Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic

This is my blog where I write my thoughts and feelings on parks in RCTC. I'll post pictures of finished parks and every edition will be posted when I finish a park! Enjoy!

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Bonus Group

Writing this after I’ve beaten all 7 parks in the bonus group, which took me about 4 months, since I was focused on other things. Tycoon park was beat with the gold group, I started that once I beat micro park. But the other 6 took me 4 months.

The six flags group is such a weird group of parks, because they’re basically sandbox parks, most of the rides even in 2002 are left out, leaving a huge amount of space to fill in some of these parks. I had an itch to scratch 2 years later which is why I decided to do these parks. Upsetting that they no longer have Alton towers, Heide park, and Blackpool. Would’ve loved diving into those parks but they’re not in classic.

I love six flags magic mountain basically because of this game, so I have a soft spot for refurbishing that entire park, and I had fun doing it to the others too, but I really did this project in the order of which I wanted to do, which is why holland was last. Greta adventure is easily the biggest park, with the most original rides of any of these parks. Panda world was a wash, they didn’t give you enough rides to even fill the space.

All in all I really wanted to test my coaster abilities, and really trying to make coasters as crisp and non messy as possible, even if they’re crammed into small spaces. I think my next project down the road would be to redo old parks that I feel like I’ve failed at. Until next time (maybe another 2 years?) these 7 parks have been great.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Tycoon Park

So this is it. This is the pinnacle of everything that I’ve worked for. I’ve spent 4 years playing this game, and about 10 years before this playing each game separately (RCT, Corkscrew Follies, Loopy Landscapes) so this is basically everything that I’ve worked for for about 15 years. I finally made it

The first very immediate problem with this park is that it has absolutely no infrastructure. Within 10 days the park is covered in litter, vomit, and hundreds of people needing the bathroom. There are no benches outside of coasters, there is not one trash can in the entire park, and there are only 10 bathrooms across the 4,225,430 square feet of this park.

So because this park has both no money and no time limit I have decided that my first action is going to be to close all of the rides so that people stop coming into the park and also so people will stop vomiting everywhere. I will take this time to put in trash cans and bathrooms and to hire more handymen and mechanics, at least double. Because of how long all of this takes, it is not the beginning of year 8, and the first rides are starting to reopen, with a park rating of 999, and 6,800 guests wandering around an empty park.

Well the park was closed for 10 years but I have opened my first rides (the transport rides) on March 1st, Year 11. It is now March 1st, year 22, and every ride has been opened.

This park has every single ride in the game, combined into a perfectly themed park with unique themes and worlds. It lags so much because it’s a mega park, and because there’s well over 10,000 guests, which barely crowds the park. This park could realistically hold 20,000 guests, but I couldn’t imagine the lag.

I’ve downloaded the extra parks including the six flags parks, so I’ve decided to make a Bonus Group beginning with Tycoon Park. Beautifully designed park, very fun to wander around and look at all the rides. I finished Tycoon Park with 103 rides including 47 coasters.

Editors note: I didn’t realize I hadn’t posted this review until 2 years after I made it, which is why it’s being posted now.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Six Flags Holland

Ok so this is a very expansive and sprawling park, yet nothing is filled in, the rides are so far apart from each other that there’s a ton of land to fill in. The objective isn’t hard, like the other parks, but it did take me 27 game years to finish this park. I also decided at the beginning that I wasn’t going to buy any land, there’s a ton of land for sale but there’s not enough types of rides to fill in that much space.

I started by reconstructing the entire park from the ground up, all of the pathways needed to be changed, a lot of rides needed to be moved. I started by completely reimagining the entrance and working it into the lakeside to the east, keeping the town/building theme but scaling it to RCT, adding lots of trees and bushes. Next to the entrance I added a version of Xpress, but made as a corkscrew coaster.

