Roller Coaster Tycoon series

So it's time to talk about it.

RCT1 was one of my fav games when I was younger, together with Zelda and Mario 64, and other random ones. Played RCT2 and 3 a bit, but the first is possibly the best one.


It's an amusement park simulator (simulator?) or RTS, which came after Theme Park and RailRoad Tycoon. Together with the latter, it was made by Chris Sawyer. RCT1 was developed with a hired artist and a hired musician. Here the trailer they have now for the deluxe version which "includes RollerCoaster Tycoon and its two expansions: Corkscrew Follies and Loopy Landscapes". When I was a kid I watched this a lot, it's the intro of the game.



The best thing of the game is probably constructing roller coasters and other railed rides, giving shape to the terrain editing the level of the ground, the paths, the gardens etc.

I also adored the music of the "Merry go Round" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVvS61sQyL8&list=PL57D37385A12A270B ), unique feel, and whose rights were held by Chris' father; the isometric view; the Karts; the challenges and the diversity of the levels; and the atmosphere in general: all these visitors eating pizza, cotton, burgers... Constructing and designing things virtually was such a great joy, Minecraft and all the new era games didn't discover that!

Thing is it's at the humblebundle store, at steam as well, but it was first offered as a digital download by GOG.com iirc. Kudos for them.

 

hmm, I know I have the discs (yes kids, PC games used to come in the form of discs, not downloads) sitting around somewhere in the house for 2 & 3. I might try to install them on my computer and have another go at them.

 

Played the second on the old xbox, loved that and got one on PC... Where you can ride the rides yourself etc. think that ones the third, anyway i got expansion packs for it or something and trapped the park inspector in a square fenced area right in the edge if the zoo. Then continued as I liked..... Never did like that park inspector....

 

I'd pay anything for carts too heh.

I liked to make lots of carts tracks, together at the same area and surrounding the roller coasters. I remember as a kid I read the whole game manual, and one of the tips they gave was to make different railed rides in the same area, running near or surrounding each other's paths. That was crazy and pretty effective.