Space Job

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Description

In an unique and interesting experiment, German department store giant Karstadt created a game that was advertisement and job recruitment in one box, and used its retail power to push it in the market at mid-price level.

Space Job is in essence a scifi life simulation; a 2350 adolescent strives for the fastest spaceship, the most beautiful girlfriend and the best career, but strictly within the confines of Karstadt's interplanetary empire. Starting as a trainee in one of four department store sections, you earn job reputation through stoic repetition of menial tasks - learning product prices by heart, sorting items in shelves, tidying up the storeroom in a Sokoban-style crate pushing subgame.

The quicker you do your daily chores, the more time remains for entertainment and private development - fitness training, gambling, movies, flirting, night school. An energy system balances your daily activities with periods of rest. Show endurance and personal progress, and promotion will unlock the full glory of department store management.

Despite its advertising character and indecent product placement, Space Job mediates commercialism with lots of tongue-in-cheek humor and light-hearted wordplay.

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• Advertising / Product tie-ins / Advergames

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Critic Reviews

ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	Dec, 1993	11 out of 12	92
Play Time	DOS	Jan, 1994	71 out of 100	71
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Jan, 1994	65 out of 100	65

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Trivia

Space Job includes a separate recruitment mini-game where you explore a typical Karstadt department store and end up in the personnel office. Prospective employees are invited to contact Karstadt and apply for a job.