Cape Town - Cape Town joins 21 other world cities who are celebrating Thursday’s announcement that they have been included in the Special Edition game of Monopoly Here& Now (World Edition) to honour the games’ 80th Anniversary.
Cape Town was the only South African city to make it onto the travel-themed board which is being developed by Monopoly makers Hasbro.
The new game will be available from Spring 2015 and will feature iconic landmark tokens and new gameplay where players race round the board to visit as many locations as possible, collecting passport stamps along the way. Players will collect cash from visitor fees when opponents land on their locations and the first player to fill their passport wins.
Cape Town Tourism Executive Marketing Manager, Velma Corcoran says; “This is such a great way of getting people of all ages from all over to have fun while immersing themselves in the world of travel and tourism. We would like to thank everyone who voted for us and felt that Cape Town belonged in the game.”
The cities that made it onto the final list were:
Dark Blue: Lima, Peru; Hong Kong, China
Green: Riga, Latvia; Lisbon, Portugal; Istanbul, Turkey
Yellow: Warsaw, Poland; Mexico City, Mexico; Santiago, Chile
Red: Belfast, Ireland; Athens, Greece; Belgrade, Serbia
Orange: London, England; Moscow, Russia; Tokyo, Japan
Magenta: New York, NY, U.S.A; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Sydney, Australia
Light Blue: Queenstown, New Zealand; Cape Town, South Africa; Taipei, Taiwan
Brown: Giethoorn, Netherlands; Madrid, Spain
Press release adapted for IOL