The Roller Coaster Tycoon Thread

[Phantasmatron]

Yeah, it is in the Corkscrew Follies Pack. You start out with a $250,000 loan! I usually try to pay off the entire loan by the end of year 1, but not possible in that park.

I recently got both expansion packs off Amazon used & new for about $5. I'm sure you can probably get the original on there as well if you can't find your copy.

I both love you and hate you for that suggestion.  Because now I'll be able to play that game again like I want to...but it also means I'm probably about to throw like seven thousand hours of my life away doing it! 

A quarter of a million dollar loan?  DAYAM. 

[JayOctavarium]

This made me

[Zydar]

haha yes!

[TheAtliator]

OMG I JUST FOUND THIS THREAD. I FREAKING LOVE THIS FORUM. about to read the whole thing. 

[JayOctavarium]

It is a relatively new thread actually.

[TheAtliator]

Yes I should read the General section a little more often I guess..

Okay, so I didn't read the last two pages word by word, but I'm pretty much caught up.

First off- people don't like RCT3?? ?? idk why, but I had absolutely no clue there was anyone who like the 2nd more than the 3rd! RCT3 is pretty much my favorite video game!! You can do sooo much more stuff in 3!!

Anyway, I REALLY wish I had more time to play this game, but I haven't in like a year. I used to make the most AWESOME parks with unlimited money in #3 with both expansion packs, and I'd make HUGE random islands and tons of mountains and buildings and made coasters intertwine and do really cool things around the paths and go waaaayy underground really really fast. And my death parks were the best 

OH and yes I've also named coasters after DT songs 

[Chino]

Well my hopes and dreams are shattered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iomc1P7HaX8

[Implode]

Sighs. The days of intelligent simulation games are long gone.

[Ultimetalhead]

They couldn't just let it die? I mean fuck, even the community seems to have gotten over RCT3 and just stuck to the original and its sequel.

[Grizz]

Glad I found this thread. RollerCoaster (that's one word) Tycoon (or raccoon as my sister called it when she was a baby) is the shit. That's one of the games we got years ago, the Gold edition. (Why include the Corkscrew Follies disk AND Loopy Landscapes?) For years we couldn't get the expansion packs to work with XP. Years later, after a reformat or two, I got them to work with compatibility mode, but not with the Drexler patch. So, I grabbed Virtual PC and Windows 98 SE and played to my heart's content. I wish the trainers were more stable though.

In the  elementary school gifted program, we had outdated games, among them RCT. I remember playing with friends during recess. Everyone else went for the eMac computers with GarageBand- fuk dat, I'm committing genocide with overpowered shuttle loops.

I got the second a couple years back. I like the added focus on scenery, support for custom content, and fix of the thick paths glitch.

[Chino]

Roller Coaster Tycoon World!! 

No micro transactions, and multiple people will be able to work on/manage the same park.



Also, Chris Sawyer did a great job of documenting a lot of RCT's development.

https://www.nicscorner.com/evo_of_rct.htm




Also:

[MetalJunkie]

Wait... what was the problem with RCT3? I enjoyed it...

[Nick]

Any fans of Railroad Tycoon?  I spent countless hours playing the original one.

Loved that game as well.

Like others here have said, RCT 1 and 2 were fantastic, and 3 was abysmal.

[Grizz]

Apparently, except for porting to Windows, the original game was written in x86 machine code.
That's pretty impressive right there

[Chino]

Apparently, except for porting to Windows, the original game was written in x86 machine code.
That's pretty impressive right there

That's insanely impressive.

[soundgarden]

RC2 is legendary.  Even today, it would put up a fight to the biggest simulation/strategy games out there.

I don't understand why they keep changing the later versions; just stick to the original formula; if it ain't broke....

RC3 was the 2nd biggest gaming disappointment of my life (after Diablo 3)

[MetalJunkie]

I still haven't gotten an answer about why no one likes RCT3. I enjoyed it.

[JayOctavarium]

They changed it to 3D. That completely killed it for me. RCT 1&2 are sill like my all time favourite computer games. 

[Obfuscation]

On a sorta related note, what do you guys think of these new coasters for Six Flags parks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsieK16arUs

[ReaperKK]

I still haven't gotten an answer about why no one likes RCT3. I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it but it just didn't live up to it's predecessors IMO. The game took on a whole different feel by going to 3d, it also felt really clunky to me. Maybe I should give it another spin sometime but I remember just not being excited about it whereas I still do get excited by RCT1 & 2.

[Nick]

The entire feel was sluggish and wasn't as easy to get around the controls to create and manage. Visually it may have been an improvement, but not nearly to the level needed to overcome the downside.

