Standing as Part II of the legendary Galactic Saga created by Doug Carlston (co-founder of Broderbund Software alongside his brother Gary), Broderbund released Galactic Trader in 1980 for the TRS-80, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit, placing players in the cockpit of an independent merchant freighter navigating twenty planetary systems within the Central Galactic Empire, trading legitimate commodities, smuggling high-risk contraband, bribing customs patrols, and upgrading starship cargo bays to amass a multi-billion-credit fortune.
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Galactic Trader is a 1980 video game published by Cybernautics.
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Galactic Trader is a game in which the player was a general during the war, but now only commands a small ship that trades goods across the galaxy.
Reception
Glenn Mai reviewed Galactic Trader in The Space Gamer No. 38. Mai commented that “Overall, a good game despite its flaws. Although the […] price tag might be a bit high, I must recommend this game for anyone who likes playing games against the computer.”
