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Tax Avoiders

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Tax Avoiders

Feb 1, 1982

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1.33 average rating based on 3 ratings

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You are John Q and you want to be rich. In this game, you start out on the income screen where you try to collect the money (dollar signs) while avoiding the governmental red tape (look like red snakes). You have only one year to get your money and invest it. Each second, a day goes by. My, how time flies. Once a season, you are sent to the investment/tax shelter screen, where you must collect an icon representing an investment and then grab your portfolio (briefcase). Investments have a 50/50 chance of making or losing money. Also on this … More
You are John Q and you want to be rich. In this game, you start out on the income screen where you try to collect the money (dollar signs) while avoiding the governmental red tape (look like red snakes). You have only one year to get your money and invest it. Each second, a day goes by. My, how time flies. Once a season, you are sent to the investment/tax shelter screen, where you must collect an icon representing an investment and then grab your portfolio (briefcase). Investments have a 50/50 chance of making or losing money. Also on this screen is a character whose color changes. What color he is determines who he is: Black=Eggie, the IRS agent. If he catches you, he will audit you. In these audits, you always lose. You are then taxed at 50% of your income and sent back to the income screen.There are no appeals to tax court. Pink=Waggie, the CPA. If he catches you (or you go to him), he will charge you $1,000.00 but whatever tax sheltered investment you have, he will put you in a better one. Green=Toodles, the registered investment adviser. If you two meet, he will put you in the best tax sheltered investment available, thus making you the most profit. After each season, you are taxed to an amount determined by your tax shelter. The object is to have $1,000,000.00 at the end of the year after taxes. Less
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Atari 2600
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Action
Release Dates
Feb 01, 1982 (Worldwide)
Atari 2600
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scoopings gave Feb 7, 2022
scoopings gave Feb 7, 2022
Roleplay As A Scumbag!
This review is for the Atari 2600 version

Roleplay as a bad person! Try to make as much money without paying your due for the mechanisms that make your money-making possible! (Well, I mean that sounds like a fun videogame, but it's a bad imitation of that idea ha, even for a 1982 Atari game mind you) ((Also, mind you, I did play this for a bit, it just wasn't good, no feature above a 6, since even the graphics and gameplay were bad. I suppose the controls were quite responsive? But the wait for the elevator, the gameplay itself, all just incredibly poorly-done--on top of a lame concept)