User:OriginalJunglist/Projects/economic simulation games cleanup

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todo:

• add missing economic simulation games
• expand economic simulation stubs
• cleanup economic simulation articles
• expand the main economic simulation page
• fix infoboxes
• get rid of games that don't belong in the economic simulation category (done)
• add games that have already have articles to the category (done)

Contents 1 Missing games 2 Additions to the Economic simulation game article 3 Distinguishing features 4 Genre history 5 Popular economic simulation games 6 Chronology 7 Gallery

[edit] Missing games

• Industry Giant
• Industry Giant II
• Vegas Tycoon
• Spring break
• Lula: The Sexy Empire
• Rock manager
• Maximum Capacity: Hotel Giant
• Skate Park tycoon
• Golf Resort Tycoon II
• Trailer Park Tycoon
• Legacy Online
• Donald Trump's Real Estate Tycoon
• Snow
• Luxury Liner Tycoon
• Zapitalism
• Casino Mogul
• Casino, Inc.
• Animal Paradise Tycoon
• Deep Sea Tycoon 2
• Gamebiz
• Health and Fitness Tycoon
• Mall Tycoon 3
• Las Vegas Tycoon
• Real Estate Tycoon
• SeaWorld Adventure Parks Tycoon
• Shopping Centre Tycoon
• SeaWorld Adventure Parks Tycoon 2
• Starship Tycoon
• Trains and Trucks Tycoon
• XXX Tycoon

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[edit] Additions to the Economic simulation game article

[edit] Distinguishing features

Economic simulation games differ from other computer and video game genre titles in that: Game goals focus on successfully running your business Businisses may continue to grow even after victory conditions have been met Players can only indirectly influence individual citizen activities

[edit] Genre history

[edit] Popular economic simulation games

• Aerobiz, an airline business simulation in which four companies compete to be the leader in the aerial travel industry. Includes its sequel Aerobiz Supersonic.
• Capitalism, capitalism/economics/business simulator.
• Fish Tycoon, breed and sell fish.
• Harvest Moon (series), a farm simulation with RPG and life simulator aspects
• Railroad Tycoon, a simulation of railroad companies. Sequels include Railroad Tycoon 2, Railroad Tycoon 3 and Sid Meier's Railroads!. The genre was so successful that it sparked the development of other such "Tycoon" simulations, the most notable being Roller Coaster Tycoon, Transport Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon, in which the player takes control of an amusement park, the transportation elements of a city, and a zoo, respectively.
• SimFarm, where the player controls a rural American farm
• SimIsle, where the player controls a Caribbean island
• SimTower, where the player constructs a simulated building complex
• Traffic Giant
• Simutrans
• Industryplayer, where the player controls an industry holding.
• Miniconomy, where the player trades with other players all over the world.

[edit] Chronology

Chronology of real-time tactics games

Release year	Game	By	Business	Notes
1993	Fields of Glory	Microprose	Historical	Napoleonic Wars

[edit] Gallery

Infantry assault a bridge in dismal weather in Shogun: Total War.	Crusader army assembled for battle in Medieval: Total War.	Scene from Myth.	Confederate troops advancing on Union positions in Sid Meier's Gettysburg!.
Union commander overseeing troop disposition in The History Channel Civil War: The Battle of Bull Run.	French cavalry charging British position in Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle.	Battle in the seas in Imperial Glory.	Screenshot from Sudden Strike.
Bugs burning in Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy.	Battlemech combat in MechCommander.	A semi-arid battlezone from MechCommander 2.	Opposing fleets battle in an asteroid field. Nexus: The Jupiter Incident.