RollerCoaster Tycoon® Deluxe

Rollercoaster tycoon was the first sim-game I bought for the pc, way back now.... In all that time though it's been one of my favorite games ever made. Not for the graphics, though they're quite nice actually. Not for the music, though it's quite good. Not even for the dream of owning an amusement park. It's all that combined with the awesome game-play. You start out with some $/€/etc. 10.000 loan in a park, then you get to turn whatever it might have been into a booming business. Players get challenged though, especially if you don't know what you're doing. The main objective is to earn a lot of money by making your park a success: Add rides, roads, ques and scenery. Research new stuff, advertise, buy new land or at least get permission to build there. Design the tracks for several kinds of rides, not just the titular ones. Manage staff from handymen to gardeners, from entertainers in mascot-suits to security. Handle personnel and visitors with impunity, pick them up, drop them, confound them by denying an exit from the park or send them to their deaths (O_O) with a badly designed ride. All in all, RC Tycoon had all this to offer on it's own, but GOG includes the expansion packs, adding tons of extra parks, new features and improvements. Considering the price vs addiction level this is a must-buy-or-die game you shouldn't be without.

Not only does this bring back memories for most people but also this game is truly amazing! A lot of games made today take hours (I'm exaggerating) to load. This game takes merely seconds. Also who can forget the hundred if not, thousands, of small people in the game each with individual AI. This game is truly amazing!

Ah, I remember this game so fondly! The fun of planning the park, making queues, cleaning up after people, and occasionally murdering cars full of riders by accidentally putting the wrong settings on a rollercoaster and not really testing it first ... And it still doesn't disappoint. It somehow manages to look so pleasant and retro, and is just a pleasure to play. So many thumbs way, way up.

Back in the old days, when Tycoon was a main genre, RTC was among the most fun and most engaging ones. Today in 2017, this hasn't changed. RTC offers an incredible amount of customization and a lot of control over your park from the size of coaster trains to the color of it, to the color of pavement in your park to marketing campaigns of your park or rides. Rules of the game are dynamic, realistic and require adaptation from playing with prices of umberallas depending on rain to the importance of vendor placement to rides becoming old and unwanted, requiring a price drop. Game's graphics are surely dated but the style, in my opinion, makes it pretty timeless. All in all, RTC is definitely worth the money if you like such games!

I was worried at first that RCT1 would be too 'primitive' for me, since I first came into contact with the sequel, RCT2. No worries! The game is great, and it's really valuable to get to know the beginning of the series, which according to many, has better gameplay mechanics, than the sequel. But when I'm done with this amazing game that pioneered a genre, I'm moving on to the sequel, because it is different and for a good reason it was done completely from scratch. These games have great replay value and are very ethic (family friendly), developing our creativeness and good nature. By default, the game runs fullscreen in old square aspect dimensions, but within the game options we can select windowed mode and use a support program like Borderless Gaming to stretch that window to get widescreen and fullscreen - it works for 1280x768, though someone said at much higher resolutions it does not. The resolution goes up and the game looks smooth and very nice (not pixelated like by default). And then, scrolling the map by mouse at border does not work, but the right mouse button does work for that, and is better at that. Be aware that the mouse wheel does not zoom (no option for such setup), so use a mouse mapper (keypmapper) program to map the mouse wheel to keyboard keys, like PgUP and PgDN for example (game default for zooming) and you'll have mouse wheel zooming. A good freeware mouse mapper is "X-Mouse Button Control" by Phillip Gibbons. This program will even remember for which program window you want specific mappings, so that they are applied only for that particular program (set in options). There is a initiative by fans of this masterpiece to improve the series and port to different platforms. It's called OpenRCT2, and from what I heard, you can use this game's files and the sequels to get the full experience. The ports run on Linux and Android, and extend game mechanics and features, but first play the original games to know them better.