Millionaire is a stock market simulation game I remember playing in the mid-80s on a small MacIntosh computer. The user is given some initial virtual cash to invest in stocks. It teaches stock investing by presenting pretend news articles and company information, and then inviting you to buy and sell stocks. The companies are real, and the stock data may be historically accurate. The user can learn to get a feel for what the market, or the stock, will do based on the make-believe newspaper information presented.
Time is speeded up, so that a day takes only a few minutes or seconds. You can also buy and sell stock options.
I remember I had a friend who came over to my house one day. This guy had made himself wealthy in real life via stock options. Anyway, he sat down and played Millionaire. For about 20 minutes, not much happened. He bought a little of this, sold a little of that. Then he got enough money to start using options. Pretty soon he ratcheted up his account value to 10's of thousands of virtual dollars! I was very jealous indeed, and decided to practice with Millionaire myself.
Millionaire doesn't have any fancy 3-D graphics, and I don't think it even has
any color. Just your basic black and white graphics, like on a newspaper. But for educational quality, it is one of the best games I've ever seen. No wonder I still remember it 20 years later.
