![]() ''I get to lead a lifestyle I don't normally lead,'' she said. She admits that she gets strange looks from the other passengers on her bus when she discusses her virtual drug deals with friends. Marlinda McPhail, a former employee of Wheelhouse, a marketing company in San Francisco, estimated that about a third of the people in her former office played the game. Many people on Wall Street say they like to play the game, though few are willing to admit to it in print. But that has not kept it from developing a following that includes business and financial professionals, for whom it combines the adrenaline of the trading floor, a vicarious Bonnie-and-Clyde lawlessness and the latest in mobile gadgetry. The game has come under fire from politicians and law enforcement officials for glamorizing violence and the drug trade, and it has been removed from some software sites. Like the earlier versions, DopeWars lets the player adopt the role of an urban drug dealer, buying and selling a wide array of narcotics. They're playing a game called DopeWars.ĭopeWars for the Palm is the latest incarnation in a series of drug-related computer games that emerged in the 1980's. but they're typically good places to start key-word searches from.THE person sitting next to you on the subway or train - the one who seems to be busily rearranging a business calendar on a hand-held computer - could very well be selling crack, buying Ecstasy and getting tips on heroin prices. The games I mentioned as "genre defining" might not actually be the first in their respective genres, there is always something older. STF is really great, sort of a mashup of Smugglers and Darkest Dungeon, in a Dune / Warhammer style universe. This is Smugglers 5 and this is Star Traders Frontiers: There are bunches of games "Like Sid Meier's Pirates" if you search a bit, you will find a ton of them.Īnd there is also this stuff that is sort of like "Smugglers" though I'm not sure if I could name the genre exactly. You can get a modern remake of it, or you can get a really good game called "Age of Pirates" by the Trese Brothers: There is also an old Sid Meier's game called Pirates, which has spawned something of its own genre. "://app/325630/Arms_Dealer" (link does not work, but the page is there if you browse to it. There is a game on Steam called Arms Dealer that is very much like Dope Wars, but larger in scope and scale. You can find all sorts of clones, ports around the web, for your phone, whatever. It is a very old game for DOS, buy low / sell high and pay off your loan. There are also a myriad of games similar to Dope Wars. Both are free on Steam, or you can get slightly more current copies if you want to complie them from the source on Github. I think the best done are Naev, and Endless Sky. ![]() Not exactly like this, but I also enjoy EV-like games (games similar to the escape velocity series, which in short means 2D top-down space trading / shooting games). They also have story missions to follow, like this does. They are in a post-apocalyptic setting and have a bit of grid-based tactical combat, but the idea of traveling between settlements and trading is core to both of the games. Caravaneer and Caravaneer 2 are web-games that are similar.
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