Trivia
Transport Tycoon is a game that hearkens back to the days of small development teams where it was common to even see only one man/woman developing the game on their own. Chris Sawyer did all the programming for this game by himself with help from only a couple of other people with graphics and sound.
Contributed by
Rambutaan (299) on Aug 19, 2004.
Transport Tycoon was originally
named "I.T.S.", which is short for "Interactive Transport
Simulation".
It was only because the game went to Microprose that it became a
"Tycoon" game, to tie in with their own "Railroad
Tycoon".
-Source: ChrisSawyer.com
The PC version of
"Frontier: Elite 2" contained a reference to the upcoming
Transport Tycoon back in 1993.
Some of the advertising hoardings in space ports announced "Coming
soon... Chris Sawyer's Transport Game" !
Why the connection? Well, Chris Sawyer did the PC conversion of
Frontier: Elite 2 back in 1992/3.
-Source: ChrisSawyer.com