I built a second railroad, both railroads go in counter clockwise circles around their respective halves of the park. The area with the boomerang got remade, to be closer to the carousel and the now larger food court. The entire promenade up to the Ferris wheel has been redone, now leading up to an observation tower. The Ferris wheel has been moved to the lakeside. The area around the space shot and enterprise has changed, now a boardwalk following the train tracks. Condors layout has changed slightly, the area around condor and Goliath has changed, many more courtyards and plazas added. The area between Crazy River and Flying Dutchman has been turned into one large western themed area, including the swinging ship, which is now been moved, the lake being occupied by a Splash Falls. There is an Area 51 type area in the back corner, with a tiny launched giga (Lost Gravity) wedged into the very small corner. I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could create a coaster in that tiny space.

The entire area around Robin Hood has changed, there is now an entire castle themed area inside Robin Hood’s layout, where the graviton and haunted house have been moved to. It is a dead end, but guests don’t get lost. The largest coaster in the park is now a B&M hyper named Drako, a double out and back coaster that crosses the lake at the back of the park. It’s blood red and 6,178 feet long, with speeds of 75mph. There is a launched giga over the rapids ride, which became bigger and more twisted than I anticipated. Also a pirate themed floorless coaster on the lake with 8 inversions.

All in all this park was not hard, but was a matter of blending areas from the original park and using them to accentuate the newer rides. This is the final park I’m doing from this series, I have no interest in the time twister parks, I think the scenery in them is ugly. I’ve had thoughts for years of doing a ‘revisited’ series, but that’s for the future. All in all I finished Six Flags Hollands with 45 rides including 14 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Six Flags Belgium

The strangest and most bizarrely laid out park yet of the Six Flags parks. The objective was easy, just continue advertising and marketing and you’ll have the amount in no time. The part I’ve never realized about this scenario is that the entire left side of the map is for sale (and parts of the right side) but it’s 100$ per square….which made this take a very very very long time.

The most major change through the entire park is the path layout. There’s no need for every path to be 4-5 tiles wide, so I’ve shrunk them all down to 2-3 wide. I’ve also reduced the amount of paths. The entrance section is condensed, less paths. Carousel moved, food added, courtyard in front of train station. Vampire was moved between the entrance and the river, an out and back B&M is in place where vampire used to be. Cobra is in the same place, magic carpet was moved, a mini giga coaster was build over and adjacent to the rapids, a skyride and walking tunnel was built across the lake. A new railway station was added on the west side of the lake. Turbine and flash back are untouched, but the railway and pathway surrounding the flume have been adjusted, allowing room for a massive double launch giga coaster to circle the peninsula.

The entire profile of the east side of the park has changed, the area around the top spin and enterprise has changed, the scrambler and swinging ship were moved to this area too, creating a garden area with a few flat rides and the Cheshire cats. The corkscrew, loop garou, and calamity mines layouts were adjusted, the area around the Ferris wheel was flipped, the pond replaced with a skyride station.

In the new land in the west includes 7 new coasters, 4 of them being B&M coasters (twister, floorless, mini hyper, flying) also includes an air launch coaster that returns through a dark ride. This whole area is lightly themed to a Lost Forest. The back corner feels a bit messy with 3 huge coasters next to each other, each with different themes, but I get tired of flat areas.

All in all this park was super long but very productive, it’s year 33 so that tells you how long it took to buy the land, which I won’t be doing for Holland. I’d say about 70% of this park is perfect in my mind. I’m very happy with it. I finished with 48 rides including 18 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Panda World

So to be honest I started this park a couple years ago and got bored with it, leaving it half built. It’s simply a flat park and they don’t give you enough ride types it was boring. When I came back to it I had already finished Magic Mountain, Over Texas, and Great Adventure. So this is a quick pit stop before moving onto the European Six Flags parks.

The entire park is supposed to be themed to Pandas, but the park is probably 4 times larger than what it should be. Therefor I had to think of this park on 4 times the scale. I decided to theme it to animals. The front of the park is themed to pandas, the far left is themed to tigers, the middle is themed to lions, and the far right is themed to elephants. Giving all 4 areas 4 different landscapes with 4 different monorail stations. Perfect.

