The office (computer game)

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The institution
Studio Holger Dickmann
Publisher Greenwood Entertainment
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 1995
platform MS-DOS
genre Economic simulation
Game mode Single player
medium 1 CD-ROM
language German

The office is a political economic simulation by the developer studio Greenwood Entertainment . It was published on the MS-DOS platform in 1995 and simulates the activities of a mayor in Bavaria.

Game aspects

As a point-and-click adventure, the game is mainly controlled using the mouse. The game is a combination of real time and round form. One lap corresponds to a week that must be completed within three to five minutes. At the beginning of the game you create your virtual mayor with the associated fictional party. In addition, a selection of three companies, one of which is also managed. Then comes the usual day-to-day business of a mayor. Permits for building land, convincing local councils with amounts of money and laying roads. At the beginning, a statement of the marital status is asked, since a wife has both helpful information and expresses helpful criticism.

Background information for the player in the form of news is reported by the ZDF ' Heute Journal '. Wolf von Lojewski reports on news from the Bundestag . Hildegard Werth provides current information from Brussels and Oswald Toppel from all over the world. The general reports are announced by Gundula Gause and Claus Kleber . The messages follow from the real speakers in the form of a video sequence.

Game objective

The aim of the game is to hold out as mayor for six years. However, the real goals are a series of successes that require each other.

  1. Expansion of the community as a tourist center for summer and winter vacationers.
  2. Preservation of a rural and ecologically oriented structure, combined with the expansion of an ecologically justifiable, intensified agriculture.
  3. Evaluation in the national competition as the most beautiful village in Germany, with parts of goals 1 and 2 included.
  4. To bring as many cultural events as possible to the community in the six years in order to establish it as a cultural center in an economically underdeveloped region.
  5. Break up the rural structure and so new branches of trade and industries settle in the place.
  6. The biggest and most difficult challenge: convincing the federal government, the state and the NOK to support the community in applying for the 2016 Winter Olympics.

The game comes with the BdSt 's 'Black Book' and the ' Die kleine Gemeindeordnung' booklet. The small community code describes the technical terms used in local politics.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Office for DOS (1995). In: MobyGames . Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Carsten Borgmeier: The office - The Amigo simulation . In: PC Joker . No. 4/95 , April 1995, pp. 20 ( kultboy.com [accessed January 30, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b Florian Stangl: The Office . In: PC Player . No. 4/95 , April 1995, pp. 68-69 ( kultboy.com [accessed January 30, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Peter Schwindt: Dulijöh! - The office . In: Power Play . No. 5/95 , May 1995 ( kultboy.com [accessed January 30, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Carsten Borgmeier: The office - The Amigo simulation . In: PC Joker . No. 4/95 , April 1995, pp. 21 ( kultboy.com [accessed January 30, 2020]).