[jamesfinlayson]

I remember a game that did this in like 2006 (it was a small GUI program called drug baron or something like that - you bought and sold drugs and weapons with your sales and purchases affecting the market - like a text-based game without having to use the command line).

It didn't work so well (probably not programmed that well I guess).

[moron4hire]

I suspect there were a few games like this, but I think the most popular one was called Drug Wars, in case anyone cares to go looking.

Yes, it was very poorly programmed. It always surprised me how popular it was. I think it was kind of a middle- to high-school meme game. I think the main popularity was that A) it was edgy, and B) kids could run it in school computers.

[jamesfinlayson]

Yeah Drug Wars was probably it.