How long before I make a page with all of those parks on it? I didn’t really get on with the 3D cartoonified look and feel of this sequel and it’s never interested me since.Īs some sort of redemption mission I went back to the original game as an adult and finally took it to 100%, practicing and improving with every build along the way. Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 came out a while later and the fact you could do real POVs was massively exciting, for about half an hour. I can’t help but cringe a little when I watch the rides in action. Sound alright to the casual player? Well the problem with these are that every high point is taken at a snails pace, everything just barely makes it to the next section and it’s done with almost clinical calculation – if the last three hills were 45ft then have to make the next three 25ft. The efficiency in old (young) me seemed to believe that the best rollercoasters were the ones that made the most of their potential energy – going on as long as physically possible with the gravity available. I managed to dig out these old maps of mine and it’s fascinating to see the style of build at the time. Sandbox came of course with the sequel game Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, but all the money in the world couldn’t help me make a good ride and my time spent on here was fleeting at best. With these failings, I longed for a more free reign approach to the construction to hone my skills. I couldn’t make either consistent money or competent rides and never progessed very far into depths of the unlockable scenarios (still the best aspect of the original game). Trouble is I wasn’t very good at any part of the game at a young age. It had all the classics on it like Forest Frontiers, Dynamite Dunes and Razor Rocks. The original Rollercoaster Tycoon was of course an early inspiration for me, likely playing at least some part in how I became so obsessed with this hobby in the first place.

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