Comments on: Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon http://www.retrogarden.co.uk/reviews/sid-meiers-railroad-tycoon/ Retro Gaming & Video Games Reviews, News and Features Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:17:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: UK_John http://www.retrogarden.co.uk/reviews/sid-meiers-railroad-tycoon/comment-page-1/#comment-550 UK_John Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:12:24 +0000 http://www.retrogarden.co.uk/?p=433#comment-550 @Retroblique what you said could have come out of my mouth! Including the bit about re-firing up my Railroad Tycoon Deluxe. As an avid PC games collector I still have the original and Deluxe boxes and 200 page manuals, along with the flash cards from the original Railroad's game! I could say the same for nearly every Microprose game released in the 90's. Surely the golden age of PC gaming! @Retroblique what you said could have come out of my mouth! Including the bit about re-firing up my Railroad Tycoon Deluxe. As an avid PC games collector I still have the original and Deluxe boxes and 200 page manuals, along with the flash cards from the original Railroad’s game! I could say the same for nearly every Microprose game released in the 90′s. Surely the golden age of PC gaming!

]]> By: Mark | Retroblique http://www.retrogarden.co.uk/reviews/sid-meiers-railroad-tycoon/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Mark | Retroblique Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:39:48 +0000 http://www.retrogarden.co.uk/?p=433#comment-209 Railroad Tycoon was the first PC game I played to any substantial degree. At the time I did most of my gaming on the Amiga, Atari ST and Sega Mega Drive -- from an aesthetic point of view it felt like taking a step backwards, but the gameplay was as addictive as crack. From that moment on I was a little more willing to give PC games a try. By the time I hit Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, my journey to the Dark Side of the Force (at least from the Amiga community's perspective) was complete. Then came X-Wing and Doom and I never looked back. Anyway, back to RT. I tried some of the sequels but they never captivated me in quite the same way. The demo of Railroads! looked like fun, but I'm still a little hesitant to grab the full version. Instead, I'll just fire up the original RT and still have a lot of fun with it. Railroad Tycoon was the first PC game I played to any substantial degree. At the time I did most of my gaming on the Amiga, Atari ST and Sega Mega Drive — from an aesthetic point of view it felt like taking a step backwards, but the gameplay was as addictive as crack.

From that moment on I was a little more willing to give PC games a try. By the time I hit Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, my journey to the Dark Side of the Force (at least from the Amiga community’s perspective) was complete. Then came X-Wing and Doom and I never looked back.

Anyway, back to RT. I tried some of the sequels but they never captivated me in quite the same way. The demo of Railroads! looked like fun, but I’m still a little hesitant to grab the full version. Instead, I’ll just fire up the original RT and still have a lot of fun with it.

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