11-28-2016, 05:36 PM
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1 minute ago, ShockPuppet said:
I played Transport Tycoon in high school obsessively. TTD was the only game I played for at least a year, followed by Ascendancy. In HS I had binged on Master of Orion, Civilization, UFO Enemy Unknown and Populous. So many great games. I miss being of that age where all I could do is play games with my friends on holidays, feels like a lifetime ago.
Hehehe, I can understand the feeling, I got bitten by the video game bug when a friend introduced me to the Super Nintendo console with Syndicate and the original X-Com. And then I found the Sim City on the NIntendo and my love of city building games began. I actually "chucked a sickie"*
the day after I first played Sim City so that I could spend the entire day playing it before returning the cartridge from the rental store I got it from.
I never saw a lot of computer games when they were released because I wasn't involved with computers much at the time so I completely missed games like Transport Tycoon. My first railroad game was Chris Sawyer's Locomotion and then the game Transport Giant (and then later the earlier released Industry Giant by the same publisher). I've tended to judge any potential new railway games based on my experience with those two games because they gave me the one thing that many other railway simulation games did not - the ability to build the transport network (sort of like the way you build up a town in a city builder game)
<font color="#ff0000"><b>* </b></font>"Chucked a sickie" is Australian slang for taking a day off from work by claiming to be ill.