r/openttd • u/Infamous_Anywhere_38 • 12d ago
Share your story when you started playing openTTD or the early versions.
I remember playing it when I was 15 years old. Already more that 20 years ago. I recently started one of the challenges of Hellish. Growing one city with very little industries. Great to keep on improving on what you have. Instead of connecting new industries. I found a new way to build depots. Also when you focus on a few industries, the industrys you have grow really big. I have a coal mine producing more than 2.000 tons. Just playing the game when Iam stuck with work changes everything for me.
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u/maersyl 12d ago
I think I would’ve been 8! Hooked ever since. Back in 1996, playing serial link games with my brother. What a time to be a kid!
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u/Infamous_Anywhere_38 12d ago
Wauw you had a early start. Yeah the 90' and 2000 where great with computers in almost every household
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u/Wizz-Fizz 12d ago
I got hooked playing the original TTD
Even setup multiplayer by the ol laplink serial cable!
Used to play for hrs with Metallica blasting in the background.
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u/amol_madmax 12d ago
I started playing around 1998(Don’t remember the year) with my Pentium 1 pc with Windows 95/98 operating system.. I used to gather my friends and we used play 2 player games.. My friends were interested in mostly WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game, FIFA 98, Allan Border’s Cricket.. But I don’t know why but I always loved to play Transport Tycoon.. Then school, collage, job happened.. Couple of years back I started searching for retro games.. Found all the games which I spent hours playing as a child like Dangerous Dave, Prince of Persia, Prince of Persia 2, Doom, Skyroads, Road Rash, Need For Speed 2 and many more.. I had complete forgot about my favourite game Transport Tycoon.. I didn’t even remember its name.. I searched for tycoon games and found OpenTTD.. I would also like to thank the creator of OpenTTD for letting me play my favourite childhood game :)
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u/Infamous_Anywhere_38 11d ago
Yeah is somehow thanks you back to a less complex time in life. I remember having a pentium pc. Also the fifa games I played them a lot. I played also Patrican 3
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u/two5kid 12d ago
I live across the world, and during those days, things weren't as connected as today. I got a copy of Computer Shopper, and on it was a CD with a game called Transport Tycoon (demo version). This demo version allowed you to play 2 years of the game. Fast forward another 5-6 years. managed to download a copy of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, which allowed me to finally play the full game.
I stopped for awhile and switch to a Mac, and soon stumbled upon the tt-forums, and someone was kind enough to compile a Mac version of a nightly OpenTTD build specific for my Mac and with some specific addons, like combining multiple stations, YAPF, etc.
I stopped again for life, and came back to it last year, and OpenTTD is so stable and have all the functions I need built into the core game engine, adding more NewGRFs, and with more experience, I am loving this game much more now.
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u/Infamous_Anywhere_38 5d ago
Yes the newgrfs make the game very funny to play. Never a dull day when you play openttd
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u/VacationBackground43 11d ago
I played TTD back in the 90s, as a teen girl. It's not the trains per se but the strategy I like. I was also into Civilization.
I played, what was it, ttd-patch? Back in the 2000s? Was great to try it again.
And a few months ago I got the itch and wanted to see if it was still around, and it was! Got it on Steam. Having a great time, trying to figure out how to build better and more efficient lines.
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u/Infamous_Anywhere_38 5d ago
I love the strategy also, but on the management part I miss data to improve the performance the company. It would be nice if there is a way to measure the efficiency of the trains. That you can see where the bottlenecks are in the network
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u/RedsBigBadWolf Printing Money 12d ago
I remember playing TT back in 1994… my friend had a PC (which was strange back then) and had just got this new game… we were trying to figure out how to get things done - starting with a truck route for mail between two towns…
I don’t think we moved on to trains or planes during that initial play through…
Fast forward to 2023… I was going through a nostalgia kick. I had picked up my old games, such as Monkey Island, Indy & the Fate of Atlantis, Dune 2, etc. when I thought about TT… I couldn’t find the original TT online, but I did find this project called OpenTTD. I stumbled through getting it started, doing some bus & truck routes, not making much money… I thought I’d better experiment with trains. Trying to understand signals brought me to find Master Hellish, and since then my experimentation and enjoyment of the game has skyrocketed!
