Super Okuman Chouja Game

[cite web | url = http://miyabi18.hp.infoseek.co.jp/date/snes2.txt| title = Japanese title | publisher = JPSNES| date = | accessdate = 2008-05-05] is a Super Famicom game about living the life of a billionaire businessperson. The object is to purchase as much real estate as possible and eventually develop a global empire.

Game play

Players can play as either male or female avatars. If not playing against other human players, the computer controlled opponents are either chosen randomly by the game (in actual games) or chosen by the human player (in practice games that do not count towards the overall standings of any player - human or AI). Rival computer characters vary from cutthroat 18-year-old females to senior citizens who often wish they had one extra turn. Their skills are rated from "S" (for super) to "D" (for below average). These AI opponents are also sorted by rank (how good the computer-controlled rival is at the game). Anime-style graphics show off every emotion of the rival characters, and sometimes the AI-controlled characters taunt the human-controlled player.

Stocks and real estate

Trading stocks and real estate is used to drastically change the balance of power in the game. Stocks can be improved by developing property and buying more stocks. Stocks can decline, however, if stock are sold (and lower the price and profit margin of the property in question). World map regions to dominate include North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, OPEC (Middle East), Japan, and the China. The game is eventually lost once either all the cash and real estate are gone or a player reaches a certain number of money in stocks (known as the goal).

Game boards

The first mission in the actual games (i.e., not the practice rounds) takes place in the Edo period and players eventually earn the right to compete for profits in the modern day world in addition to the cyberpunk 21st century landscape of "Neo Tokyo". The "Neo Tokyo" and "Edo period" maps are in Japanese while the names of the major cities are in their native languages (i.e., with the Polish word for "Warsaw" used instead of the English language word). The player starts out with both cash and stock. If the player runs out of cash, then either he or she can make more cash by selling his or her stocks. Once all stock is depleted, real estate must be sold.

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