Medical and Business Simulation Games

[drsaddam]

I usually don't have time to look at computer games, but these look really cool! I haven't tried them yet. What do you think? Can you recommend other excellent business and medical simulators?

Abandonia is an excellent site full of "abandonware."

Comments

One player's review of IndustryPlayer

[drsaddam]

Pros: Industry Player is fantastic as a macro-economic simulator with a strong player base. The economy is a fine balance between player and server controls, and does not fall into the trap of using the simple Keynesian economic model of supply and demand. Instead market forces are generated by a series of extremely complicated formulas that, luckily, result in very easy to understand datum for the player

Using Capitalism II for teaching (Part 1)

[drsaddam]

We have received many e-mails from people in every corner of the world asking how they can use Capitalism II as a teaching tool. The following are suggestions we offer

Re: Using Capitalism II for teaching (Part 2)

[drsaddam]

Students can sharpen their stock market knowledge just by playing a couple of hours of the game. The following are the suggested steps that teachers can use

[mindme]

That second game, the brain doc looks a lot like The Woz.

[drsaddam]

You mean Steve Wozniak?

[mindme]

Yepper.

[allogenes]

I played Life and Death back in the day. :-)

[drsaddam]

Great! Did it really require medical knowledge? Did you learn a lot? I love all these games from the Apple II era up there.

[allogenes]

Well, I did not have any medical knowledge and the patient tended to die, so maybe it did! :-)

[drsaddam]

Learn how to manage a virtual university

[drsaddam]

http://www.socialimpactgames.com/index.php

Amazing!! These are 500 games that simulate real economic, political, military, health, etc. situations.

[drsaddam]

Be a lawyer

[drsaddam]

http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index2.html

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