Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon

Description

With $100000 in the bank after taking out loans and selling stocks, it's time to start a railroad! Choose from 4 scenarios across two continents with randomly generated resources, and design your own railroad that moves people and goods across the country. Use the revenue to continue expanding, while keeping control of your company and appeasing your stock holders with growth and revenues. Play the stock market with company assets. Drive your competitors out of business with buyouts and rate wars. Multiple types of resources to carry (roughly grouped as slow freight, fast freight, passengers, mail) and convert, own faciliites to maximize profit (buy a steel mill and the conversion from iron ore to steel makes money for YOU). Use the latest available technology to your advantage (new locomotives). Your objective is to retire with a huge bonus (based on your company's assets) and become the President or the Prime Minister (depending on which continent).

The game is essentially a bird's-eye-view real-time strategy game with aspects of building and stock market manipulation. Each fiscal period is 2-years, which corresponds to 1-day of track time. Build different sizes of stations to take care of different local needs, create trains that switch consists at different stations and maximize throughput. Upgrade/retire/modify trains as times change. The faster the trains arrive, the more money they earn. Multiple options will keep you busy as each game is different.

Alternate Titles

• "铁路大亨" -- Chinese title (simplified)
• "Tielu Daheng" -- Chinese title
• "Golden Age of Railroad" -- Working title

Part of the Following Groups

• Microprose Tycoon series
• Railroad Tycoon series
• Sid Meier's games
• Traffic networks
• Video games turned in to board/card games

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User Reviews

Great resource management and historical game	Amiga	David Ledgard (63)
This game cost me *years* of my free time!	DOS	ex_navynuke! (51)
A rare example of how hard it is being a Capitalist! Truly worthy of being called a Sim Legend!	DOS	Indra was here... (13176)
Fun and highly addictive with lots of replay value	DOS	anton treuenfels (34)
One of the best games Sid ever made!	DOS	William Shawn McDonie (1163)
One of my favorite games.	DOS	JubalHarshaw (287)

The Press Says

Abandonia	DOS	Jan 25, 2005	5 out of 5	100
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Amiga User International	Amiga	Oct, 1991	95 out of 100	95
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	DOS	Jul, 1990	94 out of 100	94
Power Play	DOS	Jul, 1990	92 out of 100	92
Power Play	Amiga	Jul, 1991	92 out of 100	92
Power Play	Atari ST	Feb, 1992	91 out of 100	91
CU Amiga	Amiga	Mar, 1991	91 out of 100	91
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Amiga	Apr, 1991	91 out of 100	91

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Trivia

The game was originally titled "Golden Age of Railroads". Then MicroProse decided it doesn't emphasize the business aspects, and changed the name to the present form.