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Addictive Personalities Do Not Apply

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is a steal at any price. Just make sure you have a comfy chair and no prior engagements. Great game for all ages. Make sure to check out the add-ons after you've squandered a weeks worth of hours on this great game.

OMG! This game is soooo awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 07, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Ifn you lovvvvvvve Roller Coasters, this is the game for you! I am a roller coaster extremest and i love the way you can watch people puke in this game. Even tho it doesnt have some of the things that are in my favourite amuesment parks, there are a lot of things i do love in here! Chris Sawyer I love you!

It's the Little Bugs that Bother Me

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

As the game host..., I was eager to get my hands on this gamewhen it game out. Like Pharoh and Caesar III, this is a game ofdesigning buildings and walkways to keep your people happy. In this case the people are not residents, although with some staying in your park for 60 days or more, you have to wonder where they are sleeping! And, like all games, you start with rather easy missions and work your way forward.

You begin by planning walkways that make sense for your visitors, and putting down inexpensive but entertaining rides. Each visitor has his or her own sense of what's fun - something exciting, something laid back, something truly wild or something mild. You need to set up food, drink and restrooms, and put out benches and trashcans. You hire repairmen, sweepers, entertainers, and security folk. Vandalism can strike, and rides can break down.

The game, once set up well, can almost run itself. Your various minions roam around your park, cleaning and fixing items. You earn money based on quite a few variables - how much you charge at the gate, how much you charge for food, how much you charge for each ride. Rain comes and visitors are now buying umbrellas, and avoiding the open rides. Marketing campaigns can help your draw, although coupons might affect profits short-term.

There are great graphs to help you manage the economics of your strategy, and the graphics themselves are quite fun! The merry-go-round spins, the roller-coaster cars fill with little people and go around the tracks. You can customize colors, add statuary, research new theme decorations like Egyptian and Roman buildings. You can raise and lower terrain, building raised walkways and underground roller coaster tunnels.

The game will run quite well on a low-end system, which can't be said for its rival, SimThemePark. It's easy to use, and quite satisfying to play. You can name the park, name each ride, and even name each individual visitor! It's easy to get attached to your creation, and sit for hours tweaking it.

The game was entertaining both for me and for my 11 year old son. We both found the options varied and fun. My son especially enjoyed when you accidentially cranked a roller-coaster's speed up too high - the practice run would set the cars careening off the track, warning you to decrease the speed a bit!

Our only complaint has to do with item placement - if you raise and then lower a piece of land, it double-charges you for each phase of the change. There isn't really an undo feature, so if you make a mistake (which can be easy, sometimes) there is no simple way to just go back to your previous state. With blocks of land easily hid behind other blocks (despite their many view options), you often have to lower whole regions of land simply to "get to" the blocked one, wasting hundreds of dollars.

Also, with no 'fast forward', you often have to go eat dinner or watch a movie before your park, which has met the 'winning criteria', finally gets through the years required for the trophy. It'll run itself all the while, but it can get quite tedious.

With that small amount of inconvenience, however, this is a great game for computer users of all ages, and with the varied terrains available, one able to always offer a new challenge!

QUICK ADDICT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

YOU WILL QUICKLY BE ADDICTED TO THIS GAME!!!!! IT IS THE BEST!! IT IS TOO FUN TO PUT IN WORDS!!! IT IS WORTH IT!!!BUY IT!!!!!!!!

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Greatest Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game!
when I got this i went wild! i love tycoon games but this one is my all time fav! my siblings all play it and we all are addited to it

Conclution: Just buy it, do it. I highly recommend it!

the best theme park game on the market

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I played games like theme park and sim city all the time when i was young. Then one day roller coaster tycoon hit me in the face like a rock. It is theme park but 120% better. you build rollercoasters and stalls. You manage you finace, staff and ride reserch. When you first start the game you can choose out of 5 senarios and every time that you compleate one another one becomes available. They get harder as the game continues. It would take a long time to compleate all the senarios and i have never done it myself but if you want to find out what they all are you can download a trainer of the internet and enable them all. You enter the game and build build build untill you compleate the objective given. Exciting, challenging, intellectual and requires imagination.

Could've been better.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is a very good themepark editor and maker. the only problem i find is the Roller Coasters. Chris Sawyer could've extended the game and made the Roller Coasters that you build, rideable.( so YOU can ride on them ) And to take it even further, this game would've been the best Park simulator there ever was if he would've made all the rides rideable. Well, that is just my opinion.

This game is real, but unreal too!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is very very good, because it has the real-life thinking, it runs on slow computers, like mine, it doesn't that that much space up, and it's fun too. The only probalm with this game is the money, there isn't any free-for-all levels, which makes it less-addidive, there are lots of things to do, completing parks takes too long, and too hard though. (The money)
There is hunger, Thirst, Happyness, Nausa, and Bathroom, I like to rise the money for bathroom a lot, so people after it hits really high, they have to go. The downside to this game is, even if you make a great park, if your people have to pay everytime they go on a ride, they get broke, and leave, or get mad, trying to find there way out (This happened to me) so just make park enternce 60 dollars, and everything free. (even food) What my 2nd favorite thing to do in the game is, make roller costers that stack on each other, you can make a roller by just ONE land by.... Rising the land first, not too high though, then get a roller coster picked, the put the first roller coster path on the high land you made, and build on! You can make lots of stuff, in a small area! Graphics, ok, this is good, but nothing like what today is, plus, people can get stuck on Water Rides, for no reasons, and it isn't perceft on making a good life like roller coster because parts show on and off, Graphics:4/10 Fun, this game is the MOST addidive game ever! Fun:9.5/10 Gameplay, this can last you, like 100+ hours Gameplay:10/10 Sound, this is a bad thing in the game, like only the sound of kids and roller costers, needs SOUND:5/10 Overall, this game is great, if you like fun games, get this:8/10 which is Great, and 4 stars goes to Roller Coster Tycoon!

Addicting game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is excellent. I had a great time with my 8 year old playing this. Can't wait to play it with him. I highly recommend this game. It reminds me of business policy simulation games in college.

Roller Coaster Tycoon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. It is this coolest game in the world, to me. You've gotta buy it. I have it and it rocks

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