You can charge people to poop. 11/10

DESCRIPTION:
Rollercoaster Tycoon is a theme park MICRO-management building simulator with flowers, vomit and cleaners named Bob.

AGE RATING:
This game is suitable for all ages.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING GAME OPTIMIZATION:
This version of Rollercoaster Tycoon is an original port; it is not up-dated to higher resolution, like Age of Empires II HD version. You will be buying an original game. Check others reviews so you are confident it MAY run on your device BEFORE purchase.

MY MACHINE:
I play on a Hewlett Packard Mini-Netbook 110-3500. It runs Windows 7 Starter, with 1GB RAM and a 32 bit op. system. The resolution is fine for this game, (My max and current res. is 1024x600.)

GLITCHES AND DRAWBACKS CONCERNING RUNNING THE GAME:
There are quite a few glitches, depending on which version of Windows you use to run the game. I have as of yet not encountered the save glitch that seems to be affecting many. I will write a small list of what I have experienced in my first session:

- First: upon starting the game for the first time it ran superbly. When I proceeded to enter the first park to try out the save glitch*, I found that there is no return to menu button. So I exited the game and began to load it back up. On my second loading the game ran fine until displaying the main menu was concerned; after about ten seconds wait the screen showed. This also happens on my device when I minimise the game via the windows button whilst on the main menu screen. I pressed both escape and enter to give a nudge, so I am unsure whether that had anything to do with it finally loading.

- Second: If I press the windows key and return to windows desk top, upon return to the game it has serious lag.

- Third: this game has no Steam screenshot integration. There is an in game screenshot button which will take a screenshot, (this was put in by the developers of the original game.) I could not even find the folder that these screenshots went to, however.** As far as I know you can not upload hard drive files to the screenshot section of Steam anyway, so no show casing your parks.

*I saved multiple times with no issues.

**It will name the folder the screenshots go to, so just write it down and go folder delving.

MY OPINION:
Now on to my opinion of the game: I did play this over a decade ago in my youth and of course I had alot of fun. I have a bias nostalgia to this game, coming with the deeply veined emotions of memoriam of fun times long ago.

Playing this now was way more bland. I did not have a look around for a button, but I found the game to be painfully slow at times, so hopefully there is a nudge speed button like on Stronghold. There is a big variety of things to do, build and sort.

MICROMANAGEMENT: This game involves "rides" as the main concept of the game. The rides come with alot of customisation, from colours of the ride, to building your own custom rollercoaster. Rides and the park in general need maintenance, which requires staff. You can also customise your staff, their colors, tasks and outfits. Everything can be named. Prices are at your discretion.

You may get sick of seeing trees everywhere considering trees/shrubbery is the main feature of park misc. There are also fountains, novelty shaped bushes, different paths, seats, lights, bins, hedges and fences.

RIDES:
There are many rides, ranging from casual Monorails, to 'scary' haunted houses, sight seeing Ferris wheels, cascading water slides, peaceful row boats, raging log flumes, spectacular rollercoasters, burger shacks, drink stalls and of course toilets. Funds can also be extended in to research of new rides and stalls to exhibit at your parks. All of these are customisable in some way, from colors, to ride names, to fees, to the customers riding them.*

*This game relies heavily on customer satisfaction and approval. As a part of micro-management, you can click on every single visitor to your park which will give you a description of their levels of approval and enjoyment. Listen to them.

PRICE:
The price of $6.99 is good and fair in my eyes. This is an original port game, which is great for me because I just play on a small netbook. Generally older games re-done come with a hefty milking price tag. Many have complained about the price, for various reasons of not being able to start up or effectively run the game, so if that concerns you check out the specifications of your device and compare. Newer devices do tend to have backwards compatibility issues with much older material, and this game is no exception.

DLC:
This game also comes with the add ons that gradually became available in the original game.

CONCLUSION:
A joyfully fun if yawningly slow theme park management simulator that one can put many hours in to without regret. I recommend it for all ages. It can be extremely fun and absorbing. On occasion your over-confident grin will be ripped from your face when you realise you made a massive error, costing you your park funds and possibly the success of level completion.

