RollerCoaster Tycoon
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RollerCoaster Tycoon

Frontier Developments, Chris Sawyer Productions

1999•Strategy•ESRB E

Taste attributes: businessrobots/ai/spacevehiclesslowfresh & originalimaginaryintricatelinearbig & variedemotionally undemandingall consuming questsolving the riddle/not as it seems

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Boxlist takeSweeping and emotionally cool: an inventive strategy game, heightened rather than true to life. Best if you like easy over intense.

Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: intricate · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score

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About This Game

The premise of the game is to complete a series of preset scenarios by successfully building and maintaining amusement parks through business ownership as a theme park entrepreneur. The key to any park is building a large amount and diverse range of rides for the visitors. Players can choose from dozens of roller coaster types and can also build log flumes, carousels, bumper cars, haunted houses, go karts, ferris wheels, and swinging ships, among other rides. The intensity and type of rides must be balanced, as visitors' preferences vary significantly from person to person. For example, some guests prefer exciting rides and have high nausea tolerance levels, while other guests are just the opposite.

Summary: IGDB

Screenshots

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Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

BusinessRobots/ai/spaceVehiclesAll consuming questSolving the riddle/not as it seems

Keywords

TycoonAmusement parkManagementBuildingArtificial intelligencePizzaIsometric

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Details

Developers
Frontier Developments, Chris Sawyer Productions
Publishers
Hasbro Interactive, MicroProse Software, Inc., Atari, Inc.
Released
31 March 1999
Series
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Platforms
Xbox, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Modes
Single player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Age rating
ESRB E
Taste scores
How we score
Source
IGDB

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