PixlBit

I read somewhere that the most frequently landed-on Monopoly property is Illinois Avenue, which is the highest value Red property. The oranges together are the most frequently landed on group.

So, in the game we played, I had all the blue monopolies first, Baltic, Mediterranean, Oriental, Vermont, Connecticut and he had the orange. Then I got the reds but by the time I did, he had bankrupted me just on the oranges with houses and then hotels. The blues didn't help at all and it took too long to build up the reds because of that. But yeah, that corner around Free Parking seems to be the best spot on the board. Don't waste your money on Boardwalk, ha ha. 

Incidentally, I've visited the real life Marven Gardens, which gets its name because it sits on the boundary between Margate City and Ventnor City in NJ. Unfortunately, the homes there are a little out of my budget.

Tell me about it. My dad got a summer house years ago but avoided NJ and went for North Carolina's Outer Banks instead because it was cheaper. However, all my neighborhood friends in the Philly suburbs had parents with houses on the Jersey Shore. My sister went there many times this summer because her husband's parents have a house in Ocean City. I have occasionaly spent time there at friend's houses. 

I believe all the monopoly properties are street names in some particular Jersey shore town, like you mentioned. 

They're based on Atlantic City, with Boardwalk being the AC boardwalk. AC looks kind of run down these days, as the hopes of various developers to turn it into the Vegas of the east never came to fruition. I took my wife to AC for her birthday when we lived out there. We had dinner at a nice steakhouse (22 ounce prime rib and potatos with all the fixin's, $20 a plate!) and stayed in a nice hotel with a good hot tub, but as far as entertainment, we felt it would probably have been just as well to go play the slots at Maryland Live. I felt a little bad that it didn't quite pan out. Still, I can now say I've seen Atlantic City. And Marven Gardens.

Oh, right. AC=Monop.
I used to visit my friend in Brigantine, an island right next to AC. I'd drive right past the Golden Nugget casino every time. My friend worked in one of the casinos, I forget which. But I never really visited AC, I don't think. Maybe once when I was really young, I'm not sure.  

Hey, I have a Mithril PS2 slim as well! Those dwarves really know how to make a console that will last 

Ha ha. Well, my first silver, ehem. . . I mean Mithral, PS2 died. I'm sure it was the laser wearing out. But, I had to get another one exactly like it and did. I only wish there was a Mithral OG Xbox and my collection would be complete. My precious - gollum, gollum. 

I have a mithril Gamecube.

Right on. 

I learned how to play Chess from the old PC game Battle Chess.  I also learned from that game that I don't like Chess.

I wonder if they made a Skylanders Monopoly?  I used to always play as the iron in Monopoly, but they discontinued that piece because it was one of those old timey non-electric irons.