In "Sort of Tricky", you have to unscramble seven anagrams before time runs out, even though bonus time is given for each completed word. The job "Dung Wars" is like a game of pick-up sticks, "The Gallows" like hangman, and the challenging "Tower of Power" like the Tower of Hanoi game. Three different jobs are like a game of concentration, in which you try to match the loads in the cars as quickly and in the fewest guesses as possible. The "Sister's" jobs involve sorting freight cars coming down the track into the right siding at 6 different levels. The "School Daze" series involve moving numbered freight cars to make valid addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division equations at 6 difficulty levels ( kindergarten through 5th grade). Most jobs involve the basic concept of picking up and delivering loads via different freight and passenger cars. The unlockable jobs are themed somewhat festively, and usually have an animated cutscene at the end of some sort (e.g., a circus, the Colosseum). The exception is the Tutorials bin, where all jobs are available at any time. The last one is a special unlockable job that can only be done if all 11 prior jobs are completed. It's not quite as impressive as some of my other first-time modding ventures, but there's some fun to be had here if this channels your nostalgia like it channelled mine.There are six job bins, starting with tutorials, followed by Caboose Washer (easy), Hobo Bouncer (average), Grease Monkey (hard), Fire Stoker (very hard), and Whistle Blower (intense).Įach job bin contains 12 jobs. In the end, the sum-up was six themed levels, a modified exe icon, and the one animated graphic whose encoding wasn't so archaic I had tools that could open it. Exploring further, I found a script by Shiny Quagsire which was able to extract the game's archives, but I wasn't able to do much once Iridium77 helped me get the script working so, unfortunately, that was a no go (but thanks to the pair of them for helping out anyway). Initially, the answer was "not much" - but thanks to the godsend that is 90s game design, Train Town's level editor meant a mod was going to happen.
So, as I do when cracking open the games of my childhood, I started with exploring how much modding could be done here, encouraged by Kalimando, a friend who also enjoyed the game as a kid. Playing it on and off in my infant years, I eventually lost touch with it and didn't think about the game until recently, when watching a certain climate-disaster series on Netflix reminded me there was this one train game I played decades ago.
Though I just about wasn't born yet when Train Town released in 1999, I still caught it as a very, very little kid, at an age where this was one of the first games I actually remember playing. 1001 Traintowns Long - A Legally Distinct Love Letter
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