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| Railroad Tycoon | |
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| Genre(s) | Business simulation |
| Developer(s) | MPS Labs PopTop Software Firaxis Games |
| Publisher(s) | Microprose Gathering of Developers 2K Games |
| Creator(s) | Sid Meier |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Amiga, Mac OS, Atari ST, FM Towns, NEC PC-9801, Windows, Linux, PlayStation, Dreamcast, Mac OS X |
| First release | Railroad Tycoon 1990 |
| Latest release | Sid Meier's Railroads 2006 |
Railroad Tycoon is a business simulation game series. There are five games in the series; the original Railroad Tycoon (1990), Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (1993), Railroad Tycoon II (1998), Railroad Tycoon 3 (2003), and Sid Meier's Railroads! (2006).
Railroad Tycoon was written by game designer Sid Meier and published by MicroProse. Though it shares the "Tycoon" suffix, it is not related to other Microprose games such as RollerCoaster Tycoon and Transport Tycoon, which were developed by Scottish programmer Chris Sawyer.
The objective of the game is to build and manage a railroad company by laying track, building stations, and buying and scheduling trains. The railroad must be built in a certain time to win the game.