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Rollout: The Game of the Risk-Takers
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Rollout: The Game of the Risk-Takers is a 1987 board game published by Supremacy Games. Publication history Rollout: The Game of the Risk-Takers is a board game in which each player takes the role of the chief executive officer of their own multinational corporation. Gameplay Up to six players can play Rollout simultaneously, with each acting as the head of an international business, trying to leverage opportunities in commodities markets. The game's purpose is to become the richest player.<ref name=Wieck/> Gameplay comprises five turns of six stages each.<ref nameWieck/> At the beginning of the game, the bank owns all company stock. Each game turn, two shares of each company stocks are offered for sale.<ref nameWieck/> By the end of the game, all ten shares are sold for all companies.<ref nameWieck/> An initial random determination by d6 die roll determines which product the players' companies will pursue.<ref nameWieck/> Players must account for various other factors including "Sales Track-advertising, your price, the quality of your product, and the number of worldwide stores you own".<ref name=Wieck/> Reception Stewart Wieck reviewed Rollout in the December 1988 issue of White Wolf Magazine, stating that while the game was "structurally very sound and nicely incorporate many aspects of running a business, it lack fine details which could have improved the game".<ref nameWieck/> Wieck noted the excessive dice rolling and way the Stock Market worked as drawbacks. He concluded that "Economic simulations are tough to do and while 'Rollout' takes a fine stab, it is not a killing blow."<ref nameWieck/> Wieck's overall rating for the game was a sum of 3.<ref name=Wieck/> 
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