App Aims: Retro Recreation Re-creation: Reduce, Reuse & Recycle

Reviewer's Comments:

If you spent your high school math class playing games on your calculator like I did, you’ve likely spent a few hours (or in my case, semesters) playing Drugwars on a TI-83 graphing calculator. Or maybe you got your taste of digital drug dealing on DOS. Either way, you owe it to yourself to revisit the classic buy-low-sell-high game. Newcomers may not find as much pleasure from the remade (dare I say “recycled”) game, but it’s never too late to go green.

The basic premise of the Green Wars game is to purchase environmental products for cheap, and then resell them to turn a profit. Manage your inventory to make the biggest profit on buying/selling reusable shopping bags, recycled paper, LED light bulbs, and fixed gear bicycles. After you get some street cred (earned by making deals) you are able to deal in high-end goods like geothermal pumps, solar panels, hybrid cars, and carbon credits.

Throughout the game you are also allowed to take out loans and access your savings. Gameplay takes you through 50 turns/days, triggered by traveling to various locations in Boston as you stimulate both ecology and the economy.

The game itself is super easy to play, and is further simplified with simple touch controls and straightforward interface.

Green Wars also includes some informational snippets/descriptions of each product, so you can learn a bit about each and how they’re making an impact on the environment (for the better). We had a good time purchasing and peddling our products for profit, and actually learned a thing or two about some of the latest eco initiatives.

Whether you’re getting your fix on an updated classic (with more constructive motives), or getting some green in your gaming, Green Wars is a fun little timewaster game where capitalism meets environmentalism.