PRODUCT INFORMATION:

NEWS FLASH! Version 6.30 of W$R is now available, now including ETF's (Exchange-Traded Funds, or investment companies), interest rate swaps (derivatives "bets" on future interest rates), commodity futures trading, executive stock options if you become CEO of a company you control, 5-year stock charts for each company, plus short-selling and highly realistic put and call options trading! For update information and a description of new features in Versions 6.xx, click here.

WALL STREET RAIDER (for Windows) is now played by (registered) users in over 90 countries, ranging from Dubai to Vietnam to Malta to Paraguay to Iceland to Angola to Belize to Slovenia to the Sultanate of Brunei and beyond. It is widely recognized as the ultimate in sophisticated financial simulations, a corporate takeover and stock market game and simulation, in which players strive to build their corporate empires by fair means or foul, all the while trying to stay one step ahead of the SEC, IRS, Justice Department, EPA, Congress, powerful unions, corrupt governments, and no end of ruthless competitors -- not to mention various manmade and natural economic and other disasters.

In this highly realistic simulation, 1 to 5 players (including the computer, if you choose) compete to amass fortunes by investing in, or taking over and managing, any of up to 1590 companies in 70 industry groups.  Once in control of a company, you'll use all the tricks of the trade of real Wall Street corporate raiders to expand your empire and net worth:

• startups/IPOs
• tender offers
• greenmail
• stock-for-stock mergers
• LBO's
• "white knight" defenses
• antitrust suits and other litigation to harass competitors
• restucturings
• excessive CEO salaries and lavish stock options
• firing management
• asset restructuring
• mass layoffs
• tax avoidance
• asset-stripping liquidations
• industry domination
• options trading
• short selling
• speculating in or hedging with commodity futures
• speculating in ultra-high-risk interest rate swaps, by creating derivatives contracts
• investing in Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF's)

And, of course, you'll have ample "ethical choices" thrust upon you from time to time, where you will have to choose between playing ethically, or (possibly) winding up in serious legal or financial trouble if you decide to "Go for the gold," rather than "do the right thing."

All your investment research and financial wheeling and dealing occur against the backdrop of a nonstop "live" stock ticker tape, scrolling financial news tape, and a constantly shifting economic and political environment in which all the companies and industries in Wall Street Raider must operate and try to cope. Speedy decision-making is of the essence, and sweaty palms are a certainty, as you try to cope and keep your company's earnings on an upward track -- or at least keep yourself out of Bankruptcy Court! You also have to deal with cash flow issues and try to do whatever you can to keep your employees happy. If you can't pay them on time, they would have to turn to Payday Loans in order to pay their bills.

REVIEWS, AWARDS, USER COMMENTS:

Take a look at our comments page, to see what users say about Wall Street Raider.

Wall Street Raider has received a number of very favorable reviews over the years from major Web sites, such as ZDNET, Download.com and PCWorld, as well as highly favorable reviews in print publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Byte Magazine, PC World, and, on June 22, 2000, we rated a two-column, very favorable front-page article in Investor's Business Daily, which called W$R an "...imaginative, stimulating..." business simulation.

Previously, computer columnist Jerry Pournelle had written of W$R, that "You can really learn something about stocks, mergers, takeovers and the general world of finance, and have a whacking good time in the bargain."

More recently, in November of 2008, Wall Street Raider was voted one of the 50 Best Video Games for Business by bschool.com

As another reviewer, at the 3D2F.COM software directory, notes, "Wall Street Raider is an award-winning financial simulator that critics have praised as being 'imaginative, stimulating and educational.' In this game, you will start your own career and as a market player, investor, broker, owner of your own business - no matter which role you choose, you will have to elbow your way through a horde of competitors to reach the pinnacle of success."

GIVE US YOUR OPINION:   Do you love W$R? Hate it when you go bankrupt all the time? To register your opinion, by giving us a thumbs up, or thumbs down, go to the Download.com ratings page....

To download a free copy of the shareware (evaluation) version of Wall Street Raider ("full-screen version" for Windows), click here.

To order the registered version of Wall Street Raider, or the Windows Version "Add-on Package," select one of the ordering links below, for the Windows or DOS versions:

• $19.95 for the Windows registered version of W$R, plus the "Customizer Utility" program;
• $29.95 for the Windows version, "full package deal" -- Consisting of the Wall Street Raider game software, plus the "Customizer Utility" program and the (electronic) strategy manual, "Wall Street Raider -- The Book" (NOTE: THERE IS NO PRINT VERSION OF THE MANUAL.);
• $15.00 for the Add-on Package Only, which includes the new (electronic, not printed) strategy manual, entitled "Wall Street Raider -- The Book" (an electronic book about W$R, in HTML format, now also with a Word (.DOC) file version, for easier printing), plus the Customizer Utility program, that works with the W$R Windows version software. (This add-on package is for those users who already have the registered version of the W$R software.);
• $14.95 for the DOS version 6.77 (Note: Development of the DOS version ceased in 2001; it is now an "antique" program -- It will NOT run on 64-bit Windows 7 systems.);
• or $19.95 for a combo of the DOS version software and related Dos version W$R Strategy Manual (electronic, HTML version).... (Note: Development of the DOS version ceased in 2001; it is now an "antique" program -- As a DOS program, it does NOT run on 64-bit Windows 7 systems.);