Genre
Perspective
Non-Sport
MobyRank MobyScore
SEGA Saturn
...
3.8
Nintendo DS
75
3.8
DOS
83
3.7

Description

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.

Alternate Titles

  • "Sim Theme Park" -- Working title

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User Reviews

As good as it could've been, but sluggish, incomplete and limited Amiga Martin Smith (64127)
Great fun with easy building. DOS Buuks (182)
Never cared much for this one. DOS Tomer Gabel Bronze Star Contributing Member (4480)

The Press Says

Datormagazin Amiga Dec, 1994 5 out of 5 100
CU Amiga Amiga Sep, 1994 93 out of 100 93
AmigaInfo Amiga May, 1997 85 out of 100 85
Atari Inside Jaguar 1995 85 out of 100 85
Joystick DOS Oct, 1994 85 out of 100 85
High Score DOS Oct, 1994 4 out of 5 80
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) SEGA Saturn Jan, 1996 8 out of 10 80
Ultimate Gamer Magazine PlayStation Jan, 1996 8 out of 10 80
GamePro SEGA Saturn Mar, 1996 3.5 out of 5 70
Kingdom of Desire DOS Jul 08, 2006 6.5 out of 10 65

Forums

Topic # Posts Last Post
Theme Park on Windows XP?! 2 St_Martyne Bronze Star Contributing Member (3557)
Sep 09, 2007

Trivia

The UK edition was sponsored by Midlands bank

Theme park was origionally 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.


This entry was contributed by Picard (19786), PCGamer77 Bronze Star Contributing Member (3051), Tibes80 (1500), Famine3h (300), Kartanym Bronze Star Contributing Member (9944), Kabushi (43702), robotriot Bronze Star Contributing Member (6174), Silverfish Bronze Star Contributing Member (1273), quizzley7 (21267) and phlux Bronze Star Contributing Member (4160)
 

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