Old Railway Game

[kiepie]

Hi all,

Since I saw the old game thread around here today, it took me back to the days I were playing a railway game, linking cities, buying trains ect. It was all black and white and it was around 1994-1998. Not a very complicated game.

been searching for it, but no luck so far.

Anyone?

 

[proximiti99]

Why u even want to play that? And I doubt it will even run on todays pc's, unless u running a 486DX2

 

[Conradl]

Was it not perhaps TTD (transport tycoon delux). Here is an open source version (very close to the original, but better): http://www.openttd.org/en/

 

[kiepie]

Why u even want to play that? And I doubt it will even run on todays pc's, unless u running a 486DX2

Just for a day or 2, brings back some good memories!

Any similar game more advance today?

 

[Pyro]

If it was black + white in 1994, I have NO idea.

Transport tycoon was pretty damn good, and that was in full 8-bit colour. Many hours were spent listening to the clinging of coins.

Railroad Tycoon is purely trains, and I think the 2nd one was quite a bit of fun.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Maybe it was Transport Tycoon but he played it on a black+white monitor

 

[Fudzy]

The original Railroad Tycoon would be the only game that worked on a monochrome monitor.

 

[Luke7777]

Just for a day or 2, brings back some good memories!

Any similar game more advance today?

Maybe look at MS Train Simulator ? Think IC had the 1st one on special the other day

 

[Dark Agent]

Simutrans

 

[LazyLion]

The original Railroad Tycoon was black and white

 

[Sackboy]

I tried Sid Meiers Railroads recently (it was cheap) and was very disappointed. Avoid that one.

 

[Pyro]

I tried Sid Meiers Railroads recently (it was cheap) and was very disappointed. Avoid that one.

Yip - felt way too dumbed down to be any fun.

 

[bekdik]

Lional Trains? Google is your friend

http://www.tucows.com/preview/211100

 

[pete]

Got any trout you wanna swing my way...? you can send it on the train...

 

[Jabberwocky]

Maybe look at MS Train Simulator ? Think IC had the 1st one on special the other day

Don't! i made the same mistake.. expecting something like TTD but instead got a train simulator its like flight simulator... but you can only go forward.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Was it not perhaps TTD (transport tycoon delux). Here is an open source version (very close to the original, but better): http://www.openttd.org/en/

You took more than a day out of my life with this Firstly, it needs six files from the original CD (1996ish) in order to work. Finding those files is not trivial, then once you have them, they are packed in a rar file, which is also not trivial to unpack (only thing I found to do it was the 'non-free' unrar on linux). Then, I spent the WHOLE of yesterday trying to figure out how it works. Thanks for this new time waster

It has a sort of simcity feel to it.

 

[Dolby]

Railroad Pioneer ?

http://www.railroad-pioneer.com/

 

[kiepie]

You took more than a day out of my life with this Firstly, it needs six files from the original CD (1996ish) in order to work. Finding those files is not trivial, then once you have them, they are packed in a rar file, which is also not trivial to unpack (only thing I found to do it was the 'non-free' unrar on linux). Then, I spent the WHOLE of yesterday trying to figure out how it works. Thanks for this new time waster

It has a sort of simcity feel to it.

Any help on where to get the rar files, please.

Railroad Pioneer ?

http://www.railroad-pioneer.com/

This looks nearly like it, will comment after I've played. Thanks

 

[Conradl]

Yeah, once you start its kinda addictive!

You can try find the files at http://www.abandonia.com; its a website for all old games. As far as I know this site is legal and all games are hosted with the publishers permission.

 

[Dolby]

Since I read this thread, I've been wanting to get hold of my copy of Railroad Pioneer.

Only thing is the box is empty and I have no idea where the CD is