Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

Does anyone else remember the text game "Drug Wars" where you were a drug dealer and had to go to one part of town to buy drugs ("ludes" etc.) and sell them while fending off police and rivals etc.?

I think it would have been cool if the vending machine benchmarks (that I believe inspired this) was just LLMs playing drug wars.

I loved that game! Used to play it on my palmpilot and compete with my workmates to see how much $$ we could make.

If you're looking for something similar, see https://www.torn.com/ -- 20 year-old MMORPG text-based game with 70k daily active users