Classic Railroad Tycoon now gratis

Sid Meier's original PC train simulation now available for free; 15MB download now at game's official site.

It's "all aboard" for PC gamers with a hankering for retro games. 2K Games has announced that Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon is now available for free download. The 1990 classic clocks in at 15MB and can be downloaded from the official Sid Meier's Railroads! Web site. Included in the file is the full game, the manual, and reference cards. The latest incarnation of the Railroad Tycoon series, Sid Meier's Railroads!, was released this past October.

49 Comments

  • dfisherrv

    Posted Mar 1, 2009 6:47 pm PT

    Still one of the greatest games ever but why did they release it with two of the old bugs still there. If you play on today's PC's, the game speed is either real slow of hyper-fast. Also, a patch to the original made it so you could zoom in or out using the wheel on your mouse but not in this release. I've played this game for hundreds if not thousands of hours and it would still be at the top of my play list if they would just make it more playable.

  • Ledoubleu

    Posted May 2, 2008 6:06 pm PT

    Gratis means free even here in Florida.

  • phyut

    Posted Apr 3, 2007 5:53 pm PT

    Gratis = Free in Indonesia too

  • _Sam_

    Posted Nov 26, 2006 12:50 pm PT

    Great! I'll check out the site

  • bucanero05

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 6:20 pm PT

    Men, Gratis means free in spanish.

  • Thorpe89 Site moderator

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 4:22 pm PT

    That's really cool releasing it for free.

  • El3ctrode

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 1:02 pm PT

    Swedish to

  • anber500

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 11:23 am PT

    Gratis is Afrikaans too

  • piecake

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 9:17 am PT

    great!

  • Generic_Dude

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 9:16 am PT

    Who cares? Now if they offered Sid Meier's Railroads! for free THAT would be news.

    Hey "gratis" means free in English too! W00t!

  • cjcr_alexandru

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 9:11 am PT

    "Gratis" means free in Romanian, too.

  • ObiKKa

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 9:03 am PT

    The funny thing is that this game's already been abandonware for a long time to download for gratis at www.abandonia.com, which is IMHO one of the best abandonware PC-DOS game sites ever (Home of the Underdogs collects PC-DOS, PC, and some other games, so it's a bit different but the greatest one ever, I'm sure).

    Abandonia.com DOES have both the original and deluxe versions of Railroad Tycoon! They've also got Transport Tycoon made by the man who later designed the Rollercoaster Tycoon games.

  • LordAndrew

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 9:00 am PT

    That's right. And latin words tend to make their way into many languages.

  • Super_Sci_Fi

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 8:50 am PT

    Gratis is Latin.

  • ssjdagas

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 8:44 am PT

    What if Americans would be like this every time someone uses their language. So what if gratis means free in Swedish, Dutch and other languages, BIG DEAL Sweden uses English words ALL THE TIME =P

  • erikthorsen

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 8:17 am PT

    LOL! Is Tim Surrete norwegen or something? Gratis is norwegen and means free

  • darfvader

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 7:16 am PT

    gratis gratuit free hinam

  • jo_meijer

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 7:04 am PT

    Haha, gratis guys do you now what it is? I'm dutch and gratis means: free. Its not swedisch its dutch. LOL all have to be "gratis" Dutch rocks:p... "Laters" thats something like: See you later:p

  • LordAndrew

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 6:17 am PT

    Hooray for gratis!

  • ghostviper88

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 6:04 am PT

    It could aslo bee Norwegian.
    Every free game is good.

  • Zeraquor

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 5:29 am PT

    woot gratis watch out we are infiltrating the english language *cough* ^^
    I don't think I tried this one, so maybe should check it out
    Anyway it's nice of the creators to do this, thumbs up!

  • wudi31898

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 4:50 am PT

    i love free games...

  • Exposity

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 4:36 am PT

    What's up with "gratis"? Why do you use Swedish... oh i know - svenskarna tar över gamespot och gör det helsvenskt! YAY!

  • anamnawshad

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 3:48 am PT

    Free is good!

  • alb55

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 3:41 am PT

    det er gratis !

  • pdxkatt

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 2:05 am PT

    Now if only Maxis would do the same for A-Train!

  • FSK405K

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 11:47 pm PT

    blaster710, it's obvious you never played Railroad Tycoon. Those many of us who played it for months and months, learning how to manipulate the stock market with mastery, micromanage dozens of stations and trains, and outcompete the robber barons through unethical trade practices never got quite the same great experience from any other Railroad Tycoon sequel or any other game since. Of course the graphics are bad now...Railroad Tycoon was released the same the NES received Barker Bill's Trick Shooting and A Boy and His Blob.

  • blaster710

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 11:40 pm PT

    Thanks for nothing, maybe the worst graphics in a game I have seen since post 1970s. The whole game is 12mb, don't even waste your time. Try running into a wall for five minutes, that will result in more fun.

  • gwds

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 11:35 pm PT

    I'm so there...

  • ItsNotAllGood

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 9:58 pm PT

    One of the best games ever. Period.

  • gozalo

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 8:31 pm PT

    coolio

  • Invid

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 8:01 pm PT

    To all those that think old games are free just because they're old (/sarcasm "No really, it's called abandonware" /sarcasm off), this is what's really required for it to become *really* free. Good for Sid.

  • imbacon

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 6:24 pm PT

    DUDE! I love free ****

  • Supermodified

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 5:58 pm PT

    "If it's free, give me three." - Emmitt Smith

    My sentiments exactly.

  • VegetaMaelstrom

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 5:58 pm PT

    Nice. Hopefully good old Sid will just offer up his entire work from 1990 and earlier sooner or later.

  • blazeyadeadzomb

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 5:18 pm PT

    i remember my cousin playing this game alot, i think im going to give it a try,and it's free anyway's.

  • kevb84

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 5:10 pm PT

    Cool very cool.

  • dazman92

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 5:02 pm PT

    nice, more of a civ fan meself, but i'll try anything once.

  • mrbass208

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 3:54 pm PT

    Classy move by 2k and Sid Meier. Nobody, and I do mean NOBODY puts out games anywhere near the depth, scope, and quality of Sid Meier. His games are entertaining, educational, and it's painfully obvious that Robb12123 has never played any of them.

  • bklapmeyer

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 3:37 pm PT

    Now if Maxis would just put up a free version of their old A-Train game...

  • paullywog

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 3:37 pm PT

    dling now...

  • EmilioDigsIt

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 3:37 pm PT

    Freeeeeeeeeee!!

  • Darcius

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 3:36 pm PT

    OMG lmao i remeber playing that game when it was brand new hahah... but can it really replace dawn of war on my system... or can they co-habitate thats the real question lmao

    oh and to the tard who claims gta is a classic.. gta is not as old as railroad tycoon lmao so its hardly a classic. its just old

  • DELTAsnake

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 3:14 pm PT

    Cool, now if the new version of the game would stop crashing every 2 minutes I'd be happy with this franchise.

  • Ebougile

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 3:11 pm PT

    This was the first PC game that I was truly addicted to when I switched from the Atari to the PC back in 1991. I played many hours of it on my old 386 and 486 computers. Great to see it re-released like this. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a Grasshopper locomotive waiting!

    EDIT: This actually appears to be the Deluxe version, not the original. Still good though.

  • juanfraino

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 3:07 pm PT

    I love it when stuff is gratis!

    Edit: omfg this game is difficult!

  • SP8616

    Posted Nov 20, 2006 3:07 pm PT

    cool

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