Revisiting the game that defined my childhood...

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

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[@jknight9961]

And what about your little KZbin members, are we not worthy of any love

[@Shinbu150]

TFW Potato goes to check the burger stand sales and he still hasn't realized he never opened it.

[@RN555-jw1tc]

My favourite part is him switching currency every minute lmao

[@shaunmorrison6448]

Oh, my childhood. I always used to build totally mad rollercoasters that no sane person would go on. Pretty sure if you named characters Michael Schumacher they would always win go-karts, and if you named them David Coulthard they would always come in 3rd. Crazy that this game was coded by one guy.

[@houndofculann1793]

Not merely "coded by one guy" but the guy also did it in assembly, which is incredibly hard and tedious as I understand it but also makes the game incredibly well performing for the amount of stuff that's in there. I watched a video about it, "RollerCoaster Tycoon: The Most Impressive Game Ever Developed" by Native Resolution

[@Twinrehz]

David Coulthard, now there's a name I haven't heard in many years

[@slurker3788]

Guy was Chris Sawyer. If you name a char after him it gets a camera and wanders around making photo flashes

[@shaunmorrison6448]

@@Twinrehz Because the algorithm has shown me like 50 RCT videos since watching this I've learnt that the David Coulthard one was a myth anyway!

[@ps3beatswii]

​@@shaunmorrison6448That, and Damon Hill is faster than Michael in Chris Sawyer's world 🤣

[@JohnR8589]

Good old Civilian Launcher Simulator, I miss sending park patrons to the other side of the fence after locking them into "Death Park 2000"

[@theplasmawolf]

It's interesting that about an hour after watching videos of people who mainly play, record and stream RCT, I now get to watch Potato doing RCT :)

[@Lorijenken]

I remember I was 19 when I got a disc from a Cherrios box, i lost count how many years and hours ive played the original RCT. absolute legendary game.

[@nickharvey7233]

My equivalent childhold strategy cornerstone was the original SimCity on my old Amiga 500. Funnily enough my parents have just jettisoned the computer, still in it's box, to my house. It'll need a little tinkering to get it up and running again. I play on an emulator from time to time, but you can't beat the hit of the buzz and click of the Amiga floppy drive (perhaps only matched by the screech of audio tape games loading on the BBC Micro)...right, time for this aged Irish gamer to don his cloak of nostalgia and leave the building....

[@chrisdaleyanimated]

That poor park guest stuck inside the train track loop...

[@haywardmiller7144]

My anxiety was through the roof watching that poor 1 guest stuck inside the train tracks walking in circles for eternity.

[@countluke2334]

OMG, Marcel Vos would get a stroke watching this. 😂 Among other things: never hire security guards, ever. If there is vandalism, its the symptom of another problem. Don't fight the symptom, fight the cause.

[@bd95382]

The original RCT was the game that really brought me into gaming, ~20 years ago. Because it and RCT 2 were made in assembly, they still work pretty well on modern machines. I actually played the first for a bit this summer, and was surprised at how well a lot of the game holds up by modern standards. Of course, a fan passion project that's been in development for years is going to have fixed a lot of problems or shortfalls. I guess that means I need to check it out at some point then. Thanks for the video, always love seeing people breaking out the nostalgia game.

[@arturcarreira8595]

Potatooooo! Where are yooou??? I miss you! Its been 9 days 😢

[@SortOfEggish]

I love watching things like this but I also am now cursed with the knowledge of the tricky two-stop roller coaster for optimal guest retention

[@jackball2244]

Those stock images at the beginning immediately made me think of the spiffing britt 😂

[@shakenbake1869]

the nostalgia is strong - i remember some of the strategy and its definitely not charging nothing for rides and placing kiosks not at the entrance!

[@MrGhosta5]

You want to charge for both rides and entrance so that the free rides, half price entry, and free entry ads are fully effective. if the park entry fee or ride price is too low then those ads generate 1/4 of the guest they normally wood. In RCT2 because you have the cash machine pay per ride parks make much more money. You can use the built in cheat menu to add the cash machine to RCT1 parks.

