Trivia
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon was named #41 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 
(3025) on May 01, 2008.
The entire game was released for a download to promote Railroad Tycoon 3.
The link. http://www.2kgames.com/railroads/railroads.html.
Contributed by
Santa (847) on Jan 21, 2007.
The Amiga version was one of the few non-Flight-Sim games to use the Numeric Keypad significantly - which unfortunately meant that it couldn't be played on the Amiga 600 model, which was launched in the UK in 1992 (one of three entry-level Amigas launched in little over a year!), and had no keypad in the interest of saving space and cost.
MicroProse later released a Deluxe version, which added higher resolution screen, support for more trains, and more scenarios.
Railroad Tycoon was inspired by the Avalon Hill boardgame "1830". SimTex later adapted 1830 for Avalon Hill. Not long after, SimTex was acquired by MicroProse, and became MicroProse Texas.
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.
This game is a member of Computer Gaming World magazine's Hall of Fame.
