Theme Park

This game is great, when it works. It's a great park builder with competitive and sandbox modes. The precursor to Roller Coaster Tycoon. But for some reason, the game crashes a TON. The game itself crashes within DosBox, while DosBox itself responds just fine. It's strange. You might get an hour or two of game time in before this just randomly happens, or you might get 30 minutes. You might get 10. For that alone I can't really recommend buying this, unless there's a source port out there somewhere.

Unfortunately this classic game has been ruined by the fact that it does not seem to function properly. When buying stock for the shops, (sometimes) it depletes immediately, as if it has been sold but without adding any funds to your account. This enables you to go bankrupt very quickly. Another fault I have noticed is getting game over at the end of the year despite having tonnes of money, a valuable park etc.

Now maybe back then it was good. Even trough the whole idea of the stock market was? I mean I don't get it. Who cares about stocks? What about competition, oh we remember all those amusement park builders and their competitor AI? No we don't. And what about those unsattisfied costumers who don't find anything to eat or to drink even trough there are several food and drink stands. Why is the food no good or the drink not? Maybe I could provide better drinks but if I only have shit like the amount of coffein in the cocoa (which is rediclues) or the amount of sugar in the ice, and there are not even any burger huts at the start so I don't know what to do about them. Seriously is allot sugar good or just a bit? No Seriously! You can't just asume one or the other you need to provide some feedbak what costumers like, if you make super sweet stuff in germany this wouldn't work because we often half the sugar while in other parts like australia and usa they often quadrouble the sugar. So which is better less or more? Same with caffein germans need allot while americans need just brown water. And with an interface that doesn't let that much room. I mean you could probably get into this shit and it would be alright I guess but why? It was a shallow game back than, hindered by experience mostly so it was probably one of the best of the time and today it just plain sucks. I rather would replay the later Theme Park games as those where more fun. Or Rollar Coaster Tycoon if I go for a more Simulation like experience. This game has nothing more to offer. But I would say if you want something need for your genesis you can grap yourself a cartridge it is pretty good for that.

Used to love playing this game and the game is still great. Features some major bugs on modern operating system though.

I used to own this on the PS1, and it had been years since I played it. I was kind of stressed out and figured this carefree game about making a theme park would be a great way to relax. So I set the game to full sim mode and put in my cheat codes, and I take my time making sure everything is how I want it before the park opens. Well apparently I took a little bit too long, since my park had turned zero profit and went bankrupt, they showed a cut scene of a guy jumping out of a window lmao. So note to self, if you are playing the game purely to relax and create, put it on sandbox mode. While it’s not something I am going to sink a ton of time into with my modern day attention span, it is still a classic game loaded with a ton of nostalgia that I see myself revisiting many more times over the years.