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Title: Railroad Tycoon 2
Post by: NScaleNotes on February 18, 2021, 08:42:08 PM
I spent many a happy hour playing the PC game Railroad Tycoon 2 in the late 1990s. I've since switched to Linux but recently found out that Railroad Tycoon 2 is available on Steam for 75p!
Can't beat that really...

If you don't remember it you can take a look at this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Tycoon_II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Tycoon_II)

I suppose it looks a bit dated graphics wise but the game mechanics are still good fun. Plus it's top down/isometric which I don't think you can beat for transport manager type games.

Just don't blame me if you get hooked...  :D
Title: Re: Railroad Tycoon 2
Post by: njee20 on February 18, 2021, 09:12:17 PM
Always preferred Transport Tycoon myself, now available open sourced (and improved) as Open TTD, but I did like RT2!
Title: Re: Railroad Tycoon 2
Post by: chrism on February 18, 2021, 09:35:53 PM
Quote from: NScaleNotes on February 18, 2021, 08:42:08 PM
I spent many a happy hour playing the PC game Railroad Tycoon 2 in the late 1990s.

Just don't blame me if you get hooked...  :D

I'm not going to risk it - took me long enough to wean myself off of it last time around  :D
Title: Re: Railroad Tycoon 2
Post by: jpendle on February 19, 2021, 12:32:46 AM
If it were available on iPad, like Civilization, then I'd buy it.

John P
Title: Re: Railroad Tycoon 2
Post by: NScaleNotes on February 19, 2021, 09:24:24 AM
Quote from: njee20 on February 18, 2021, 09:12:17 PM
Always preferred Transport Tycoon myself, now available open sourced (and improved) as Open TTD, but I did like RT2!

Yep, some of the mods that have been made available with Open TTD are pretty interesting.
Have you seen Simutrans? https://www.simutrans.com/en/ (https://www.simutrans.com/en/)
It's in constant development but last time I played some of the gameplay is not quite as polished as Open TTD but it's a pretty interesting game once you get the hang of it.
Title: Re: Railroad Tycoon 2
Post by: NScaleNotes on February 19, 2021, 09:27:04 AM
Quote from: chrism on February 18, 2021, 09:35:53 PM
Quote from: NScaleNotes on February 18, 2021, 08:42:08 PM
I spent many a happy hour playing the PC game Railroad Tycoon 2 in the late 1990s.

Just don't blame me if you get hooked...  :D

I'm not going to risk it - took me long enough to wean myself off of it last time around  :D

Yeah, tell me about it, last thing I need is more excuses not to model, but sometimes...
Title: Re: Railroad Tycoon 2
Post by: d-a-n on March 02, 2021, 09:16:13 AM
I spent many happy hours playing this and Transport Tycoon Deluxe. More recently I found Train Fever and later on, Transport fever which brings the whole thing up to date and is well worth a look.
Title: Re: Railroad Tycoon 2
Post by: Hightower on March 02, 2021, 09:57:42 AM
There's one called Locomotion which is an updated version of Transport Tycoon.
Title: Re: Railroad Tycoon 2
Post by: njee20 on March 02, 2021, 11:19:16 AM
Locomotion wasn't a patch on TT though! There were loads of cool downloadable trains though; I remember finding a load of SWT EMUs.

GRF Crawler was worth a look for additional Transport Tycoon content - lots of different train sets.