MEGAcquire GOLD is my next step in continuing the quest to expand Sid Sackson's magnificent ideas and get them onto as many gaming tables as possible.
We have made a few minor changes between the production run of MEGAcquire and this next production run of MEGAcquire GOLD. The money has been changed to prepaid debit cards and the denominations have been raised to 1, 5, 10, & 50 million. Players can now become a billionaire in the game of MEGAcquire GOLD.
The rule booklet has a new cover. Included in the booklet is a sample game narration to help first time players. There is also a Stock Price Extension Chart that is used to help calculate payouts when companies are taken over and to help calculate the payouts at the end of the game.
One of the most extensive sections of the Acquisition Games website is this "History of ACQUIRE" section. In this section you will find articles that take you from the Origin of the Game of ACQUIRE all the way through to Hasbro's 2016 edition of ACQUIRE, which sadly puts the current failures of the corporate world on full display.
The past failures of the corporate world are also on full display in the "Origin of the Game of ACQUIRE" article. There you can read how Sid Sackson's ideas were commandeered and altered by the 3M Corporation, which unfortunately has had a detrimental effect on the game of ACQUIRE that continues to this day.
Also in this "History of ACQUIRE" section, you can read about the various German versions of ACQUIRE that have been produced, and discover other international versions of ACQUIRE that you may not have known existed. There is also an extensive article about a version of ACQUIRE that was never manufactured. Just use the links to navigate through this extensive history of ACQUIRE.
In a sense, every detail that can be known about the game of ACQUIRE can be found on the Acquisition Games website. However, if you have additional information you would like to share, please contact me.
Click Here to begin with the Origin of the Game of ACQUIRE
Sid Sackson, the creator of ACQUIRE, was obsessed with improving on games he had received from his mother. When he was a young boy, he would receive a new game from her every week.
He took a game called, Lotto, and turned it into a solitaire game of empires. Subsequently, he took the solitaire game of Lotto that he had created, and turned it into a multi-player game he called, Vacation - The Game of Hotels, which was purchased by the 3M company who changed the name to ACQUIRE.
Sackson understood that his inspirations for designing a game were simplistic; he would just build upon things that he found interesting. His friend, Derek Carver of England, told me, "If he saw a design of somebody else's that embodied interesting ideas that he thought he might use, out would come his notebook, and the details would be recorded."
Sackson considered ACQUIRE his best and most successful creation, and through the work of the Acquisition Games website, I am proudly promoting the game of ACQUIRE while carrying on his tradition by simply building on his best creation and making the results available for anybody who is interested.
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A few weeks ago I ordered MEGAcquire with you. Since it found his way to me we played it a few times. We were really pleased of it. It created more eagerness as we expected. For sure we will play it many times more. 
There are more possibilities and (inter)action, ergo: more fun. Thank you again for delivering the game so dependable and uncomplicated and I wish you again successfully dealing with MEGAcquire.
~ Jonathan - Switzerland
