Big Bang (video game)

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Big Bang
Publisher(s)Zortech
ReleaseAugust 1988

Big Bang is a 1988 video game published by Zortech.

Gameplay[edit]

Big Bang is a stock market simulator and features 100 companies on the stock exchange.[1]

Publication history[edit]

Big Bang was released in August 1988, the first game from software publisher Zortech.[2]

Reception[edit]

John Harrington reviewed Big Bang for Games International magazine, and gave it 3 stars out of 5, and stated that "If I had to sum up Big Bang in just one sentence I would describe it as stimulating, educational but not addictive."[1]

The Games Machine praised the game booklet and felt that players would feel a "wide range of emotions" as their companies gain and lose value.[4]

Rod Lawton for ACE complimented the game, saying "if you've got any entrepreneurial blood in you at all you'll be hooked".[3]

Rob Murray from The Daily Telegraph commended the graphic display, and felt that "Much thought has gone into the program".[6]

PC Leisure called Big Bang "[...] initially compelling, but ultimately pointless, exercise."[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Harrington, John (December 1989). "Computer Games". Games International (11): 50–51.
  2. ^ "Clipped from the Guardian". The Guardian. 4 August 1988. p. 25.
  3. ^ a b "Ace Magazine Issue 14".
  4. ^ a b "The Games Machine Magazine Issue 12". November 1988.
  5. ^ a b Sumpter, Garth (1990). "Simulation - Big Bang". PC Leisure. No. 1. EMAP. p. 81.
  6. ^ "Clipped from the Daily Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. 23 October 1989. p. 29.