Cheap Monopoly Electronic Banking Edition

We bought this for our teenagers 3 months ago and they cannot stop playing it. It is the best version of Monopoly ever! I haven't played Monopoly since I was in my 20s and though I loved the concept of the game I hated sorting and picking up all the money, set up took so long that by the time I was set to play I didn't want to play anymore. I wanted my kids to enjoy Monopoly and I thought this was a great solution.

This game is pricey and I read all of the reviews on here before I bought it. I almost didn't buy because of some of the complaints on the reviews. However, I took a chance and after loving this game I thought I would comment on the negative reviews and their complaints:

First complaint: "The electronic banking takes a while to do transactions." It makes me wonder if they read the directions on the machine and realize that you can put cards in the negative and positive slots at the same time, type in the amount being transacted and it will automatically deduct and add to the appropriate cards. Besides the 2 cards that say, "Pay Each Player 500K", I don't know how that can be slower than actually exchanging paper cash!

Second Complaint: "One person has to be the banker and I never know how much is on my card." The banking device is the size of a calculator and we do not designate a banker we just pass the machine to each person during their turn. We have not played with more than 3 people so maybe when you add more people in this is harder. But if you want to keep track of how much is on your card; have the banker tell you your amount after each transaction and WRITE IT DOWN!

Third Complaint: "The Credit Card doesn't show my balance" Again write down your balance after each turn if you are worried, or just slide the card into the machine and it shows your balance.

Fourth Complaint: "I like dealing in cash, I can't bluff on how much cash I have" Then don't buy this version. I personally hate the mess of cash, and never got into a game deep enough to bluff. We also have young children in our house and if we leave the game out or they get in to the box, it is all over. We have The Game of Life and occasionally they climb the shelves to get at it and totally make a mess out of that game. We will probably be buying the electronic version of that game next.

Fifth Complaint: "They Changed The Properties" Yea they did, I like the old version too. But my kids think it is cool that they can buy Fenway Park. Plus, there were a couple of places they had not heard of so they looked them up and found out info on those places. That was cool.

So that is my take on the new Monopoly, for us it works and we will be playing a long time.Get more detail about Monopoly Electronic Banking Edition.