RollerCoaster Tycoon® Deluxe

Big mistake on my part. This game is much better than any of its sequels, and its latest title seems more like a farmville than a game. However, if you buy on Steam, you get a half-assed port to Steam that isn't even integrated right (overlay won't work, no screenshots or anything either), but still gets the DRMs. Buy it here, and you have infinite downloads standalone, plus it seems to be more compatible than the "steam edition." To sum it up, RCT is another title by developer Chris Sawyer, a sim gamemaker who was way ahead of his time though his reluctance of popularity led to him being outshined by EA's cash cow franchises such as The Sims and SimCity. Even around the time of DOS, he was innovating, most notably his state-of-the-art Interface in Railroad Tycoon. RollerCoaster Tycoon, on the other hand, is just what it sounds like. Being a Win95/98 game and not DOS, you won't need any emulators. Rather than railroads, you'll be making a theme park of your own. It can be as simple or complex as you want it to be, as far as interface goes. You always seem to have two options, a simple tool that can serve its purpose in a well-planned park, or a much more complex tool that can accomplish much more but is a little trickier to learn. Around nearly every corner is a graph you can find, an EXCELLENT economy system that will feel right from both your period as an entertainment superpower to a run-down carnival with a long list of debts to pay. Within at least 3 hours of the game you can learn nearly every trick, but your game doesn't end there. With this game's excellent scenarios, neat-but-powerful interface, and nostalgic 256-color isometric visuals, the only downside is a lack of support for widescreen. As long as you don't mind a bit of a stretchy screen, I can't recommend this game enough to you. As a fan since its release, this was what I remembered from my childhood more than any other game and it's still a lot of fun to this day. GET IT.

I have attempted every fix possible and the game refuses to launch at all, be it on GoG Galaxy or downloaded to run without it. Good thing I didn't spend much because clearly something is wrong with the game itself.

This is easily one of the best sims I've ever played in my life. It's one of the few games I could keep playing for ages before I had internet. If you haven't tried it, get it. It's -definitely- worth your time and money.

I don't really know exactly how to put it. So I'm just going to say. I got this game when I was a kid not long after it came out. Lets just say an entire summer vacation went by and I didn't even notice. I would get on in the morning when everyone left for work at 9am, and then suddenly they'd be home, and it was 5pm. And my eyes were blood shot and burned, and I had to go pee really badly. And I couldn't remember anything that happened for that day. It was my absolute favorite game when I was a kid. I loved building parks, designing coasters and ocationally drowning the unhappy guest. It has a lot of fond memories and I couldn't recommend this game more to people who like this style of game.

I remember playing this as a kid, endlessly. Holy cow. Amazing. I'm ashamed that I forgot about it until now!