Hotel dash mac. Have you ever asked yourself, 'Gee, I wonder what it would be like to run an airline?' Chances are, you probably haven't. Then again, you probably never wondered what it would be like to operate a theme park or a railroad, either. Yet somehow, the recent slew of 'tycoon games' have been selling almost as well as if they had the words 'Baldur's' and 'Gate' in their titles.

He choose Airport Tycoon 3. I must say, compared to Zoo Tycoon, this game is just plain boring! He kept at it, and needed a lot of help from me to even figure it out, and finally built himself a thriving airport, but there really is no action.

Perhaps that's because somewhere deep down inside (hidden from everybody else, I'm sure) many of us lust after the notion of being inconceivably rich. Playing at being rich is as old as Monopoly; furthermore, there's a certain glamour associated with being a big, industrial-strength mogul. That's why you don't see too many games out there like 'Diaper Tycoon' or 'Hairless Cat Tycoon.' Developed by Software and published by Multimedia, is the latest entry in this soon-to-be-saturated sub-genre.

In recent years, Monte Cristo has created some small buzz with an innovative line of 'management games' either developed or published by them, including titles such as Wall Street Trader 2000, Economic War, and Start-Up 2000. Following the lead of those games and titles such as Tom Clancy's Ruthless.com and Roller Coaster Tycoon (and averting its eyes from the disastrous Airport Tycoon), puts you in charge of one of four fledgling airlines-Sunshine Airways, Falcon Lines, Phoenix Travel, or Honey Airlines.The game offers two relatively short campaigns and a free-play game, all of which require that you master a wide variety of tasks in order to nurture your two-plane upstart into a minor empire.

Many of the tasks are straightforward, such as hiring flight staff and advisors, bidding on and obtaining branch offices in other cities, and assigning regular routes in addition to irregularly scheduled independent flights (which carry higher premiums). Other tasks, such as managing your stocks and improving your airline's image, involve multiple factors and are decidedly more complex.When you start Airline Tycoon for the first time, you'll immediately notice that the designers held to the tenet they outlined in the game's manual: 'Airline Tycoon is an economy simulation that you should not take too seriously and that does not claim to be realistic.' That said, this 'not too serious' sim rewards armchair CEOs with a surprising amount of depth despite its managerial simplifications and cartoonish interface.In both the campaign and free-play modes, you'll start off each day by meeting with the airport manager, a cigar-chomping Ed Asner type named Dr. In your first session with him, he discusses your mission tasks.

All subsequent meetings with Dr. Uhrig serve as progress updates t.