In a post-apocalyptic world, you are the manager of a random (more or less) spot of land with the ability to instantly change the terrain and build Disneyland rides, and an endless population of white, brown-haired males that need to eat, drink, go to the bathroom, and be entertained. In order to survive in this unforgiving world, you must ask yourself difficult, sometimes painful, questions. Such as:

Should I create a legit coaster or something to turn people into cherry pudding?
Why will nobody go on my roller coaster I spent the last 2 hours making?
And, most crucial of all...
How did I lose all my damn money?!

Roller Coaster Tycoon. Your Decisions will shape the amusement park around you


For real, if you didn't play this game (or one of the sequels) as a kid, something went wrong in the system. Sorry to break it to ya.

If you have never played this game before, you are not a person... (10/10)

"Your Mother looks too intense for me"
"Just thinking about Your Mother makes me feel sick"
"I want to get off Your Mother"
"I've been standing in line for Your Mother for ages"

10/10

As a game from my childhood, I may or may not hold some bias in favor of this game.
However, this will not be evident in my review. Let's answer some questions.

"What is this game?"

Rollercoaster Tycoon is a franchise where the player becomes an amusement park owner with the power to create tracks, customize everything from the terrain and decor to the ride names and colors, and even charging people to use the BATHROOM. Great idea. Think the sims, but without families and more workers and rides.

"Any ACTUAL skills I can get from this game?"

Yes. Balancing out a budget is seen by the money amount you are given in loans. These allow you to buy rides, stands, construct in general, advertise, et cetera. These loans CAN be paid off so you can run the park and not have your money taken away every month for loans. Also, there is keeping things cleaned/organized. The park gets awards based on how you run it, ranging from "Safest Park in The Country" to "Worst Looking Park". In order to keep good PR, you want to hire some handymen who sweep up all the vomit and trash people leave lying around.

"Anything popular come out of this game?"

I WANT TO GET OFF MR.BONES' WILD RIDE
I WANT TO GET OFF MR.BONES' WILD RIDE
I WANT TO GET OFF MR.BONES' WILD RIDE
I WANT TO GET OFF MR.BONES' WILD RIDE

"Why not just RCT3?"

RCT3 is just, eh. It's hard to explain. RCT3 is not a bad game at all, trust me, I own that one as well and its fantastic. But, it will never have the same bouncy feel the early ones do. RCT3 is more calming and orderly. RCT 1 and 2 are bouncy, chaotic, and generally more enjoyable. In the earlier games, you get more of a RCT feel and less of a Sims. The gui in RCT3 even looks like the Sims. Still tho, try both and see which is your cup of tea.

"DLC?"

get out

"Any bugs?"

The game is being updated constantly due to being on steam, mainly in language support from what I've seen, but that doesn't mean its lost some if its old bugs. Sometimes, mechanics pay no attention to rides and they just get fixed on their own by some means. Guests still just wander off park when you delete the path they're on instead of finding another path. RCT was made in 1999, so its not really a suprise when these things happen. You just have to push them in the right direction and it's all figured out (by that I mean pick them up and throw them at the ride's enterance until they get it RIGHT).

"Is the music good?"

Holy ♥♥♥♥, yes.

You can set music differently for each ride, so if you don't appreciate one song, just pick another!

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Basically, get this game. You will not regret it.

Launching peeps off the end of rollercoaster tracks
Hearing the satisfying crashing noise
"24 people have died on Roller Coaster 1"
10/10 would recommend

Dug hole, filled with water, killed sad panda.

10/10 would childhood again.

You can make people pay to use the bathroom, and then drown those who complain. 11/10

One of a very short list of games that made up my childhood. Still holds up against a large portion of games out there today.

Personal Rating: 10/10

I remember playing this several times during my childhood years back. Now I can enjoy it even more with some creative roller coaster designing :)

Believe it or not, I am now better than when I was a child (when I built horribly designed rides)!

