Train Bandits were included in the North American scenarios, which attempt to prey on mail cargoes. It takes into account drastically falling stock prices to improve the depth of the economic model. It also adds new historical periods: two more for the Eastern and Western United States, and one more for Europe. The deluxe version of Railroad Tycoon adds VGA graphics and new continents South America and Africa, and 11 new trains. It had no instruction booklet and was sold only in a jewel case.Screenshot from Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Deluxe. It featured many scenarios and features of The Second Century, but no map editor. The game and its expansion were repackaged together in the Gold Edition and then, with 50 additional user-made scenarios, into the Platinum Edition.Ī short lived, budget title The Next Millennium went on sale in 2000.
There are also many more first and second century campaigns to choose from than in Railroad Tycoon.Īn expansion pack Railroad Tycoon II: Second Century was later added which contained new scenarios focusing on modern and near-future times, plus added new elements to the economy. Most of the ones in Railroad Tycoon 1 are in Railroad Tycoon II.
There are dozens of new scenarios to play including ones in Africa, North America, Germany, the Swiss Alps, the jungles of South America, and even several places around the world in a possible future where Earth's oceans have risen. Some features of the first version are missing in this sequel, such as the ability to build tunnels and signal towers, but many new possibilities were added, such as the ability to have unlimited money, trains, and train routes, much better control of routes, dozens of new maps, and the ability to create and modify scenarios and maps. The railroad must be built in a certain time to win the game.Ī sequel featuring improved graphics and more complex gameplay was published by Gathering of Developers in 1998 after PopTop Software acquired rights to the name from MicroProse, Sid Meier's original company which he himself left a year earlier to form Firaxis. The objective of the game is to build and manage a railroad company by laying track, building stations, and buying and scheduling trains. Though it shares the "Tycoon" suffix, it is not related to other Microprose games such as RollerCoaster Tycoon and Transport Tycoon, which were developed by Scottish programmer Chris Sawyer. Railroad Tycoon was written by game designer Sid Meier and published by MicroProse.
There are five games in the series the original Railroad Tycoon (1990), Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (1993), Railroad Tycoon II (1998), Railroad Tycoon 3 (2003), and Sid Meier's Railroads! (2006).
Railroad Tycoon is a business simulation game series. MS-DOS, Amiga, Mac OS, Atari ST, FM Towns, NEC PC-9801, Windows, Linux, PlayStation, Dreamcast, Mac OS X
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