
The game was pulled from the market by Urban Outfitters, just one of its many retailers. The game was criticized as offensively racist by a local chapter of the NAACP and by black clergy, as well as by Asian American groups, including the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium and Organization of Chinese Americans.
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7 game pieces (Pimp, Hoe, 40 oz, Machine Gun, Marijuana Leaf, Basketball and Crack Rock).Not dope enough?.If you don't have the money that you owe to the loan shark you might just land yourself in da Emergency Room. Official description īuying stolen properties, pimpin’ ho’s, building crack houses and projects, paying protection fees, and getting car jacked are some of the elements of the game. The seven game pieces include: a pimp, a hoe, a 40 oz, a machine gun, a marijuana leaf, a crack rock, and a basketball. Instead of building houses and hotels, property owners in Ghettopoly build crack houses and projects. The Community Chest and Chance squares become Ghetto Stash and Hustle squares, while taxation squares are replaced by police- shakedown and carjacking squares. Other properties include a massage parlor, a peep show and a pawn shop. In Ghettopoly, the four railroad properties from the standard version of Monopoly are replaced by liquor stores. The game uses Monopoly-like mechanics but is themed around a caricature of a black ghetto in the United States. Ghettopoly is a parody of the board game Monopoly invented by David Chang, a Taiwanese American, and released in 2003. Simple mathematics (such as counting, finding percentages and multiplication) 2002 parody board game Ghettopoly Designers
