The series began in the hands of strategy design guru Sid Meier, and along with its sequel has been one of the most successful strategy management series not dealing with football.
'It's a strategy game and it looks nice,' says Franz J Felsl, lead designer at PopTop Software, with mock incredulity, 'as opposed to most which go, 'It's a strategy game, here's your spreadsheet.'' Sell-By Date Except this particular series has always had a little more class than games such as Airport Tycoon, Ski Resort Tycoon and Local Late-Nite Kebab & Chippie Tycoon. Railroad Tycoon is the granddaddy of the interminable succession of Tycoon games that plague us like a biblical, er, plague.
