Business Simulator

Business Simulator (also called Venture's Business Simulator) is a simulation of the business world. It was designed by professors at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and was supposedly used by over 10,000 Fortune 500 executives.

The game puts the player in charge of a company making home robots called 'Pet-Bots'. The game starts in financial year 1987 where the player/CEO has raised $500,000 of capital and has set up a company to make robots. Playing through five levels of increasing difficulty in a changing economy the player competes with companies like Tandy, Apple, and Texas Instruments to become the best with the 'game over' objective being to achieve $1bn in sales.

There are no pretty graphics in this game, the player makes decisions, implements them and reads the reports and balance sheets to see how well their plans worked out.