International Bridge Contractors

Simulating an industrial concern a bit more high-stakes than a lemonade stand, this game puts the player behind the accounting ledger of a company that builds bridges, which are large, complicated objects whose construction requires many resources and much labour. Coordinating supplies of both leaves a bit of money left over for research & development, which may yield one-time dividends or permanently lower some costs — if not necessarily paying for itself except on a long-term scale. Random events in the business world may find their way to the player’s desk, arbitrarily benefiting or penalizing their company — some ~25 events in the original TRS-80 BASIC listing, increased to over 65 in the MS-DOS BASICA version.