Ghettopoly

Ghettopoly is a commercial property-trading board game released in 2003 and designed by David T. Chang, with Ghettopoly.com listed as its publisher. It is built on the roll-and-move pattern, where players advance around a board by dice and spin, buy and develop properties, pay fees to other players and run up debts to a loan shark. A game is listed for two to seven players, runs about an hour, and carries a recommended age of 13 and up. Its theme is a crude satirical parody of urban hardship, and the page that catalogues it describes the buying of stolen properties and paying protection fees as elements of play. The game is better known for its legal history than its design: Hasbro sued Chang for copyright and trademark infringement, and a court permanently enjoined him from manufacturing, distributing or selling it and ordered damages of 400,000 dollars. A later company, Opolygames, claimed to have bought the rights and was treated as bound by the same injunction.