Which board game was centered around the construction of a railroad track: Monopoly Junior, or TransAmerica?
5d04b227e0aa911b3c03462e50e7a0ff
Monopoly Junior Monopoly Junior is a simplified version of the board game Monopoly, designed for young children. It has a rectangular board that is smaller than the standard game and rather than using street names it is based on a city's amusements (a zoo, a video game arcade, a pizzeria, etc.) to make the game more child-friendly.
542e9f473b303b3b8a8c67815f22a6e8
TransAmerica (board game) TransAmerica is a railroad board game centered on the construction of railroad track in the United States. The game was created by Franz-Benno Delonge and developed by Team Annaberg. It is published in the United States by Rio Grande Games. In 2003 it was a Mensa Select recipient.
73a1aa0bd5da4011724c34d730bcc2ec
Hexapawn Hexapawn is a deterministic two-player game invented by Martin Gardner. It is played on a rectangular board of variable size, for example on a 3×3 board or on a chessboard. On a board of size "n"×"m", each player begins with "m" pawns, one for each square in the row closest to them. The goal of each player is to advance one of their pawns to the opposite end of the board or to prevent the other player from moving.
efcc0edfe22c154ffa0002cf95d5b38a
The Corporate Machine The Corporate Machine (known in Europe as Business Tycoon) is a strategy computer game from Stardock in which the goal is to create a corporation in one of four industries (automobiles, aircraft, computers, or soft drinks) and eventually dominate rival companies. To win the player must dominate the chosen market (getting 55% to 65% of the market share depending on the number of opponents). The Corporate Machine is a follow up to the game Business Tycoon, which was itself a sequel to the game Entrepreneur, all developed by Stardock.
93e39f4496822101f6ff976ed6d39bfc
Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game is a real-time business simulation game developed by David Mullich in 1980 for the Apple II. Based upon queuing theory and released after the 1979 energy crisis, the game puts the player in the role of chief executive of Engulf Oil, setting gas prices and worker salaries, monitoring gas station lines, scheduling oil tanker arrivals, and negotiating oil prices with OPEC countries in a race against the clock to maximize profits. As with most Edu-Ware games, "Windfall" has an educational aspect, demonstrating the delicate balance in complex systems.
666b905a937ea441eb6c35aecd438b0c
Lines of Action Lines of Action (or LOA) is a strategy board game for two players invented by Claude Soucie. The objective is to connect all of one's pieces into a single group.
76e6b4654e4d26892baa882852a9e87b
Loco-Motion (video game) Loco-Motion (also known as Guttang Gottong) is an arcade puzzle game developed by Konami in 1982 and licensed to Centuri. In "Loco-Motion", the player builds a path for their unstoppable locomotive by moving tracks which will allow it to pick up passengers.
99f779dce64a7e25a20becdba08ad60a
Francis Tresham (game designer) Francis Tresham is a United Kingdom-based board game designer who has been producing board games since the early 1970s. Tresham founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil (founded 1971), a company well known for its "Civilization" board game, until its sale to MicroProse in 1997. His "1829" game was the first of the "18xx" board game series and some of his board games have inspired Sid Meier computer games such as "Railroad Tycoon".
63e3cff400e4327394eef483d35856ee
Domineering Domineering (also called Stop-Gate or Crosscram) is a mathematical game played on a sheet of graph paper, with any set of designs traced out. For example, it can be played on a 6×6 square, a checkerboard, an entirely irregular polygon, or any combination thereof. Two players have a collection of dominoes which they place on the grid in turn, covering up squares. One player, Left, plays tiles vertically, while the other, Right, plays horizontally. As in most games in combinatorial game theory, the first player who cannot move loses.
89e9f103a51e1572e6ec8aef9cbdc299
Canadian Monopoly Canadian Monopoly is an edition of the popular board game Monopoly. It features Canadian properties, railways, and utilities, rather than the original version which is based in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
c4cfc89eedd8bb6d1f1878daa205510a
Solarquest SolarQuest is a space-age real estate trading board game published in 1985 and developed by Valen Brost, after his having conceived the idea in 1976. The game is patterned after "Monopoly" but replaces pewter tokens with rocketships and hotels with metallic fuel stations. Players travel around the sun acquiring planet, moon, and man-made space structure monopolies while fending off attacks. They seek to knock their opponents out of the game through bankruptcy, as well as optional laser blasts and dwindling fuel supplies (when using the Advanced Play ruleset).
d6f5e0977181205168798c929224283b
Tic-tac-toe Tic-tac-toe (also known as noughts and crosses or Xs and Os) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players, "X" and "O", who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid. The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row wins the game.
