Since when did Monopoly go all chip and pin?

Do you remember the game. When I was younger I always had to be the dog and I always had to win. The game, for the hours of pleasure it gave also gave us some of the best family "fights" we ever had.

Usually it was down to someone's attempted robbery of cold hard cash when no one was looking from the bank or the constant bad luck of one of my siblings which usually sent houses and hotels all over the place.

Well time has moved on - instead of colourful notes we spent the evening charging up our credit cards. Yes Monopoly even has its own chip and pin unit.
for me the fun was sucked out of it there and then - I want a stack of pink 500's not a card which I have to keep charging up every time I pass go.

I am now half expecting to receive my first "monopoly" card statement through the post to be reminded of that night I spent in a Mayfair hotel without the wife!

Not even the pieces are the same. The humble dog a character whom without I used to refused to play has been replaced, now you can be a burger or a mobile phone for instead.

A burger for a dog ? this is an alternative reality, it must be!