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Games of this type emphasize the life of a trader or merchant involving the transportation of goods or commodities for profit, [1] often as a free-lance agent, smuggler or privateer. References [ edit ]
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Ocean Trader (also known as Der Reeder in Germany) is a simulation strategy game by Software 2000 which was released in 1995 for MS-DOS and the Amiga. [ 2 ] The game simulates the running of a global shipping company, tasking players with building a prosperous maritime empire.
The first game with the title, Trade Wars, by Chris Sherrick, was developed in BASIC for the TRS-80 Model II, and soon ported, by Sherrick, to the IBM PC for the Nochange BBS system in 1984. [2] Sherrick conceived his game as a cross between Dave Kaufman's BASIC program Star Trader (1974), the board game Risk , and Gregory Yob's Hunt the Wumpus ...
Adam Pavlacka of NextGen said, "If you've ever wanted to play the stock market but never had the cash, this is the game for you. Featuring a minimalist interface, basic point-and-click controls, and a detailed economic model, Wall Street Trader 2000 is very close to the real thing – except you aren't risking real money."
The game's development started in 2005, headed by Cameron Tofer and Marcia Tofer, both previously of BioWare, along with a group of other developers that have joined along the way. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on July 25, 2007. Currently Space Trader is at version 1.0.4, with a beta version of 1.0.6 available. A free ...
Reviewing the game while it was in early access, Sin Vega of Rock Paper Shotgun enjoyed the game's nuanced portrayal of pirates, which she said were usually a boring gameplay element. Praising the amount of choice in the game, she said that Star Traders: Frontiers "feels like having space adventures" and was "already the best time I've had in ...