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- The boardgame WinPolis
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- The aim of the game WinPolis is to force your competitors through the cleverly
- buying of shops and their extension into bankruptcy.
- You pull across the board which consist of fields showing different business and
- action fields.
- As mentioned before, you may buy the shops to cash in from your competitors who
- cross your field. If you own a chain of equal business e.g. all pharmacies, you may
- also furnish those and employ staff or something similar which naturally pushes up
- the value.
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- The action fields have different meanings. E.g. you have to answer a question of
- general knowledge if you land on such a field and you either can win or lose $3000.
- On the casino field a round of Black Jack gets started whereby you also can win or
- lose a lot of money.
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- WinPolis can be played up to four players at the same time.
- These may be either all human nature or computer driven partners.
- Games can be stored and reloaded or put together by you.
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- New features in the 32bit-version are:
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- The catastrophe function, which unleashes catastrophes for particular business chains
- at unpredictable intervals. A catastrophe is devastating to the owner of a particular chain,
- because he has to round up a heck of a lot of money to remedy the damages.
- It can even happen that he loses all of the enhancements he has made to the chain or that
- he has to sit out several rounds.
- The only way to escape the devastation of catastrophes is to purchase insurance.
- Whether and when it makes sense to do so can be found out on the new Oracle Square,
- where there resides an oracle with the ability to prophesy future catastrophes.
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- This new function adds a great deal of excitement to games, since one always has to be
- careful not to be victimized by a catastrophe. But if this function bothers anyone, it can
- be completely deactivated.
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- Besides this enhancement the following features have been added:
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- Two different gaming casinos
- Game board with 256 colors and noticeably more attractive images
- Five different game boards
- Adjustable color-settings
- Capacity to design your own game boards
- Separate question-files for separate players
- Capacity to create new default values for the prices and returns of businesses
- Significantly more latitude for customizing values and rules
- Full compatibility with Windows NT 4.0
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- System requirements:
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- Windows 95, NT4 or newer
- 8 MB RAM
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- Price: Only $19
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