PC Review 38, Transport Tycoon review

Cite as: PC Review 38, Transport Tycoon review
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Credit: John Bennett, PC Review
Notes: The review runs pp. 64–66; the scout read the review's score as the TechSpec "9" on p. 66 (from the page image; it isn't in the OCR), and the Recommended page names it among that month's "newly Recommended games" (p. 106). Quotes were read from the page images of pp. 64–66 and checked against the OCR. The standfirst on p. 64 says the game was billed on the magazine's "September demo disk". Page images: /download/pc-review-38/page/n63.jpg (p. 64), page/n65.jpg (p. 66), page/n105.jpg (p. 106, the Recommended page).

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The player runs a transport company, building railway lines and roads and buying trains, trucks, buses, aircraft and ships to carry cargo and passengers for profit, and has to grow before computer-run competitors force it out of business.	`p. 64, review opening`	Publisher
PC Review had put a demo of Transport Tycoon on its September 1994 cover disk, ahead of its review in the December issue.	`p. 64, standfirst`	Magazine
Reviewing it for PC Review in December 1994, John Bennett called it "the ultimate model railway" and a better game than both SimCity 2000 and Railroad Tycoon, and ended "It's fabulous". The magazine named it one of that month's Recommended games.	`p. 66p. 66, closingp. 106, PC Review Recommended`	Magazine
In Transport Tycoon Deluxe, the UNLOAD order makes a vehicle unload at a station even if the station doesn't accept its cargo, so a load can be carried on in stages: one train leaves oil at a station, another collects it and takes it on. PC Review's 1994 review of the original describes the same, a load of steel passed from lorry to ship to train.	`p. 66`	Manual