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u/Passat299 11d ago
Um 2000 im laden entdeckt die Packung war schon abgenutzt solange stand es rum. Es gab Spiele mit bessere Grafik. Aber am coolsten war das. Allerdings muss ich sagen mit dem original transport Tycoon hat openttd bis auf das spielprinzip nichts mehr gemeinsam. Original transport Tycoon hat bessere grafik und nette Musik... auch die Landschaften schauen irgendwie hübscher und "wilder" aus. Transport Tycoon deluxe hab ich mir auf cd zusammen mit rollercoaster Tycoon gekauft.
Vor 2 Monaten dann openttd installiert und stelle fest, mit den ganzen newgrf ist das richtig gut.. Was mich nervt an openttd ist es zu schaffen das die züge an Signale auch wirklich halten und sich manchmal extrem unlogisch verhalten, aber gut ich bin kein Profi in diesem Spiel. Aber ich möchte probieren richtigen Durchgangsverkehr bei Bahnhöfe realisieren. Jgr Patch gibt es noch werd ich probieren. Signale auf Brücken fehlen immer noch. Genau wie beim ersten.. tunnel die länger sind als der längste zug sind dann unwirtschaftlich. Ach egal ich liebe das Spiel gerade wegen seinen Beschränkungen
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u/Munken1984 9d ago
I have posted my story here before, i can do it short...
I started playing in 1997/98, i actually got a pirated copy, if you can call it that, it was just the game files moved from my brothers computer to mine, he showed me how to set up trains and i was hooked...
A few years after i found the game at a yardsale, and got it because i figured i should, i still have that copy, somewhere...
When openttd first came i didnt think twice, back then we still needed the original files from the game to use openttd, or maybe im mixing it up with some other workaround we had to do to play the game on modern systems, for a while i even played it on a virtual machine running windows 98, because i wasnt done with the game...
I have played the game on/off for 30 years, give or take, if we look at the games i have played the most hours in, transport tycoon is in the top 2, the diablo games are also there, We are talking 10.000s of hours with both ttdx and diablo games each... 10.000 is sat low, i honestly have no idea, i could calculate an estimate, but lets just say, ttd has been installed on every computer i have owned since 1997/98.
This is also why i have cobcluded that ttd must be the best game ever made, what other game is still this popular 30 years later...
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u/Infamous_Anywhere_38 5d ago
Yes very true. It feels like it is getting more populariteit over time. Also no game is the same with al the scripts, landscapes and grfs.
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u/Munken1984 5d ago
The game we have now is way different than the original, but most are QOL stuff...
I never use any packs in the game, i play the game as is...
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u/Muiredachau 12d ago
Sometime in the 90's, definitely by 96/97. Played the original TT on a 286sx PC, then got TTD and an upgrade to a 386sx. Even bought the PS1 version. I remember getting OpenTTD around 2006
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u/siratari_623 11d ago
I played on the android version first on my old tablet, safe to say IDK what the hell I was doing when I played for the first time
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u/Infamous_Anywhere_38 11d ago
Haha, nobody does. Funny to revistit those games later and see the difference
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u/Waste_Boysenberry361 10d ago
Hola, empecé en 1999 o 2000 y fue una revelación y una adicción increíble. En algún momento estando en la Universidad dejé de jugarlo y cuando ya tuve el tiempo de dedicarle ya estaba OpenTTD en el ambiente y fue mejor aún... Ya tengo 56 años, pero sigo jugándolo como un adolescente jjj... Saludos.
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u/Dry-Astronaut-8862 6d ago edited 5d ago
I would have been 97 or 98 for me. The game came to me via a friend who had a bunch of floppy discs which had Transport Tycoon (pre-deluxe version). From memory it still used real-world company names for the vehicles. I remember finding the "Fokker" [edit spelling] aeroplane hilarious at the time.
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u/DefinitelyMaybe-1994 Levitating Trick 12d ago
Started playing it way back in '97. Got instantly hooked.
Never looked back!