{"id":4822,"date":"2023-11-13T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T15:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:21:10","slug":"rlb-librarys-game-of-the-month-board-game-top-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2023\/11\/13\/rlb-librarys-game-of-the-month-board-game-top-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"RLB Library&#8217;s Game of the Month &#8211; Board Game Top Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4823 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2023\/11\/Untitled-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gear up for black Friday with our game of the month for November, <em><strong>Board Game Top Shop<\/strong><\/em> released for the Sony PlayStation in the early 2000s. It\u2019s a bit like a digital version of Monopoly with cute anime style characters set in an 80s or 90s style shopping mall. You goal is to bankrupt the other players or acquire a certain amount of assets, becoming a mall store mogul. There\u2019s also a weird story mode.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/6\/6a\/Board_Game_Top_Shop_cover.jpg\/220px-Board_Game_Top_Shop_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Top Shop - Wikipedia\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Top Shop<\/strong><\/em> was released by a company that specialized in various \u201cbudget\u201d titles. These sorts of games and their associated business models were a bit more common at that time, but at this point \u201cindie\u201d games by a dedicated solo developer or a small team have kind of replaced this sort of game in the marketplace and many of these small games are forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try, and if it\u2019s too weird or awkward for your taste\u2026 we\u2019ve also got the official PlayStation version of <em><strong>Monopoly<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i5.walmartimages.com\/seo\/Monopoly-Playstation-Ps1-Used_888da47c-ae09-4a20-8a37-ad1b29b4d633.b87edff6db40575f4496915d9413395d.jpeg?odnHeight=640&amp;odnWidth=640&amp;odnBg=FFFFFF\" alt=\"Monopoly - Playstation Ps1 (Used)\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gear up for black Friday with our game of the month for November, Board Game Top Shop released for the Sony PlayStation in the early 2000s. It\u2019s a bit like a digital version of Monopoly with cute anime style characters <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2023\/11\/13\/rlb-librarys-game-of-the-month-board-game-top-shop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  RLB Library&#8217;s Game of the Month &#8211; Board Game Top Shop<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6397,"featured_media":4439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,318],"tags":[721,723,724,616,722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}