8b5fa341c0fef5199c63299e6ae88655
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D is a construction and management simulation video game developed by n-Space for the Nintendo 3DS. The game is a spin-off of the "RollerCoaster Tycoon" series and the first portable game in the franchise.
fdf2d0a7aa93caefc9f3631ad079f04c
Board game A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or <dfn id="">pieces</dfn> moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Some games are based on pure strategy, but many contain an element of chance; and some are purely chance, with no element of skill.
352d25e5298ecd16a4b9cbb30ac1e2ea
Tavares, Eustis &amp; Gulf Railroad The Tavares, Eustis & Gulf Railroad (TE&G), advertised as the Orange Blossom Cannonball, was a tourist railroad company operating excursion trains on track owned by the Florida Central Railroad, located in the northern portion of Central Florida. The TE&G was a subsidiary of the Reader Railroad located in Arkansas.
bd31209b0be4533f8cab8de7cbd59cc7
Col (game) Col is a pencil and paper game, specifically a map-coloring game, involving the shading of areas in a line drawing according to the rules of Graph coloring. With each move, the graph must remain proper (no two areas of the same colour may touch), and a player who cannot make a legal move loses. The game was described and analysed by John Conway, who attributed it to Colin Vout, in On Numbers and Games.
a25ba28acfd2abb2230d63a591a9c74e
Pacific Railroad Surveys The Pacific Railroad Surveys (1853–1855) consisted of a series of explorations of the American West to find possible routes for a transcontinental railroad across North America. The expeditions included surveyors, scientists, and artists and resulted in an immense body of data covering at least 400000 sqmi on the American West. "These volumes... constitute probably the most important single contemporary source of knowledge on Western geography and history and their value is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of many beautiful plates in color of scenery, native inhabitants, fauna and flora of the Western country." Published by the United States War Department from 1855 to 1860, the surveys contained significant material on natural history, including many illustrations of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. In addition to describing the route, these surveys also reported on the geology, zoology, botany, paleontology of the land as well as provided ethnographic descriptions of the Native peoples encountered during the surveys.
102dc5ce80f9d94d449a02611db81b7f
Treco Treco, also credited as Treco Corporation Limited, American Treco and Treco, USA, was a game developer and publisher located in Torrance, California. Treco produced games for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive from 1990 to 1993. Treco was a subsidiary of Sammy Corporation.
d467780a996fbcdad5b86a65f817239e
The Farming Game The Farming Game is a board game simulating the economics of a small farm. Published in 1979, it was designed by George Rohrbacher, a rancher in Washington State. "The Farming Game" painfully reflects the real-life difficulties of running a farm. Also, the names and places in the game are the names of families farming for generations in Yakima Valley and other parts of Central Washington. When Rohrbacher invented the game, it was a desperate time for his failing farm and small family, which is reflected in the difficulty of the game, and the multitude of points taken into consideration in farming that are often left up to chance. It is considered a board game which has educational value.
31067b543f000c5fcf5213eedae911fa
Junta (game) Junta is a board game designed by Vincent Tsao published, as of 1985, by West End Games. Players compete as the corrupt power elite families of a fictional parody of a stereotypical banana republic (specifically "Republica de los Bananas") trying to get as much money as possible into their Swiss bank accounts before the foreign aid money runs out. Fighting in the republic's capital during recurrent coup attempts encompasses most of the game's equipment, rules and playtime. This game-within-the-game is however actually tangential to the players' main goal.
33d28a6cf38110ff85ef582e73a374ab
Finance (game) Finance, or The Fascinating Game of Finance or Finance and Fortune, is a board game originally released in 1932. The game is based on "The Landlord's Game" in the movement of pieces around the board, the use of cards, properties that can be purchased, and houses that can be erected on them. The game also has railroads, however these may not be purchased. The game is actually a predecessor to "Monopoly".
1050a943421eb0de06c7e1b83ca03b86
Bruce Shelley Bruce Campbell Shelley is a board and video game designer. He is primarily associated as the co-designer of the video games "Railroad Tycoon" and "Civilization" with Sid Meier, and later the "Age of Empires" series.