Does anyone remember an old PC game called Drug Wars?

Does anyone remember an old PC game called Drug Wars?

(FWIW, you can currently get an app of the game, but it's not as simple as it used to be...)

Basically, you start out trying to make money buying cheap stuff and moving around the city from place to place buying/selling/running from the cops. Prices of stuff fluctuates, so you might make money or you might lose some...but the goal is to work your way up from the cheap stuff with minimal profit margins to the heavy stuff (crack, cocaine, heroin) and make $1,000,000 by the end of 30 days (or more.)


The reason I bring this up is that's what I feel like coin collecting has become...you piddle around in roll-searching, flea markets, digging through bags of wheat cents, trying to find stuff to upgrade your collection. You might get a job or a bonus that increases your income, and you can move up to more expensive stuff...then you start getting into the really nice coins, and your tastes (and profit margins) change, hopefully for the better. Of course, since I'm still in school...still piddling around with rolls, flea markets, and the like...trying to turn $100 into $200...

So, anyone else feel like their coin collecting is eerily similar to this old PC game?

 

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I remember that game and I can see where you are coming from when it comes to increasing your bank roll for coins.

 

I used to run a 10 line BBS back in the day, and yes, I had Drug Lords set up as a door game as they where called. Oh the memories! Lol!

 

There used to be INTENSE competition on my ship (was in the Navy for a bit) to see who could get the biggest monthly total...

Went into the LCS two days ago to get some supplies, they told me about someone who brought in a group of silver dollars they bought at melt...turned out there were 15 1928 Peace dollars and 2 1921 Peace dollars in there...

THIS is what reminded me of that game.

 

I used to play it all the time on my TI-83 calculator back in AP Chemistry class in high school...

 

So that's what you were doing in the back of the class!

 

I had it on my TI-86 back in the day. I still do, but the thing doesn't work anymore.
And I have it on my cell now. Glad they ported it.
I remember a Pimp Wars as well, but I can't find any version of that anymore.

 

I'm not at all familiar with this game, but I'd hate to think there is any similarity between it and coin collecting because most drug dealers end up dead.

Chris

 

Well, if you buy/sell on Craigslist too often...

 

I think some people collect coins like playing that game. Searching for deals, trying to "make money".

Too much work for me to roll search, and the longer I have been in coin collecting the more its been beaten into me "cheap coins are cheap", and usually you get what you pay for. Looking back, the coins I really pull out and look at today are not the ones I got great deals on, but the ones I fell in love with and paid full boat for. Some times I have been lucky and fell in love with a coin that for some reason went cheap, but those are few and far between, and have only happened in ancient coins, not US coins.

So, I guess my answer is no. I waste money buying coins that please me, and do not keep score of what my collection may be worth.

Btw, no offense meant OP, I sure was there back when BBS downloads ruled, you had to store your downloads on like 15 3.5 inch floppies, etc. I just don't collect that way anymore.

 

Drug wars? Now that's a game name I've not heard in a long time. Yes, I remember it. Was a mid-80's PC game as I recall. I played it on a IBM Portable PC (which really wasn't, it was about 50lbs and the size of a small piece of luggage).

That said, coin collecting is only like drug wars if you let it. Frankly, a coin's future value has little to nothing to do with why I collect coins. I invest in other things (precious metals, stocks, bonds, real estate), and coin collecting is a hobby to me that I use disposable income to fund my enjoyment. The fact the coins have residual value is purely incidental.

 

I didn't have time playing Drug Wars as I was still tooling around with Oregon Trail.

 

Don't forget Number Munchers either. Lots of time spent on the game for me back in the day.

 

My collecting aesthetic is to waste money and acquire useless information.

 

Hey, no offense taken! I merely spent some time thinking today about all the "tiny battles" I fight, as a college student without a full-time job, to improve my collection without a great deal of cash...and that reminded me of Drug Wars. My goal, of course, is to move past that stage...but for now, it's roll-searching, flea markets, and cherry picking for me!

 

I"m just an immature 11 year old brat, so how would I know? Just a sewer rat just like the rest of the kids my age. Playing Halo all day and failing my classes. Just Kidding! Merry Christmas!

 

I hope that no one says I am trolling because of the previous comment.

 

I was just kidding, although it is true of most of the boys in my school.

 

I've collected pricey stuff in the past, and now I collect cheap. The fun is there one way or another.

 

Ha ha I'm not offended...although the closest I've come to playing Halo is playing "Unreal" on my computer on the ship...had the surround sound speakers going almost full blast, so when people would walk down the passageway next to Electrical Tool Issue, they'd always come in to see what the heck I was blowing up...