STARGATE: Gate-opoly Board Game Twitter transcript
EDITED 23 July 2012 TO ADD: magnavox_23 has made her awesome version of Stargate Monopoly for us to download, print & enjoy! *flails*
campylobacter: OMFG a Stargate SG-1 board game! Adding this bitch to my Amazon Wish List!
replicarters: NO OMG DON'T DO IT. SERIOUSLY, DO NOT. My friend has this game, I just saw it with my own eyes two days ago and it. is. an abomination. It- it has nothing to do with anything, I swear to you. The rules are nigh-incomprehensible and you don't even get to do anything fun like be characters. The cards are written in just-shy-of-being-broken English. It. Is. Awful.
campylobacter: WHAT? Can't be characters? I AM DISAPPOINT. I wanted to be Ba'al. SO BAD.
magnavox_23: I have that game and it is shockingly bad. So much potential, but it's like a SG/Warhmammer crossover with plastic blobs.
campylobacter: Is [there] any way to modify it to counteract the FAIL?
magnavox_23: I'm afraid not. It's a stretch calling itself a board game. :P
campylobacter: Surely there's an SG-1 RPG community somewhere that has a lot of the rules hashed out?
capn_madd_katt: I could probably make a better one. (Hell, I made a Backstreet Boys Monopoly game once XP)
campylobacter: HOLY SHIT that would be schweeeeeet. I'd wanna use action figures as game pieces. ;-p
capn_madd_katt: ...I want to make SG-1 monopoly now... XP
magnavox_23: "Sucked into a black hole, miss 2 turns", "Blow up a sun, progress to Othela"...
magnavox_23: SG-1 Monopoly would be epic! XD
capn_madd_katt: I SHOULD DO THIS!
magnavox_23: DO EET!!!!
capn_madd_katt: "Go to Hadante" XP The railroads would be the members of SG-1... *nods*
magnavox_23: The 'money' could be pieces of Naquadah. :P
magnavox_23: Vala would so cheat at Monopoly, lol!
capn_madd_katt: space stations and supergates instead of houses and hotels :D
campylobacter: OMG, Vala would insist on being the banker!
magnavox_23: And if you land on someone else's 'Planet', you have to pay a fee to use the gate. 3 Planets and you own the entire system.
capn_madd_katt: "$200 for you for passing GO *slips hundred dollar bill under table* $100 for me just because I can..."
magnavox_23: You've won $10 in a cute whumped archaeologist contest...
capn_madd_katt: what would Boardwalk and Park Place be?
campylobacter: Atlantis? Um, McMurdo? I dunno!
capn_madd_katt: SGC and Abydos?
campylobacter : Yes! That makes sense! I'm Googling for a good image of the Monoply board for Mags to manip...
capn_madd_katt : I should find the pics of the BSB monopoly.. it was EPIC...
campylobacter: Monopoly Board auf Deutsch http://www.jugo-ma.de/media/jugo_flyer/monopoly.JPG
campylobacter: Deed cards modded for Greekopoly http://oneillsocial9.wikispaces.com/file/view/Monopoly_Deed_Cards2.gif/182656967/Monopoly_Deed_Cards2.gif
capn_madd_katt: I'm making a list on 'properties' just to keep track.
campylobacter: Monopoly money http://www.worldofmonopoly.co.uk/history/images/1985money.jpg
magnavox_23 : The properties could be planets they've visited - Sumeria, Enkara etc...
campylobacter: Yes! And the "naquadah" money should have Goa'uld System Lords on it!
capn_madd_katt: Ba'al is the highest! $500?
magnavox_23: From Ra = 500 weights of Naquadah all the way to Thoth = 1 weight, lol!
campyspornshack: I can well imagine Ba'al, Anubis, Ra, Apophis, Hathor, Nirrti, and Camulus arguing over who's on the $500 bill.
magnavox_23: Dammit! That's how they could have brought down the Goa'uld empire! :P
campylobacter: UGH. Tumblr is being FAIL at posting the transcript of this Gate-opoly convo.
After more Googling, I discovered that some other fans had made a Stargate SG-1 Monopoly board game:
tracy on August 08, 2007
I've just finished playing a game of Stargate Monopoly with Ames and her friend Louisa.
A friend made four sets at Christmas presents for Amy and three friends. She made it from scratch: the boards, the box, the notes, the cards, the pieces, everything!
Each square on the board is named after a planet, each railway station is a ship (there's the Odyssey, Prometheus, Korelev and Daedalus) and the money has pictures of SG1 and company on them! It is honestly the best thing I've ever seen!
