For those who don’t know people still love the OG Roller Coaster Tycoon. There is now an open-source version of it called… Open Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. It has all the features you wanted in the original version but never got.
Here is a (small) list of items the RTC community has improved that are big changes you may have wanted from the originals:
- Autosave
- Adding new staff right away (dropping them into play with waiting for you to do it)
- Changing the narrowness of the new staff’s walking path
- Auto orienting new stalls to the path
- Allowing paths to go over railroad tracks
- Resolution changes
- Zoom in feature
- More general options when clearing land, altering land, etc (you can make the selected areas even bigger)
- Better scenario tools (for more options) including a goals of ‘Have Fun’ with no restrictions/goals/failure points
- ‘Ghost Ride Testing’ (a blue icon that lets you constantly see how a ride moves while you are actually building it)
- A speed up time option
- Lots of other little options that make sense
- The ability to alter all ride-functions, cars, tracks, etc. so you can literally turn any kind of ride into a franken-ride and some weird stuff. I saw a tutorial and made a movie theater. Neat.
- Cheat menu that changes everything…
It’s fun and my oldest has been playing it (on and off) for the last year+ and still enjoys it.