Charity sends over monopoly Guard: I see nothing wrong with that. POW: I have a get of jail free card Guard: I should have seen that coming POW: **Leaves**
I have one of these limited edition 1940s monopoly board game. My grandmother, seven, used to live in London during the war and the'Blitz', she had chance to move to the countryside to avoid the bombing, but her mother didn't want "to hear it", so she stayed. Anyway, in 1941,her mother was rather lucky to come across monopoly so she bought it. Just 10 minutes before the air-raid siren sounded, my grandmother,the only child,and her mother lit up a candle and played the game. Fortunately, when the siren sounded, my grandmother was told to "hurry up and bring the game", so they could continue to play. If my grandmother hadn't taken the board game with her to the air-raid shelter, it would have been reduced to rubble, just like her house. As my grandmother's mother was superstitious, she felt, somehow, the board game would bring them luck so told my grandmother to hold on to it. She gave it to me shortly before she died of natural causes. I have only just realised how grateful I should be to have this historical and rare board game.
Consolation prize? Man, that is the coolest thing in the world! You've got a tiny, tiny slice of somebody's life. This is amazing to me. I think it's beautiful.
This is like buying an old comic book and finding someone's name written on the cover, or a filled-out order form for Grit or the Johnson Smith Company. You feel like you know the kid who enjoyed that comic years ago.
Finding that family made map is perhaps a greater treasure than any escape kit (in my humble opinion). Its an honest insight into moments shared by real relatable people who lived in that time
Oh my goodness! My great grandfather was a POW during WW2 and there's an old family story about him receiving a special version of monopoly before he was freed from the camp. I just assumed that it was just a war time edition version, but now I wonder if it was one of these special sets to help him escape. Before this video I had no idea these existed. Unfortunately I have no proof of such a thing existing in my family but that's so cool to imagine.
Luca Canali and your commanding officer berates you: “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN’T KNOW , BASIC TRAINING COVERS THIS.” And then made you give him 5, right there on the spot
That custom board actually looks a lot more fun than the base game. A problem I've always had with Monopoly and a lot of board games is that there's kind of a lack of agency; there's only one path and you can usually tell exactly what's coming. It looks like there'd be a lot more strategy involved with this variant.
@@nathansnail Yup, because most early board games were really just an excuse to gamble at a time period when gambling was still considered a social taboo. "The Royall & Most Pleasant Game Of Y Goose" is a shining example of this, having absolutely zero strategy to it. Even ones that followed which tried to break away from the gambling aspects didn't stray THAT far mechanically, such as "The Checkered Game Of Life" - also entirely luck-based. I wonder when and how the shift towards games where you actually had to *do* things started...
Standard monopoly is very crude at it's core, being based too much on raw luck. There are some tweaked versions and alternative games like it, that overall enhance the game
Fun fact: Germany actually isn't one of them, as the Nazis banned the game in 1936 because it contained the street where Joseph Goebbels and his buddies lived and he didn't like the idea of poeple owning that street. When it was re-released in 1953 they replaced the names with generic ones.
That's like saying the piece of gum on the bottom of my shoe is more rare than the same shoe of an other person who doesnt have gum on the bottom of his. Only I have the gum on my shoe.....but no one cares.
My Grandfather said that as a kid he loved Monopoly... he would play it any chance he got. He said once he even made his own version of it but it got lost... ...I don't think that was it but that would've been really cool.
The Mysterious Gravity Falls Person show him this video with the other monopoly paper one made and even if it isn't his, he'll get a good laugh out and enjoy :)
I think, in a way, that is an escape map. It helped them escape the bleak state the world was in at the time, and let them have fun, on their own terms. Thank you for sharing this, Austin. This really made my day.
That custom Monopoly board on a piece of graph paper looks really cool, honestly. A version of Monopoly with diagonal paths and junctions sounds fun as hell to play!
@@lloydlejack-official You should check out Fortune Street. It came out on the Wii and it is a very fun twist on monopoly. It has multiple boards to choose from but they are nonlinear. There are 4 suit cards scattered around them and you need to collect them all and return to the bank to get your paycheck (which actually scales up further into the game). Where it really shines is that there is a dynamic stock market that goes up and down based both on how valuable the properties in the district are as well as how much stock has been sold. The win condition is also different. Instead of bankrupting everyone else, you need to reach a target net worth then return to the bank.
pi.mp3 My brother and I would Always make games like that. You know making monopoly with the names and drawings from our city, add more different ressources to settlers and make it double the size or make our own version of pokemon. We even made a few games from scratch. It's actually rather fun. You should Try it once. Unfortunatly, most have been lost over the years. I've only been able to find a zombie strategy game we made back in 2010. It is actually still a decent game, even though we were 10 and 12 back Then.
Katrine Petersen You just made me think about how things could've been it my sibling didn't die before even being born:/ Didn't get to know him, don't miss him, just makes me think... Anyway, though I'm a single child I can still try it with friends:) I'll definitely consider it. Thanks for the advise!!
Wow, it's really cool to see that custom board that someone made. It looks so detailed and seems super interesting to me because that isn't just a minor change to the gameplay but essentially a giant overhaul, and it seems like it could be rather fun
It reminds me of "Deadly Danger Dungeon", by Angry Video Game Nerd. Something he and his friend drew, and played, when they were just kids. "Fun" is not exactly how it turned out, but I enjoy watching people roll dice and fail. Years of playing D&D will do that. Go watch that on TH-cam, it's hilarious.