The coaster types nor the coasters themselves are revolutionary, there’s not a B&M available in this park, there’s only 11 coaster types available to you, 5 of those are wild mouse variants. I built 2 out and back twister woodies, a tiger theme and a jaguar theme, respectively. The centerpiece coaster is a Multidiver clone which I’ve recovered and rethemed. There’s an electric mine train coaster themed to bamboo, a wild mouse in the elephant section (obviously), a pretty standard corkscrew coaster (6 inversions), and finally an inverted wild mouse. I was really just trying to fill up space here.

All in all this park is one of the most boring in the series, clear to see why it’s a cute extra park. Mildly happy with how it turned out, but now that it’s out of the way it’s back to the Six Flags parks. I finished with 25 rides including 8 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Six Flags Great Adventure

This park is wild because it’s one of the biggest parks in the entire game, and the entirety of it is flat. Parks with lots of open land are hard for me because there’s too much space, but I had a plan of action.

I divided the park in half, and decided to ground the park in transit, with a transit hub in the center of the park. There’s one monorail going clockwise around the park, with 2 stations at the transit hub and 2 on either end of the park. This is for quick transit to get to the back of the park quickly. Then there are 2 trains in either half of the park running counter clockwise. This makes it easy for guests to get to any section of the park they want without walking there.

I’ve also divided the park into sections by path. The central promenade is grey pavement, the central loop paths are the brown stone, and the outer areas of the park are dark brown path.

Every pre existing ride has been tampered with by me. The skyrides have been extended. Great American Scream Machine had its station moved, its track layout changed slightly, and its entire grounds covered in forest. Note: the entire park is now in thick forest. Rolling Thunder had its layout very slightly tweaked so they would race better. Adventure raceway was moved next to the west lake. Medusa had its entire layout altered, its station moved, first drop changed, entire second half refurbished, also covered in forest. Runaway mine train was fixed to have a couple of steep drops, new station, condensed layout, and only run 2 trains. Both twister and buccaneer have been moved to other places in the park, as well as carousel and big wheel. Blackbeards Lost Treasure was moved and reconstructed just southeast of where it was, it fits perfectly between the transit hub and the skyride station. Skull Mountain was moved to the west a few blocks and reconstructed with a nicer facade, with more waterfalls in the front. Nitros entire layout was moved one block to the right so it was symmetrical with the skyride, also its station lowered and the layout changed slightly so it would be less intense. Rapids are relatively unchanged besides adding more rapids.

Everything else is new. There’s a total of 24 roller coasters in this park. I built a green stand up coaster next to great American scream machine (can’t believe the flying coaster isn’t available in this park), I built a green hyper coaster going out and back from the parking lot, coloring and naming it after Kingda Ka, so that there would be a massive hyper coaster to the east and a smaller hyper coaster to the west. I took a lot of names from past coasters that were at great adventure, so Ultra Twister is next to Jumbo Jet and Savajevo Bobsleds, Viper and Wild Rider are here too, but in different forms than their originals. I made a clone of El Toro in the back of the park, and I’m very proud of how it turned out. Even the station is a clone.

There are 3 coasters in this park with interlocking corkscrews, it’s just a fun shape to build and works really well with B&M coasters. I built a mild clone of The Chiller, but named them Frostbite & Flamethrower. Very fun coasters to watch. Jersey Devil is at the back of the park, but it’s in the form of an out and back twister wooden coaster, in all black.

This is a huge undertaking, and it took me 36 park years to comb through and rearrange everything in this park, I love what it’s turned into, it’s almost more of a Busch gardens style park, completely shrouded in woods, which makes all of the rides more exciting. I love the different areas I’ve created, with main courtyards in the center and then paths branching out into the corners of the park. Currently there are 6,000 guests in this park and I think that’s the perfect amount for this park. I’ve finished Great Adventure with 56 rides including 24 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Six Flags over Texas

I decided not to go in order, obviously, because I knew that if I did them in order I would lose interest and never get anything done. SFOT is an iconic park for me, and since I’ve been to this park in real life, I can tell you that the layout is hilariously wrong. Rides are closer to other rides than they should be, rides are missing, the park is much more compact than in real life, and there are many sections of this park I know existed in 2002 they just aren’t built in game.

