Paying the bills with adventure

I guess I'll talk about games for a bit and we'll start with the kind where in game currency moves more than your power gaming.

Let's start with Recettear.  While adventuring your first times around is actually a bit of a bad idea and it's better to stick to store management for a while the option to adventure is still there with its own story to tell and everything but I would hold off until you've got some vending machines working.

Second is Adventures to Go.  While our hero doesn't really have any pressing bills to pay he does however need to pay to go on any journey involving more than just dead grass and bugs.  The grand bulk of your quests are in fact expensive to go on and that is why I put it in here.

I suppose the next ones that come to mind are kind of oldies

Uncharted Waters was a wondrous mix of RP and Oregon trail but unfortunately it was all too possible to starve to death without knowing if you were even going the right way to the next town.  Another problem was that despite the long journeys I couldn't find a means to save but I was only playing the 2nd one of the series.  There's an online game but I'm not sure how many of the old elements they'd still be using.

With so little coming to mind I guess I'll rap up with Taipan.  This really old piece I haven't had the pleasure of enjoying its original or any "sequels" by the same team.  I've only been able to experience some great re-imaginings and aside from a variable issue they've failed to disappoint.  The one with the variable issue was the 3000 SE which unlike the other re-imaginings actually kept the story instead of tossing it to the curb however I'll admit they did replace the ancient Chinese elements with sci-fi space adventures but non of the other versions I've played even acknowledge the whole "avenging the father" bit.  The game boy advance version while one of those guilty of dumping the plot it at least trys to make up with an extremely expanded variety even going so far as to let you get maps of other lands expanding the number of towns to deal in greatly.

Well I guess that's it.  Hoping to make more headway in slowing the downward spiral of media.  I'm off again.