The first manufactured Monopoly sets were made at the Parker Brothers' factory in Salem, Massachusetts in the USA in 1935, but the properties depict places in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Charles Darrow, the falsely acclaimed "inventor" of Monopoly, made and sold his sets in Philadelphia in 1934. The earliest known example of a Monopoly-like game was made in Arden, Delaware in 1903 and was called The Landlord's Game.
In the UK the first manufactured Monopoly sets were made at John Waddington's factory in Leeds in 1936 and depicted London properties. However, a game similar to Monopoly, Brer Fox'N Brer Rabbit was produced in Annan, Scotland in 1913.
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The original game of Monopoly was modeled on the Boardwalk and other locations in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Monopoly City Streets happened in 2009.
Over 250 million sets of the MONOPOLY® game have been sold worldwide.
People like monopoly because it is a fun game.