[billybobjoe1881]

Does Roller Coaster Tycoon run on Windows 8? A bunch of older games have trouble on the new system? 

[Chino]

I purchased RCT2 a while ago (played the first one religiously as a kid) and was having a decent time playing it. I was playing it last week, and while it was good, I felt like it wasn't as good as I remembered the first one being. I couldn't quite figure out why even though it was basically the same exact game just with new levels and rides. Idk, maybe I'm just a little crazy. Anyway, fast forward to last Friday, I got on Steam and bought RCT Deluxe for $6. What a steal. I started playing the original yesterday and fell back in love. I don't know what it is, but I can't help but feel like it's superior to RCT2 and a million times better than RCT3.

[Nick]

I just have the normal old RCT, so I'm thinking that I might be making that $6 purchase and revisiting this.

[Chino]

I just have the normal old RCT, so I'm thinking that I might be making that $6 purchase and revisiting this.

$6 is a steal for the deluxe.

"RollerCoaster Tycoon has received two expansion packs: Added Attractions (released in the US as Corkscrew Follies) in 1999, and Loopy Landscapes in 2000. Two special editions were released: RollerCoaster Tycoon Gold/Totally RollerCoaster in 2002, which contained the original game, Added Attractions/Corkscrew Follies, and Loopy Landscapes; and RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe in 2003, which contained the content in Gold plus more designs for the different customizable rides."

- Wikipedia



I also remembered a cool trick I used to do while playing last night. On large parks, I make underground pathways off limits to the guests. They give my mechanics direct/faster access to various areas on the map.




Also...

[Implode]

Nice micro park dude! It's been quite a while since I've played. Maybe I'll make another run through the scenarios soon.

[Chino]

That's not mine 

I'm convinced it isn't real. He's got way too much money for year 2, and there's some funky stuff going on in the right corner.

[Chino]

First in-game screen released.






I'm still looking forward to this game despite the toonish graphics.

[Implode]

That's not mine 

I'm convinced it isn't real. He's got way too much money for year 2, and there's some funky stuff going on in the right corner.

Whoops! 

It's definitely a real screenshot. The money is a bit questionable for year two, but I wouldn't put it past some of the best player. You're right about the right corner. The steel wild mouse looks to be clipping through the bathroom. That tells me they probably used a 10ft shops mod.

[Grizz]

Does Roller Coaster Tycoon run on Windows 8? A bunch of older games have trouble on the new system?

I had trouble running RCT on XP. The expansions, specifically, did not work on many installs (this was back in like '02 though). Drexler patched games (allows one to load an invalid save) don't work on any NT based Windows either. What I like to do for RCT is install a Virtiual Machine with Windows 98 and play it there. Works perfectly.

[billybobjoe1881]

Does Roller Coaster Tycoon run on Windows 8? A bunch of older games have trouble on the new system?

I had trouble running RCT on XP. The expansions, specifically, did not work on many installs (this was back in like '02 though). Drexler patched games (allows one to load an invalid save) don't work on any NT based Windows either. What I like to do for RCT is install a Virtiual Machine with Windows 98 and play it there. Works perfectly.

I took a risk and bought it off Steam.  It works fine on my laptop.  And I'm not as good as I once was.

[Chino]

Does Roller Coaster Tycoon run on Windows 8? A bunch of older games have trouble on the new system?

I had trouble running RCT on XP. The expansions, specifically, did not work on many installs (this was back in like '02 though). Drexler patched games (allows one to load an invalid save) don't work on any NT based Windows either. What I like to do for RCT is install a Virtiual Machine with Windows 98 and play it there. Works perfectly.

I took a risk and bought it off Steam.  It works fine on my laptop.  And I'm not as good as I once was.

Nice. I wish I saw this last night. From what I've read, Windows 8 won't run the game if it's off the original disk (I think I had that problem with 7), but will run it just fine if it is digital download.

[Implode]

After what happened to SimCity and The Sims, I'm not holding my breath for RCT4. I want it to be good, but it's probably more likely it'll just be a bloated mobile game.

Edit: After reading this, it seems like that might be the case. Don't know for sure until it comes out, but I've had too many disappointments in the past decade to be optimistic.

[Lynxo]

I love this game. <3 And I also love watching YouTube videos of people building their own parks.

[Chino]

The thing I don't understand... It's clear that the majority of the people that want this game are those who played it when it first came out. Those were amazing games. Atari could leave the game's mechanics and controls exactly the same, update some audio, and put some Sims 4 level graphics in there, and nobody would bitch at all. I don't want a fancy new high-tech game. I want the old game in new flavors.