Remember "Taipan!"? It is a classic (c. 1982) trading game set in the 1860’s Far East. It’s one of those minimalist games from the early days of PCs that are far more absorbing and addictive than they have any right to be. I have fond memories of the game, dating back to the days when I had an Apple //e.
Fortunately, a fellow named Jay Link also likes the game, and has produced two implementations of it:
- An ncurses implementation, for Linux
- A JavaScript implementation, for the browser (alpha)
The browser implementation only supports trading; it lacks pirates, and most of the other random events found in the original game. It suffers for that, but it’s still quite addictive.
