Tycoon City: New York | 
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| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $2.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 6119
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 25713
Model: 25713
UPC: 742725257139
EAN: 0742725257139
ASIN: B0007WZLG4
Release Date: February 21, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Build your own Manhattan empire in this exciting strategy game | | • | Create and customize over 100 types of major businesses | | • | Place buildings anywhere to create your own version of New York City | | • | Upgrade businesses with hundreds of improvements to drive profits | | • | For 1 player |
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Product Description
Tycoon City: New York gives you the chance to make your mark on one of the world's biggest cities! You're a 20-year-old Manhattan resident who just happens to have $100 million in the bank. It's time to build your own empire in the city and turn those millions into billions! Jump into the crazy New York City real estate market and become the next Donald Trump, as you build your business and become the King of New York! Explore city neighborhoods in sandbox mode or play for keeps in realistic business challenges
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 It's The Experience, Not the Gaming October 16, 2007
As tycoon games go, this one's pretty mediocre, all right. However, what's really fun about it is not the recreation, but instead the re-creation, in loving detail, of Manhattan Island.
Is New York the quintessential nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there? Perhaps so.
It was fun decorating Liberty Island. It was fun opening businesses in Greenwich Village. It was fun until it became repetitive, boring and not much fun any more.
The downside of any tycoon game, I guess, is when you keep needing to do the same stuff with no real challenge left. The cumulative challenges of this game just did not materialize and ends up leaving the player cold.
 I enjoy it September 23, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I play games of all types. Being disabled and homebound the majority of the time, I spend all my waking hours on my computer either online or playing a game, sometimes both at once.
Reading the other reviews I am seeing people who bought the game thinking it was something it wasn't. It is exactly what it said it was, a business Sim game. You build your businesses, if you get enough of the same kind then you build a headquarters and you make money. No, you can't lose money, I like that, it means I don't have to search the web for cheats so I'm able to actually get enough money to build at the pace I want instead of cheating to get it.
Complicated games are fun if you are young, have a med free mind, etc. I am 50, am on many different meds for various incurable auto immune diseases and Fibro which all cause intractable, chronic pain. Pain meds get the pain gone, but can make it hard some days to concentrate for any length of time on something. Games like this one fill a need, for people like me who want a fun game to play that has an easy learning curve and that you can win without having to cheat.
For those having problems with their video, it sounds like you need to upgrade your computer's video card. The new games coming out are so graphically intense, you need a top of the line video card in order to play them. You can find one for under 200 if you are patient and look around at different sites online, but I've gotten the best deals right here on Amazon for the last 2 I've bought. I expect when I need to upgrade again in a year or two, I will be right back here to order again. :) I buy ATI's, which have always been the best for the sim and shooter games I play.
I'm sorry some of you didn't like the game, but I'm of the opposite view. I love it and am having a lot of fun laying out my town, fixing up my parks, watching the wild Halloween parade you get with the first area you build LOL and deciding how I can best decorate the front of each business that will please the customers the most (the game will tell you before you put a choice down).
Things have sure come a long way in gaming since I got that first pong game and attached it to my TV when I was young. The one cool thing about being my age, I've had the joy of watching it all grow thru the years and I was hooked from day one when I got Pong, then Atari, etc., to my homebuilt gaming computer of today. Enjoy the game for what it is and it will bring hours of fun.
Now I'm off to change over to my other window under this one, which is of course, Tycoon City New York. Haha, seriously, I was playing and decided to write this here and give my thoughts on the game. Sorry if this is kinda long, I wanted to cover all the previous posts as well as possible.
Almost revolutionary: March 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The basic premise that surrounds this game is almost inrivaled in the world of tycoon games. They really spared no effort creating a game that was full of variations. There are tons of buildings to choose from, and several different regions of Manhatten in which to build, all of which are unique. I started playing this game with extremely high expectations.
And those expectations were dashed. There is no challenge to the game, and dispite the numerous cool graphs and charts that detail earnings in many different ways, all of this information is irrelevant. My citizen's desires are irrelevant. It doesn't matter if my citizens are happy or not because it doesn't effect me. It doesn't matter if my newly placed building matches the needs of a neighborhood or not. None of the cool side effects really have any effects on my city whatsoever.
Once I got past the initial thrill of this game, I came to to the conclusion that there just is no substance. After all of the irrelevant but neat graphs and menus have lost their allure, all that is left is a game where all I get to do is plop down buildings and upgrade them while I watch the cash roll in.
 Problematic... August 19, 2006
The game is cool, in and of itself. I love building in NYC.
BUT... the problem is that this game shuts down everytime the computer does any sort of automatic update. If Windows wants to update (or any antivirus programs... or any other plethora of programs that want to update every other week on modern computers) it shuts down the game and you lose anything you haven't saved yet. I shouldn't have to shut down ALL automatic updates everytime I want to play the game. I play other games, including Tycoon games, Sim games, and all sorts of others, and have NEVER had such a problem. It makes the game unusable... which makes it totally lame. If I could return this, I would.
Good sim game, not much challenge July 6, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I enjoy Sim City and had passed by this game on the shelves for a while but finally figured I'd give it a shot.
In today's world most people probably know if they like simulation games or not. If you found Sim City a yawn, this is too. If you've managed to learn how to build entire Sim City regions without resorting to cheat codes, then you'll probably enjoy this too but it's not nearly as "challenging" as much as a "challenge" actually applies to either.
The graphics are great and I enjoy the detail and rather enjoy zooming in and watching people mill about my city. I followed along the "Build New York" mode but found by the time I got 1/3 or the city unlocked I was making money at such a pathetically high rate that I run the risk of being wealthier than Warren Buffet and Bill Gates combined. There's no real challenge here, and if you actually pay attention to your business chains and build up headquarters often the money will roll in faster than you can ever possibly spend it.
I really enjoy this type of game and am glad I got it. I will continue to play it for some time. But like so many sim games, it's relatively pointless beyond the rote of build, build, build and buy, buy, buy. Unlike Sim City there's no real life challenges like polution, and funding your education system, etc. In fact, it's very much like Sim City zoomed up close with all the cheats enabled. Just plunk down building after building. Still, sometimes that's just the sort of "game" one needs after a long day at work.
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