Transport Tycoon Deluxe, OpenTTD
November 24th, 2008
During my teenage years, I used to spend vast amounts of time playing Transport Tycoon, followed by Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It was an absolutely fantastic game written by Chris Sawyer. Actually, going a number of years back to my very early teens, I used to play Railroad Tycoon on the Amiga, which was a similar sort of thing, but only for trains, made by Sid Meier.
Recently, I’ve been playing OpenTTD, an open source reimplementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, which runs perfectly on modern day operating systems, including Win2k/XP/Vista, Linux, MacOS and others. It features many enhancements, and removes many of the limits that were present in the original game (Such as the maximum number of trains, stations, etc).
It’s definitely worth checking out, although you need files from the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe. You can pick up copies of it on Amazon/eBay for next to nothing. So if you’ve been wondering why I’ve not posted over the past few days, now you know :P
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1. Andy | January 4th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I too loved the original Transport Tycoon, which I inherited from a friend in my high school years when she lent it to me to find out why it wasn’t working, and I tested out my dad’s new CD writer with it ;-)
OpenTTD is a great project that’s allowed the original game to live on and even though you can see the limitations compared to today’s modern games (ie. graphics) it’s well worth an investment of a few quid and lots (and LOTS) of time!
Also you can download TT Deluxe from here.
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