That was basically MI9's entire job, helping prisoners of war to escape. Lots of manufacturers were contracted to make authentic looking products containing escape aids to be sent to POWs.
I can see the kids making that paper monopoly and playing it/making it in the bunker during the blitz slightly unaware of what was happening laugh as the parents laugh with them whilst terrified
I was not expecting a rollercoaster of emotions from an "unboxing" video. I was just expecting some brat to open up a 1940's Monopoly edition and spending time to look at the pieces to draw out the video, not to be given a history lesson. congrats. You get one of my likes. They are in short supply due to me not giving a damn, but for this case, i'll make an exception. Good job.
BRO! RELEASE A COPY OF THE GAME!!!!! give that modified version of monopoly to the world. that piece of ART is totally open to distribute. please please please i wanna play!
Buddy, do you not get the point of why the kids made that, they used their creativity to make their own game based on monopoly, you should also make one of your own. If you don't like it, keep changing it till you do. Or just play the many versions of the game that exist
@@mashedtomato2079 Hon, you overestimate people's ability to get creative for themselves. They need a bit of a guide. Don't diss someone for wanting to see how someone else did it. Let them be inspired by someone else's creativity and appreciate their art before expecting them to jump in naked and afraid. There may be cool ideas there worth stealing! The best ideas were meant to be shared.
I remember as a kid, by friend at the time & I tried to make this "ultimate monopoly" game involving multiple boards, scattered all over the kitchen & living room areas. It never actually ended up happening (could never agree on rules to make the game balanced) but it involved things like different planets, hell, the future, and things like that as different boards. Looking back, it was a ridiculous concept (who the hell would want to extend the time it takes to play Monopoly xD) but I wish we had ended up making it
I have a war-time monopoly board in my attic but none of the chance cards or wooden pieces came with it After watching this video I now know it was one of the escape maps!
@@billybadgerdad3673 can you please tell us what it looked like because someone explaining what it looks like in detail is better than the loose one in the video
1940s Monopoly: Tries to help people in tough times with entertainment in the war 2019 Monopoly: ‘FORTNITE MONOPOLY!’ totally not grasping for money or anything :v)
This is not just 'another review', this video had heart, imagination and really drew me in, it kinda gave me chills watching it. I will deff check out your other videos. Ps. I hope you found/will find that special secret WW2 Monopoly.
Now kids can make their own apps on a rainy day.. who are we kidding, it's easier just to download a new one and move on. Another great video Austin, love the quality of your channel, you have an old soul for storytelling. Love it.
Andrew Del Pilar it seems to be working for him, he approaches things like the old documentarians did, but with a modern flare. If you think about it, he’s getting himself in a good niche. Older generations are turning on TH-cam more and more every day. They aren’t looking for high octane insanity(well most aren’t) my grandma loves videos told like this. As for dying, TV, yes, but videos online is where it is at. Life recycles, 3 times so far in my life(Tamagachis are back and going to be no 1 toy for xmas) once you figure this out, you can make a lot of influence and success in life. Austin is right where he needs to be right now.
not so much the materials, but the machinery needed to build these things was being smelted down or repurposed. I think the spinner was really just a stand-in, since it's safe to assume most housesnwould have a die lying around somewhere anyway
Yaaayyyy new Video! I think the trick to making a successful TH-cam channel, is providing good enough content that the viewer is happy, but just enough that it leaves them wanting more, which this channel pulls off perfectly.
Thank you for this insightful and reflective video. You really did a great job of explaining the war time efforts and experiences of those on the home front. Getting to see that intricate altered board really sparked some imagination and nostalgia. The altered board evoked a sense of family and intimacy that would have been valued during the war.
They still don't understand it as well as people back then had to If they had to have food rations today they'd sooner riot against The Evil Government for it instead of adapting
Childhood game development is a sacred and wonderful thing. I made lots of them, because I really didn't have money for so many games, especially expensive things like collectible card games. So I built one of the world's first standalone deckbuilding games based on Magic. I then built a Final Fantasy themed one that would go on to become Light and Darkness, almost 20 years later. I made the first version of Vega Campaign around this time as well, based on old Avalon Hill board wargames; I've been meaning to return to it with nice resin printed pieces. I think I'll keep the squares, as squares are so iconic to Wing Commander maps, hexes would be weird (though much more practical). I remember fleeting bits of other games I made, including several Monopoly derivatives, a rewrite of Trust Me by Parker Brothers, a Mario Bros game, a Pokemon board wargame in 1997, and many others. I love this, thank you for the warmfuzzy.
Those MI9 specials must be incredibly rare as I would expect that most of them ended up cut up to extract the vital contents of the items. I wish you the best of luck locating one of them.
That made up version with the diagonal lots, spaces AND 'junctions' is incredibly EPIC! I'm SURPRISED that there haven't been MORE variations using similar ideas!
Austin, this was wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing this. I cherish the letters my grandparents sent back and forth to each other during the war-- it's fascinating to watch a young American housewife and her brave husband overseas describe their world at the time. In one letter from 1945, my grandpa sweetly consoles his darling wife about some frightening, oriental "British-American Bomb." (!) History from the horse's mouth is incredible. Loved your channel already, but extra love this video in particular. I hope you share more of your nostalgia collection in the future. Cheers, Christina
Love to see real youtubers with real content! History is my passion I knew all of this, but this was so well crafted I watched it throughout and subscribed good stuff! 頑張って👍
Never knew the British had these escape kits in the form of monopoly despite reading a lot about WW2. But its a very cool piece of history. Usually people look for weapons left behind during that era, but sometimes simple things like that have its own story.
