His creations have been honored with virtually every major award in the gaming industry and include legendary titles such as Railroad Tycoon, Civilization and Pirates.
That transcontinental railroad, completed in 1893, was the only one built entirely with private money on privately purchased land, by a self-made railroad tycoon, James J.
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To this day MicroProse continues to use his name to market games like Sid Meier's Civilization and Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon that Meier developed during his fourteen-year tenure with the company.
Like most of Loki's other ported games (Railroad Tycoon being the notable exception), Heroes III can only be played on the console and not displayed over a network through the X Window System.
As the Classic Gaming website reports, Microprose, once known as the name behind Civilization, Railroad Tycoon and other classic games, is now set to release a bundle of new products that likely wouldn't garner a second glance if not for the brand.
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And so the white widow of a railroad tycoon and a black social worker from Arkansas founded what would become the Urban League, to strengthen our cities and our communities brick by brick, and block by block, and neighborhood by neighborhood, life by life.
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The railroad and telecom tycoon has confided to at least one associate that it's his way of doing something to stem the tide of what he terms the violence-and sex-soaked refuse spilling out of Hollywood.
The railroad and telecom tycoon has confided to at least one associate that this is his way of doing something to stem the tide of what he sees as violence-and sex-soaked refuse spilling out of Hollywood.
Later that year, a Wall Street contact arranged a meeting with Philip Anschutz, a reclusive tycoon who had sold Southern Pacific Railroad to Union Pacific and, in a stroke of genius, kept the right to lay fibre-optic cable along the tracks of both railways.
The heroes of that book included a noble railroad heiress, Dagny Taggart, and a struggling steel tycoon, Hank Rearden, but they are overshadowed by a character who emerges toward the end, John Galt, an inventor who leads the downtrodden 1% on a strike.
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