Taipan is back!!!
 

This was my favorite game when i was in 3rd grade, playing on 1981 state of the art TRS-80 computers :)

http://www.taipangame.com/

:GFYBand

the best part of the game is how hard it is when you're poor, & how easy it is when your rich. good metaphor for life. You watch your debt multiply when your broke, & your wealth multiply when it earns interest in the bank.
its better to be rich.

I currently have 30.7 million dollars and 14 guns thanks to a good opium delivery... I bought 170 and landed in Batavia and opium rose to 180000! SCORE

we used to have cheat codes that would give you infinite life, a giant hull & all the guns you wanted. This game should be made into a mobile app...

anyone that can program out there...this would be a money maker...