1830: Railroads & Robber Barons
Encyclopedia
1830: Railroads & Robber Barons is a computer game developed by SimTex
and published by Avalon Hill
in 1995 for IBM/DOS.
. 1830 is an economics game about buying, running, selling, and manipulating railroads and their stocks. A player uses the stock market each round to buy one share of any of the eight railroads (the first share is the President's Share and counts double). A player controls a company by having the President's and at least as many shares in that railroad as anyone else. On the map, the players place "tiles" to create their rail nets, and run trains to collect revenue.
#219 by Jay & Dee in the "Eye of the Monitor" column. Jay gave the game 3½ out of 5 stars, while Dee gave the game 4 stars.
Simtex
Simtex was a video game developer established by Steve Barcia in 1988. It created a number of well-known turn-based strategy games for the PC, most notably the first two Master of Orion games...
and published by Avalon Hill
Avalon Hill
Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. Its logo contained its initials "AH", and it was often referred to by this abbreviation. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports simulations...
in 1995 for IBM/DOS.
Plot
1830: Railroads & Robber Barons is a multi-player computer game adaptation of the Avalon Hill board game, 18301830 (board game)
1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons is a railroad operations and share trading board game first published by Avalon Hill in 1986 based on an original design by Francis Tresham...
. 1830 is an economics game about buying, running, selling, and manipulating railroads and their stocks. A player uses the stock market each round to buy one share of any of the eight railroads (the first share is the President's Share and counts double). A player controls a company by having the President's and at least as many shares in that railroad as anyone else. On the map, the players place "tiles" to create their rail nets, and run trains to collect revenue.
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1995 in DragonDragon (magazine)
Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
#219 by Jay & Dee in the "Eye of the Monitor" column. Jay gave the game 3½ out of 5 stars, while Dee gave the game 4 stars.
External links
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