Title: Buy a 286 & The Original Game!
Product review: There are some things that, no matter how lovingly and desparately people want to improve them - it just doesn't work. RailRoad Tycoon is one of them. This game for Playstation or the PC is very pretty and it works to some extent, but after a few weeks of trying, I went back to the original, ugly old EGA game, that works so well. You can pick up an old 286 and an original copy of RRT at the auction for less than the price of RRT II and you will have a lot more fun! A tip if you try and run the original RRT on newer hardware, you might have to pick MCGA or EGA on the opening screen - don't worry, it's the same graphics but some new hardware doesn't like the old VGA driver. Take it from someone who has been playing RRT since the days of the XT, the appeal of the game is in the AI, not in pretty graphics. The new version is just too slow in unfolding, too far off the economic mark and somehow loses the magic in the translation to 3-D.
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