1983 Wall Street Raiders game reverse engineered from 115,000 lines of BASIC
Saw this on Hacker News today:
Someone reverse engineered a game from 1983 called 📈 Wall Street Raiders, it was 115,000 lines of BASIC so indecipherable that even Disney couldn't figure out how to
www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html
It's essentially a very deep granular trading simulator where you're a corporate raider, buying and selling companies, and many CEOs and investment managers said they used the strategies they learnt in the game in the real world!
So I installed it for you to play on pieter.com!
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