It’s cover had a very late 80s early 90s feel hand-painted illustration of an affluently dressed man with a neatly trimmed beard, clutching a giant leather bag of what was presumably gold coins rather too casually, and standing in front of a medieval European port complete with period sailing ships. Real Time Management and Strategy, Naval Trading SimulationĪbout six years ago I was rooting around in the increasingly shrinking PC section of my nearest GAME store, searching for the rare truffles occasionally obscured behind the accumulated dross of the discounted titles shelf, when I came across a game that I had never heard of but which had a premise and visual style that gripped my brain in a vice.