I started this park by fixing the symmetry of the entrance square, things like that bother me, I’m never sure why parks in RCT are built so haphazardly. I moved the swinging ship in Spain to the side, added a circus, and added a train station to this area, making the total 3 train stations (2 felt too little). I did not touch La Vibora. The log flume had to be moved and rearranged a bit for pathway reasons, as there’s now a connecting path from Spain to Titan.

I lowered the station for Titan since the station previously was 30 feet high which is ridiculous, I reprofiled a lot of the ride too, adding some airtime hills. I redesigned the pathways and the area next to Titan, including it in a new area called Wild West. In Wild West there is a new mine train ride since the park wasn’t designed with the pre existing Runaway Mine Train, also a powered coaster called Rodeo.

In the center of the park I’ve moved the Splash Falls ride to the back (East) side of the park, replacing it with a wooden twister coaster called Lone Star. Texas Giant has no chances except for the pathways and the scenery around the station and the train station. I’ve kept the building for Runaway Mountain but thought it was too dramatic of a building for the ride inside it so I redesigned it to be an indoor-outdoor double launch coaster similar to Verbolten at Busch Gardens, with the outdoor section flying over the rapids ride. There was no space for the power towers in their current spot so I placed them in the area behind the Oil Derrick. Shockwave is unchanged.

I’ve made the lakeside to the east of the entrance more enticing and enjoyable, adding boat rides, a fountain, and several picnic areas. Next to Judge Roy Scream I’ve added an inverted shuttle coaster, themed loosely off of Adventurelands Dragon, because it also is between a wooden coaster and a lake. The entire area around Flashback and the Bumper Cars is redesigned to have more of an old park theme, Missile Chaser has been moved here.

The lake where Missile Chaser was has been turned into a normal lake, next to it is a pair of very familiar coasters, a blue launched shuttle coaster called Frostbite and next to that a yellow inverted coaster called Longhorn. Wink wink. They’re a little too iconic as a pair not to at least give a nudge. I filled in the rest of the open area beyond bumper cars with a water coaster themed to medieval Merlin, a few flat rides, and the moved Splash Falls.

Overall this park was super easy, especially since there were fewer rides than SFMM, I made money much faster than SFMM too. This park only took about 20 years to complete. A lot of the existing coasters were built to my standard in this park, so I’ve mainly adjusted only pathways and the areas around these coasters, creating a perfect balance of old and new. I finished SFOT with 42 rides including 14 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Six Flags Magic Mountain

Well here I am after a 2 year hiatus, I decided to buy the expansion pack and to play with the extra perks. I needed something that was a little familiar to me and something that was more cleaning up a park rather than starting a park from scratch. So I chose SFMM first because I can beat it in 10 seconds (deleting 2 coasters and paying off the loan) and not have to worry about beating a park.

I started by raising the entrance price, making sure there were enough restrooms and food stalls everywhere, as well as making sure there were no dead ends or path traps in the park. I then started going section by section and beautifying the park, deleting paths, making lines neater, even moving rides across the map. I never deleted any rides though, as I wanted to keep all of the same rides in the original park. I did however rebuild rides with different stations, different entrances, even redesigning parts of Flashback and Ninja, and lowering the entire structure of Goliath by 30 feet so its station isn’t as ridiculously high as when you start. Gold Rusher had a major overhaul, redesigning the section before the lift, as well as the long finale so it was more thrilling. I found an odd glitch while rebuilding ninja, when rebuilding it as a new ride, one of its trains would spawn at the bottom of the first drop, valleying it as soon as it spawned. I somehow fixed this by reprofiling the first turn so it would spawn higher up the first drop, completing the circuit. Really strange glitch that I’ve never seen before.

