30th Anniversary Of Transport Tycoon - Nostalgic Lets Play

[@Tekhamar]

It has been ages since I last heard the soundtrack. Thanks for the review

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

That soundtrack is soooo good

[@topfizzlecist]

@@Tekhamar I haven't played this game in about 20 years but I still get this jazzy soundtrack in my head.

[@goro158]

Can't zoom out with scroll wheel because mice didn't have scroll wheels back then 😂 Therewere 3-button mice or 2-button, but no wheels...

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

Give me the wheels!

[@Snotty128]

No wheels, just a ball you had to clean!

[@peter65zzfdfh]

@@goro158 yeah it was at least another year before a scroll mouse was even available and two years before Microsoft released their version that actually got popular enough to get decent developer uptake.

[@AllrightNOR]

One of my absolute favorite games. Ttd

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

Maybe TTD next time?

[@niels_m_h]

​@@MasterHellish-GamingI believe the CD you show on the thumbnail has the demo version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe on it, as a little teaser.

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

@niels_m_h I will check

[@rawgames3564]

Original TT!! OMG! AMAZING!

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

THE Original

[@dobey8249]

Watching that brought a certain wave of nostalgia that OpenTTD never could, but one that also made me happy for the modern conveniences we now have.

[@Nemosan01]

loading up the game back then and listening to the music.. it was love at first sight

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

I know right!

[@cnikkor]

The QoL features in OpenTTD are insane in comparission.

[@DaveTwoBob]

This takes me back - I remember struggling with signalling and getting info in 1994 was hard work, manuals, magazines and mates were your best bet. Your 14.4kbps modem was sooo slow and the internet was still mainly text based. Nice feature Master Hellish, good to be reminded how far QOL has come and remember how awesome this game was back in the day.

[@stevieinselby]

The ability to build on uneven ground and have retaining walls added was a feature on TTDPatch, Josef Drexler's mod to TTD that eventually led to the creation of OpenTTD, but it wasn't allowed in TTD as sold.

[@Vikingoste]

Soooo many memories, one of my favorite games for sure....and I must thank you Master Hellish because some years ago you made me discover OpenTTD and it was instant love again Fantastic!!!!! And plus, with your great tutorial videos I've been able to learn a ton of things I didn't know

[@arhythmicnick9929]

A fun video! I do remember playing the serial two-player mode with my brother when we both set up our PCs on the dining room table, which didn't impress my mum. Would be good to continue the series and see you face some of the late game challenges. Every old vehicle has to be replaced manually, and eventually you'll build a nice new railway line but not be able to buy a train because you've reach the maximum vehicle limit.

[@seafoodsalad3356]

That original music Transports me back! Dem midi trax

[@royvanloosbroek7215]

I only got into OpenTTD recently and am absolutely loving it. It feels a lot like the OG rollercoaster tycoon but with trains. Seeing the original game makes me appreciate the changes in Openttd a lot. also, you made a typo in the description.

[@geordietyne]

30th anniversary. Time just flew by. Great video, cheers!

[@izomyr]

Noce video, i never played this on release and viewing from an openTTD players viewpoint really shows how far we have come (while keeping to the core gameplay that was so good)

[@mcborer9643]

Now that there is OpenTTD I can't even imagine playing the original version. So many features are not avaible. Thx for video.

[@rafalb9448]

Original TTD has something that OpenTTD lost - simplicity. Like when you noticed that because depo window size = max train length = max station length, there is no need for extra train length indicator in depo. And since the max length is 10, if you really need to establish train length, you can easily "do the math" in your head. A great example of how less is more. There is no question that modern day games need to a) work on modern OS, b) support modern hardware and c) have all those nice to have QoL features in. But with all those mandatory upgrades, OpenTTD comes with a lot of other additions that just make the game more complex. And that is sort of double edged sword. As cool as it is to build huge multi track stations and vehicles with sophisticated orders, suddenly you need to understand hundreds of functions that require hundreds of menu items and windows. It tips gameplay balance from casual to advanced / hardcore and for me it turns me away from the game. I can still watch experts play it, but I can't enjoy it myself.

[@stevieinselby]

The reason Train 1 is hardly carrying any passengers is because with only one train on a longish line, the station ratings are low. It's much better to have a couple of short trains than one long train ... but with the primitive signalling, it's really tricky to have _more_ than two trains on a line without it needing constant attention!

[@peter65zzfdfh]

Really digging into the recesses of my memory but I think you could direct trains to go through a station non stop, so you could effectively make a ‘loop’ on two parallel lines and get all the trains travelling clockwise or anti-clockwise by getting them to go station 1, station 2 without stopping, station 3. And so you put the station 2 on one direction and they’d always choose that line for one direction. Maybe you needed to do the same for the other line, but don’t remember.

[@stevieinselby]

@peter65zzfdfh TTO didn't have an explicit option to do that. You could put a station down in the middle of nowhere that was only on one line so that it would never accrue or accept any cargo, and use it as a pseudo-waypoint station. If the stations were far enough apart, then using ro-ro stations with trains always going in from the back, and the occasional kink with catch points to put trains back on the correct track, you _could_ build up a reasonably intensive service with multiple trains, and you also need lots of depots to reduce the risk of trains needing a service at the wrong time ... but you did always need to keep an eye on it and be ready to intervene when trains got lost or stuck, which they *definitely* would do fairly regularly.

[@Michel-g7z]

all the troubles i got back then playing this game, my parents would yell that i should stop playing and get to bed, at 3 in the night :-) Still my favorite game of all times

[@the_kombinator]

I remember playing this game in France on a friend's 486. I have since installed open TTD on Ubuntu.

