Jason 'Textfiles.com' Scott sent over a link to a new press release about Trade Wars, described as "the pre-eminent BBS game" in its Wikipedia profile, in which "...the player is a trader in a galaxy with a fixed set of other players (either human or computer). The players seek to gain control of a limited set and amount of resources, usually fuel, ore, food, and technology, and travel through sectors of the galaxy trading them for money or undervalued resources."

The release explains, announcing a new version of the c.1974 (!) title, explains: "Trade Wars: Tournament, the Trade Wars remake, will attempt to retain much of the addictive core gameplay that made the classic such a success. In an effort to reach a more broad modern audience, this classic gameplay will be exposed through a 2D/3D graphical interface style." Woohoo, 2D and 3D!

Interestingly, it's also mentioned: "Between 2000 and 2003, EIS worked with developer Realm Interactive, LLC, and publisher NCSoft, to develop Trade Wars: Dark Millennium (later called Exarch), an MMO Trade Wars spin-off." This was a long-in-development space sim, and I'm not sure the Trade Wars connection was ever heavily plugged.