Railroad Tycoon Deluxe
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Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (RDX) is an excellent updated version of Sid Meier's classic Railroad Tycoon, a game of robber barons at the turn of 20th century. Despite a host of new features and graphics, RDX sold very poorly in stores, due to some annoying bugs and inexplicably slow gameplay (most notoriously the F4 map screen, which brings the game to a crawl). RDX is essentially the same game as Railroad Tycoon, with improves hi-resolution graphics, new sound effects, and several additions. The additions are: new maps (South America and South Africa) with region-specific cargo types (e.g. diamonds for South Africa), new time ranges and locomotives, bandits who can hijack your trains, and sheriffs who will arrest them. The existence of many bugs and very slow speed make the game initially inferior to the original, but subsequent patches (already applied in this download) and today's faster computers make it well worth a look. With multiple difficulty level, ingenious user interface that makes track laying a breeze, and rock-solid gameplay, RDX is in my (biased) opinion THE best railroad business management games ever made... although SimTex' 1830 and Gathering of Developers' 1999 seque
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l Railroad Tycoon II come very close to this classic. Note: Although the game is called Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Deluxe, Sid Meier himself had nothing to do with the development of this version.
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Genre:
Simulation
Software house:
MicroProse Software, Inc.
Developer:
MicroProse
Publisher:
MicroProse
Year:
1993
System:
DOS
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