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| Spell-A-Saurus and A-Train--BOXED |
Posted by: Scott Baret on 2008-11-19 20:05:05
I just got these in the mail today. Both are for MS-DOS and Spell-A-Saurus is believed to be very rare. It was put out by First Byte and didn't seem to be too widely used--I know of only two other people who have even heard of it!
Now I get to dig my 486 back out of the closet, which I'll probably do once I finish my finals in a few weeks and enjoy a month of winter holiday.
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Posted by: stevep on 2008-11-19 20:14:00
I have A-Train on one of my Classics, and I have the box and manuals too. Always did find that one to be fun!
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2008-11-19 20:32:56
I've actually never played it--does it play at all like Sim City?
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Posted by: Byrd on 2008-11-20 04:02:57
Got the boxed Mac version of A-Train here, along with Sim City 2000 and Pirates! That's all I have 🙂
JB
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Posted by: defor on 2008-11-20 06:22:01
I would kill to find a boxed copy of a-train (mac) - that's awesome
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-11-20 07:48:50
I've actually never played it--does it play at all like Sim City? Judging by the picture on Wikipedia, it looks like it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Maxis_a-train_on_mac1.jpg
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2008-11-20 08:23:55
I thought the same thing when I saw the artwork on the box. I probably won't play around with it until finals week has come and gone.
Like SC2K (which it resembles from those pictures) it just may make a good foundation for a social studies lesson someday.
I'm hoping to find some ancient DOS laptop so I can use Spell-A-Saurus with the children I tutor who occasionally ask me to work on spelling words.
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Posted by: defor on 2008-11-20 10:20:26
a-train was actually not originally a maxis product, but under maxis, was released in the us for pc, mac, psx
iirc it's the second version of the game still made by artdink...
here's the current version 8:
http://www.artdink.co.jp/japanese/title/a8/game/screenshot.html
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Posted by: ~Coxy on 2008-11-20 18:14:25
A-Train is almost nothing like SimCity, but it's kinda similar to Railroad Tycoon.
I have a boxed copy for Mac. I'll try to get a pic when I go back and get all my old Mac stuff.
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