Producer: Cases Computer Simulations, 14 Langton Way, London SE3 7TL
Retail Price: £5.95
Age Range: older student/adults

In Auto Chef you become Managing Director of a restaurant chain. The object of this simulation is to quickly increase your £1 million capital to £25 million and take over Trust House Forte!

You can up business information onscreen, ranging from a balance sheet to a bar chart summarising a survey of customers' eating habits.

And you have to remember there's a greater gross profit percentage on restaurants and cafeterias than on fast-food outlets and takeaways.

Menu prices, too, must be considered - but if prices are too high, customers will be lost.

Bulk purchase of food and wine, advertising costs, wages, fixtures and fittings... all these have to be taken into account, and all the time you need to keep the shareholders happy or they'll force you to resign!

Keyboard play: fast, with simple control keys
Graphics: clear bar charts and histograms, but limited colour

Producer: CCS, 16/48K
£5/£6.00

You have a million in capital and must increase this to 25 million in the shortest possible time. The problems you must cope with include wary shareholders who are watching your every move, assessing your performance and who may even force you to resign if you're not doing well. Inflation, a sluggish economy and copious strikes are other problems you will face in this lively strategy from CCS. It's all very well eating fast food, but how fast is the money?

Producer: CCS, 16/48K
£5/£6.00

You have a million in capital and must increase this to 25 million in the shortest possible time. The problems you must cope with include wary shareholders who are watching your every move, assessing your performance and who may even force you to resign if you're not doing well. Inflation, a sluggish economy and copious strikes are other problems you will face in this lively strategy from CCS. It's all very well eating fast food, but how fast is the money?

Producer: CCS, 16/48K
£5/£6.00

You have a million in capital and must increase this to 25 million in the shortest possible time. The problems you must cope with include wary shareholders who are watching your every move, assessing your performance and who may even force you to resign if you're not doing well. Inflation, a sluggish economy and copious strikes are other problems you will face in this lively strategy from CCS. It's all very well eating fast food, but how fast is the money?

Two simulation games are available from Case Computer Simulations. Autochef allows you to work your way up as manager of a small catering company. At first you have to avoid being taken over by Trust House Forte - later if you survive you can try to take over Forte yourself. Airline is exactly the same as Autochef except that you are running a small airline.