One of the greatest games of all time, you will easily sink 100's of hours into it.

Drowning Simulator 1999.

But no seriously this game has aged great.

Would reccomend for the price.

Nostalgia Trip 10/10

Found this game in a cereal box 14 years ago, still playing it today.

Still charging money for using my rest rooms.

Nostalgia and naming guests Bill Gates

One of the best games ever made, quite possibly my favorite game ever. The colorful, cartoon style keeps this 1999 title from showing its age. Honestly I think a new player could pick up this classic theme park builder and enjoy it just as much as a longtime fan. RCT is relaxing, non-rage-inducing, and endlessly creative; what more could you ask for in a game?

Where to begin? RollerCoaster Tycoon is arguably the best tycoon game of all time. The game's development was mostly credited to only one man (Chris Sawyer), and was released in 1999. There were four games that defined my childhood. The Sims, Age of Empires II, Dungeon Keeper 2, and this.

RollerCoaster Tycoon truly gives you the power to make exactly the kind of amusement park you want to build. Even in the scenarios, it largely feels like a free building game; the game does not ask you to do anything you don't want to do. For example, instead of asking you to build a park based on nothing but rollercoasters like some games might have implemented, Rollercoaster Tycoon simply plops you down on a plot of land and basically says, "Get this many guests and have a good park rating in three years. Have fun and buh-bye!" This game should be truly applauded for being a tycoon game that is not only great fun, but never turns into a chore by forcing you into situations where you feel you're only doing something to beat a level. It gives you an end goal, and it's up to you, the player, to decide exactly how you'll get there.

The game allows you to build your own rollercoaster, water slide, log flume, monorail, railroad (and many more) designs from scratch, which gives you endless possibilities in each level (and you will be playing levels over and over again simply for the fun of doing them multiple ways). You can build these rides around one another, underground, over water...there are few limitations. You can also decide what color themes each ride has (or not), even down to making each car in a rollercoaster train a different color. Also, put shops and food stalls around your park and decide how much to charge. You can even charge for guests to use the bathroom, bringing out the greedy capitalist in each of us (I usually make a profit over running costs with my bathrooms, charging just $0.10 per visit).

You can even name guests and track them, which brings another level of fun to an already ridiculously great game. Read a guest's thoughts, pick him up and drop him in front of a ride you think he'll like, see what things he's bought from your park that are in his inventory. Hey, you can even drop him in a lake if he's so angry he's potentially messing with your park rating and drown him. It's up to you!

RollerCoaster Tycoon is also, in my opinion, better than its sequels. Other than some rides not being available in some levels, it will never revoke your abilities. In RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, there were levels where you had to meet a scenario goal without charging any entry fee for your park, for example, which only ended up taking freedom from the player's hands while pushing itself into the "chore tycoon" category. RollerCoaster Tycoon never crosses that line.

In summary, RollerCoaster Tycoon is a fantastic classic game that is perfect as it is. While the graphics may be simplistic by today's standards, it would be simply ignorant to pass up the game because of it. This game is fun, relaxing, rewarding, timeless, and close to flawless. If you don't yet own this game, pick it up. Otherwise, the only one who is missing out is you. ;)

Awesome game, the art style ages quite well and the gameplay is a lot of fun. I definitely recommend it.

RollerCoaster Tycoon was a freakin' staple of my childhood.

I would spend HOURS building torture devices--I mean roller coasters--that would scare the bajeezus out of Chuck Norris. Here are some of the high points of the game:

--Ability to charge insane prices to use the bathroom.
--Drown patrons who dare to complain about the high price of using the toilet.
--Practice physics by building rollercoasters that launch people to their deaths (velocity and speed are key).
--Employ "Sad Pandas" to entertain people dumb enough to wait in lines for a hedge maze.
--Find ducks. Click on them.
--Place a balloon stand and charge $15 for a balloon only to pop it after a patron buys one.

It's the simple joy of disgruntled customers that keeps me coming back for more after all these years.

Buy it. You won't be disappointed.