Video game · 1990
The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter
Released 1990 on Mac and MS-DOS
- Made in
- United States
- Genre
- Simulator, Strategy
- Themes
- Educational
About The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter
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.
Summary: IGDB.
Release dates
| Mac | 1990 |
|---|---|
| MS-DOS | 1990 |
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