Having worked in the broadcast industry for over 20 years, I have gravitated to strategy games that based themselves in the biz. One game that places you smack-dab in the over sized Hollywood studio executive chair is "Hollywood Mogul".This is a text based business simulator. You start out with a generous bank account and set out green-lighting feature films. You choose everything from picking the scripts, the scriptwriters, actors, producers down to how much and where you spend your advertising dollars. The gameplay can be a little tedious at times, but the payoff is when your project takes off and generates lots of green, which lets you churn out more films.
This reminds me of one of my favorite games for the Amiga. It was a business sim set in the world of television. I have yet to find its PC equivalent.
The website for "Hollywood Mogul" is still up and they are currently selling "Hollywood Mogul 3". I'll have to check it out one of these days.
Thursday's game: "Return to Castle Wolfenstein".
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