Dominating the exciting world of Theme Park ownership is your goal in this strategy game from Bullfrog. The first task is to set up your rides within the available land, structuring convenient paths and queues and ideally leaving some space for bigger rides once they become available, and include some lakes and trees to increase the park's allure. Rides range from Teacups and Haunted Houses to the biggest most elaborate roller-coaster you can design, and water rides that loop around other rides.

Shops must also be included, so that the visitors can buy food, drinks and souvenirs - the cunning player will combine salt, sugar and caffeine settings to maximize consumer interest. Staff must be hired to keep everything running smoothly, and they will only work for what they consider a fair rate of pay.

You are competing against other Theme Parks, so don't let them get an advantage over you - monitor your success in attracting customers and financial viability closely using the supplied statistics pages. More important, ensure that research is adequately funded to produce new rides.

It can be played in three modes - Sandbox level lets you concentrate on the park design elements, while Sim and Full add more strategic features.

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Alternate Titles

"Sim Theme Park" -- Working title
"Park לונה" -- Hebrew spelling
"テーマパーク" -- Japanese spelling

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Theme Park	PlayStation
	Theme Park	SEGA Saturn	$4.95
	Theme Park	DOS	$1.19
	Theme Park	Genesis
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User Reviews

Granddad still got it.	DOS	dreamstealer (146)
As good as it could've been, but sluggish, incomplete and limited	Amiga	Martin Smith (63221)
Great fun with easy building.	DOS	Buuks (180)
Never cared much for this one.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4418)

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The Press Says

PC Gamer UK	DOS	Jun, 1994	95 out of 100	95
CU Amiga	Amiga	Sep, 1994	93 out of 100	93
Jeuxvideo.com	DOS	Dec 09, 2011	17 out of 20	85
Jeuxvideo.com	Macintosh	Dec 09, 2011	17 out of 20	85
Atari Inside	Jaguar	1995	85 out of 100	85
Joystick (French)	DOS	Oct, 1994	85 out of 100	85
The Video Game Critic	Jaguar	Feb 20, 2002	B	75
GamePro (US)	SEGA Saturn	Mar, 1996	3.5 out of 5	70
GamePro (US)	PlayStation	Mar, 1996	3.5 out of 5	70
Jeuxvideo.com	Nintendo DS	Mar 27, 2007	13 out of 20	65

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Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Theme Park on Windows XP?!	2	St. Martyne (3562) Sep 09, 2007

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Trivia

Amiga versions

There were two versions of Theme Park sold for Amiga computers. One was an AGA version of the game with 256 color graphics and was pretty much the same as the PC version. The other version was a trimmed down version for non AGA stock Amigas like the A500.

Development

Theme Park was originally going to be a Disney Land game but that was scrapped when they decided they would lose too much control over the development of the game's content.

OEM release

Theme Park (CD version) was bundled with IBM's "Aptiva" line of multimedia computers.

Rollercoaster

If the player creates a roller-coaster with an impossibly long and steep fall followed by a sharp 180 degree turn, people will fly off once in a while.