Description

Riding high or riding for a fall, this is the ride of your life! Now you can take a trip to fame and fortune by building the biggest, best, scariest and most thrilling rides ever seen in any them park. Can you make money in this volatile business? Can you become the ultimate Roller Coaster Tycoon? But remember, where there's an up, there's always be a down. The rides may break down, you could get bad publicity from fatal crashes, the weather might be terrible! Rise or Fall, Boom or Bust, you are in charge of it all, giving your visitors what they want for the right price! Features: - Written and designed by Chris Sawyer - Design and construct your own roller coaster rides, or choose from fantastic pre-built designs, all with accurately simulated motion dynamics - Raise the prices, increase research, monitor your customers' moods, fire your staff - all at the click of the mouse - Take advantege of technology as it develops; from the traditional "Wooden Roller Coaster", to the high tec' Steel Corkscrew and the terrifying "Reverse Freefall" - Raise and lower land and water levels to enhance your rides, build tracks undergroun, in tunnels or suspended over lakes - Invest in food and drink stalls, hire entertainers and deck out your park with themes, color schemes, trees, statues and fountains, making it more attractive to your public - Carry out over 20 mission-based scenarios in a diverse range of environments - View all events instantly and clearly wit hsuperbly detailed quality graphics, menus and message boards - Personalise and customize to your hearts content, you can save your roller coaster designs to use in other scenarios System Requirements: - Windows 95/98 - Pentium 90MHz - Memory 16 - 32 MB RAM - 2MB accelerate SVGA card - Quad speed CDROM - 50MB HD space - 1MB SVGA card - Windows 95 compatible sound card - DirectX 5.0 (included on CD) - Mouse (Microprose: Rollercoaster Tycoon) Consumer Advice: General