Atrain

[Paddy]

Until recently - 2 years ago, I had a working copy of Atrain...

This game was developed by ArtDink in Japan, and distributed by Maxis in the 80's.

I really enjoyed this game. My PC and backup were all lost... my bad...

I am on the hunt for a copy of it that will operate on a current PC.

Also looking for fellow enthusiasts...

[pg]

have you check home of the underdogs yet? i'm pretty sure they have it...

[Paddy]

yeah I have, but what I downloaded does not operate...

I will go and revist them... thanks


are you a player?

[MichaeltheGreat]

I loved Atrain - had it for years. Still have the original box and manuals for the game and it's expansion, but the original media is long dead - not that I have anything around that can read 5.25 inch floppies.

I don't have it installed anymore, though.

[Paddy]

I know what you mean...

It amazes me how many obscure games from that time are now available on CD....

yet a game that sold so many is still lock away....

ahh well.

Thanks for the memories. I am glad you have good ones.

[FrostyBoy]

http://oldgames.bgbest.net

can't go wrong with that place

[Paddy]

thanks mate,

were you a player of this game?

[DrSpike]

Ah Atrain. So many hours frittered away on this on my Amiga.

[FrostyBoy]

I did have it for the Amiga, but I could never get into it, I tried so many things, copying it to another disk, copying it to the HDD, scanning for errors, just couldn't get past that intro part.

Ah well!

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Sn00py
I did have it for the Amiga, but I could never get into it, I tried so many things, copying it to another disk, copying it to the HDD, scanning for errors, just couldn't get past that intro part.

Ah well!

I so understand what you mean....

I have now got several versions of it.

Thanks for the leads...

Although it will not work with my mouse... hahahaha

Next week I will strip windows 98 off and load XP.... this is long over due...

so it is great to have it right there... but still not be able to play it....

[Urban Ranger]

I tried the game a long time ago, but I had no idea what was going on.

[DrSpike]

Quite a good simulation then.

[Paddy]

Yeah, I reckon that it is a good sim.

The designers ArtDink had a deal with Maxis, on distribution....

In Japan ArtDink distributed Atrain and SimCity

For the rest of the World Maxis ditributed these products...

OK so I miss the game alot.

It is a long game, I had a PC that was mainly used to play it while I got on with other things....

I understand that a new version is available in France for the Playstation2

definitly not here in Australia.

[Grumbold]

Tried it a whhile back but it was a non-runner. If only I had the space I'd definitely set up an old 486 rig to run these classic games.

[Paddy]

sounds like a great idea