After redesigning the entire park, I started adding to it. I wanted some brand new rides that aren’t at the real park, but I wanted some nods to the current park. There is a green B&M stand up coaster called Saguaro where the Riddler should be, but a different color pallet and a different layout. Next to it is a blue B&M invert where Batman should be, but a different blue with a different layout and theme. There’s a launched shuttle coaster called Full Throttle. Some brand new rides I’ve built are a wooden twister a la gravity group between X and the entrance called Sierra Flyer, a mini launched giga coaster called Grizzly which twist over the rapids ride, an industrial themed wild mouse next to Psyclone, a pirate themed area where the water park should be, including an inverted impulse coaster and a dive coaster, which intermingles with a river raft ride. Next to the pirates area is a castle themed area where the looney toons area should be, I’ve moved some rides around (Ferris wheel now on the mountain) and added new rides including an inverted wild mouse. The final pair of coasters I’ve made are a massive duo of a 200 foot giga coaster called Inferno and its wooden counterpart, Ember. These are built in the very back corner of the park in an odd diagonal patch of land, with Inferno crossing the station of Colossus.

Rides that I did not touch were Colossus, I thought about making it one continuous coaster but I thought that might make the intensity too high. Revolution is the same though I rebuilt it so I could redesign the station. X is untouched but its station scenery design changed. Psyclone is untouched as well, Deja Vu was moved 2 spaces towards the canal so I could fit a plaza in between them.

This park was extremely hard to manage, with only entrance ticket prices making you money, I couldn’t hire a lot of staff, so the paths were regularly a mess, vandalism happened frequently, and people would always get stuck, forcing me to create paths and create new routes all the time. I had to redesign sections for the handymen and mechanics, and I eventually had to hire a couple security guards. The key is keeping the handymen’s sections small, as this park easily could fit 6,000 people in it, so areas can get very messy very quickly. You have to use marketing at almost every moment if you want to get anything done, but it also brings more people in, and people never leave if you keep cash machines around. It’s a rough scenario.

All in all this park was therapeutic for me to build, and I’m very happy with the end result. I loved combing over every inch of this park and making it perfect in my mind. I finished SFMM with 5,800 guests, 65 staff, 60 rides, and 25 coasters (including duplicate/racing coasters).

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Gold Group

The biggest and baddest parks, the most difficult in the game. But I don’t think that’s true. I think the difficulty in roller coaster tycoon is decided by the terrain and the objective, parks like rainbow summit, lightning peaks, and alpine adventures. This group didn’t have a lot of difficult terrain. It was a mix of difficult parks like tiny towers, rainbow valley, and micro park, mixed with normal average parks like southern sands, Venus ponds, and Megaworld park. 8/10

My best parks in this group that I’ve created were Terror Town, Southern Sands, and Nevermore Park. These in my eyes have the best layouts, the best themes, and the best coaster designs.

Terror Town ended up being a fully themed horror park, complete with beautiful coasters, like the newly designed shuttle twister design and the massive mega giga coaster running through the city.

Southern sands is another themed park, with excellent coaster designs such as the 3 coasters in the mining area, and the mini launched giga in the racing area.

Nevermore park was the park made for massive coasters and I think some of these designs are my best yet in any park.

My least favorite parks were Urban Park, Rainbow Valley, and Micro Park. These parks because of their space restrictions really didn’t work for me, I had big plans for Micro Park but because of a glitch in the game I could not build the amount of paths I wanted.

All in all this ending to the game was half expected, it could have been more difficult, of course parks like rainbow valley, micro park, and megaworld park were here, but parks like terror town confused me. Anyways, now I can say that I’ve beat all 95 roller coaster tycoon parks.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Micro Park

Well this park may not turn out how I envisioned. It keeps crashing when I try to build 3 layers of path, and even overwriting save data to bring me back to a previous save. For a park that’s supposed to be build upwards, the system sure doesn’t like when you build things high up. Because of this, I cannot build this scenario how I previously wanted.

