1987 Addictive Games
by Kevin Toms
Another strategy game from the author of 'Football Manager'
You play the elected President of a dubious democracy. Your mandate will expire after 2 years. Within that time you have to run your country as best as you can.
Keep your population fed and healthy, fight the neighboring countries and drill for oil to keep the economy running.
Like Football Manager the outcome of your decisions are a bit random, but this was a given for a lot of management games back in the 80's, and people still played them, which may seem stupid for kids of today. I seldom play them now, mostly for nostalgia, but back then things were different and choices few not to mention we were just kids and didn't care much for details.
Needless to say it's not as enjoyable as Don Priestley's 'Dictator' which was release 3 years earlier, making 'President' look dated, and neither as accurate as later games within the genre would be, but still a fun management game for the 80's.
Very poor attempt at a country management game where you are supposed to do a lot of exciting things like drilling oil, buy and sell gold and move a tank every now and then.
Not only it gets boring quite soon, but it also never lets you feel that the outcome of events depends from your actions.
The added "graphics" section, with its sluggish and unintuitive interface, only manages to make an already bad situation worse.
