Retrolife: Life Simulator

Be born in 1950, 1975 or 2010. Grow up in the USA, in West or East Germany, or in the Soviet Union, and live a whole life, one real year at a time. Retrolife is a text life simulator set in the real decades of real countries. Every year brings that year's news, illustrated, and the small things people actually lived with: the first home computer, the cooperatives of the late Soviet years, the night the Berlin Wall came down. A LIFE, YEAR BY YEAR • Pick a country and a birth year from 1950 to 2010 • School, the army or alternative service, college or trade school, your first job, love, children, retirement • 39 careers with real steps up the ladder • Prices and wages in the money of the year: dollars, Deutsche Marks, East German marks, rubles, euros • More than 1,400 life events with choices that change your health, happiness, money and the people around you REAL HISTORY AS YOUR BACKDROP…