I decided to finish the 95 parks with an extremely peaceful park, instead of the massive layered tower I was in the process of building. I decided to build almost what looks like a park in the middle of a city, with a lot of trees, some flowers, some fountains, and a carousel.

All in all this park was not terribly hard to beat, but very hard to get my ideas across. I finished Micro Park with 1 ride.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Venus Ponds

This park is impossible to beat without advertising. The stream of guests come in so slowly, and I’m truly glad to have this time limit. I’m not sure how to explain to my guests that this is the most disgusting park I’ve ever encountered, and to kindly stop vomiting on my paths. Guests are also poor so I don’t make a lot of money, and I have to take out a loan any time I want to advertise. It’s quite an annoying situation, but I guess that’s why it’s in the gold group.

I’ve built my Venus Ponds to be a space station and laboratories, basically an exploration of the planet Venus. The landscape was difficult to build and craft but I ended up with a circular park with many of the rides on the outside of the circular path.

Rides include a launched giga coaster, a hyper coaster around the main pond, a compact B&M inverted coaster, and a twisty flying coaster. The coasters were fun to build on this terrain, as there’s many opportunities for large drops with the hillsides and deep valleys and ravines.

I had a lot of fun building this park, in a way this is the final “normal” park in building, so I did it as genuinely as I could. I finished Venus Ponds with 18 rides including 8 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Megaworld Park

I love this park because my favorite activity in RCT is to restore parks. This is truly the worst designed park in roller coaster tycoon history. Was this park always money-free?

All of the work is basically done for you in this park, all you have to do is beef it all up? Add a bunch of bathrooms and drink stalls. A lot more handymen and mechanics, and fix a couple pathways. Since it’s unlimited money people come in regardless if the park is good which means even if I sit here and do nothing I’ll still reach my goal. This park is made to have 8-10k people in it. This park is easy. I finished it in 1 year.

These coaster designs are easily some of the worst in the game, they don’t make sense, they’re uninteresting, and they all need to be redone. There’s a large open space in the center of the park where a roller coaster used to be, a steel mini coaster when they had the steep drops, clearly that doesn’t work anymore, so I assume Chris Sawyer just took it out, so I will replace it with a famous launched giga coaster.

I’ve been doing a complete 100% remodel of this park, the goal is the keep every single ride in the park, never to demolish, but always to provide a 100% face lift, which usually means building rides from the ground up. This park is rough but I know I can make it beautiful.

The biggest most major issue in this park is overcrowding, currently I have 8,700 guests in my park, and 2,000 of them are saying there’s overcrowding, yet none of them leave. The other issues are that because this is RCT1, all of the rides built in the park are medium to low capacity. No 3 train twister coasters, no 6 train giga coasters. Another issue is the 1-wide paths, creating tiny pathways through the park with no escape, the paths need to be widened in most places, the queues lengthened, and the rides beefed to include better capacity.

This park is insane. The longer time goes the more difficult and intense it gets. I had to hire 48 entertainers and 50 security guards to keep this park up and running. Crowds everywhere, but it turned out to be a very pretty park that looks insanely different from the original. I finished Megaworld Park with well over 10,800 guests, 58 rides, including 26 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Terror Town

As easy as this park is to beat, I have no idea how to theme it after. How big will I make the city? Will I add suburbs? A lost forest theme? The many islands could make this interesting.

I am thrilled to announce I have made the worlds first horror themed amusement park, complete with 7 themed lands, including zombies, vampires, ghosts, aliens, graveyards, city destruction, and swamp creatures! All connected by 4 different tram systems.

Each “island” has its own central themed town, which act as smaller stand alone towns from the large central Terror Town. Each has its own centerpiece coaster, ranging from a twister shuttle on Zombie Island, to a hyper coaster in Apparition Archipelago, a dive coaster in Vamp World, and an inverted coaster in Lagoon Lake.

