Sid Meier founded MicroProse and started with the Tycoon genre with Railroad Tycoon having been inspired by SimCity and Empire.
Sid Meier founded MicroProse and started with the Tycoon genre with Railroad Tycoon having been inspired by SimCity and Empire.
Your comment makes it sound like he started the company to make Tycoon games, but those came like a decade later.
That is an uncharitable interpretation. None of that should be controversial.