Jones in the Fast Lane is a life simulation game developed and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1991. The objective of the game is to attain as much money, happiness, status and education as necessary to win. The exact amounts needed are set up by the players before the game began. The game's name and goals are a play on the concept of keeping up with the Joneses.
As of 2006, the game was ported to Adobe Flash.
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Jones in the Fast Lane is a life simulation game developed and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1991. The objective of the game is to attain as much money, happiness, status and education as necessary to win. The exact amounts needed are set up by the players before the game began. The game's name and goals are a play on the concept of keeping up with the Joneses.
As of 2006, the game was ported to Adobe Flash.
Jones in the Fast Lane was entirely developed as a set of storyboards before artwork or coding commenced. The "board game" interface was aimed at ensuring the rules were intuitive and accessible to younger or inexperienced players.
The 256-color VGA graphics were impressive for the time, with most computer games still produced in 16-color EGA. Produced in 1990, it was also one of the first games to run in Windows 3.0 which was released in May 1990.
The game world is represented by a board game-like ring of buildings in squares, resembling a cross between Monopoly and The...
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