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  • Summary: Game Tycoon welcomes you to the ground floor of a massive new industry. It's 1982 and you & some friends are discovering the wonders of the personal computer. When you realize the potential for creating a new kind of game for them - "video games" - you decide to start a new business dedicated to it. You picked the right time -- the gaming revolution is about to begin. Can you become the biggest player in the industry, or will your little company fade out and disappear? Expand
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  1. Game Tycoon 1.5 needs a 1.6 patch to fix some out-standing issues, but otherwise provides a solid game as well as a trip down memory lane, from 1982 to present!
  2. Where Game Tycoon falters is in its lack of depth and variety. Although the concept and myriad of options I described in the paragraph above are intriguing, there isn’t a whole lot to it beyond clicking check boxes on the screen and managing company economics.
  3. The only enjoyment I got out of this game was seeing some sprites from classic games after completing a mission. The rest was just boring, if not annoying or frustrating.
  4. If desiging and producing games was really as boring as Game Tycoon makes it, we'd all be playing Zork. [July 2006, p.99]

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