Betting went well, with a nice stat sheet and ASCII graphic fight scenes, and managing was even better, until it came time for a fight, and the game crashed.

• Play Game- flashes a screen with the stats "Fitness", "Fun", and "Bladder", and returns to the main menu.

• Research - an even quicker flash, this time with nothing obvious on it.

• Stock Market - The only thing in this one resembling a game, Stock Market has 3 options, Buy, Sell, and End. The single stock price is a rapidly changing random number under that, followed by the number of stocks you own, and your cash.

• Order Food-Ordering 'Two Dollar Meals' results in the message "We've cleaned out your account, sucker!" ...obviously not a 5-star resturant. Restarting the game didn't bring my money back. Oh well.

• also, Restart, and Shut Down.

Commands:

• L- Fire Laser. Simple enough, damages the current enemy you're fighting.

• B- Fire Bombs, from your limited supply.

• T- Attempt to extract energy from the enemy, but beware, the process can be reversed!

• D- Fire Death Ray...your program warns you that this is dangerous, and rarely works.

• F- Repair ship's systems.

• P- Set Power Drive speed.

• G- Send a Lander to the surface of current planet. Don't try this when orbiting a sun.

Well, Great Leader, you start your shopping trip with 500 gold. Workers cost 100, soldiers cost 150, and a seige (engine) costs 300.

Outside of the Market, you can buy and sell food or iron, ask for aid from your neighboring countries, attack your enemies, repair your walls, equip your armies with the latest in armor, or just sit back and watch a time-lapse of your countries' stats.