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Awesome computer gaming for CA's
Bill Kennedy wrote an amusing post posing the question, are there any good accounting games out there for Xbox? Being a partisan PC gamer of sorts, my answer is, "are there any good games out for Xbox?" Seriously, you'll have to pry my mouse and keyboard out of my cold dead hands. If you're trying to interest your kids in business, the AAA "Tycoon" titles are, however, where it's at, as are titles like Simcity. Anything where you manage some sort of economy is the current pinnacle of 'awesome'. You could make an intelligent case for the original Railroad Tycoon and Simcity pushing me down the road towards my CA. Railroad Tycoon, and it's two strong sequels RRT2 and RRT3, have you in the role of a tycoon trying to make a fortune with railroads - had you guessing there, didn't I? Originl RRT, being a vintage 1990 game, was relatively basic, but the strong gameplay was there. You needed to make more money than you spent, had to decide on financing...