I was homeschooled. My parents weren't very good at it, with very little patience for my lack of ability to grasp math in general. We'd spend the day getting frustrated hunched over math books until late in the day, eat dinner then sometimes play Monopoly where I actually began to grasp math. Playing monopoly is a large part of what I attribute to any math/critical thinking skills I would go on to develop despite my inadequate schooling while I was younger.
Christian McCord he's not black. He's actually of Puerto Rican descent. You would know this if you watched his 500k subs video. Edit- Dunkey says this in his jontron rant video.
Seeing the custom board those kids made got me extremely emotional. Just imagining those children in such a terrifying time of history, defiantly being kids and not letting the darkness surrounding them crush them.
Stuff like the escape kit version and other maybe kinda goofy ways of hiding information like playing cards with peelable backs and that one time an incredibly sensitive map or photo of the beach at Normandy was shipped as two jigsaw puzzles is... It just feels awesome and strange. A weird time with the kind of gadgetry and creative solutions that have become unfeasible in the real world and have faded from all but parody in our fiction. In our current era, espionage for real is paying off the locals and crunching data and espionage in fiction is a gun, martial arts and maybe just maybe an analytical mind for clues.
maybe you should buy a really damaged one, if the one youre looking for has travelled to a pow camp etc then it wont be pristine in condition, get one thats ripped and missing bits and then maybe youll find the secret extras
yah from what he mentioned about the version he wanted, it is probably a damaged one that's missing pieces. There's no way there's one that hasn't been opened up and damaged.
I've never really thought about what kind of things were changed because of the WWII supply restrictions. This is a really cool artifact you got your hands on - it's like a blast to the past. Even if you didn't get what you hoped for, it's really awesome that you found a paper board made by some kids that was a re-imagining of the original, I didn't think people did that back then! I wonder if those kids are still around today. Was there any names written on the paper? It really makes you wonder.
my grandfather died in the sixties, and one of the few things i have of his is his monopoly set, its nice to see other people treasure the old sets as much as my family have
That hand-drawn-board should to be preserve in museum to be amaze, but it's better to have it preserve under the hands of someone who really appreciated that kind of masterpiece like you I can't imagine how epic to be the kid who able recreate the board with additional unique & bit of complexity feature. (it might be her/his father who recreate it, but i like the idea that the kid herself/himself create that board) It gonna be fun to play it right now but it will be much more exciting if i were still a child and it was played during the wartime Thanks for sharing that hand-drawn-board with us The world must know that kind of masterpiece from a kid exist Kudos kiddo
Monopoly was invented to help people in the great depression get through a rough time. It made people feel like they had a lot more money. I have an original 1935 game.
@@ValkyrieTiara Wikipedia says anti-monopolist, not anti-capitalism. Additionally, the creator made two versions (one of which is the one played today).
@@nickyblue4866 The main issues lie in how exploitative it is, the system needs endless growth to sustain itself which just isn't possible on a finite planet, it encourages mistreating humans to extrapolate more and more wealth from the masses to the few in power. Product quality declines as products that break easier need to be replaced more often which means more profit for the companies, wage stagnation means that people are earning less and less every year (Income inequality is worse than during the height of the guilded age, also known as that point in time when the French cut off all the aristocrats heads due to rampant income inequality) You'll even get people trying to say that food, clean water and shelter aren't human rights (Which they are, as defined by the United Nations)
Thank you so much for making a video on this. Led me to asking my grandma if she had played this version, and she had! I heard loads of wonderful stories of her childhood so Im very grateful to this channel
I don't know why I expect anything less than an awesome experience watching your videos. I always learn something new while getting an extra dose of awesomeness. The concept of the escape kit is badass as hell, but the end was so sweet.
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Imagine if a prisioner escaped with the kit and just left behind in the cell floor a ''Get out of Jail free'' card
That wuld be cool
PT CARALHO
an absolute POWER move
That would be just
A complete stinger
Charity sends over monopoly
Guard: I see nothing wrong with that.
POW: I have a get of jail free card
Guard: I should have seen that coming
POW: **Leaves**
I have one of these limited edition 1940s monopoly board game. My grandmother, seven, used to live in London during the war and the'Blitz', she had chance to move to the countryside to avoid the bombing, but her mother didn't want "to hear it", so she stayed.
Anyway, in 1941,her mother was rather lucky to come across monopoly so she bought it. Just 10 minutes before the air-raid siren sounded, my grandmother,the only child,and her mother lit up a candle and played the game. Fortunately, when the siren sounded, my grandmother was told to "hurry up and bring the game", so they could continue to play. If my grandmother hadn't taken the board game with her to the air-raid shelter, it would have been reduced to rubble, just like her house. As my grandmother's mother was superstitious, she felt, somehow, the board game would bring them luck so told my grandmother to hold on to it. She gave it to me shortly before she died of natural causes. I have only just realised how grateful I should be to have this historical and rare board game.
john abunduy Productions That’s awesome! Now you just gotta mail it to me!
Wow.
