You’re also responsible for hiring handymen to keep your park clean and tidy, mechanics to inspect and fix rides, security guards to keep a check on vandalism, and entertainers to bolster the happiness of your guests. In most scenarios, you began by building some basic rollercoasters and some gentle rides and food stalls. Some scenarios already have guests and rides, while others are almost a blank slate. For example, in the first scenario, Frontier Forest, you’re given one year (game time) to get 250 guests into your park, while maintaining your park rating at 600 (which basically meant guests on average thought your park was pretty decent). You’re given a set amount of time to meet a goal while making sure you’re also keeping your park at a certain rating. Most of the scenarios in the first two RollerCoaster Tycoon games are pretty straight forward. Instead, what made me fall in love with the original game was its basic mechanics of business cost and profit management. While the transition to 3D allowed something which I always thought I had wanted (the ability to actuall ride the rides I created), when I did finally play the 3rd installment, I realized that I didn’t actually care that much about virtually riding rollercoasters. Part of the reason for that was because of the original’s (and it’s direct sequel’s) simplicity. Further sequels added a 3D engine and new ways to build and create rollercoasters and other theme park rides, but interestingly, I could never get as attached to those games as I did the first two. Its first sequel, RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, was released in 2002, and had almost the same exact gameplay and mechanics, with a few tweaks to make it both more streamlined and add a bit more difficulty to the gameplay. The first game in the series, created by Chris Sawyer in 1999, was packed with dozens of missions and scenarios (and even more in its expansions) in which players could build theme parks while trying to meet certain objectives and goals.
ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON CLASSIC LEAVE PARK SERIES
Brief Game Overview All screenshots are from RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic on iOSįor those who don’t know and haven’t played, RollerCoaster Tycoon is a series of video games in which you act like a business tycoon trying to open a theme park, with rollercoasters being the main attraction. Please do not take anything I say as advice of any kind. This is a simple blog post expounding on what I thought was interesting. Note: I am not in any way recommending Robert Kiyosaki’s books or playing RollerCoaster Tycoon for financial education. But with that, here’s how I learned financial literacy by playing RollerCoaster Tycoon! Perhaps I’m slow, but learning financial literacy through the game was a process, rather than some short, one-week gaming binge. And while that realization did happen this past week, I’ve actually been playing RollerCoaster Tycoon since I was a small child. Originally, I was going to post this as one of my “This Week I Learned” series. I was reading Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, and as the book was explaining the value of having an understanding of financial statements and accounting, I realized something pretty crazy: playing RollerCoaster Tycoon as a kid somehow indirectly taught me financial literacy.
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