History of the board game Monopoly in 2006, Hasbro adopted the same blue version of the speed die into a special "Speed Die Edition" of the game. By 2008, the die, now red, became a permanent addition to the game, though its use remains optional there. In 2009's "Championship Edition", use of the speed die is mandatory, as it also became mandatory in most of 2009's "Monopoly" tournaments. In addition to permanently adding the speed die in 2008, Hasbro also instituted further changes to the United States standard edition of the board, including making Mediterranean and Baltic Avenues a brown color group, making the Income Tax
Monopoly video games "Monopoly Deal", as well as "Monopoly Plus"<nowiki>'s</nowiki> My Monopoly expansion. In 2017, Ubisoft will release a more traditional "Monopoly" video game on the Nintendo Switch, which will take advantage of the Joy-Con's "HD Rumble" feature. An electronic handheld version of the game was marketed from 1997–2001. An online version of "Monopoly" that used Google Maps as the board was live for several months in 2009. Monopoly video games There have been more than a dozen video game adaptations of Parker Brothers and Hasbro's board game "Monopoly". Many unlicensed, non-commercial computer games based on Monopoly were distributed on bulletin board systems,