Theme Park Simulation Games -

ZepFloyd94

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What are your favorite theme park/roller coaster games? (i.e. RollerCoaster Tycoon, Planet Coaster, Thrillville, NoLimits)

I put in hours with the likes of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 & 3.

I really need to try out Planet Coaster sometime.
 

Jewelsmakerguy

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I used to play RTC 2 when I was younger (got it from a cereal box too!)

I now have the GOG.com version and I play it on and off. It's more fun if you get Open RTC 2 too.
 

Army Burger

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I used to play RTC 2 when I was younger (got it from a cereal box too!)

I now have the GOG.com version and I play it on and off. It's more fun if you get Open RTC 2 too.

The days when you could get CD's from cereal boxes were the best. RTC 1 + 2 were the ones I spent the most time with.
 

Pickle Inspector

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What are your favorite theme park/roller coaster games? (i.e. RollerCoaster Tycoon, Planet Coaster, Thrillville, NoLimits)

I put in hours with the likes of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 & 3.

I really need to try out Planet Coaster sometime.
Right now Planet Coaster is kind of over hyped in my opinion, the creation part is good if that's all you're interested in but the scenario/management part is lacking in comparison to the older theme park management games.
 

dunbrine47

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The ones I have played are Sim Coaster and Roller Coaster Tycoon.

I wish the Steam version did not have so many "quirks" with my system tho.
 

Watcher

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One of my favorites I consider underrated is Theme Park World
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It's more of a sequel to the original Theme Park and less a reaction to Rollercoaster Tycoon. Which came out the same year.

It's simulation aspect is also much simpler. It's designed more for younger children, especially with it's very goofy and upbeat atmosphere. Like there's park themes ranging from a "Space" themed park to a "Halloween" themed park.

I also remember one of my favorite aspects of it was you could view the park from the perspective of a guest and ride all of the rides. Or walk around. This is a relatively mundane feature today but at the time I was blown away by it.

It also had no copy protection and kind of hard to run on modern systems. I remember I played the PS1 version the most.
 

SpessCaptain

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One of my favorites I consider underrated is Theme Park World
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It's more of a sequel to the original Theme Park and less a reaction to Rollercoaster Tycoon. Which came out the same year.

It's simulation aspect is also much simpler. It's designed more for younger children, especially with it's very goofy and upbeat atmosphere. Like there's park themes ranging from a "Space" themed park to a "Halloween" themed park.

I also remember one of my favorite aspects of it was you could view the park from the perspective of a guest and ride all of the rides. Or walk around. This is a relatively mundane feature today but at the time I was blown away by it.

It also had no copy protection and kind of hard to run on modern systems. I remember I played the PS1 version the most.
Yeah this was my jam too, I loved it.
 

Asperchewy

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RCT 3, FTW. The customization options in that game makes the game sooo much better.
 

Asperchewy

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The days when you could get CD's from cereal boxes were the best. RTC 1 + 2 were the ones I spent the most time with.
Was this before\after the Hasbro CD Roms in cereal boxes? I'm fairly certain I remember seeing RCT and others around the time I snagged a few Hasbro board game discs from boxes.

Edit: BTW, My first intro to these "Amusement Park" sims was renting Theme Park on Sega Genesis. Of course I still own that copy as well.
 

Army Burger

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Was this before\after the Hasbro CD Roms in cereal boxes? I'm fairly certain I remember seeing RCT and others around the time I snagged a few Hasbro board game discs from boxes.

Edit: BTW, My first intro to these "Amusement Park" sims was renting Theme Park on Sega Genesis. Of course I still own that copy as well.

This was around that exact time. I got a fair amount of board game adaptations from them as well.
 

Strelok

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Right now Planet Coaster is kind of over hyped in my opinion, the creation part is good if that's all you're interested in but the scenario/management part is lacking in comparison to the older theme park management games.

Eh, the management of RCT was mostly smoke and mirrors as well, the difficulty only came from the absurdly short timespan they would give you to complete objectives, or the fact that the guests would get stuck in a routing loop for eternity if you dared to have a park with multiple pathways.
 

Jewelsmakerguy

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Was this before\after the Hasbro CD Roms in cereal boxes? I'm fairly certain I remember seeing RCT and others around the time I snagged a few Hasbro board game discs from boxes.

Edit: BTW, My first intro to these "Amusement Park" sims was renting Theme Park on Sega Genesis. Of course I still own that copy as well.
Yeah, it was around that time. I remember getting a couple others from that promotion too, like Monopoly Jr., Tonka Search & Rescue and Sorry.
 
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