Lionel Trains Presents: Trans-Con!
Lionel Trains Presents: Trans-Con! is an educational game focused on the history surrounding the transcontinental railroad. The player controls either the Union Pacific or Central Pacific railroads, and builds…
31 December 1999
Lionel Trains Presents: Trans-Con! is a simulator, released 31 December 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Lionel Trains Presents: Trans-Con! is
Lionel Trains Presents: Trans-Con! was released in 1999. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Lionel Trains Presents: Trans-Con! is an educational game focused on the history surrounding the transcontinental railroad. The player controls either the Union Pacific or Central Pacific railroads, and builds the railroad towards Utah. (Each railroad is a different campaign.) Each campaign is divided up into multiple missions. The usual gameplay in each mission consists of choosing the route for the railroad on a grid to connect one city to the next. There is a set budget for each mission, and exceeding that budget will fail the mission. There are sections of interest on the map, and building your railroad into that section can cause an event to occur. This can be good, bad, or give you a…
How it plays
Its themes are educational.
What it launched against
Lionel Trains Presents: Trans-Con! launched on 31 December 1999, within three weeks of Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead and Little Fighter 2.
Released around the same time: Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead, Little Fighter 2.
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When did Lionel Trains Presents: Trans-Con! come out?
Lionel Trains Presents: Trans-Con! was released on 31 December 1999 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
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