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    Russell: You Were Dead-On, Man! Nice Work!

    Back in May you said the following:
    Shopping Mall Tycoon or perhaps SimMall or even Mall Manager. With the popularity of shopping malls, it beats me why, to the best of my knowledge, no game has ever been made with this theme. Baffling. One of life's great mysteries.
    Today, I give you this:

    Mall Tycoon announced: http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories...827812,00.html

    Excellent, sir.
    I've been on these boards for a long time and I still don't know what to think when it comes to you -- FrantzX, December 21, 2001

    "Yin": Your friendly, neighborhood negative cosmic force.
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    Looks just as lame as monopoly tycoon. (or any of the other so-called tycoon games you see these days)


    Give me a real tycoon - one made by Chris Sawyer.
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    Do It Ourselves

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    • #3
      What? No! Russell is never right! Never!


      ::Checks off one more sign of the Apocalypse from list::
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      • #4
        Did they steal the idea off me?

        Yeah, I just read a few minutes ago about Mall Tycoon being announced at http://www.avault.com/news/displayne...11282001-91651. In fact, I was about to post a thread on it when I noticed my own old thread had been kick-started again. I feel real good right now.

        What I'm wondering is, did they steal the idea off me or did they come up with it themselves? It depends on whether or not they browse these forums I guess. They'd never admit it if they did though 'cos otherwise they'd have to pay me.

        I'd also almost given up on the idea, feeling it'd virtually been done when I saw The Sims - Hot Date. The downtown area is getting pretty close to this kind of thing, though it's from the perspective of the customers rather than the business side.

        I've had a look at the screenshots and it looks just pretty much what I envisioned. It looks like they've been working on it for a while. I assume you can set individual retail prices at each store. Again, isn't it amazing noone has done this one before! I'm a man ahead of my time!

        So, party on!

        By the way Yin, thanks for the compliment.
        Last edited by The Rusty Gamer; November 29, 2001, 02:03.
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        • #5
          Well, I have Sim Golf and you have Mall Tycoon! What can we say? We have our hands on the pulse of the industry. No. In fact, the industry DEPENDS on us for ideas! LOL!

          Seriously, who knows if they stole your idea. I don't recall when they said they started development, but isn't it to be released in a few months? Anyway, doesn't matter.

          Great work!
          I've been on these boards for a long time and I still don't know what to think when it comes to you -- FrantzX, December 21, 2001

          "Yin": Your friendly, neighborhood negative cosmic force.

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          • #6
            They said that it was going to be released in January 2002 (according to avault) and by the looks of the screenshots, I'd say it's been in devlopment for several months. It's conceviably possible that they started on or after May which is when my suggestion was first posted.
            Avoid COLONY RUSH on Galactic Civlizations II (both DL & DA) with my Slow Start Mod.
            Finding Civ 4: Colonization too easy? Try my Ten Colonies challenge.

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            • #7
              Mall Tycoon demo out!

              Go to http://www.demonews.com/files/view.php?id=443&cat=Games.
              Avoid COLONY RUSH on Galactic Civlizations II (both DL & DA) with my Slow Start Mod.
              Finding Civ 4: Colonization too easy? Try my Ten Colonies challenge.

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              • #8
                The next BIG game in the series to come out:

                How about "Space Tycoon" or "Spaceship Tycoon" or "Space Station Tycoon". . .

                Remember you heard it here first

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                • #9
                  I downloaded the demo, played it and deleted it; 'nuff said...

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                  • #10
                    ever heard of "startopia"
                    its just that
                    Just my 2p.
                    Which is more than a 2 cents, about one cent more.
                    Which shows you learn something every day.
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                    • #11
                      Perhaps we should use this as a proof of that the people who make games spy on Apolyton ...
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Leonidas
                        The next BIG game in the series to come out:

                        It's not a series.

                        It's just a stream of crapy rip-offs.
                        Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse

                        Do It Ourselves

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                        • #13
                          I'm tempted to try to repeat the successes of yin and Russell. Will I fail? Probably.

                          I predict that they'll announce Tycoon Tycoon at some point.*

                          * 'at some point'= at any point in time in this or any other parallel universe



                          Actually, I don't know how a "Tycoon Tycoon" game would work. Still, we can start mercilessly badgering the game companies to get them to listen to our ideas.
                          oh god how did this get here I am not good with livejournal

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                          • #14
                            Tycoon Tycoon would be a game about how to make a game about Tycoon Tycoon. And it will spark such philosophical debates that even the great question of: Which came first? The chicken or the egg? will pale in comparison.

                            Indeed, Tycoon Tycoon will unleash such intellectual fervor that it might well come to mark a watershed moment in human history.
                            I've been on these boards for a long time and I still don't know what to think when it comes to you -- FrantzX, December 21, 2001

                            "Yin": Your friendly, neighborhood negative cosmic force.

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                            • #15
                              Well, I see this type of game has eventually reached space - I was in a computer store the other day and saw - "Moon Tycoon".

                              Have they no shame?

                              Well, ladies and germs, it's the fall of western civilization as we know it. . .

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