I have never been more interested (Kojima) in and bored (stock market) by the idea of a game.

Still, I always wanted to buy Nintendo and Sega stock back in school when we had to play the stock market game. Here's my chance.

I would give this game a chance. It looks fun and I might learn a thing or two about stocks.

Learning from a game? o_O I though games where just filled with violence and *gasp* boobies.

This has a chance for violence and boobies. That one chick's top is kind of low cut and you may throw yourself off a building if your stocks fail.

It'd be cool if there was wifi to get real trading numbers and stuff. As you can probably tell, I have no experience in stocks.

Calpis took the words right out of my mouth. I'd consider getting this game.

This would be really cool if it sync'ed via wifi to daily stock results, allowing your investments to reflect real world results. Then it'd be like a digital version of the stock market game from highschool.

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VERY VERY interested in that..

This game would be so easy to beat. Just buy nintendo's stock and see your portfolio go through the roof. Game over.

There's also Capcom's Stock Trader Shun, which is more story based (ala Phoenix Wright).

wasn't this already done before...

For the NES.....

Man, I've been waiting for something like this...I always thought someone would make some sort of trading training for the PC. I wonder how they decide what the price movement will be, though. If its totally random then its crap, but maybe they could base it off of old charts.

"Sound dry, but players can buy stocks like Nintendo, Square-Enix and Konami."

The *description* sounds dry, the game itself sounds like it might be a kind of fun diversion for those into things like management sims.

This guy's problem is he's not expecting it to be a game, he's expecting it to be some sort of primer on how to actually buy stocks. I mean, I don't buy "Ridge Racer" and expect it to teach me how to drive, do you?

Games that are based on real-life things can still have their own internal logic, and their own take on whatever their equivalent of "physics" is, the better to make the game actually fun. I don't think you can ever criticize a game for not being dry *enough*, which is basically what this guy is doing.

if harvest moon could make it, so could this.

Only in Japan for sure! *lol*

DrWorm said what I wanted to - did nobody hear about that game?(Stock Trader Shun) There was a feature on it in Famitsu earlier; I don't know how that missed the site considering...

They should remake dope wars for the DS, I'd buy that. Anyone remember dope wars? LOL

I want it, damnit! Please please please bring it to America, fine game makers. I had so much fun doing a stock market challenge in school I was checking my fake investments before classes, during lunch, and researching new possibilities during study hall (not a lot of homework at my school). If I could carry that around in my purse, I'd probably be on it every free minute. . .and trying to get my professors to give me extra credit. /future day trader

At this point, I'm just waiting to see how long it'll be before some Japanese game dev releases a dictionary-reading-simulator (not an actual dictionary, just a simulation of reading one) that makes a buttload of cash. You know it'll happen before too long. Yup, that or a bonsai simulator.