Here's a picture of Amy and Louisa with the set...
I'll take some more pictures at some point as well. This is just stunning!
campylobacter: OMFG a Stargate SG-1 board game! Adding this bitch to my Amazon Wish List!
replicarters: NO OMG DON'T DO IT. SERIOUSLY, DO NOT. My friend has this game, I just saw it with my own eyes two days ago and it. is. an abomination. It- it has nothing to do with anything, I swear to you. The rules are nigh-incomprehensible and you don't even get to do anything fun like be characters. The cards are written in just-shy-of-being-broken English. It. Is. Awful.
campylobacter: WHAT? Can't be characters? I AM DISAPPOINT. I wanted to be Ba'al. SO BAD.
magnavox_23: I have that game and it is shockingly bad. So much potential, but it's like a SG/Warhmammer crossover with plastic blobs.
campylobacter: Is [there] any way to modify it to counteract the FAIL?
magnavox_23: I'm afraid not. It's a stretch calling itself a board game. :P
campylobacter: Surely there's an SG-1 RPG community somewhere that has a lot of the rules hashed out?
capn_madd_katt: I could probably make a better one. (Hell, I made a Backstreet Boys Monopoly game once XP)
campylobacter: HOLY SHIT that would be schweeeeeet. I'd wanna use action figures as game pieces. ;-p
capn_madd_katt: ...I want to make SG-1 monopoly now... XP
magnavox_23: "Sucked into a black hole, miss 2 turns", "Blow up a sun, progress to Othela"...
magnavox_23: SG-1 Monopoly would be epic! XD
capn_madd_katt: I SHOULD DO THIS!
magnavox_23: DO EET!!!!
capn_madd_katt: "Go to Hadante" XP The railroads would be the members of SG-1... *nods*
magnavox_23: The 'money' could be pieces of Naquadah. :P
magnavox_23: Vala would so cheat at Monopoly, lol!
capn_madd_katt: space stations and supergates instead of houses and hotels :D
campylobacter: OMG, Vala would insist on being the banker!
magnavox_23: And if you land on someone else's 'Planet', you have to pay a fee to use the gate. 3 Planets and you own the entire system.
capn_madd_katt: "$200 for you for passing GO *slips hundred dollar bill under table* $100 for me just because I can..."
magnavox_23: You've won $10 in a cute whumped archaeologist contest...
capn_madd_katt: what would Boardwalk and Park Place be?
campylobacter: Atlantis? Um, McMurdo? I dunno!
capn_madd_katt: SGC and Abydos?
campylobacter : Yes! That makes sense! I'm Googling for a good image of the Monoply board for Mags to manip...
capn_madd_katt : I should find the pics of the BSB monopoly.. it was EPIC...
campylobacter: Monopoly Board auf Deutsch http://www.jugo-ma.de/media/jugo_flyer/monopoly.JPG
campylobacter: Deed cards modded for Greekopoly http://oneillsocial9.wikispaces.com/file/view/Monopoly_Deed_Cards2.gif/182656967/Monopoly_Deed_Cards2.gif
capn_madd_katt: I'm making a list on 'properties' just to keep track.
campylobacter: Monopoly money http://www.worldofmonopoly.co.uk/history/images/1985money.jpg
magnavox_23 : The properties could be planets they've visited - Sumeria, Enkara etc...
campylobacter: Yes! And the "naquadah" money should have Goa'uld System Lords on it!
capn_madd_katt: Ba'al is the highest! $500?
magnavox_23: From Ra = 500 weights of Naquadah all the way to Thoth = 1 weight, lol!
campyspornshack: I can well imagine Ba'al, Anubis, Ra, Apophis, Hathor, Nirrti, and Camulus arguing over who's on the $500 bill.
magnavox_23: Dammit! That's how they could have brought down the Goa'uld empire! :P
campylobacter: UGH. Tumblr is being FAIL at posting the transcript of this Gate-opoly convo.
After more Googling, I discovered that some other fans had made a Stargate SG-1 Monopoly board game:
tracy on August 08, 2007
I've just finished playing a game of Stargate Monopoly with Ames and her friend Louisa.
A friend made four sets at Christmas presents for Amy and three friends. She made it from scratch: the boards, the box, the notes, the cards, the pieces, everything!
Each square on the board is named after a planet, each railway station is a ship (there's the Odyssey, Prometheus, Korelev and Daedalus) and the money has pictures of SG1 and company on them! It is honestly the best thing I've ever seen!
Here's a picture of Amy and Louisa with the set...
I'll take some more pictures at some point as well. This is just stunning!