Business Wars (Japan) is one of those weird, obscure NES games that makes you go, "Wait, this was a thing?" It's a turn-based strategy game where you play as a corporate tycoon trying to dominate Japan's economy—basically Monopoly on steroids with a retro Japanese twist.

You start by picking a company (electronics, food, real estate, etc.), then it's all about buying up properties, undercutting rivals, and occasionally pulling off shady stock market moves. The menus are all in Japanese, but if you squint at the numbers and icons, you can kinda figure it out. First time I played, I accidentally bankrupted my own company in like five turns—turns out aggressively buying every property isn't a great strategy.

It's clunky, the graphics are bare-bones even for NES standards, but there's something weirdly addictive about watching your little corporate empire grow. Or crash and burn. Either way, it's a fun relic if you're into retro business sims. Just don't expect a deep economic simulator—this is more about chaotic capitalism with 8-bit charm.