''1869'' is a strategy and economics trading game developed for

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and

Amiga Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore International, Commodore from 1985 until the company's bankruptcy in 1994, with production by others afterward. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16-b ...

and released by the

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

n company

Max Design Max Design GesMBH was an Austrian video game developer based in Schladming, founded in 1991 by Wilfried Reiter, Albert Lasser and Martin Lasser. The company is best known for creating the Anno (series), ''Anno'' series. The company was closed dow ...

in 1992. Music was composed by Hannes Seifert for the Adlib OPL sound card.

Gameplay

The game is played by managing a trading company during the golden age of

clipper A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper, which originated in the late 18th century. Clippers were generally narrow for their len ...

ships, purchasing goods at one port, moving them to another and selling them at a profit. Passengers can also be transported on certain ships. The game supports up to four players who take turns giving orders to their ships. If there is more than one player then the game starts with a ship auction of a number of

schooners A schooner ( ) is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail ...

, the starting price is lower than they can be found for in game and the number available is always one less than the number of players. Additional bonus revenues can be earned from running naval blockades, shipping tea to England or making a priority goods delivery.

References

External links

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''1869 guide by Sim''
1992 video games Amiga games DOS games Europe-exclusive video games Historical simulation games Max Design games Trade simulation games Video games developed in Austria Video games set in the 19th century {{strategy-videogame-stub