President Elect - 1988 Edition now available online

[Dancing with Myself]

I'm Feeling Good 'Bout America..

Ford/Dole-311              40,180,064

Carter/Mondale- 227      39,227,068




Played as Ford, it took me 3 times to finally beat Carter. First go round I focused hard on the "Power Triangle" of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennslyvania. 1st whack I won every state except Pennsylvania and combined with Missouri and oddly SD and Cali I lost. 2nd go round I put McCarthy in and he won 9% of the vote, but he oddly sucked it off me instead of Carter. I lost badly.

Round 3 I did it right by doing 4 main things. 1: I saved my points for mainly the end, 2. I had a successful 3 day trip to England which made me look like a foreign policy genius, 3. I made a fool of Carter in the 1 debate we had, and 4. I focused hard on the PT states as well as Missouri, Cali, and SD.

I trailed in the PV the entire time but at 8 I took the lead and never looked back. Things rapidly happened between 9:30 and 11:00 enough to give me the race but it took until 2:10 when I got Cali to say I won. I was stuck at 263 for a while.

[Dancing with Myself]

I wish someone would re-make this with modern candidates and #'s.

Plus make it free too that would be perfect.

[Dancing with Myself]

Guys here's some tips for those who have a hard time starting the game:


1. Get DOSBox as it's a simulator for DOS games it cannot run on modern windows.

2. I put the folder of PE 1988 into Dosbox's root folder and I just move it over to the DosBox logo and it starts up.

3. When it starts type start in; the game starts up.

4. Type 1 if you want to do a game of you're running or watch a sim but have control over time length between turns.  Type 4 if you want to see a Demo.

5.Type 0 for the colors like on Atlas.

6. Press Enter. This is important as it allows you to bypass the code screen. If you type in any code you're screwed pretty much. The game (at least when I play,) bypasses it by pressing enter and you're on the election choosing screen.


Enjoy!