{"id":16154,"date":"2018-03-29T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/race_for_the_highest_score_in_mario_kart_monopoly"},"modified":"2018-03-29T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:00:00","slug":"race-for-the-highest-score-in-mario-kart-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/race-for-the-highest-score-in-mario-kart-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Race For The Highest Score In Mario Kart Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/race_for_the_highest_score_in_mario_kart_monopoly\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/race_for_the_highest_score_in_mario_kart_monopoly\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Kart Monopoly\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;re quite fond of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/review_its_all_business_as_we_play_monopoly_gamer\">Monopoly Gamer Edition<\/a>; this collaboration between Hasbro and Nintendo was more than just a simple skinned Monopoly board. It was a\u00a0fresh <strong>Mario Party<\/strong>-esque take on the classic property trading game, with a splash of Nintendo&#8217;s most iconic IP.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the upcoming\u00a0<strong>Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart Edition<\/strong> will continue in this trend as you race around the board throwing shells and dropping banana peels at each other in order to collect coins.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the famous Monopoly properties such as Mayfair and Park Lane (hey, we <em>are<\/em> British!) are out&#8230; and the slightly more fantastical Rainbow Road and Bowser&#8217;s Castle take their place.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/race_for_the_highest_score_in_mario_kart_monopoly\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/race_for_the_highest_score_in_mario_kart_monopoly\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Kart Monopoly\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This reimagined board game also features a racing element, so when players pass Go, a race will be triggered where players complete to win a coveted\u00a0Grand Prix card.<\/p>\n<p>Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart Edition\u00a0will include four playable racers: Mario, Princess Peach, Luigi and Toad. At a later date a Power Pack add-on will be released (yup, that&#8217;s right. DLC for board games!)&#8230; which will introduce\u00a0Bowser, Rosalina, Shy Guy, Metal Mario, Donkey Kong and Yoshi as new characters which you can play.<\/p>\n<p>You can pick up\u00a0Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart Edition in GameStop in the U.S. now, and it will be rolling out to the usual online retailers and other stores later this Summer. No news on a UK release yet.<\/p>\n<p>Do you plan on picking up this fresh take on Monopoly? Let us know your thoughts with a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re quite fond of Monopoly Gamer Edition; this collaboration between Hasbro and Nintendo was more than just a simple skinned Monopoly board. It was a\u00a0fresh Mario Party-esque take on the classic property trading game, with a splash of Nintendo&#8217;s most iconic IP. It looks like the upcoming\u00a0Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart Edition will continue in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}