Wow how much can it sell on an auction
But you cant sell sentimental things or things passed down from generation to generation
Dude keep it
Man never sell it. Never.
thx for sharing the story to us dude
Consolation prize? Man, that is the coolest thing in the world! You've got a tiny, tiny slice of somebody's life. This is amazing to me. I think it's beautiful.
400 likes and no replies I'll be the first
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It was so beautiful, I was so moved
@@izaaktyler1733 silly people always wanting to be first.
Especially from a totally different time. It's amazing~!
This is like buying an old comic book and finding someone's name written on the cover, or a filled-out order form for Grit or the Johnson Smith Company. You feel like you know the kid who enjoyed that comic years ago.
"Forming and strengthening relationship with each other" - are you _sure_ you've played Monopoly before?
Have you fight with a friend before? Smash bros, CTR, tekken.
It definitely test our friendship. Hahah
Me and my friend are playing and when I won I was kicked out 😂
It tests how strong your friendship is. And if you manage to bankrupt your friend and they don't abandon you,you have a true friend there.
I do the opposite in lol
The true test of friendships just like UNO and Smash Bros
Huh. It seems you found the work of WWII era modders...
Can't wait for Monopoly: Long War.
@@christopherbruderle684
MONOPOLY THE STRATEGY GAME SEND THE AIRFORCE TO BOMB 24TH HITLER STREET.
Forget modding minecraft, they modded monopoly!
"Back in my day, we rebuilt the thing if we wanted so!"
Tarson Talon objection! That was objectionable...
Finding that family made map is perhaps a greater treasure than any escape kit (in my humble opinion). Its an honest insight into moments shared by real relatable people who lived in that time
Also rarer than the special edition as there's probably only one in existence
I wpuld ike to try that version of Monopply
ari escobar
Do you think another family drew the exact same board
In a way it was an escape kit
Lol not when you are in a nazi work camp
Me and my grandpa playing monopoly and he gets jailed
"Have i ever told you the story about how i used the get out of jail card to escape auschwitz?"
@@RKNGL i think the fact that it's a concentration camp makes it even better
My grandpa killed ppl in Auschwitz
@@vMiketti right
@@vMiketti nice
@@vMiketti cool.
Oh my goodness! My great grandfather was a POW during WW2 and there's an old family story about him receiving a special version of monopoly before he was freed from the camp. I just assumed that it was just a war time edition version, but now I wonder if it was one of these special sets to help him escape. Before this video I had no idea these existed. Unfortunately I have no proof of such a thing existing in my family but that's so cool to imagine.
Man, your great grandfather must have once hold one of the rarest board game version ever.
@@RGC_animation I mean, technically speaking, the one the kids drew is the rarest I'd say given there's probably only one in existence lol
@@5peciesunkn0wn I mean those that were that was "mass produced" in factories.
I don’t know how you could expect to find a prisoner of war copy if they were built to be ripped open
Surplus maybe? Soldiers carefully cutting and persevering it? I'm not saying it's definitely out there, but it's not impossible to want to buy one
Maybe the prisoner didn't work out it was a special copy.
@@Heroesrules1994 imagine being freed from the camps years later, bringing the game with you then realizing it was an escape kit afterwards lmao
Luca Canali and your commanding officer berates you: “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN’T KNOW , BASIC TRAINING COVERS THIS.” And then made you give him 5, right there on the spot
mohammed sarker more like 50
That custom board actually looks a lot more fun than the base game. A problem I've always had with Monopoly and a lot of board games is that there's kind of a lack of agency; there's only one path and you can usually tell exactly what's coming. It looks like there'd be a lot more strategy involved with this variant.
a lot of older games are really bad with this
@@nathansnail Yup, because most early board games were really just an excuse to gamble at a time period when gambling was still considered a social taboo.
"The Royall & Most Pleasant Game Of Y Goose" is a shining example of this, having absolutely zero strategy to it. Even ones that followed which tried to break away from the gambling aspects didn't stray THAT far mechanically, such as "The Checkered Game Of Life" - also entirely luck-based.
I wonder when and how the shift towards games where you actually had to *do* things started...
Standard monopoly is very crude at it's core, being based too much on raw luck. There are some tweaked versions and alternative games like it, that overall enhance the game
The thing is, in monopoly's case, this is on purpose. The original creator made it as a critique of capitalism under the name Landlord's Game.
@@kildeer It’s not a critique of capitalism, just rent seeking. The creator was a georgist
I love how monopoly has been created for so many Different countries and even cities, just to let people get the real feel :)
Pittsburgh Monopoly is pretty lit. I live in Pittsburgh so I would know
Yes, here in Brazil, the mostrar expensive slot is "Rua Oscar Freire" and It s one of the richest streets here in Brazil
and i hate how there's a frozen version of monopoly
Sorenkair and I love hows there is a tf2 monopoly
Fun fact: Germany actually isn't one of them, as the Nazis banned the game in 1936 because it contained the street where Joseph Goebbels and his buddies lived and he didn't like the idea of poeple owning that street. When it was re-released in 1953 they replaced the names with generic ones.
Wow..... You have a real peice of history there!
That is definetly more rare than finding a board with POW escape plans!
That's like saying the piece of gum on the bottom of my shoe is more rare than the same shoe of an other person who doesnt have gum on the bottom of his. Only I have the gum on my shoe.....but no one cares.
