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The player manages the business as described above and may also handle individual train movement and build additional industries. The game also has other railroad companies attempting to put the player out of business with stock dealings and "Rate Wars".
Following the Civil War, Hill landed work at the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad company, where he built a fuel business, swapping wood with coal to power steam engines. This business quickly made him a wealthy man, but unlike some other railroad tycoons, Hill was interested in more than just personal prosperity.
Their impact on westward expansion is one of the greatest in American history, but their use of legal loopholes to gain government funding and their exploitation of Chinese laborers makes their work as railroad tycoons questionable.
In 1863, he entered the railroad industry by taking control of the New York & Harlem Railroad (NY&H). For the rest of his career, he bought and merged companies together, monopolizing ownership of rail lines from the east coast to Chicago.
Strasburg Rail Road has some famous railroad tycoons of our own. In the late 1950s, a small group of rail enthusiasts, including Henry K. Long and Donald E. L. Hallock, purchased the struggling Strasburg Rail Road to revive tourist passenger services.
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon is a business simulation game where a player takes builds and manages a railroad company. It was the first title of the Railroad Tycoon series and was created by Sid Meier with collaboration with MPS Labs, and published by MicroProse. Originally released for the MS-DOS system in 1990, the game was a great commercial success. Because of this, an updated version named Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Deluxe was released in 1993. This version featured improvements such as updated graphics, and new scenarios The DOS version of the deluxe game was released as freeware for download in 2006.
The objective of Railroad Tycoon is to build and manage a railroad company by laying track, building stations, and buying and scheduling trains. The player acts a railway entrepreneur may start companies in any of four geographic locales: the Western United States, Northeast United States, Great Britain, or Continental Europe. The company starts with one million dollars in capital; half equity, half a loan. The company may raise additional capital through the sale of bonds. The player then builds stations and track between two cities, where a train can be sent between the two. There are many different types of cargoes that are supplied and demanded, and the player earns money by taking these cargo to different places through the management of trains. The game usually starts in the early 1800's where only steam locos are available that are slow and unreliable. Eventually as the game goes on, a larger variety of locomotives are offered, including diesel and electric trains that move efficiently across the network.
The original game has four main views in which the player can choose to view the game through. The most comprehensive view is the Regional View, where you can view your network from afar. This display gives you the complete picture of the world. It shows the basic geography, including the location of mountains and rivers, and also indicates centers of population. If railroads have started operating, they are visible as well.
The Area Display is the next zoom down from the Regional Display and is a schematic display of any built railroad. It shows no geography, but only the track, signals, trains, stations, and Station Boxes (if not toggled off) of the player's Railroad.
The Detailed Display is the closest zoom possible, and is the display at which all railroad construction is done. This display shows in greatest detail the geography, population centers, and industrial sites on the map. From this display only, the player may survey the local geography and plan in detail the laying of track.
The player acts as a railway entrepreneur who owns and manages the business as described above and may also handle individual train movement and build additional industries. The game models supply and demand of goods and passengers as well as a miniature stock market on which players can buy and sell stock of their own or competing companies. The game also has other railroad companies attempting to put the player out of business with stock dealings and "Rate Wars".
Before starting the scenario however, the player gets to choose the level of difficulty ranging between, investor (easiest), financier, mogul and tycoon (hardest). There are also three further options that can change the reality level of the game, and these are:
Railroad Tycoon II gives you the responsibility of running your own railroad and charges you with the task of turning a tiny company into a powerful empire. Although it is a somewhat simplified version of its PC and PlayStation relatives, the objective of the Dreamcast version can be just as daunting. Not only must you worry about laying track, managing stations, hauling cargo, and keeping your trains running, but you must also keep an eye on the stock market and maintain the country's economy. All of this translates into one immersive experience, as Railroad Tycoon II successfully re-creates the burdened feeling the owners of actual railroads must have felt.
There are three game modes: a campaign mode, which places you in a preset scenario and gives you certain objectives to complete within an established time limit; a scenario mode, which lets you pick a map, a date, and a difficulty level then simply lets you build a railroad; and a tutorial mode, which offers an explanation of the various menus and shows you how to successfully manage your empire. The sandbox mode, where you're given an unlimited supply of resources so you can build the railroad of your dreams without having to worry about profits or reality, has now been made a submode inside the scenario mode. The true flexibility of Railroad Tycoon II is found in the different configurations for each mode. The campaign mode lets you decide what advantage your company starts with, and the scenario mode lets you set several different variables - from profit multiplier, to economic model, to AI difficulty. In addition, while the towns and landmasses of the maps never change, different plants and town demands are randomized in the scenario mode, ensuring that you never play the same game twice.
Most of the game is viewed in the actual map window, where you can see your railroad's layout and watch your trains move from one station to the next. Lining the sides of the map window are different submenus, which allow you to manage other areas of your railroad - from purchasing trains and assigning routes and cargo to upgrading stations and playing with the stock market. All of these submenus have buttons that lead into each other, making moving through screens and managing all the different aspects of your empire quick and easy. Once you've made your run through the different menus, you can return to the map window to watch your empire grow. Console controllers usually don't lend themselves well to a game so dependent on a cursor, and the Dreamcast version of Railroad Tycoon II tries to overcome this problem by using a combination of the analog and digital controls. You use the analog function to move the cursor exactly as a mouse would, while the D-pad is used to quickly move the map about. Unfortunately, the D-Pad is a bit too fast, and the analog controller is way too slow. An option to adjust the controller sensitivity would have been nice. The game does feature keyboard support and might work with the Dreamcast mouse when it's released here in the US. Railroad Tycoon II tries to make up for the unresponsive cursor with a ton of controller shortcuts. Though they take some time to get used to, the shortcuts make moving between screens much easier. Unfortunately, the interface has changed considerably from the PlayStation version, and it's more difficult to use - the buttons aren't as well managed, and some of the menu screens are just downright confusing.
Railroad Tycoon II takes place in actual global locations, including the British Isles, Korea, and the Midwestern United States. Each map is realistically detailed, giving Railroad Tycoon II a refreshingly realistic feel to it. In addition, inventions and scientific progress occurs according to real-life dates. New engines are introduced into the game in exactly the same year they were in real history, events occur on their actual dates, and the railroad companies you control in the campaign mode are actual historical railroad companies that achieved the goals of the campaigns you're playing.
Solid gameplay, numerous options, and attention to detail make Railroad Tycoon II an excellent simulation. While the premise of running a virtual railroad might not be as exciting as the premises of other sim games, Railroad Tycoon II keeps things interesting with a complex game mechanic that hides behind a simple layout.
Thus the first project which Sid Meier took up after finishing F-19 Stealth Fighter was a spy game called Covert Action. Made up like Pirates! of a collection of mini-games, Covert Action was very much in the spirit of that earlier game, but had been abandoned by its original designer Lawrence Schick as unworkable. Perhaps because of its similarities to his own earlier game, Meier thought he could make something out of it, especially if he moved it from the Commodore 64 to MS-DOS, which had become his new development platform with F-19 Stealth Fighter. But Covert Action proved to be one of those frustrating games that just refused to come together, even in the hands of a designer as brilliant as Meier. He therefore started spending more and more of the time he should have been spending on Covert Action tinkering with ideas and prototypes for other games. In the spring of 1989, he coded up a little simulation of a model railroad.
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