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Transport Tycoon review — PC Zone issue 21

MacDonald, Duncan. 1994. “Transport Tycoon review — PC Zone issue 21.” PC Zone, issue 21, December 1994. Dennis Publishing.

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PC Zone 21, Transport Tycoon review
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Duncan MacDonald, PC Zone issue 21 (December 1994), review pp. 104–108.
Notes
The review runs pp. 104–108; the scout read its score box on p. 108 as "94" (from the page image; the number isn't in the OCR), with "SCORE — One of the very best strategy games around." PC Zone's own scale (p. 58) gives 90+ the label "PCZONE Classic". The spec box on p. 108 gives "Release Date: November" and "Publisher: MicroProse". The MicroProse advertisement on p. 11 says "It's 1930" and "AVAILABLE NOW". Page images checked: page/n11.jpg (p. 11), page/n101.jpg (p. 104) and page/n105.jpg (p. 108).

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MicroProse published Transport Tycoon in 1994. PC Zone's December 1994 review, a British magazine's, gives its release date as November, and a MicroProse advertisement in the same issue calls it "available now".p. 108, review spec boxp. 11, MicroProse advertisementPublisher
The Deluxe manual credits game design and programming to Chris Sawyer, graphics and animation to Simon Foster, original music to John Broomhall, and sound design and programming to Andrew Parton. PC Zone's 1994 review says the game was written, coded and drawn by a team of two.p. 104, reviewManual
In PC Zone's December 1994 review Duncan MacDonald wrote that everything about it "screams Sim City 2000", called it "one of the very best strategy games around", and had one complaint, that the map was "sort of too vast".p. 104, review openingp. 108, score boxp. 108Magazine
Transport Tycoon Deluxe starts the player in 1950 with a £100,000 loan and 100 years to prove themselves, in one of four worlds, each of which generates new scenarios at random. MicroProse's 1994 advertisement for the original gave 1930 and £100,000.p. 11, MicroProse advertisementp. 11, MicroProse advertisement, headlineManual