In the mid-1980's a software company called Blue Chip Software published a line of financial simulation games written by one Jim Zuber. The names of these games were Millionaire, Tycoon, Baron, and Squire. The game's original covers looked like leather portfolios (see here) and advertisements that ran in computing magazines read along the lines of "The Henderson Family made $500,000 in the stock market, then lost $1 million in real estate". Catchy.
Anyway, the point of each of the games was to take a small amount of money and relay it into $1 million. Millionaire was the stock market game, Tycoon was commodities trading, Baron was real estate investing, and Squire included everything from the first three games, plus IRAs and such.
The purpose of this blog is to record an attempt to replicate the goal of the games: to begin with $10,000 and turn it into $1 million in the space of a year (unfortunately, we will not be using real money, not having the necessary $10 grand available). We will begin the experiment focusing on the theme of the first game, Millionaire, which is a stock market simulation. Rules of the blog are found in the menu to the right.
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