Some routes can be lucrative at the beginning, but they must be expanded to keep the profit going. They will have to build their tracks and make money from the deliveries. In this managerial simulation players start out with a loan to launch a railroad company in 1950 and they will have to run their business all the way up to the year 2050. Chris Sawyer, that will become famous also for the RollerCoaster Tycoon series, designed and programmed the game. TTD was the second in the series and became more popular than the original Transport Tycoon. A Windows version was released in 1996.įollowing the success of Civilization, the company decided to create a new series in the realm of economic simulation. Transport Tycoon Deluxe (or TTD) is an improved version of Transport Tycoon, a business simulation game developed by Chris Sawyer and published by MicroProse in 1995 for MS-DOS.