PANZERFAUST90 expect it’s not because a normal piece of gum doesn’t have such a history behind it
What if the gum was the gum chewed by steve jobs?
PANZERFAUST90 it depends what type of gum flavor. I don’t like when they are too minty and just taste like mouthwash
@@madvilliany1692 I like the taste of mouthwash
austinmcconnell videos - never know what you're gonna get, always know it's gonna be great.
That about sums up this channel.
Even if its sonic boom rise of lyric?
very true, no matter what he uploads i watch bc i know the content will be A+
Mama always said, life is like a box of austinmcconnell videos.
Amen
The short version was designed to be played in an air raid shelter and would last the duration of a typical raid!
I imagine people would still play much longer than it lmao
Man, finding a secret POW-escape-kit version must be so rare. And that paper is super cool!
I enjoy your work, but I particularly loved this. Slower paced. Staged and layered. Informative. This was absolutely special.
No homo
Skimmerlit, I agree completely
Tarbal Gaming Videos OMG YOU WILD
Finna Nut Yo That's not relevant to the subject being discussed. So... No?
Read above comments^^^
Oh my- hahahaha
My Grandfather said that as a kid he loved Monopoly... he would play it any chance he got. He said once he even made his own version of it but it got lost... ...I don't think that was it but that would've been really cool.
The Mysterious Gravity Falls Person Oh my god, can you imagine?
The Mysterious Gravity Falls Person you should show him this video
The Mysterious Gravity Falls Person show him this video with the other monopoly paper one made and even if it isn't his, he'll get a good laugh out and enjoy :)
It is a small world
I think, in a way, that is an escape map. It helped them escape the bleak state the world was in at the time, and let them have fun, on their own terms. Thank you for sharing this, Austin. This really made my day.
Impaling Prince Aaaawwwwww.
Impaling Prince I just got goosebumps reading that.
r/im14andthisisdeep
How the fuck is this even deep? Seriously do people even understand the meaning of deep?
@@fappingmachine100 he never said it was
That custom Monopoly board on a piece of graph paper looks really cool, honestly. A version of Monopoly with diagonal paths and junctions sounds fun as hell to play!
I would love to play it, honestly!
@@lloydlejack-official You should check out Fortune Street. It came out on the Wii and it is a very fun twist on monopoly. It has multiple boards to choose from but they are nonlinear. There are 4 suit cards scattered around them and you need to collect them all and return to the bank to get your paycheck (which actually scales up further into the game). Where it really shines is that there is a dynamic stock market that goes up and down based both on how valuable the properties in the district are as well as how much stock has been sold. The win condition is also different. Instead of bankrupting everyone else, you need to reach a target net worth then return to the bank.
@@futurehistoryarchaeologist4480 Thanks for the info! I'll check it out once i have some spare time
That mock board was one of coolest things I've ever seen. God bless childhood imagination. I bet they worked at Bletchly and solved the Enigma code.
If you could scan in the custom game plan and drop a link in the description or somewhere, I'd be so happy...
@austinmcconnell please
pi.mp3 Yeah, that's a cool idea
pi.mp3 My brother and I would Always make games like that. You know making monopoly with the names and drawings from our city, add more different ressources to settlers and make it double the size or make our own version of pokemon. We even made a few games from scratch. It's actually rather fun. You should Try it once.
Unfortunatly, most have been lost over the years. I've only been able to find a zombie strategy game we made back in 2010. It is actually still a decent game, even though we were 10 and 12 back Then.
Katrine Petersen You just made me think about how things could've been it my sibling didn't die before even being born:/ Didn't get to know him, don't miss him, just makes me think... Anyway, though I'm a single child I can still try it with friends:) I'll definitely consider it. Thanks for the advise!!
if it makes you feel better I have siblings and they ripped up all the money.
Wow, it's really cool to see that custom board that someone made. It looks so detailed and seems super interesting to me because that isn't just a minor change to the gameplay but essentially a giant overhaul, and it seems like it could be rather fun
It reminds me of "Deadly Danger Dungeon", by Angry Video Game Nerd. Something he and his friend drew, and played, when they were just kids. "Fun" is not exactly how it turned out, but I enjoy watching people roll dice and fail. Years of playing D&D will do that. Go watch that on TH-cam, it's hilarious.
HEY MONOPOLY PEOPLE
ADD THIS
Sorry, you'll had to pay for the season pass DLC.
That hand drawn board is such a treasure, omg. I mean the official set if great, but that hand drawn one is really unique. Congrats on a great find!
I full-on started crying when I saw the custom board.
I know what you mean. I'm imagining the joy the family had creating and playing this.
Narata And then I think about the fact that these kids are really old/almost dead now and I’m sad again :(
Synthia Nominae uhhh why
Yeah.. right
What how??
Um, what the heck? That piece of information about the POW edition just blew my mind. That’s utterly fascinating.
That was basically MI9's entire job, helping prisoners of war to escape. Lots of manufacturers were contracted to make authentic looking products containing escape aids to be sent to POWs.
gwishart that’s so spicy. Love that for them.
Dude this is so fucking cool.
Language sir. This is a family friendly Christian channel. But I agree this is so fr*cking cool.
I can see the kids making that paper monopoly and playing it/making it in the bunker during the blitz slightly unaware of what was happening laugh as the parents laugh with them whilst terrified
I was not expecting a rollercoaster of emotions from an "unboxing" video. I was just expecting some brat to open up a 1940's Monopoly edition and spending time to look at the pieces to draw out the video, not to be given a history lesson. congrats.
