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My favorite memory of Transport tycoon was as a computer store demo addiction. I had a day off, and wandered into a comp store and they had transport tycoon running. A couple of kids playing it had to go to school, and I took it up. some 5 hours later, I was shocked at the time.
I had started by building railroads between places, but had no experience and I couldn't build across the AI tracks, which PO'd me, plus I didn't understand enough to put two trains on the same line safely. So I switched to trucks and Boy, did the money start rolling in! My most lucrative venture during those 5 hours was ferrying huge amount of wood from a forest to a paper mill.
The game was so much fun, and so easy to get into without a manual or anything to tell me what to do, I lamented I could certainly never play it on my 8086...
When I saw it for cheap in 1998, I snapped it up to run on my 486/25, but never got that far into it, since I was too busy playing Civ by that time.
That really was fun
I had started by building railroads between places, but had no experience and I couldn't build across the AI tracks, which PO'd me, plus I didn't understand enough to put two trains on the same line safely. So I switched to trucks and Boy, did the money start rolling in! My most lucrative venture during those 5 hours was ferrying huge amount of wood from a forest to a paper mill.
The game was so much fun, and so easy to get into without a manual or anything to tell me what to do, I lamented I could certainly never play it on my 8086...
When I saw it for cheap in 1998, I snapped it up to run on my 486/25, but never got that far into it, since I was too busy playing Civ by that time.
That really was fun
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