Mortgage Meltdown The Game

AddictingGames — the Web site that published ripped-from-the-headlines games such as “Baseball Juiced,””Trillion Dollar Bailout,” “Where’s the Naughty Governor?” and “Hero on the Hudson” — is tackling its riskiest project yet: turning the slump in the housing market into something fun.

The result is “Mortgage Meltdown,” a 10-minute, Bizarro-world version of Monopoly that is available for free PC play. Your goal is to keep your head above water and wait for the economy to turn around.

Just about everything that can go wrong does, from troublesome tenants to property-tax hikes to earthquakes. If you can hang in there for four years, you might see a nice windfall at the end.

Few game designers would tackle such a dry topic, said David Williams, senior vice president of Nickelodeon’s Kids and Family Games Group, “You can turn anything into a game.”

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