You get one of my likes. They are in short supply due to me not giving a damn, but for this case, i'll make an exception. Good job.
You monster. You made me watch an unboxing video. And what's worse, you made me *like it*. Love your channel, man.
BRO! RELEASE A COPY OF THE GAME!!!!! give that modified version of monopoly to the world. that piece of ART is totally open to distribute.
please please please i wanna play!
Buddy, do you not get the point of why the kids made that, they used their creativity to make their own game based on monopoly, you should also make one of your own. If you don't like it, keep changing it till you do. Or just play the many versions of the game that exist
@@mashedtomato2079 still a cool project. Hasbro could allow Monopoly to become different gamemodes
@@mashedtomato2079 Hon, you overestimate people's ability to get creative for themselves. They need a bit of a guide. Don't diss someone for wanting to see how someone else did it. Let them be inspired by someone else's creativity and appreciate their art before expecting them to jump in naked and afraid. There may be cool ideas there worth stealing! The best ideas were meant to be shared.
We all wanna play tjat version
@@Marialla. this is also why art can be a job
Who would have thought that a video about an old copy of Monopoly would be this fascinating? Then again, that's what I love about this channel.
I love how your videos have random topics.It's amazing!!
I remember as a kid, by friend at the time & I tried to make this "ultimate monopoly" game involving multiple boards, scattered all over the kitchen & living room areas. It never actually ended up happening (could never agree on rules to make the game balanced) but it involved things like different planets, hell, the future, and things like that as different boards.
Looking back, it was a ridiculous concept (who the hell would want to extend the time it takes to play Monopoly xD) but I wish we had ended up making it
LOLLL!!! Made me think of my middle school friends!... Wish I could see them again.
I imagine that nobody really used the spinner, they probably had dice lying around somewhere.
Well did they?
@@MarcTelang lemme just time travel to 1943 and go ask somebody
@@generalolivervonbismarck393 soo?
@@familjenfurumark788 bro I'm in 1943 rn and yeah I just asked someone and they said yeah
@@superk9letsplays419 lore
I LOVE it when TH-cam shoves me these random fun little videos from people I rarely, if ever, have seen videos from before!
Now I'm obsessed with the POW Monopoly kits
I have a war-time monopoly board in my attic but none of the chance cards or wooden pieces came with it
After watching this video I now know it was one of the escape maps!
oh my gor really?
Can I buy it your price of course I have been looking for it for 3 years now
The outrageous Gorrila sorry no it was passed down by my great grandad who died
The outrageous Gorrila im pretty curious what they’re worth
@@billybadgerdad3673 can you please tell us what it looked like because someone explaining what it looks like in detail is better than the loose one in the video
1940s Monopoly: Tries to help people in tough times with entertainment in the war
2019 Monopoly: ‘FORTNITE MONOPOLY!’ totally not grasping for money or anything :v)
That's how *HASBRO* stonks
1940s: here you go prisoners of war! *psst cut it open you can escape*
Now: MONOPOLY FOR MILLENIALS!!!!!
Monopoly For Millenials is actually a hilarious roasting of modern culture.
@@RosebudKane41 yea it is but some parts are stale
@@Notorioustroublemaker monopoly with pariticipation awards instead of money, and social security grants instead of rent to pay...
This is not just 'another review', this video had heart, imagination and really drew me in, it kinda gave me chills watching it.
I will deff check out your other videos.
Ps. I hope you found/will find that special secret WW2 Monopoly.
never in my life would have i thought i will cry over a video about monopoly, but here we are.
Ah yes, Austin's favorite things: Monopoly, KFC, and Chinese Star Wars. Sounds normal.
Oh and the lonelygirl15
and parachutes
Rainbow 4 What about Harry Potter?
Rainbow 4 And His Fan Films
what about porn? jk ....
Another great video!!!!!
The five exclamation marks mean that he really meant that this was another great video.
Now kids can make their own apps on a rainy day.. who are we kidding, it's easier just to download a new one and move on. Another great video Austin, love the quality of your channel, you have an old soul for storytelling. Love it.
AND WE DANCE. VLOGS "...an old soul for storytelling."
Is that a good thing? Storytelling (in the traditional sense) is a dying art.
Andrew Del Pilar it seems to be working for him, he approaches things like the old documentarians did, but with a modern flare. If you think about it, he’s getting himself in a good niche. Older generations are turning on TH-cam more and more every day. They aren’t looking for high octane insanity(well most aren’t) my grandma loves videos told like this. As for dying, TV, yes, but videos online is where it is at. Life recycles, 3 times so far in my life(Tamagachis are back and going to be no 1 toy for xmas) once you figure this out, you can make a lot of influence and success in life. Austin is right where he needs to be right now.
"Old soul for Storytelling." That's just great.
Thanks, man.
Le wrong generation
Love that you consider the historical background and provide information. Great job!
Came for the unboxing, stayed for the stories
That drawn out version of the game is genuinely cool
This is cool. Why not use wooden dice though? The spinner looks like it would ruin the entire game.
Wooden dice (fair ones) are incredibly hard to make because wood is very inconsistent in mass production.
Ah, ok. That's interesting. Thanks for the reply!
That.. whilst true, might have still been a better pair of dice than spindly spindle ;) Love the vids.