[@countluke2334]

Also guests will always generate and will always pay the entry if they have the money. Entry fee has nothing to do with how many guests spawn.

[@kennythach8919]

Broooooo I played this on my old Xbox. Really awesome game. Appreciate ya for playing it.

[@danielking5812]

Love seeing this game again. Youth got so excited. Please do more!

[@viffaria]

I LOVED this game as a kid, such a fun video! Thanks, potato!

[@tillydavvers]

I got this on steam a couple years ago and had the best 6 month nostalgia trip of my life. Then completely forgot about it. Today, we go back in!

[@chris999999999999]

Unless they fixed it in Open RCT2, I always liked the fact that any ride could be a transport ride if it had multiple stations. Station launch coasters like the Station Circuit make great ones because they go really fast to get people deep in the park.

[@MrGhosta5]

Guest don't actually use transport rides to navigate; the pathing ai isn't smart enough. Transport rides do have a special condition though. If a transport ride is free any guest will ride it. That includes guest trying to leave the park.

[@chris999999999999]

@@MrGhosta5 So what? The guests still get on the ride and get dumped off deeper in the park. Ergo, a transport ride regardless of the underlying mechanics.

[@MrGhosta5]

@@chris999999999999 It maters because guest will ignore the intensity rating on free transport rides. Free transport rides are the only rides a guest leaving the park will ride. That means a guest trying to find the exit can get trapped in the park if they keep getting on transport rides that take them back in. In the scenario twin rocks guest will ride the vertical drop coaster and then get stuck on the second rock because when they want to leave they'll refuse to ride the vertical drop coaster to take them back to the first rock.

[@TheLikerofPie]

So awesome to see this game revisited by such an amazing streamer! Thanks for the trip down memory lane and also showing how things can be designed properly (:

[@dacokc]

i always liked making paths 2x or 3x wide... that way people aren't complaining about stuff being too crowded all the time.

[@joshshultz1250]

Shuttle loop + mirrored shuttle loop in race mode + photo booth = insane cash cow

[@robertstegmann9260]

In RCT2, pay per entry is much worse than pay per ride. You can make insane amounts of money from pay per ride, especially since guests will pay surprisingly a lot. You can always make more money from pay per ride from pay per entry. Pay per entry requires constant growth to make money, where as pay per ride gets you money for as long as the guests are there, which is the main reason pay per entry parks are way harder than pay per ride parks. In addition, if you charge per entry, then guests will be willing to pay much less per ride. There are a lot of mechanics relating to guest generation that would take longer than to explain than what is feasible in a KZbin comment (Although there are great guides out there), but there is no reason to not squeeze out as much money as possible out of your guests. As long as you don't overcharge you are fine, and money is incredibly important as building more rides and advertising are the best way to get more guests. Also guests will pay the max 20.00 for umbrellas as long as its raining, so jack up those prices.

[@Jack_Rakan]

Don't guests ALWAYS pay the entry price if they were spawned in and can afford it? Meaning your park may just have a ride with a 20c entry price (to be available for advertising campaigns) and a food/drink stall, and with advertising you can generate a ton of guests that will all pay like 50$ so long as that's the minimum they can spawn with on said map?

[@XavierTheNeonTiger]

So many hours spent hunting down guests with negative opinions and drowning them

[@thesheq5023]

For those unfamiliar with the series: this is the love child of chris sawyer. He spent years developing this game. He hardprogrammed everything. It was never meant to be a hard game but a game you learned by playing and making things look good. Openrct2 is the community’s upkeep to the game. They added a lot of new tools and coasters and things. They are also trying to make the code a bit more standardized. This game is really good and some of the things people build is absolutely bonkers realistic.

