Business simulation game

Because business simulations simulate real-world systems, they are often used in management, marketing, economics and hospitality education.[http://www.bizsims.edu.au/ Online Business Simulations]{{cite book | last = Farkas | first = Meredith | title = Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online | publisher = Information Today, Inc. | year = 2007 | access-date = 2008-06-18 | isbn =978-1-57387-275-1|url=https://archive.org/details/socialsoftwarein0000fark | url-access = registration | page=[https://archive.org/details/socialsoftwarein0000fark/page/216 216]}} Some benefits of business simulations are that they permit students to experience and test themselves in situations before encountering them in real life, they permit students to experiment and test hypotheses,{{cite journal | last = Thole | first = Heinz-Jürgen |author2=Claus Möbus |author3=Olaf Schröder | title = Domain Knowledge Structure, Knowledge Representation and Hypotheses Testing | journal = Artificial Intelligence in Education: Knowledge and Media in Learning | pages = 410 | publisher = IOS Press | year = 1997 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9L4reNbo7MQC&q=%22economic+simulation%22+game&pg=PA410 | isbn = 978-90-5199-353-0}} and that subjects seem more real to them than when taught passively from the blackboard.{{cite book | last = Schurr | first = Sandra | title = Dynamite in the Classroom: A How-to Handbook for Teachers | publisher = National Middle School Association | year = 1994 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HK_uqW_oS7EC&q=economic+simulation+game&pg=PA73| isbn = 1-56090-041-5 | page = 73}} They are also used extensively in the professional world to train workers in the financial industries,{{cite book | last = Rutter | first = Jason |author2=Jo Bryce | title = Understanding Digital Games | publisher = Sage Publications, Inc. | year = 2006 | isbn = 1-4129-0033-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ji3baoCZL8gC&q=%22economic+simulation%22+game&pg=PA227|page=227}} hospitality and management,{{cite book | last = Fallows | first = Stephen J. |author2=Kemal Ahmet | title = Inspiring Students: Case Studies in Motivating the Learner | publisher = Routledge | year = 1999 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nk49AAAAIAAJ&q=%22business+simulation%22+game&pg=PA63 | isbn = 0-7494-2872-4 | page = 63}} and to study economic models, with some simulations having in excess of 10,000 variables.{{cite book | last = Gatti | first = Domenico Delli | title = Interaction and Market Structure: Essays on Heterogeneity in Economics | publisher = Springer | year = 2000 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5D4V5DwKeKgC&q=%22economic+simulation%22+game&pg=PA37 | isbn = 3-540-66979-5 | page = 37}} ABSEL, an association of professionals, exists for the sole purpose of promoting their use, and economic simulations have even been used in experiments, such as those done by Donald Broadbent on learning and cognition that revealed how people often have an aptitude for mastering systems without necessarily comprehending the underlying principles.{{cite book | last = Hogarth | first = Robin M. | title = Educating Intuition | publisher = University of Chicago Press | year = 2001 | url = https://archive.org/details/educatingintuiti00hoga | url-access = registration | isbn = 0-226-34860-1 | page = [https://archive.org/details/educatingintuiti00hoga/page/184 184]}} Other games are used to study the consumer behavior.{{cite book | last = Jain | first = L. C. |author2=R. J. Howlett |author3=N. S. Ichalkaranje |author4=G. Tonfoni | title = virtual environments for teaching & learning | publisher = World Scientific | year = 2002 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gDPbGslq1LoC&q=%22economic+simulation%22+game&pg=PA20 | isbn = 981-238-167-8 | page = 20}}

{{see also|List of business simulation video games}}

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The Sumerian Game (1964), a text-based early mainframe game designed by Mabel Addis, based on the ancient Sumerian city-state of Lagash, was the first economic simulation game.{{cite book |last1=Rollinger |first1=Christian |title=Classical Antiquity in Video Games: Playing with the Ancient World |date=9 January 2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-350-06664-9 |page=29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLS9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA29}} An early economic sim by Danielle Bunten Berry, titled M.U.L.E. and released in 1983, foreshadowed events that would transpire later in video gaming history, especially in the massively multiplayer online game market, with regard to player cooperation and simulated economies.{{cite web | last = Sharkey | first = Scott | title = The Essential 50 Archives | publisher = 1UP.com | date = January 22, 2004 – January 12, 2005 | url = http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3133886 | access-date = 2008-06-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090306122222/http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3133886 | archive-date = 2009-03-06 | url-status = dead }} The game was Electronic Arts' most highly awarded game, despite selling only 30,000 copies.{{cite book | last = DeMaria | first = Rusel |author2=Johnny L. Wilson | title = High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games | publisher = McGraw-Hill Professional | year = 2004 | pages = 174–175 | isbn = 0-07-223172-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJNvZLvpCEQC&q=%22economic+simulation%22+game&pg=PA174}} That same year, Epyx released the business sim Oil Barons.http://www.mobygames.com/game/oil-barons MobyGames. "Oil Barons," (retrieved on January 25th, 2009).

• Business game
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• Simulations and games in economics education
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