[@Andrew.gribbin]

Bring it on, mini series :)

[@jrich797]

I remember this. And I played a lot. So did my kids. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@TomasVaisar]

Let's not forget the exploit of building the tunnel across the whole map which's cost causes the integer overflow and grants you 4 billion dollars :-)

[@JimmyTheBear]

Pounds

[@niels_m_h]

That bug was only present in the very earliest versions. In particular the version shown in this video, the last non-Deluxe version, has it fixed.

[@niels_m_h]

One of my favorite things about the original Transport Tycoon (non-Deluxe) is the visual design of the user interface. The colors feel less harsh, perhaps, or more playful, than in Deluxe. The thicker borders, rounded corners, and slight texture on the icon buttons, also look lovely.

[@niels_m_h]

16:38 is perhaps my least favorite feature. If you play on a difficulty setting with "Disasters" enabled, then any primary industry your company services is doomed to eventually close down for no reason other than the curse of the player company.

[@megatronacepticon]

One thing I found interesting when I tried TT Classic was that the tertiary and secondary industries still output small amounts of cargo even if they're not being supplied with their resources, with supplying them simply increasing their output rather than being required to function as in TTD and OpenTTD. I also quite like how stations produce any cargo in range without being asked by a vehicle and I kind of wish OpenTTD had an option to operate like that since it challenges you to either strategically place your stations to dodge cargo you don't want to take or to add it to your network to avoid low station ratings.

[@Gil-games]

Dude, bosbox: alt+enter for full screen

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

I was too excited to try the game. I was already playing and recording before I knew it haha

[@TwilightSun32]

I've played original TTD (not TT) and it was a great game for that time. It worked perfectly on my 486DX4-100 and was an absolutely fantastic game. And yes, there are a lot of new features in OpenTTD but overal feeling and idea is pretty much the same.

[@katelights]

There was also TTDPatch back in the day, added a lot of good stuff. It led into openttd later on :D

[@Skeffles]

Brilliant to see what the original was like. So many fundamentals are in there but not much quality of life that you're used to from OTT

[@Jippett0]

Absolute nostalgia. That soundtrack is incredible.

[@stormtrooper000]

I remember playing this back in the day. I was only building point-to-point train lines back then. I'd hate to try building massive network without many of the QoL features we have in OpenTTD now.

[@dotintegral]

Yes! Please do Locomotion too!

[@was6298]

I absolutely love Locomotion

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

I was not so keen on a first look. But, I am going to give it another shout

[@MrDowntemp0]

Wouldn't mind seeing more of this. Especially with a pixel doubler or something. Also highly interested in seeing Locomotion, because I'm very curious why it didn't hook all the TT and TTD players

[@rjcroy]

The economy seems a bit more challenging than default OpenTTD. I'd be keen to follow how that unfolds longer-term.

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

Maybe I will have to do more then

[@Vradchuk]

While Chris has made a great game and base. Ottd has refined it into a masterpiece

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

OMG, THE OG TT! Have I died and gone to heaven?!? Yes, need and crave more! Check the hot keys for the game and DOSBox, for some games you could "ramp up" the emulated process to effectively give an speed boost on those games that used processor timing for passage of time. Please try TTD and Locomotion too! How about SimuTrans, were there made any decisions on trying that out? Could you delve into the Railroad Tycoon franchise too? It's another Microprose started games series that I spent a lot of time with.

[@GerrardGB]

Whilst OpenTTD has added a lot of QOL improvements, I was surprised how much there were in the original.

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

Ya, the Original is very playable even now

[@Crash-Rest-Yummy]

Masterpiece game

[@LilaHikes]

I miss the days of pre-rendered graphics. I don't miss having to edit my config.sys or autoexec.bat files.

[@mammoth.manfred]

Try building multiple trains and railways, you''ll get a big surprise )))

[@joke6815]

Sick video mate.

[@moriartymw]

I get nostalgic and actually kind of like the look and feel of the menus and options screen... Can one still buy Transport Tycoon? I think my first experience with it may have been TTD but it is also possible I had the original TT first. I just know I have always liked it since the first time playing... I first played it on my 386DX40 DOS PC I bought new in 1992 and would have installed apparently in 1994. Thank you for this video and taking us down memory lane! I still load up the original soundtrack on KZbin to play in the background while in OpenTTD 14.1.

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

I've never seen it new anywhere in the last few years but you might be able to get one second hand could be pricey!

[@julian5956]

Very nice

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

Thanks

[@martinmerila706]

Hello from Estonia, also first ^.^

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

Hello to you and all of Estonia

[@brillvideogames]

Seeing that Powerplus disc made me a little sad because I'm pretty sure I threw mine away at some point. I still have the chunky manual that came with it though.

[@Peterisgb]

I played this for PS1 for many many years. Still got my original copy and a new copy couple days ago. Many many memories. Tho this is quite different compared to PS1. Looks more openTTD like. You can zoom out. Holy cow. Can't do that on PS1 lol. Tho I noticed that you cant go into 3rd person mode and follow vehicles.

[@Gil-games]

I was below 8k but even less

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

Harsh payments 30 years ago

[@maedero05]

Martian climate series ? Coal the only way make Hugh profit, that money more widely spend ! Terraform dot based instead of whole square, Yes. Game challenges same but little hard, once played a Japan map really loved only lost that installation some time ago !

[@AkiWataru]

10:35 TATHS BAD

[@Locomotor1979]

yes play Locomotion

[@Ben-Hollingbery]

I'm sorry...but....30 YEARS?!

[@MasterHellish-Gaming]

Yep o

[@SerfOfTheKing]

Plwase more!!!!

[@WizardBrandon]

you can make dosbox take up your entire screen but it will make the graphics look.... bad no shared orders? thats awful lol