[@jbobi]

I'm sure if you and NorthernLion would collaborate for anything the videos would be like 10 hours long from all of the rambling, love it :D

[@demikus]

Yooo I loved Rollercoaster tycoon as a child, this is absolutely a comfort game of mine, I go back and play this a few times every month

[@pattyshack19]

Just don't light your banana stand... I mean kiosk on fire

[@NibbsIsHere]

So nostalgic for this game, would love to see more. It was my first game on PC other than the built in 3D Pinball and Solitaire.

[@JeffreyGoddin]

I've long been eyeballing Rollercoaster Tycoon, as I spent a long deep dive in Railroad Tycoon 3.

[@Mitchell52094]

Loved this game as a kid. I totally forgot how intricate this game was with loans and needing to manage a staff and everything

[@mahieuwim]

"There's always money in the banana stand." Potato just stealth dropping pop culture references.

[@Leafsdude_]

4:41: Ummm...Considering what's above there, I think that line has a different meaning that was intended. 🤣🤣🤣

[@jefjam7]

I spent years in therapy trying to beat my RCT addiction!

[@David-kg5nn]

Ahhh the memories of death coasters

[@SnarkyRogue]

RCT2 was the GOAT. So many fond memories between it and ZT2

[@greekfreak39]

"But no one ever said you can't be an evil park guy" 🤣🤣

[@Vietcongster]

Huh, never thought I'd see Potato playing Roller Coaster Tycoon lol. What a pleasant surprise :)

[@KevRH]

One of the greatest games of all time, it’s such a beautifully realised game, so well designed

[@DangerrNoodle]

RIP to the poor guest who's doomed to eternally wonder inside the miniature railroad

[@fun1232123]

Helpful tip. If you hold Backspace down, you can speed closing the menus up.

[@Asphyxiela]

Damn man. This bring really good memories that i've forgotten. Thank you for uploading this. Hope you keep doing it. 😅

[@nataliebarber6508]

I liked this video immediately before watching because this game was my childhood

[@Grato537]

As a small tip guests will always pay the entrance fee (if they have the money) but if the fee is too high then they won't think it's a 'good value' and it will negatively impact some other aspects. (I think guest generation rate and maybe guest happiness?) So yeah no worries about a guest turning away at the gate.

[@rodakscreens]

"There's always money in a banana stand" are words to live by!

[@dargatan6301]

The loop is great, it's the best thing to up the speed on XD

[@gabrieltorres5]

Man, this game is so nostalgic... damn...

[@psychorabbitt]

I was not expecting an Arrested Development joke, and then out of nowhere Potato goes, "There's always money in the banana stand."

[@gruntgg]

Brings back so many childhood memories!

[@Nohugsforyou1]

I really enjoyed this and learned a lot from it. It made me want to play rollercoaster tycoon, as I’ve never really played a game like it other than the original Theme Park game that I think was for PlayStation. Thanks!

[@CharlotteRowe12]

The first person I ever watched on twitch just streamed RCT2. Great game for streams tbh.

[@FitchInks]

That poor guy traped between the rails.

[@JoeHardacre]

It took me 20 seconds of this video to go buy RCT2 so I can play open on my mac. Thank god it exists.

[@bacchus8081]

Kinda random but can anyone remember the name of a game that came out around the same time of RCT2 (late 90's/ early 00's), it was a medival town-builder where you had to too go from setting up a grain field too feed a sheep pasture, which would enable your tanner to make hides. Too get your blacksmith going you also had too feed into different recources first, stuff like that. Bit of a cartoony visual style, atleast more like RTC in style then Age of Empires, for example. Been thinking off it for months now and its doing my head in ;P

[@LeonardoDaFinchy]

just a guess: was it one of The Settlers series?

[@SparkSovereign]

Stronghold, maybe?

[@rottwieler66]

Oh man, I just went back and played rtc deluxe recently. Beat every map and unlocked mega park. That fast forward button would have been soooo nice to have lol.

