Kustantamopeli

Kustantamopeli — roughly "The Publishing House Game" — is a text-based business strategy game by Finnish author Jarkko T. Kähkönen. The player runs a publishing company, and the period blurb describes it matter-of-factly as a "strategy, sales and text game". Its demands are modest: a 286 at 8 MHz, 1 MB of RAM and a CGA adapter suffice, though the author wryly recommends a 486 DX2 at 66 MHz with a math coprocessor.

One-man management simulations of this kind, spread through BBSes and shareware disks, were a staple of the Finnish home-computer scene in the 1990s, yet they almost never reached international archives. The version number 1.33 suggests the author kept polishing the game over a longer period.

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