Just flick the spinner.
not so much the materials, but the machinery needed to build these things was being smelted down or repurposed. I think the spinner was really just a stand-in, since it's safe to assume most housesnwould have a die lying around somewhere anyway
Yaaayyyy new Video! I think the trick to making a successful TH-cam channel, is providing good enough content that the viewer is happy, but just enough that it leaves them wanting more, which this channel pulls off perfectly.
Dan Nguyen lmao
0:22 “my generation doesnt really understand this”
Not anymore. Covid supply shortages are quite reminiscent of this
Thank you for this insightful and reflective video. You really did a great job of explaining the war time efforts and experiences of those on the home front. Getting to see that intricate altered board really sparked some imagination and nostalgia. The altered board evoked a sense of family and intimacy that would have been valued during the war.
4:26 replace the rain with bombs and the attic with a subway station and you're probably right!
Ahh..that nice speech of how board games brought people together. Not in my friend group, there would be more screaming and conflict 😂
“My generation doesn’t understand supply shortages”
Top 10 quotes that aged terribly. I wish you were right still
They still don't understand it as well as people back then had to
If they had to have food rations today they'd sooner riot against The Evil Government for it instead of adapting
Childhood game development is a sacred and wonderful thing. I made lots of them, because I really didn't have money for so many games, especially expensive things like collectible card games. So I built one of the world's first standalone deckbuilding games based on Magic. I then built a Final Fantasy themed one that would go on to become Light and Darkness, almost 20 years later. I made the first version of Vega Campaign around this time as well, based on old Avalon Hill board wargames; I've been meaning to return to it with nice resin printed pieces. I think I'll keep the squares, as squares are so iconic to Wing Commander maps, hexes would be weird (though much more practical). I remember fleeting bits of other games I made, including several Monopoly derivatives, a rewrite of Trust Me by Parker Brothers, a Mario Bros game, a Pokemon board wargame in 1997, and many others. I love this, thank you for the warmfuzzy.
I remember making game boards like that as a kid. That’s genuinely such a cool find
I love your videos so much! Thank you for making them so diverse, informative, and engaging. Keep it up!
This was really cool!
oh hey its you ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Squatting Slav clip your nails
Those MI9 specials must be incredibly rare as I would expect that most of them ended up cut up to extract the vital contents of the items. I wish you the best of luck locating one of them.
*And then Hasbro bought it...*
*Monopoly Fortnite*
Monopoly for Millenials
Monopoly empire
I am not Jon you gotta admit the empire edition looks kinda good
That became the board holocaust
That made up version with the diagonal lots, spaces AND 'junctions' is incredibly EPIC! I'm SURPRISED that there haven't been MORE variations using similar ideas!
Austin, this was wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing this. I cherish the letters my grandparents sent back and forth to each other during the war-- it's fascinating to watch a young American housewife and her brave husband overseas describe their world at the time. In one letter from 1945, my grandpa sweetly consoles his darling wife about some frightening, oriental "British-American Bomb." (!) History from the horse's mouth is incredible.
Loved your channel already, but extra love this video in particular. I hope you share more of your nostalgia collection in the future.
Cheers,
Christina
Dude your topics are so random.
Great little story, nonetheless.
Isn't that the best part?
Isn't it great?
J Sindone That is a good thing. I've learned a lot from topics that I probably wouldn't have even looked up because of Austin's videos.
Isn’t it dandy?
J Sindone I love it too
Love to see real youtubers with real content! History is my passion I knew all of this, but this was so well crafted I watched it throughout and subscribed good stuff! 頑張って👍
Yeah I hate that fake content people have been posting really grinds my gears when I click on a video and end up watching 24 hours of paint drying
Beautiful film breathing life in to an object and covering a time in history that marked great change for generations to come.
And Monopoiy.
Never knew the British had these escape kits in the form of monopoly despite reading a lot about WW2. But its a very cool piece of history. Usually people look for weapons left behind during that era, but sometimes simple things like that have its own story.
How to make almost anything sound interesting - By austinmcconnell
Mr Mackey its actually is interesting though.
I clicked on this video thinking "wow an old game who gives a shit lol" now I'm just thinking "omg that was soooo worth giving a shit"
That's life in a microcosm. Many things are like that, and it's worth being open to the opportunity to see cool things.
I'd like a closer look at the custom version... Very interesting! THANKS FOR SHARING BUD
I was homeschooled. My parents weren't very good at it, with very little patience for my lack of ability to grasp math in general. We'd spend the day getting frustrated hunched over math books until late in the day, eat dinner then sometimes play Monopoly where I actually began to grasp math. Playing monopoly is a large part of what I attribute to any math/critical thinking skills I would go on to develop despite my inadequate schooling while I was younger.
Loved that, reminded me of how I used to make up my own board games when I was a kid pre-video games.
One of the best TH-cam videos I've seen.
10 out of 10 it's a mastapiece baby
David Vonderhallahu akbar
K N A C K 2 B A B Y
I hate Austin's videos because he is black.
David Vonderhallahu akbar I love this thread and I love ur profile picture
Christian McCord he's not black. He's actually of Puerto Rican descent. You would know this if you watched his 500k subs video.
Edit- Dunkey says this in his jontron rant video.
xJoseph2100 if you watched his video about jontron, you'd get the joke, buddy.
