Game Classification

THE MANAGEMENT GAME Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, 1958  

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Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting
  • Training

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Corporate

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 25 to 35 years old / 35 to 60 years old
General Public & Students

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
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3450345_orig(1).jpg Created at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, The Management Game simulated an exciting market battle between three detergent companies. Like later strategy games, it required the players to juggle resources, in this case production, finance and research, as well as advertising budgets, personnel, and distribution.

​Simulating three years in the lives of the companies, The Management Game would take two whole semesters to play. Still being used at some universities today, it holds the distinction of having the longest life of any computer game ever written. The very thought of it makes us die a little inside
[source : http://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/the-pre-history-of-video-games-1947-1959]

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