Games involving some sort of trading practice sorted by release date
If buying and selling goods is your thing, give these games a try. Every one of them involve trading in some form: buying and selling goods and moving them by sea (Ports of Call), stock exchange (Acquire, Black Monday), smuggling items in deep space (Elite, Frontier).
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Black Monday
DOS1987 Starsoft Development
Black Monday (1987) combines economic panic with the thrill of—wait for it—spreadsheet navigation. It's like Wolf of Wall Street without the fun, drugs, or DiCaprio. You’re managing a business during a financial ...
Business Simulator
DOS1987 Reality Development
Do you find spreadsheets thrilling? Does the idea of profit margins make your heart race? Then Business Simulator is your kind of party. It’s all about running a faceless company in the most unglamorous way possible—bu...
Elite
DOS1987freeware Firebird
Inside Trader
DOS1987 Cosmi Corporation
Sid Meier's Pirates!
DOS1987protected MicroProse Software
Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street
DOS1988protected SoftServ
Yuppi's Revenge
DOS1988 Ariolasoft
Acquire
DOS1989 IBM
Acquire (1989, DOS) brings boardroom drama to your DOS screen, turning you into a hotel tycoon in a game where the real enemy is... math. It's a faithful adaptation of the classic board game, complete with mergers, hostile takeove...
Black Gold
DOS1989 Starbyte Software
In Black Gold (1989), you're in the cutthroat world of oil barons. It’s like Dallas, but with more charts and fewer cowboy hats. You build rigs, negotiate deals, and try to outmaneuver rivals who are probably less ethical th...
China Sea Trader
DOS1989
Oil Imperium
DOS1989 reLINE Software
Ports of Call
DOS1989 International Software Development
Space Rogue
DOS1989 Origin Systems
Space Rogue is a science fiction RPG developed by Richard Garriott's Origin and desined by Paul Neurath. Space Rogue combines a 3D space simulation with a top down view RPG gameplay. As a space pilot you can hunt bou...
Big Business
DOS1990 Off The Wall Productions
Step into the gray, morally ambiguous world of corporate domination with Big Business. It’s Monopoly with fewer dice and more spreadsheets. Crush your competitors, manipulate markets, and remember — hostile takeovers a...
Inve$t
DOS1990 Starbyte Software
Moonbase
DOS1990 Wesson International
Railroad Tycoon
DOSMac OS1990freeware MicroProse Software
Uncharted Waters
DOS1990 KOEI
Xiphos
DOS1990
Elite Plus
DOS1991 Realtime Games
Elite Plus is an enhanced version of the classic space trading and combat simulator Elite, released by MicroPlay in 1991 for MS-DOS. It was designed as an update to the original 1984 game, improving graphics, performance, and over...
Merchant Colony
DOS1991 Impressions Games
1869
DOS1992 Max Design
If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a 19th-century merchant sailing the high seas with a suspiciously optimistic outlook on international trade, 1869 is your jam. It throws you into the age of clipper ships, where profit marg...
Oil Barons
DOS1992 Starsoft Development
Patrician
DOS1992protected ASCARON Entertainment
Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor
DOS1992 Ybarra Productions
Traders
DOS1992 Linel
Frontier: Elite 2
DOS1993 Frontier Developments
Frontier: Elite II is a classic space simulation and trading game released in 1993, developed by David Braben and his company Frontier Developments. Frontier is the sequel to the pioneering 1984 game Elite and is often considered ...
Merchant Prince
DOS1993 Holistic Design
Nomad
DOS1993 Papyrus Design Group
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