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).

Most popular trading games

Railroad Tycoon

simulationDOS, Mac

Protostar: War on the Frontier

vehicle simulationDOS

Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons

simulationDOS

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Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market

DOS19843.3/5
Black Monday

DOS19873.5/5 Starsoft Development
Business simulator

DOS19873.9/5 Reality Technologies
Elite

DOS1987freeware4.1/5 Firebird
Inside Trader

DOS19874/5 Cosmi Corporation
Sid Meier's Pirates!

DOS1987protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street

DOS1988protected3.8/5 SoftServ
Yuppi's revenge

DOS19883.1/5 Ariolasoft
Acquire

DOS19893.9/5 IBM
China Sea Trader

DOS19893.5/5
Oil Imperium

DOS19894.2/5 reLINE Software
Ports of Call

DOS19894.1/5 International Software Development
Space Rogue

DOS19894/5 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 bounties, buy and sell goods, land on starbases or outposts and talk to NPCs, do quests, etc.
Big Business

DOS19904/5 Off The Wall Productions
Inve$t

DOS19903/5 Starbyte Software
Railroad Tycoon

DOSMac1990freeware4.1/5 MicroProse Software
Uncharted Waters

DOS19904.1/5 KOEI
Xiphos

DOS19903.9/5
Elite Plus

DOS1991freeware4.1/5 Realtime Games
Merchant Colony

DOS19914.2/5 Impressions Games
1869

DOS19923.9/5 Max Design
Oil Barons

DOS19923.9/5 Starsoft Development
Patrician

DOS1992protected4.3/5 ASCARON Entertainment
Traders

DOS19923.8/5 Linel
Frontier: Elite 2

DOS19934.1/5 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 a landmark title in the space simulation genre.
Merchant Prince

DOS19934.1/5 Holistic Design
Nomad

DOS19934.2/5 Papyrus Design Group
Pirates! Gold

DOSWindows 3.xMac1993protectedremake4/5 MicroProse Software

Pirates! Gold is an open world game designed by Paul Murphy, developed and released by MicroProse Software in 1993 for DOS, Windows 3.x, Mac and also Sega Genesis and Amiga CD32. Pirates! Gold is a remake of the game Pirates, created by Sid Meier in 1987. Pirates! Gold gameplay is a unique mix of action, strategy, pirate life simulation, ...
Protostar: War on the Frontier

DOS19934.1/5 Tsunami Media
Rags to Riches

DOS19934/5 Interplay Productions