Wall Street Raider -- the ultimate in sophisticated financial simulations, a corporate takeover and stock market game and simulation, in which you strive to build your corporate empire by fair means or foul, all the while trying to stay one step ahead of the SEC, IRS, Justice Department, EPA, Congress, powerful unions and no end of ruthless competitors and dealing with difficult ethical choices -- not to mention various manmade and natural economic and other disasters.
In this highly realistic simulation, 1 to 5 players (including the computer) compete to amass fortunes, investing in, or taking over and managing, any of up to 1590 companies in 70 industry groups.
Once in control of a company, you'll use all the tricks of the trade of real Wall Street corporate raiders to expand your empire and net worth, including hostile takeovers, greenmail, LBOs, IPOs, junk bond financing, mergers, restructurings, dominating your industry, antitrust and other lawsuits to harass competitors, and many other fair or unfair tactics.
All in the quest for the Almighty Dollar (or Yen, Pound, Euro, or other currency you configure it for). All your investment research and financial wheeling and dealing occur against the backdrop of a nonstop 'live' stock ticker tape, scrolling financial news tape, and a constantly shifting economic and political environment in which all the companies and industries in Wall Street Raider must operate and try to cope.
Speedy decision-making is of the essence, and sweaty palms are a certainty, as you try to cope and keep your company's earnings on an upward track -- or at least keep yourself out of Bankruptcy Court! .... Reviews: In a front page article (6/22/2000) Investor's Business Daily called it an '...imaginative, stimulating...' simulation.
A leading computer columnist wrote of it, 'You can really learn something about stocks, mergers, takeovers and the general world of finance, and have a whacking good time in the bargain.' Do you think you have what it takes
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The automatic addition of stocks to the Streaming Stock Quotes List can now be turned off, if desired, using a toggle item on the "Settings" pulldown menu.
· A new "Clear" button has been added to the Streaming Stock Quotes List section on the main screen. Click on it to clear the entire streaming quotes list, if you decide you want to start a new list from scratch.
· A new "Fill" button has been added to the Streaming Stock Quotes List section on the main screen. Click on it and any stocks you own (or are short) will be added to the list, if the list is not full. In addition, if there are still any open slots, any other companies you control will then be added to the list,
· The six types of new taxes (on capital) that were added by Version 5.0, will now only be imposed if you are playing at the new Difficulty Level 4, which is otherwise identical to Difficulty Level 3. Thus, when playing at the highest difficulty level, you will now be given a chance to choose whether or not any of those taxes might be applied, (in case you think that dealing with a number of punitive new taxes on capital and wealth is a bit "too realistic" for you).
· The bonus compensation formula for CEO's has been completely revised and made more complicated. However, if you control 51% of a company's stock, you will continue to earn a bonus at least equal to 100% of your salary, even if the company is performing miserably. Otherwise, if you control less than 51% of the stock, bonuses are now more difficult to earn, as the company must increase earnings by 15% over the prior year to earn a bonus of 150% of salary, and no bonus at all is earned in the calendar year in which you become the CEO. But if your company increases earnings by 15% each year for two years after you became CEO, your bonus is 300% of salary in the second year; add a third consecutive year of 15% earnings increases, and the bonus is 500% of salary in the third year (and each of those percentages is doubled if you control 51% or more of the stock -- so you could conceivably earn bonuses equal to as much as 10 times your base salary).
· Also, the program now keeps track of the year in which you were elected CEO of a company, and you won't earn any bonuses except for the years AFTER the year you were hired AND where a company has a string of 15% of better earnings increases. (This feature was added so that you can't take control of a company with a history of earnings increases, make yourself its CEO, and begin collecting huge bonuses based on what the company did before you arrived). The only exception is when you control 51% or more of the stock of the company, in which case you receive a minimum bonus equal to 100% of salary, regardless of earnings performance or when you became the CEO.
· Other minor changes: When changing the name of a company (when doing a startup or otherwise), the old, discarded name would previously appear on the streaming stock quotes list for a while, until the stock ticker ran for few moments and replaced it with the new name when updating the list. Now the new name replaces the old one on the list immediately. Also, when doing a startup of a new company, the company could sometimes be confronted almost immediately with an "ethical choice scenario," unless Cheat Mode was turned off. Now, in the registered version only, a startup won't be offered such an ethical choice dilemma until it has been in existence more than 2 years, which is a bit more realistic for most scenarios.
· The algorithms for adjusting the terms of options contracts have been improved to better reflect transactions such as spin-offs, extraordinary dividends, stock offerings, mergers, and stock buy-backs, to prevent "unfair" losses or windfall gains on options held or shorted on companies doing such transactions.
· This release is file-compatible with saved game files from prior versions 3.10 through 5.0, but not with versions prior to 3.10.
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