Game
The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter
About this game
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.
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Game facts
Release date
Dec 31, 1990
Developer
Chris Crawford
Publisher
Mindscape, Inc.
Platforms
Mac, DOS
Genres
Simulator, Strategy
Themes
Educational
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
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Game data and artwork via IGDB.