carnival/fair type game with booths, rides, ect...would be Theme Park Tycoon...or Roller Coaster Tycoon. both of which need booths, bathrooms, food, to keep your BEFORE opening to the public...sometimes the speed is too much for the size of the coaster and you kill customers....not good for business.

waaaaaaaaaay back in the dark ages of Dos games....there were a set of games come out called...Gobliins. in the first one you had 3 lil guys who each could do specific things, one punched or kicked..one did magic..one picked up stuff. in order to advance from one area to the next, these lil guys had to figure out what had to be done and in what sequence they had to be done. if you did the wrong thing, something would happen to scare the bejeepers outta the lil guys and they lost a bit of health. same thing if you did things in the wrong sequence. They were hillarious games..(ok so im twisted and would sometimes scare them just for the fun of watching them jump and scream). Sadly when windows crashed through the o/s markets, these games were lost as they were never recoded to work in windows. If they could be found, and reworked with the wonderful LDW styles, they would be awesome games.

I am a HUGE tycoon/sim style game fan. I love the games styled lik villagers, where you build your town/community/world peacefully. While there are a gabillion of this type of game out there, Im lazy in that I hate to have to fight some other kingdom/castle or whatever to keep what I built and land I builtup. Id like to see a game where you start with nothing, build the "town, village, island, ect" into a productive and thriving community with enough population to run it, then move on to a different area to do the same. In a sense, create a simple world out of nothing without having any one other than ma natures unpredictability to hamper your efforts. She can cause enough stress with hurricanes, tornados, _bug_ infestings, snow and ice storms (depending on your location) You could be working towards being a major land tycoon that has the responsibility to go to each area and create and populate it. There wouldnt even have to be anything extremely fancy, like airports..tourist areas....major modern living ideas....Just good ole simple existance from nothing...but with full sequence of whats needed...*ie..you can build a fishermans hut...but you need bait to fish..so someone has to collect the worms/bait and sell to fisherman before he can fish. you can build a food market, but you need someone to have grown the veggies/fruit first or your food market will have nothing to sell. As the land developer, you start out with xx$ to begin building. Each business/job you create earns you money to continue building and when you have fully developed the first area and have made a set required amount needed to move on, then you can develop a secoond area and so on. Each area can be a little bit different in what businesses are allowed or needed..meaning if there is no water, you wont have fishermen but you might have farms but need peeps to go out and gather whatever available seeds are around in order to be able to plant anything.
Anyway you get the idea, every business needed to provide something has to also have been provided with the product in the first place. Now that Ive reread this, it sounds like it may be a huge complicated game. Geez life is complicated.

How about running a newspaper or magazine? You'd have to have reporters, editors, printers and all that side. Then there would be advertising revenue, bills, what to include in each edition ... and so on.

I remember those games!! I miss them too

Mushroom tycoon oh no I already work on a mushroom farm,

Creating a newspaper/magazine business, getting the stories, becoming the top in ratings.....that would be Tabloid Tycoon. I never played it, reviews on it were not so good, and it was never one of the top tycoon games, but its out there. You know when we start going through ideas like this, its surprising just how many tycoon games there really are. I never really gave it any thought till reading this thread.

There were a lot of good simple games back then....all lost now..:(

If you are looking for old games, I have found this:
abandoned games

Thank you laurence! It was a long search and I got this from laurences site above: these are TRUE free downloads of old games.

Here

Meanwhile I keep searching....