Wall Street Kid

Review scores
AllGame
Game Informer	7/10

Wall Street Kid
Wall Street Kid
	US cover art
Developer(s)	SOFEL
Publisher(s)	SOFEL
Composer(s)	Toshio Murai
Series	The Money Game
Platform(s)	NES
Release	NA: June 1990;
Genre(s)	Tycoon, social simulation, strategy
Mode(s)	Single-player

Short description: Video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System

Wall Street Kid is a video game released by SOFEL for the NES and it's a western spinoff of The Money Game series.

The player must prove the stockbroker's worth by taking $500,000 in seed money and growing it to $1,000,000 in order to gain a six-hundred-billion-dollar inheritance (equal to $1174 billion today) from the extremely wealthy Benedict family. Successfully investing it in the American stock market results in rewards like going shopping on the weekend and being able to acquire expensive items such as a house. The names of the companies listed in the stock market are slight variants on actual U.S. companies in operation at the time of the game's release. The player is also encouraged to spoil the stockbroker's girlfriend. The game ends if the player is unable to raise the money needed for a key item such as a boat or the house, causing the stockbroker to be disowned by the family.

Reception

Wall Street Kid

In the "Nintendo Player" section, Electronic Gaming Monthly described it as "one of the most unique RPGs" that they saw at the Consumer Electronics Show.^[3] In a retrospective review, Game Informer wrote that the game featured "funny dialogue and addicting nature of money-making."^[2] Meanwhile, Jeff Irwin of AllGame referred to the game as "smooth and enjoyable" and compared the game to Brewster's Millions.^[1]