Original dopewars11/26/2023 ![]() ![]() IN COLLECTIONS Community Software Community Collections. And, I've just learned while researching all this, Beermat Software re-released it last year on Android. This is an updated version of Dope Wars by the Happy Hacker Foundation which in itself was based on John E. This would normally have been an uninteresting event, except he chose the theme of drug trading, and the program called 'Dope Wars' was born. But once you started playing it might as well have been about dealing fruit or baseball cards - it was about gaming the system, making the right deal at the right moment, and then the horror of getting burned by a suddenly plunging price. Dell created an economic demonstration program for his high school project. Dell created the mid-80s Drugwars, in which you played arbitrage, buying and selling various drugs at varying prices, attempting to make a profit to pay off a loan shark.īecause it was about dealing drugs I remember it felt enticingly illicit at first. It felt slightly naughty at first, and then just became about PURE PROFIT.Īnd even this goes back a lot further, the game based on another game called Star Trader from 1974. ![]() The drug-trading profit-me-do crossed my path in the early 90s where a Windows incarnation called Dope Wars, running in a small window, had me hooked (geddit?) for a surprisingly long time. I really had no idea the original Drugwars was as old as 1984. dopewars -a This is 'antique' dopewars it tries to keep to the original dopewars, based on the 'Drug Wars' game by John E. For a full list of options configurable on the command line, run dopewars with the -h switch. DopeWars by Join over 7,500 active players and try your hand at creating an online drug empire Buy your favorite narcotic at one subway station and sell it else where for profits But that's not all, the more you make, the more you can pimp-it-up with bigger, badder jackets, weapons and armor. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. dopewars has built-in client-server support for multi-player games. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. If you arent familiar with DrugWars (the original one) you need to know a little bit how to play DopeWars Underground. ![]()
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