RollerCoaster Tycoon® Deluxe

I remember many years ago, when I was just a wee lad, I received this game for my birthday, or Christmas, or Hanukkah... or maybe it was Kwanzaa. Something like that. The point is, I fell in love with it immediately. This game is a must play for anyone who considers themselves a gamer. Why is this game so great? You get to build your own themepark. Place down rides, concessions, paths, trees and other decorations. You can set the prices for everything, and, most importantly, you can build your own roller coasters. There are preset designs for roller coasters, but it's much more fun to build your own. The best part is you can make these has dangerous as you want. I think everyone who played this game remembers loving to kill people by crashing roller coasters (or by picking them up and placing them in a pool of water). If you don't already own this game, get it now. It's a must have.

RCT was one of my favorite games when it was released over a decade ago. It has aged very well - the gameplay is still as fun and enjoyable as ever, and the graphics are still very reasonable. The game includes both expansion packs, and is overall just a blast. The tutorial quickly brings new users up to speed, and it's probably not necessary to read the manual for anything other than the most complex parts of the game (like building custom rollercoasters or putting stuff underground). In particular, the Loopy Landscape scenarios are probably the best ones of the 3 sets - its objectives are more creative and interesting (whereas the previous 2 sets are mostly just "Have X guests by year Y"). The Loopy Landscape scenarios also don't impose or force time constraints (so you don't have to watch your park on auto-run while you wait out the remaining 2 years or whatever). My only complaint is that rollercoasters can fail with no fault on my part. For instance, certain failure cases (e.g. station break failure) will essentially just happen and is not preventable. You just have to save every few minutes and restart if it happens (or deal with the aftermath). Granted, perhaps this is true in real life as well -- even the best parks have accidents every now and then, but I don't think including this "feature" adds value to the game. Overall, an awesome game :)

This game and I go way back. I played it in my elementary school, I played it at a friends house and I used to not really know what I was doing (down to the bone, that is) but still have lots of fun with the park creation and management system. For the people who have ever wanted to create the ride of their dreams, flourish their park with scenery to their hearts content and/or run a park I would recommend this game without hesitation. I still play this game every now and again, and if you are a person to try to get a high score (Park Value) then you'll be trying to tweak/refine the scenario to its fullest! :)

Please add support for the Mac! That would be awesome, no more VMWare just to play RCT.

Buy this game. For this price, it's a bargain no one can pass up! The original game, AND both expansion packs? Keep in mind that the original game alone contains scenarios that will occupy you for hours upon hours, and each expansion only adds to this plethora of content. It is entirely possible that the casual gamer would never complete every single one of the scenarios; it takes a hard-core simulation game player to best all of this game's content. Spend this trivial sum of money and buy Roller Coaster Tycoon Deluxe. I know you won't regret the purchase!