Personally, I find politics and economics pretty boring. All that stuff about minimum lending rates, wage rounds and economic forecasts. Dreary stuff, man. That was until I discovered 1984 from Incentive Software. This strategy game changed my life by putting me in charge of the Government and the economic survival of the country. It was then that I tasted... *power*!

Ha, ha! I love it! Soak the rich! Sponge the poor! Drive up inflation! Send wages through the roof! It's great! You can do all this and more with 1984 or be really boring and try to keep the budget balanced and get through three general elections unscathed. Based on the actual 1982/83 figures for the British economy (Three million unemployed and all) this is a clear, concise, well-presented game. Performance graphs and good prompts on all sections make it an extremely easy game to get into for the novice. It's surprisingly enjoyable. And then there's all that lovely *power*...!