Rails West!

Information

Genre

Strategy - Stock Market / Corporate

Language

BASIC

Controls

Keyboard

Players

1, 1 vs. 2, 2+

Programmer(s)

Campion, Martin C.

Graphic Artist(s)

[n/a]

Sound

[n/a]

Cover Artist(s)

[unknown]

Year

1984

Publisher

Strategic Simulations, Inc.

Developer

[n/a]

Country

USA

License

Commercial

Medium

Disk

Rarity

8

Serial

-

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.5/10 · Votes: 48 · Downloads: 2,981 · Hits: 13,504

Additional Comments

Screenshots (6)

Cover Art (3)

Instructions (24)

Ads (3)

Comments (12)

• vstandard — 15 Feb 2025

  @Cullen any news? Would be really great to see this game again!

• Cullen — 5 Feb 2021

  I have been talking with the Original Author and There may be a remake coming :) This is and was my favorite game

• LeCarre — 5 Dec 2016

  Won't autorun.

• Manfred — 3 Mar 2013

  So has anyone managed to get the whole program listing of Rails West saved as a text file?

• J Cline — 20 Aug 2012

  SHFT plus the right or left brackets was what worked for my emulator.

• Darrell — 18 Oct 2011

  Thanks again Gwoby that worked it was ctrl and arrows!!

• Gwoby — 28 Sept 2011

  emulator's may capture the arrows for joystick emulation - try alt or ctrl & arrows or check the mappings... While I'm here there's a **Team Gaming Event** over on atariage.com in the High Score Club - classic a8 games players wanted! www.gwobby.webs.com

• Darrell — 25 Sept 2011

  Thanks Gwobby!!! Only problem is does anyone know how to change the rail selector when you want to pick a new rail line? Arrow keys don't seem to work?

• Gwobby — 7 Aug 2011

  You can, just use one of the atari emulators! There's a link on my site http://gwobby.webs.com/

• Darrell — 4 Aug 2011

  This was/is my favorite game if only I could play it on my pc!!

• charles — 8 Jul 2011

  I have Rails West for the Atari 800 on disk. I could copy the code right now but for the fact that both of my Panasonic dot matrix printers (which I use to print out turns in Rails West) are broken. I could send you a disk or try to find another printer. I agree this is a great game and would love to see it ported to Windows :-)

• Ryk John Miller Thekreator — 21 Feb 2008

  As SOON as I'm able to find the Basic code for this incredibly wonderful game from the early 80's, I'll be translating it to run under Windows! My goals for classic games that STILL must be translated and exist are Rails West (Apple II; Atari 800; Commodore 64) and the Radio Shack Color Computer's "Madness and The Minotaur" - to this date (from 1982) still THE best text adventure game that I've played, in my life! Someday I'll find the code for both of them, so that I can convert them. :)