This park may be my most themed yet, and the structure around cities and horror themes really helped. I think a lot of my coaster designs are out of the box, my signature launched giga is more extreme and twisted than usual, and I created a new style of twister coaster using a launch and a shuttle.

I think this park is so cool and I love how it turned out. I finished Terror Town with 28 rides including 8 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Nevermore Park

Fairly easy if you know what you’re doing, it’ll just take a lot of time. A lot of hills are involved, which are fun for coaster building as long as you have a place to put the station.

All of the coasters in the finished park are the original coasters I built to beat the park. I didn’t add any more coasters, only flat rides to balance out the 10 coasters. A lot of the coasters I built are B&M style coasters, since I know those can be built long, and they have very high excitement ratings. 6/10 of the coasters are B&M.

All in all I think I’ve built a beautiful park, great coasters, and some very lovely flat rides in between. I finished Nevermore Park with 22 rides including 10 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Tiny Towers

Why does everything have to be stacked this could make so much more sense if it weren’t stacked. The key to building them though is to build each coaster a little at a time instead of all at once.

For my finished park I have kept my original designs to beat the park, and worked some scenery and flat rides around them. The stacked stations of 4 of the coasters have turned into one giant building in the center of the park. I used extra area at the back of the park to build an area of flat rides, so there’s a bit of variety in this park.

My stats for the 5 coasters are as follows:

Vertical Drop: excitement 6.97, intensity 6.00, nausea 2.79

Inverted: excitement 7.11, intensity 8.98, nausea 7.08

Corkscrew: excitement 6.73, intensity 7.50, nausea 3.54

Wooden: excitement 7.23, intensity 7.06, nausea 4.14

Twister: excitement 7.37, intensity 6.54, nausea 3.37

All in all this park was fun to play with, difficult to master, and I’m happy with the final product. I finished with 11 rides including 5 coasters

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Southern Sands

I know that I’ve beat this park before and even now it seems almost too simple: attract a bunch of guests to a flat space with 2 huge coasters? Easy.

Do people vomit in this park more? I’m having the worst time with this, I have 15 handymen and they’re doing nothing but walking the queues. Throughout beating this park people seem extremely over nauseated.

To build the park I split it into sections: a racing theme, a mining theme, a weather theme, and a cowboys vs aliens theme. I built a massive bazaar at the entrance with almost every shop available to me including food, drink, and shops.

This park was a series of filling in squares, I knew where I wanted the paths to be and I build inside of those, this is not uncommon for me to build like this. There are a ton of compact coasters in this park, my favorites being a launched giga coaster and a launched twister coaster, both mini versions of their massive counterparts.

Sometimes it’s hard to fill space with these empty parks, I just came off of Geoffrey Gardens where it didn’t have enough space and I entered this park which had too much space.

All in all Southern Sands is a classic park, the 2 existing coasters are in many thumbnails and images of RCT, it feels like a sandbox mode but there’s money involved. I finished with 30 rides including 12 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Geoffrey Gardens

Geoffrey Gardens is Evergreen Gardens ugly sister. It’s just not very pretty compared to other parks in this game. I didn’t love beating this park and didn’t love finishing this park.

Building it is a mess, the whole park is on a series of hills, the lakesides are the only flat pieces of land, and the park in general is not very attractive. Confused why there is a mega bridge as the entrance, confused why there’s a graveyard. The fact that it’s pay to enter makes this park twice as difficult as well.

The park I ended up with is actually not bad at all. I have a few coasters dotted around the themed lands, I’ve got a couple gimmick coasters, but not all of them are huge coasters. I never build junior coasters but I felt it in my spirit to have a garden themed junior coaster. I fixed the paths and added some flat rides and I have a very adorable park.

All in all I did not like this park, I wish it were bigger and maybe easier to work with. I do enjoy the finished product though. I ended up with 14 rides including 6 coasters.