Railroad Tycoon is a strategy simulation that launched in early 1990 across multiple platforms, tasking players with building and managing railway empires. The game established itself as a landmark title in the business simulation genre during the early home computer era.
Recent coverage has centered on the discovery of footage from a long-lost Super Famicom port of the game. The conversion had been rumoured since 1991, when Nintendo Power first reported on the project, but the port never materialised for release. The emergence of actual gameplay footage from this cancelled version has renewed interest in the game's broader history across different systems.
The port was first rumoured back in 1991 in the pages of Nintendo Power. Thanks to being an official Nintendo-branded magazine, Nintendo Power was well known in the '80s and '90s for featuring coverage of games well in advance of its competition. It's true, a lot of these games w…