Start-Up 2000
$9.95		(Win95/98 Only!) (Retail) (STARTUPPR)

Monte Cristo / Interplay

Business Simulation Game

From Idea to IPO, the Year's Most Original Game

In Start Up 2000 you're the boss, a savvy CEO renegade running a high-tech corporation. From your virtual desk, you oversee every aspect of your product's development, production and distribution. You manage your employees, devise marketing strategies and stay one step ahead of your competitors. It's a risky market place, where fortunes are made overnight and disappear in an instant.

Your success or failure will determine whether you retire rich or go bankrupt.

Challenge Your Entrepreneurial Savvy!

You're a young entrepreneur with a new product ready for market, but the road to your first million is full of risk. Do you have the business acumen to navigate the torrent of market change, keep competitors at bay and parley investors' seed money into fortune? Create a thriving profit machine, amass personal wealth, launch an IPO, and you'll cash out a winner.

From your virtual desk and office you have access to every department - Marketing, Human Resources, Public Relations, Finance and Distribution. Hire and fire and motivate staff, conceive your marketing and advertising strategies, push your distribution from national to worldwide and negotiate the markets constant change.

Research and Development: Determine your market sector-hardware or software. Develop a mobile video phone, and Internet TV or even a new gaming console. More than 3,000 products can be designed, built and bought to market.

Distribution: Choose between direct or indirect sales. Negotiate discounts with buyers. The bigger the discount the more exposure your product gets in stores, but how will that affect your margins.

Manage Your Staff: Go from department to department interact with your employees, assign tasks, and determine the efficiency and motivation of your team. Click on an individual to see their corporate file.

Finance: Your market share is teetering but in order to expand, you'll need financial backing. Your team can put you in contact with bankers and venture capitalists, but maybe you're already thing about going public?

Marketing: Target your audiences. Set your prices and marketing budgets. Follow your advertising campaigns attentively.

Watch the Market: Your most previous asset is information. The Global Network News terminal enables you to stay ahead as a leader in high-tech's fast track. Follow and set the trends, examine the strategies of your competitors, and anticipate consumer reactions.

Game Features:

Reinvent the high tech industry through one of three hot markets: interactive game consoles, mobile videophones, or Internet TV.

Build and develop more than 3,000 products.

Real-world, in depth scenarios impact your business and challenge your instincts.

Ruthless AI opponents constantly keep you on guard.

Interact in a dynamic 3D environment.

Play with up to 8 players via LAN or Internet.

Requirements:

Windows 95/98 Only: Pentium 133 (with 3D accelerator - Glide or D3D only) or Pentium 166 Mhz or higher (without 3D accelerator) (Pentium 200 with 3D accelerator, Glide or D3D only [Recommended]), 32 Mb RAM (48 Mb recommended), 210 Mb free hard disk space, 8x CD-ROM drive, or Windows NT 4.0 with DirectX 3.0.

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