This is... unusual
Benjamin Brady how did this comment have so many likes but has no replies?
+Ridato X You ruined it! D:
Quinn Ginbey So did you…wait Fuck
Ridato X who knows, TH-cam's weird algorithms at work?
lol
“Board games are to be played played with people”
Plague inc. the board game, “no”
Wow. Just wow. This video was so well filmed! Fantastic job on presenting this amazing find!
Seeing the custom board those kids made got me extremely emotional. Just imagining those children in such a terrifying time of history, defiantly being kids and not letting the darkness surrounding them crush them.
I love WWII monopoly and I always wanted to see one of the escape ones.
You can only make the item out of required supplies.
These people: *Hold my vodka.*
Hold my voda*
More like tea?
That homemade Monopoly board is a treasure! So creative! Please try to trace it's origins, I bet it's a great story.
Commentary towards the end was golden. Really enjoyed the video!
Dude this is storytelling good at its finest:
Yea I can see how this is a thing people would care about.
Great video man :)
Stuff like the escape kit version and other maybe kinda goofy ways of hiding information like playing cards with peelable backs and that one time an incredibly sensitive map or photo of the beach at Normandy was shipped as two jigsaw puzzles is... It just feels awesome and strange. A weird time with the kind of gadgetry and creative solutions that have become unfeasible in the real world and have faded from all but parody in our fiction. In our current era, espionage for real is paying off the locals and crunching data and espionage in fiction is a gun, martial arts and maybe just maybe an analytical mind for clues.
maybe you should buy a really damaged one, if the one youre looking for has travelled to a pow camp etc then it wont be pristine in condition, get one thats ripped and missing bits and then maybe youll find the secret extras
yah from what he mentioned about the version he wanted, it is probably a damaged one that's missing pieces. There's no way there's one that hasn't been opened up and damaged.
Wasn't it that most prisoners destroyed the sets after opening them so the guards didn't find out?
That was what they did
Well said. Great commentary into the state of family dynamics.
Oh my god, the outro speech of this video was so beautifully written. I want to cry...
Oh, but that IS an escape map.
An escape from boredom, an escape to discovering one's own creativity amid a grim world.
You have me crying over monopoly and growing up mate. Thank you
I've never really thought about what kind of things were changed because of the WWII supply restrictions. This is a really cool artifact you got your hands on - it's like a blast to the past. Even if you didn't get what you hoped for, it's really awesome that you found a paper board made by some kids that was a re-imagining of the original, I didn't think people did that back then! I wonder if those kids are still around today. Was there any names written on the paper? It really makes you wonder.
twily4 We regret to inform you that your Monopoly is required for trump and you will be playing clue.
That ending, right in the feels.
my grandfather died in the sixties, and one of the few things i have of his is his monopoly set, its nice to see other people treasure the old sets as much as my family have
That hand-drawn-board should to be preserve in museum to be amaze, but it's better to have it preserve under the hands of someone who really appreciated that kind of masterpiece like you
I can't imagine how epic to be the kid who able recreate the board with additional unique & bit of complexity feature.
(it might be her/his father who recreate it, but i like the idea that the kid herself/himself create that board)
It gonna be fun to play it right now
but it will be much more exciting if i were still a child and it was played during the wartime
Thanks for sharing that hand-drawn-board with us
The world must know that kind of masterpiece from a kid exist
Kudos kiddo
Monopoly was invented to help people in the great depression get through a rough time. It made people feel like they had a lot more money.
I have an original 1935 game.
Uh... monopoly was invented to express how awful capitalism is. Then someone bought it and reworked it to sell and make money.
@@ValkyrieTiara Wikipedia says anti-monopolist, not anti-capitalism. Additionally, the creator made two versions (one of which is the one played today).
@@ValkyrieTiara how is capitalizism so bad?
@@nickyblue4866 The main issues lie in how exploitative it is, the system needs endless growth to sustain itself which just isn't possible on a finite planet, it encourages mistreating humans to extrapolate more and more wealth from the masses to the few in power. Product quality declines as products that break easier need to be replaced more often which means more profit for the companies, wage stagnation means that people are earning less and less every year (Income inequality is worse than during the height of the guilded age, also known as that point in time when the French cut off all the aristocrats heads due to rampant income inequality) You'll even get people trying to say that food, clean water and shelter aren't human rights (Which they are, as defined by the United Nations)
Hey Awhstin have you ever played monopoly while eating KFC and watching ewok starwars
.... I have... I dont know how that should make me feel.
are you asking him out on a date?
Goldstar Productions Thats an interesting combination...
Sorenkair No just wondering if he's ever done this because it is a necessary step to become a man
My daily routine
they part that people now dont understand what supply chain disruptions are like sure aged well /s
Thank you so much for making a video on this. Led me to asking my grandma if she had played this version, and she had! I heard loads of wonderful stories of her childhood so Im very grateful to this channel
I don't know why I expect anything less than an awesome experience watching your videos. I always learn something new while getting an extra dose of awesomeness. The concept of the escape kit is badass as hell, but the end was so sweet.
0:05
The song is called “isolated” by Kevin Macleod
Would it be possible to scan or grab some high quality photos of the alternative board? I would love to examine the redesign.
thats even rarer, that homeone. its probably a 1 from 1
The ending put a smile on my face. Thank you.
That "consolation prize" is the coolest thing in the video! _They romhacked Monopoly!_