I worked a few days driving a taxi in Bohan to get some seed money. Then I used it to buy downers from the Triad that I sold to the Jamaicans in Beechwood City at nearly 100% profit. The Jamaicans sell cheap weed, which isn't enough in demand to be very profitable. But with my downer money, I can move it in enough quantity to make the return trip from Beechwood City worth my while. I sell the weed to the Russians, who are peddling really cheap ecstasy, which I then turn around to the Irish. Now I've got $6000, which allows me to start trafficking in heroin.

Elsewhere, I started off growing turnips. This netted me enough money to buy a barn, but buying animal food is prohibitively expensive. Growing animal food is the only way to go. Once I've got a few patches of fodder underway, I start filling up my barn. I can harvest the fodder every few days, which stores up enough feed for a full compliment of sheep, chickens, and whatever cows I can manage to domesticate (catching cows can be pretty tough, but bringing a sheep along as a melee tank helps). I sell the eggs and wool, but I'm use the milk in my new cheesemaker. Meanwhile, it's nearly autumn but I'll be able to get in one tomato harvests before end of season. I don't know what I'm going to do come winter, when I can't grow anything. I'll just have to make sure I store enough food for the animals, or save enough money to buy their food. Which means maybe I should hold off on expanding my house to support a bigger forge until next spring.

Both of these adventures in capitalism were worthy of any hardcore PC game, and they were both on Nintendo hardware. The first is from Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on the Nintendo DS. The second is from Rune Factory: Frontiers on the Nintendo Wii. Whoda thought?