The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter (1990)
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Following Balance of Power, designer Chris Crawford stuck to the big-picture approach but shifted the focus from power politics to macroeconomics. In a grassroots simulation of industrial production and allocation, players balance a country’s military and social spending to survive in an environment of fictitious nations competing for land and resources.
Key element in the turn-based The Global Dilemma is …
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Following Balance of Power, designer Chris Crawford stuck to the big-picture approach but shifted the focus from power politics to macroeconomics. In a grassroots simulation of industrial production and allocation, players balance a country’s military and social spending to survive in an environment of fictitious nations competing for land and resources.
Key element in the turn-based The Global Dilemma is a basic tree of industries such as coal mines, lumber mills or gunpowder factories. The entire production chain culminates in only two results: an increase in either military strength or population. Guns or butter.
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Details
- Developers
- Chris Crawford
- Publishers
- Mindscape, Inc.
- Genres
- Simulator, Strategy
- Themes
- Educational
Release dates
- 1990 (North_America) DOS, Mac
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