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Wall Street Raider

"An 'imaginative, stimulating' business simulation." -- Front page article in Investors Business Daily "Wall Street Raider" (For Windows) is one of the oldest games on the Internet, published as a DOS version…

1 January 1986

Wall Street Raider is a simulator, released 1 January 1986 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Wall Street Raider is

Wall Street Raider was released in 1986. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"An 'imaginative, stimulating' business simulation." -- Front page article in Investors Business Daily "Wall Street Raider" (For Windows) is one of the oldest games on the Internet, published as a DOS version well before the World Wide Web, in 1986, and continually updated and improved ever since it moved to Windows in 2001. The current version (9.50), a major upgrade, was released in January, 2022. It is a sophisticated corporate finance game where you play as a billionaire, emulating a Warren Buffett or Carl Icahn.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are business. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Wall Street Raider launched on 1 January 1986, within three weeks of Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter and Mercenary.

Released around the same time: Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter, Mercenary.

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When did Wall Street Raider come out?
Wall Street Raider was released on 1 January 1986 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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