Wall Street Raider

After W2K updated itself the other day my PC wouldn't boot and as a quick fix I disabled the Master HDD and reverted to the Slave drive. Little did I know that through Microsoft's crappy software I would rediscover my favourite piece of software of all time

Wall Street Raider

W$R is generally regarded as the most sophisticated and realistic (and addictive) of all financial/stock market simulations, as featured in a front page article (6-22-2000) in Investors Business Daily and previously in the Wall Street Journal, as well as in articles in Byte, InfoWorld, and Popular Computing magazines. The program is an entertaining game, but is also very educational, and has also been used as a highly realistic teaching tool, such as at the Univ. of Missouri Law School. Its list price is $29.95 U.S., and the downloadable setup file is less than 2MB in size.

For $30 US dollars this awesome strategy game can keep you too up until, er, 4:48 in the morning. In the game I'm playing just now I'm 5 quarters in and have turned one billion dollars into 22 billion dollars and I control 28 companies. Maybe just one more deal before bed...

Posted by Paul in Games Entertainment at April 21, 2005 05:09 AM