The never ending story…

Written by Arnan on October 17, 2008 – 12:28 pm

So recently on a clients computer i found this great game, or so i was told by a colleague.
Since it was freeware we copied it and now i’m hooked. I started a new game that day and am still playing that very same game. We’re over 6 weeks past and i’ve been playing regularly with a 2-4 hour per day average.

Amazing isn’t it? Which game you ask? Transport Tycoon Deluxe. What? yea a 14 year old game. And it rocks!! It’s one of those gems that just won’t bore as there is always something to do, expand or improve. New business opportunities are common and it’s just fun to toy with trains, planes, boats and vehicles and their infrastructure.


Here is just a minor screenshot from what i’ve built over the past weeks. It’s a somewhat complex set of tracks around a train station. Over 20 trains race in, out and through it every couple of minutes going to more than 10 surrounding stations delivering goods to a factory there, or just bringing coal for the cities or passengers, mail, steel, livestock or grain to and from the various stations. To accommodate the city growth i’ve built bus stops all over the bigger cities from which people can easily move to and from a lot of places. Just to give you a slight idea.

The most fun about this game is that it just never stops. As noted above there is always something to do. With games like Sim City, the map gets full after a while. Or it just gets boring once you’ve got all things set up. All games have limitations and so does Transport tycoon ofcourse, but the map for one is so immensely huge that even on a medium sized map i’ve been busy for 6 weeks. Imagine if the map was 4 times larger how small a portion i would use. I think if i would cram everything into a corner i would use one quarter of the map now! Another great thing is the diversity, scattered over the map are autonomous towns and many many industries of all kinds. And your task is to make money of that. So you can deliver over 20 types or materials/goods to various industries or set up a supply chain to a city. Say, iron ore to a steel mill which produces goods from that which you can then deliver to a city. The city grows because of that and thus eventually will need a bus system, or connections to another city and so on.

So! Get it, play it… Get addicted!

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