Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (RDX) is an excellent updated version of Sid Meier's classic Railroad Tycoon, a game of robber barons at the turn of 20th century.

Railroad Tycoon II is an incredibly addictive railroad management simulation that occupied my time for much of 2000.

Rails Across America is an excellent strategy game debut from Flying Lab Software, published by Strategy First.

Billed as "a comedy adventure game that is never the same twice," Rockstar is in fact a fun, and very unique, all-text strategy game from Wizard Games.

From Brian Moriarty's tribute to Dani Bunten: "Seven Cities of Gold was a solid commercial triumph.

Shortline is an excellent beer-and-pretzel realtime railroad management game that eschews complicated financial aspects (as in A-Train) and all realistic factors in favor of the pure joy of creating a...

Good movies are made by good directors, not big-name studios (although certainly the studios' deep pockets are necessary to fund ambitious projects).

Space Bucks is one of the most overlooked strategy games from Impressions, maker of the successful Caesar series.

Speculator is a decent, tongue-in-cheek game of real estate acquisition.

Spice Trade is a very interesting historical business game that is based on a unique perspective as far as computer games go: an Arab merchant living in the 14th century,...