Presenting Parker Brothers, Sculptured Software, Arcadia Systems, Tonka Corporation, Beverly and Ma 10105's Monopoly, released in 1935. On December 31, 1935, the now ubiquitous winner-take-all board game Monopoly was patented (Patent Number 2,026,082). Since that day, it has been translated into 37 languages and evolved into over 200 licensed and localized editions for 103 countries across the world. And it was released in 1991 for the NES.