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To: Ilaine who wrote (3675)12/4/2002 5:31:37 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 6901
 
Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "Every so often he buys me a game that he hopes I will like -- a couple of law related games, even a couple of investment related games. One on foreign exchange looks really interesting."

Get this one, a fantastically interesting simulation of business and railroads:

lokigames.com

Buy it here for only $9.99:
microcenter.com

And if you don't like it, give it to the guys. Maybe they'll quit playing the bloody stuff and will get interested in this one. One thing that's particularly useful for youth, in terms of education, is that the simulations give you a real sense of what the geographical topology of other countries is. This is because you have to choose routes to build railroads on, and mountains would slow your trains down (and run up the cost of your rails) so as to make your routes unprofitable.

The other thing that makes them interesting is that the action of running your railroad is placed in the context of an economic environment which changes how much interest you pay on debt, and how many bonds you can issue. And you can buy and sell stocks, both on your own company and the competitors.

There's support on the web for new simulations, so this is far better than the $9.99 price would suggest:
persweb.direct.ca

-- Carl

P.S. What is it about males and trains, planes and automobiles, anyway?
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