Fun but must pay to unlock
Game is fun and reminds me of the game I used to play in the 1980's. You must pay to unlock the game to get anywhere in it. I do not mind paying the $2.99 but it is not indicated anywhere that you must pay to unlock it. That is pretty uncool.Frogonaut
A fun flashback, but…
I played this game for hours on my Apple II back in the 80’s. I respect that the money lender glitch is there, too. Unfortunately, guns get hit with incredible frequency and there just isn’t a good way to keep up; not a lot of opportunities to buy a new gun. It’s also odd that you can pay a lot less for a gun than a larger ship in this game. Also, a Ma Tsu should have some bodyguards and not get beat up so often.blueliner16
Shame On You!
This game is freeware distributed on the Apple IIe, back in the 1980s. I doubt that you actually created this game and so you have no rights to charge for it.
Drop your paywall and let people freely enjoy this old classic game, as it was meant to be.fecal-matter
Nostalgia at its’ best.
Great port of the original BASIC game I played on the TANDY 4 computers in High School. ( I am that old). The only issue with the game is the start version with 5 guns and 0 cash has 0 ability to progress. No way to earn money and elder brother Wu will not lend you a single yuan. I hope the dev team will fix this as it is nearly flawless otherwise.Oh no1138
Finaly !
At last, Taipan the way is was ! Great port of a great game ! Thank You.great_dano
Starts out great! But then...
Played this game endlessly on my Apple II like 30 years ago. Randomly googled it today to find this app and I was stoked! Seemed odd that it was free at first but I was happy to pay the 3 bucks for ‘unlock’. They put in the effort to port it after all.
But after playing it for awhile, it’s not quite the game I remember. I remember playing for hours while I built up my shipping trade. Now I can’t get more than about 20 minutes before the game throws so much at you it pretty much kills you off. They’ve cranked up the difficulty like 2000%. But I don’t see why? You see this kind of stuff in p2p games with lots of paywalls. But this ones a flat 3 bucks. I don’t get it? Definitely needs some heavy tweaking to make it fun again.Mb73965
Fixed against the player
I was so fun at first to play this mobile recreation of the classic game Taipan! However, as at least one reviewer noted previously, the algorithm is skewed. You get too few opportunities to buy guns, they send more and more massive numbers of pirate boats against you, and the game seems to get locked into a pattern of having pirates hit your guns repeatedly. It’s predictable. Once the “buggers” hit your guns once in a big fight, they go on to hit them every time they attack and you run out of guns fast. The probability does not seem random at all once past a certain point. No matter what strategy you use, the bias in the game will bring you down. It’s too bad because it’s a fun game. But you get tired of the bias fast.Jonjon6871
Just as much fun as the original!
I love the way of handling huge amounts of cash — “All of It.”
There’s a bug where clicking out of the game will sometimes drop you to the Leave Port screen without remembering the last purchase, but it’s great fun racing to essentially unlimited money.
Totally worth the few dollars to recreate the original’s excitement.Mbeifield
Loved this!!
This is a great port, so much like what I remember in 1982 on Apple II. I also would have loved audio to top of the nostalgia.yatggh
Just charge up front
Annoyed that this game let me play for 5 minutes and then wouldn’t continue without paying. Jokes on them as I had no interest in continuing, at cost, after such a short playing time. Got attacked by pirates twice and jacked up by the money lender for half my money in that short window too. Geez yeah let me pay for the cavity search :)Pootz77
