Parker Brothers was acquired by General Mills in February 1968. [124] The first Monopoly edition in Braille is published in 1973. [125] Also in 1973, as the Atlantic City Commissioner of Public Works considered name changes for Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues, fans of the board game, with support from the president of Parker Brothers, successfully lobbied for the city to keep the names. [126] After Parker Brothers was taken over by General Mills, the Monopoly license to Waddingtons was renegotiated (as was the Clue/ Cluedo license to Parker Brothers/General Mills by Waddingtons). [127] By 1974, Parker Brothers had sold 80 million sets of the game. [128] In 1975, another anniversary edition was produced, but this edition came in a cardboard box looking much like a standard edition. [123] Parker Brothers was under management by General Mills as the first six Monopoly Tournaments were held.

Wenzel, Sebastian (April 2013). "Monopoly". In Geithner, Michael; Thiele, Martin (eds.). Nachgemacht: Spielekopien aus der DDR. DDR Museum Verlag. p.32. ISBN 978-3-939801-18-4.Monopoly Junior was first published in 1990. Kenner Parker Tonka was acquired by Hasbro in 1991. An all-Europe edition was published by Parker Brothers in 1991 for the nations of the then European Communities, using the Ecu (European Currency Unit). [131] After acquisition by Hasbro, publication of Monopoly in the US ceased at the Parker Brothers plant in Salem, Massachusetts in November 1991. [129] Whitehill, Bruce (1999). "American Games: A Historical Perspective" (PDF). Board Games Studies. Research School CNWS, Leiden University, The Netherlands (2): 116–141. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 20, 2008 . Retrieved April 19, 2013. Sorrel, Charlie (9 February 2011). "New Electronic Monopoly with Evil, All-Seeing Tower". Wired . Retrieved 17 June 2013. Watson, Victor (2008). The Waddingtons Story: From the early days to Monopoly, the Maxwell bids, and into the next millennium. Jeremy Mills Publishing. p.78. ISBN 978-1-906600-36-5. Glenn, Jim; Denton, Carey (2003). The Treasury of Family Games. Amber Books Ltd. p.15. ISBN 0-7621-0431-7.

Walsh, Tim (2004). The Playmakers: Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys. Keys Publishing. p.48. ISBN 0-9646973-4-3. Kenner was combined with Parker Brothers and spun off as Kenner Parker Toys in 1985. Regular and Deluxe 50th Anniversary editions of Monopoly were released that same year. [129] The spinoff game Advance to Boardwalk was first published in 1985. Kenner Parker was acquired by Tonka in 1987. The 1987/1988 Monopoly Tournaments were held under Kenner Parker Tonka management.Parlett, David (1999). The Oxford History of Board Games. Oxford University Press. p. 352. ISBN 0-19-212998-8. Nicolò Falcone of Italy defeated players from 27 countries plus the defending champion in the 2015 World Championship held at The Venetian resort in Macau. [169] [170] A World Championship had been planned for 2021, but Hasbro has cancelled it due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Baz captioned this story: “It’s hard to fit a whole space into a one minute video, but here are more of the many books, photographs and pieces of bric-a-brac we’re inspired by every day…” All items stamped with the red MONOPOLY logo also feature the word "Brand" in small print. In the mid-1980s, after the success of the first "collector's tin anniversary edition" (for the 50th anniversary), an edition of the game was produced by the Franklin Mint, the first edition to be published outside Parker Brothers. At about the same time, McDonald's started its first Monopoly game promotions, considered the company's most successful, which continue to the present. [243] The twentieth such promotion was sponsored in 2012. [244]

See H.R. 4460, and S. 1440, United States Congress, First Session, 1983, H.R. 6285 and S. 1990, 98th United States Congress, Second Session, 1984. This was signed into Public Law 98-620, by Ronald Reagan on November 8, 1984.In 1903, Georgist Lizzie Magie applied for a patent on a game called The Landlord's Game with the object of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants. She knew that some people would find it hard to understand the logic behind the idea, and she thought that if the rent problem and the Georgist solution to it were put into the concrete form of a game, it might be easier to demonstrate. She was granted the patent for the game in January 1904. The Landlord's Game became one of the first board games to use a "continuous path", without clearly defined start and end spaces on its board. [15] [16] Another innovation in gameplay attributed to Magie is the concept of "ownership" of a place on a game board, such that something would happen to the second (or later) player to land on the same space, without the first player's piece still being present. [16] A copy of Magie's game that she had left at the Georgist community of Arden, Delaware and dating from 1903–1904, was presented for the PBS series History Detectives. [17] This copy featured property groups, organized by letters, later a major feature of Monopoly as published by Parker Brothers. [18] [19]