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Re:Transport Tycoon a.k.a. the great optimiser, Chris Sawyer by PLenz on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:32AM (#24662383)
Transport Tycoon and Railroad Tycoon are not related despite both having trains and the word tycoon in them. Both great games though. I play OpenTTD to this day.
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Re:Transport Tycoon a.k.a. the great optimiser, Chris Sawyer by enzotar on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:32PM (#24673058)
Ok, maybe not an iteration then. But Sawyer drew inspiration from Raiload Tycoon and wanted an isometric version. Then it was natural marketing to publish Transport Tycoon with MicroProse. source: https://www.filfre.net/2020/10/transport-tycoon/

Sid Meier and Will Wright (Sim City) had the system simulators in 2D, and I wonder whether Sawyer influenced them with the isometric world from Transport Tycoon.

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Re:Transport Tycoon a.k.a. the great optimiser, Chris Sawyer by enzotar on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:40PM (#24673126)
Oh, nevermind, Sim City 2000 actually came out in 1993.
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Re:Transport Tycoon a.k.a. the great optimiser, Chris Sawyer by GordonS on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:42PM (#24664414)
Railroad Tycoon and Railroad Tycoon 2 are two of my all time favourite games. Along with Sid Meier's Colonization, they are actually the only games that I've gone back to time after time for years.
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