I appreciate all the replies. I'll have to check out a few of these games.
I'm also tempted to try Airport Tycoon again, even through the nastiness. Get it out of my system at least. And perhaps crack open Roller Coaster Tycoon again. =]
Anybody know why nobody is making management games anymore? The only ones I see these days are "management games" on social media to make a hamburger or sushi roll as fast as you can without messing up, or flash-based management games with extremely linear upgrade paths that let you breeze through forty minutes of play, 2/3rds of the game, and then they try to sell you the last 20 minutes in download form for you to play over and over again! To your heart's content! But you already played most all of what there is to play, the games are too linear and easy. And they are quickly pushed out by budget publishers, so the interfaces end up being clunky.
Am I the only one concerned that there are heaps and heaps of people on the internet asking for good management games, and all the replies are recommendations for games released between 1997 and 2003?