Theme Park

Constant in game crashes make this iconic and brilliant game impossible to play.

Theme Park is one of the early progenitors of commercial property management, and while a decent enough title, suffers from a number of problems that makes it a bit difficult to recommend to those that didn't play it when it was released. The game has a reasonable amount of depth, though this is customizable, so both sandbox and full sim modes are available. In the full sim mode, players place rides, stalls and amenities in their park to satisfy customers, while managing stock, employees, performing research and even trading stock in your competitors. A number of infographics with varying clarity and an 'adviser' help manage the details so getting a park into the black isn't too tricky. On the whole the game is quite fun; it's satisfying to watch your park grow, to manage satisfaction with your budget and earn a healthy profit to start with your next park. My biggest complaint is the generic nature of the parks; the tile sets aren't themed so there's no change from location to location besides resident numbers and their wealth. Customization options are also pretty limited, so I never felt like a park was really 'mine'. Once you sell them off, unless you've saved you can't visit old parks either which is a pity. There are also a few technical issues. Managing stock is the most annoying mechanics; players must manually order new stock each time the store runs out, but they are never notified when a shipment arrives, so stores can run out if you have forgotten to check stock levels. AI is a bit wonky at times as well; I frequently found cleaners running in circles having gotten stuck on their route, and little people can get lost or stuck easily too. And yet, there's a great sense of satisfaction pulling your park together, and solving the periodic problems that come up. It flows excellently and though it's hard to spend a long time playing it's a great time waster if you have a spare half hour or so. Just don't expect it to play perfectly.

Won't start on windows 10, reinstalled windows 7 on a second partition so I could go back to using gog games with nview and nvidia card and the game crashes, hoping they fix this as I spent hours playing this game on the genesis

Nostalgia, dreams and happiness. If you've played this game before, you'll probably have some idea what I'm on about. My brother and I used to play this on the PlayStation, we'd manage our park like pros, keeping our staff happy and ensuring we had a big collection of quality rides. Yes, this game is old, but it's fun and I recommend you give it a go.

Well I was kinda hoping GOG will fix some of Bullfrog's bugs as well preventing the handymen patrolling at the North-West corner all the time as well allow the Auction to place the player's Theme Park under the hammer, than being stranded. It's no wonder EA doesn't focus on fixing some long-term abandoned bugs more than any games publishers that they care mainly on profit and letting their games age baddly.