"Game Tycoon"

The year is 1982!

And the point is to compete with two other game developers to build your game empire.


And the game's art is like one of those "What's wrong with this?" pictures.

I saw on the game's box, among other things:

CDs, 3.5" floppies, a mouse, a high-res color GUI, a flat screen TV, a stand up game console demo unit with two modern game controllers attached to it, and a color printer.

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22game+tycoon%22&btnG=Search+Images

Looking at the store screenshot I also just noticed all the game boxes are small DVD cases!

Hm... Did they have touch tone phones back then? I don't remember. It was right around the time they got them I'm sure.


It's amazing. Apparently I'm so old that people developing games nowadays are so young they haven't got a clue what the time period I grew up in was really like. Bah. I'm off to put all my game development money in my big silver safe with the wheel thingy on the front of it in my bookshelf.

The Game starts in 1982.

And they look like double cassete boxes to me anyway.

Sounds like a great game idea!

Be sure to have a "creeping evil" event to account for once-noble companies (like EA) becoming horribly corrupted by greed over innovation. <g>



Bonus: "wheel thingies" can serve as time-period-accurate copy protection.

I had a game which used that wheel! Legacy of the Ancients. Cool game that was. You'd travel from town to town through the animated paintings in a "galactic museum", and you could rob banks and have a bunch of guards attack you, which early on meant near certain death but later was manageable. The fake 3D dungeons were some of the best looking on the C64, far better than Bard's Tale, and exploring towns was a top down affair like the world map, so it was a lot less confusing than the attempt they made to make a 3D town in Bard's Tale.

I don't even want to think about how long the loading times must have been though. I've since forgotten how much time it took, but a few years back I hooked up my C64 to load a game called Bounder and it took about 30 minutes to get to the title screen.

yeah! I remember Legacy of the Ancients! Great game.... I'm pretty sure it was the first top-down ultima style game that had roofs on the buildings. I was so impressed when the roofs would disappear as you entered the building... great game!

I had a wheel thing, can't remember what for. Also lots of manuals had codes on each page etc.

Bounder is a CLASSIC by the way, right down to the music.