Games

Released in 1984 on Apple II, by Quest.

Released in 1987 on Amstrad CPC, by Infogrames.

Fortune Builder has it all! Educational and fun, FORTUNE BUILDER lets you plan, build and run your own community. Race against time to achieve your financial goal in a One-Player Game or compete with another tycoon in a Two-Player Game. Either way. Fortune Builder is a challenge. Your community will be laid out on a map of undeveloped land, consisting of a seacoast with beachfront. two mountain ranges, midlands, a river and a lake, with a main highway running north and south. You'll start with a fixed amount of cash, enabling you to buy and build a large variety of proper-ties: hotels, condos, marinas, factories, malls, gas stations and numerous other facilities. The challenge is to build them where they will draw the most traffic, thereby increasing profits. And all the while, you must keep an eye on bulletins that may affect your efforts, watching for changes in every-thing from consumer trends to the weather. Fortune Builder teaches problem solving and helps you learn, in a way both fun and realistic, about economics, geography, sociology, investments and the effects of the environment and current events on industry and the marketplace.

The Eigyōdō (or "The Business Road") is an adventure game that teaches you the business trade. You play Daisuke Suzuki, a fresh, without much experience, young lad who joins a big company hoping to become a top salesman. While receiving the teaching from your superior official, Mr. Ichimura (whose character is based on a real successful businessman, Hirofumi Ichimura), you will struggle on your way to success. The game is split into four chapters, and features static background screens with characters and dialogues set in front plan during the dialogues. While talking with other characters, you are constantly on alert for possible business opportunities, the game tries to create a viewpoint of a top salesman.

A dream come true: you get a job at the zoo as caretaker of the baby animals. Exciting!

The game is set on the colonial planet Grant, which is less than a century old since it was colonized. Spaceships regularly come in search of resources. The player will run a caravan on this wilderness planet, trade goods and export resources from all over the planet. At the same time, we have to raise our four daughters.

The Nintendo DS port of Thrillville: Off the Rails.

Earth Orbit Stations is a space station simulation game, and is one of the first in the genre. Build space stations, research different fields of science, and explore space for new life, all to earn sponsors and space credits to surpass your opponents.

The Derby Stallion (ダービースタリオン?) - also known in Japan by the portmanteau abbreviation DerbyStal (ダビスタ?) - video games are a series of genre-merging horse-racing and business simulation games originally created by ASCII Entertainment, and released by Nintendo. The series comprises 21 games, spans more than 10 console platforms, and is the best-selling horse racing series of all time with total sales topping more than 4 million in Japan.[1]

Harvest Moon for Girl is essentially Harvest Moon: Back to Nature with a slightly tweaked story, a few different gameplay mechanics, and the possibility to play as a girl.

Fashion retail simulation game, the first Ruby Party game to not have the Neoromance label. The game's overall theme is to "live a wonderful life"; the common catch phrase for the game is "Fabulous!"

Get ready to step into the shoes of Kraft Lawrence as you strive to take Holo back to her hometown of Yoitsu. Having secured a contract to collect some money from a town on the other shore, everything should be plain sailing ahead for the duo, but of course, the best laid plans of mice and wolves often go awry…

Up to 4 players compete for the best mining claims in the solar system. Politics and sabotage can be used to your advantage in order to set the course for your family for the next hundred years.

A second, expanded PlayStation iteration of Artdink's Atlas series. You are once again in charge of a trading company headquartered in Lisbon, and tasked by the king with exploring the rest of the world and bringing home the spoils. In addition to the exploration, trading and map creation of the prior game, it adds an "episode" system which is effectively a quest log, as well as changes and updates to the story and quests. Additionally, it improves on the trading system, adding the "trading post" function, which allows the player to choose which product to make in some cities, which allows for more streamlined trading. Just like the prior games, the shape of the world is determined by the player's belief or disbelief in the reports brought in by their admirals, and ultimately influences what is found on the map, and the routes that are available.

Adds new art and added scenario and dress up items.

A horse racing simulation game, which seems to be a popular genre in Japan.

The game begins with Tinker Bell's arrival in Pixie Hollow, preparing for each season. As the seasons progress, more areas from the game become accessible. After all four seasons are completed, every area may be visited and season preparations become optional and vary each time. Various different tasks must be accomplished, which are bestowed upon the player by other characters. Such tasks include deliveries, item repairs, requests for items and searching for insects.

Transport Tycoon Deluxe was released in 1995, and featured new varieties of landscape and weather, new scenarios, more vehicles and allowed the player to run their company all the way from the year 1950 up to the year 2050.