Now Hasbro develops video games
based on its brands through third-party developers
and licensing strategies.
On February 25, 2005, Hasbro announced that it
would be introducing a musical toothbrush to the
market. The Tooth Tunes, released in early 2007,
transmits music from the jawbone to the ear when
the bristles touch the teeth.
Films
Under
the supervision of Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Hasbro
has been involved in developing big budget live-action
film adaptations based on their toy lines.
Released:
Transformers (2007)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
In development:
Transformers sequel (2012)
(Credit:
Wikipedia)
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CHANCE – System will automatically land
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GO TO JAIL – This is explained under
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The
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Profile
Monopoly
is a board game published by the Parker Bros.,
an imprint of Hasbro. Players compete to acquire
wealth through stylized economic activity
involving the buying, rental and trading of
properties using play money, as players take
turns moving around the board according to
the roll of the dice. The game is named after
the economic concept of monopoly, the domination
of a market by a single provider.
According
to Hasbro, since Charles Darrow patented the
game in 1935, approximately 750 million people
have played the game, making it "the
most played (commercial) board game in the
world." The 1999 Guinness Book of Records
cited Hasbro's previous statistic of 500 million
people having played Monopoly. Games Magazine
has inducted Monopoly into its Hall of Fame.
Spinoffs
Film
On
June 19, 2007, Ridley Scott announced that he
was directing a comedy-thriller based on the game,
featuring a variety of young actors to generate
interest in the game. Scarlett Johannson and Kirsten
Dunst have been considered so far.
Computer
games
Besides
the many variants of the actual game (and the
Monopoly Junior spin-off) released in either video
game or computer game formats (e.g. Windows-based
PC, Macintosh, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Sega
Genesis, Commodore 64, etc.), two spin-off computer
games have been created.
Monopoly
Tycoon is a PC game in the Tycoon series that
makes strategy and speed into determining factors
for winning the game, eliminating completely the
element of luck inherent in the dice rolls of
the original. The game uses the U.S. standard
Atlantic City properties as its basis, but the
game play is unique to this version. The game
also allows for solo and multiplayer online games.
Monopoly
Casino is also a PC game, simulating a casino
full of Monopoly-based adaptations of various
casino games (most notably, slot machines). This
program was released in both standard and "Vegas"
editions, each featuring unique games.
Monopoly:
Star Wars is another PC game based on the standard
Monopoly board but with Star Wars characters and
locations.
On
April 23, 2008 Electronic Arts announced that
they would be releasing in Q3 2008 a new version
of Monopoly for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and
Wii video game consoles.
Other
board/dice/card games
Parker
Brothers and its licensees have also sold several
games which are spinoffs of Monopoly. These are
not add-ons, as they do not function as an addition
to the Monopoly game, but are simply additional
games in the flavor of Monopoly.
*
Monopoly Junior board game: A simplified version
of the original game for young children.
* Advance to Boardwalk board game: Focusing mainly
on building the most hotels along the Boardwalk.
* Express Monopoly card game: Released by Hasbro/Parker
Brothers and Waddingtons in the UK in the 1990s,
now out of print. Basically a rummy-style card
game based on scoring points by completing color
group sections of the game board.
* Monopoly: The Card Game: an updated card game
released by Winning Moves Games under license
from Hasbro. Similar, but decidedly more complex,
gameplay to the Express Monopoly card game.
* Free Parking card game: A more complex card
game released by Parker Brothers, with several
similarities to the card game Mille Bornes. Uses
cards to either add time to parking meters, or
spend the time doing activities to earn points.
Includes a deck of Second Chance cards that further
alter gameplay. (Two editions were made; minor
differences in card art and Second Chance cards
in each edition.)
* Don't Go To Jail: Dice Game originally released
by Parker Brothers; roll combinations of dice
to create color groups for points before rolling
the words "GO" "TO" and "JAIL"
(which forfeits all earned points for the turn).
* Monopoly Express: A deluxe, travel-able edition
re-release of Don't Go To Jail, replacing the
word dice with "Officer Jones" dice
and adding an eleventh die, Houses & Hotels,
and a self-contained game container/dice roller
& keeper.[33]
* Monopoly Express Casino: A gambling-themed version
of the above game, that adds wagering to the gameplay.
* Here and Now Electronic Edition: Destroys the
need for money, using credit cards instead. (Credit:
Wikipedia).
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