[@zugy]

RIP that one guy caught inside the train tracks XD

[@daz7338]

Ive never had any interest in this game at all and yet.... after watching you play i have a strange strong desire to give it a go.

[@alaricplett6725]

oh LORD i played so much of this, the memories

[@chickenfox4495]

I had forgotten the finger cramp ptsd this game gave me as a kid

[@shevek5934]

Building default templated rollercoasters? Sacrilege. The only true way to play RCT is to immediately build a massive extreme intensity custom coaster and go broke, then try to bail yourself out with the maximum loan.

[@dahelmang]

That poor guest trapped in the roller coaster loop. 😂

[@kodygeier]

I just went down this rabbit hole like 5 months ago

[@brandonsquest6440]

I would love to see more OpenTTD

[@Mitchell52094]

I used to put a ton of free drink places and then charge like $50 for the bathroom, good times

[@ewokgrundle9471]

Oh my gosh. RCT. I havent seen this since i played it like 20 years ago.

[@BrazenPhrasin]

Gave this a like the moment I got here cuz RCT is the GOAT

[@nickstarling3063]

Potato, people are getting sick because you put food right after an intense rollercoaster!

[@Brawlii]

Not making this a series is a crime against humanity and you know it.

[@rabbitweasel]

Subtly singing Ohio Player's song Love Rollercoaster in there for a moment. I caught it.

[@Erevant]

I used to play the hell out of this game!!

[@camus1679]

When I found out I could charge people to use the bathroom it was Game over for the poor souks

[@maggotmusic757]

Pretty sure they just released a remake of this a few days ago if I'm not mistaken

[@jacksonburnette207]

Do you have any plans to tackle these new monthly challenges from the new Civ VI update?

[@robertmarshall2502]

All of the fun of this game is building your own Rollercoasters! Why would anyone use the templates?!

[@DodgerGamesShorts]

I knew this video would come

[@Kopakola732]

there's ALWAYS money in the banana stand 😉

[@derubain5774]

Hey potato. Will there be new lets plays for aow4 with the new dlc?

[@b_two]

OMG YES do more RCTs

[@SailorYinYang]

Potato sragging up my childhood from the grave. Out of curiosity, how do you get OpenRCT2 to load the 1 maps? Totally dont want to stream my childhood at some point >.>

[@McNippyG]

Every mission on the whole game done on YT pls and thx, even if you upload like 1 a month and 2 months after each patreon uplaod

[@soyfya5396]

Terra Invicta? No... ROLLLER COASTER INVICTA!

[@mesocyclonic4]

It's good to see you charge 0.10 for the restroom. It's the right thing in every single park.

[@bungalo50]

Shoutout to Marcel Vos

[@ARENVS]

damn this game's currency is euros? we old

[@TheW83]

Worst value because you started charging for rides despite maxing out admission price.

[@krait5645]

Day 8 of asking for the score victory. Also very good game me like it

[@sculkwizard]

Nuclear Rollercoaster

[@BlinDefender]

lol, you can know how much money each customer has. Good demographic research.

[@syndrome7589]

Hell yeah

[@Starfox2020]

Time to figure out the Venn diagram of PotatoMcWhiskey fans and Marcel Vos fans

[@mvpmvp2980]

I love building on the nice clean square grid lines in this game. its why i dont like the new ones. Same for zoo tycoon.

[@blondjon]

MORE RTC GAMES.

[@cameronthomas4767]

You ever play the sims?

[@bouncekow]

Fek yesh - i grew up on this game tooooooo - kaswssooosh

[@evifejes9819]

Helo

[@shookds]

.10 per poop pooped and .20 per pee

[@Dmanthepowerful]

*charges $60 for entering the park* *charges money to get on any ride worth riding* *wonders why he got the worst value park award* lol fun video though. Interesting to see you play games that you’re not an expert in, not that I don’t like the hyper optimized Civ VI content lol

[@andrelginduskwalker6297]

OH MY