Every good trader needs an assistant. The assistant keeps records and provides information so the trader can make better decisions. Trade Wars 2002 (TW2002) is a bulletin board door game by Martech Software, Inc. The game has a lot of different aspects and keeping track of all the details by hand can be quite tough. I looked at utilities to help me with the game but could not find one that met my needs or the needs of my friends, so I decided to build one from scratch. Trade Wars 2002 Assistant (TWASSIST) was born. After nine months of continuous work (with only a few sanity breaks) version 1.0 was ready and released on October 12th, 1992. Version 2.3 was released on December 2, 1995.