Spell-A-Saurus and A-Train--BOXED

#1 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 04:05 68kMLA

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.

#2 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 04:14 68kMLA

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!

#3 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 04:32 68kMLA

I've actually never played it--does it play at all like Sim City?

#4 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 12:02 68kMLA

Got the boxed Mac version of A-Train here, along with Sim City 2000 and Pirates! That's all I have

#5 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 14:22 68kMLA

I would kill to find a boxed copy of a-train (mac) - that's awesome

#6 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 15:48 68kMLA

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

#7 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 16:23 68kMLA

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.

#8 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 18:20 68kMLA

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

#9 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 - 02:14 68kMLA

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.