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A program for the budding entrepreneur or A-level business studies student. I had to engage the services of both to enable me to make head or tail of it.

The idea is to build up cash and plant so your opponent cannot compete successfully.

Each must make decisions: price of goods and marketing, production, research and development costs. Once you have typed in these numbers, the results are calculated. This is where my entrepreneur/business student came in: five pages of information were displayed, all double-Dutch to me, even though the inlay stated: "No prior financial knowledge is required." The meaning of jargon is not explained in the instructions - they don't explain much more than the rules.

However, once in the know, I found the information to be an essential part of the game, well displayed and easy to understand once you know what the headings mean. As a game, I found it a little tedious to play, because of all the data players have to enter. However, it could prove useful as an educational aid. Nowhere does it tell you what you are supposed to be selling!

M.T.