Transport Tycoon 1994

Is it still worth playing?

Chris Sawyer's 1994 business simulation for MS-DOS, in which you run a transport company that competes with up to seven computer rivals for profit on a random map. Play is real time on an isometric map, with trains, trucks, buses, ships and aircraft. Its routes are built by connecting stations, and one route can chain modes, such as truck to ship to train. What a route earns depends on delivery time, distance and quantity, and cargo differs: mail loses value quickly with distance, while coal holds its value. Those stations only accept cargo from their local area. Vehicles come from depots, each model with its own reliability, maintenance cost, speed, capacity and lifespan, and they break down more as they age, until they need replacing. Each map is still an economy to work out today, from where a station goes to when a train is replaced.