RCT Discussion / How did you discover RCT?

Well, basically, the title.

Back in the days, when i was around 3/4, i used to lend games from the library. And i happened to find RCT2. I absolutely loved the game, and played it every day. Until after three weeks, i had to bring it back to the library. After that, i set out to get enough money to buy the game. Eventually i had, and i bought RCT2 + the Time Twisters expansion. Later on i also got some money from my grandma which i used to buy Wacky Worlds too.

So how did you find RCT?

Scholastic book fair!

I guy from across the street owned the game. He told about a McDonald's themed park he made, naming rides after hamburgers and milkshakes. Being a theme park fanatic (at the age of 8 ), and a little hungry too, I had to get that game! And a few weeks later I did, and my life changed forever! When Corkscrew Follies came out, I bought it as soon as I found out. Same for Loopy Landscapes. I remember how pumped I was for RCT2... The teaser screenshots looked so amazing. And the feeling when I finally got that box (games came in a proper box back then) in my hands... Priceless memories.

My older brothers found it funny to give rides funny names and kill guests on them. So did I.

 

"MFG"

Scholastic book fair!

 

 

Exactly this. I had always just built large roller coasters until about a year ago, when I found NE...

Back in 1998 i was playing the original Theme Park and late that November i looked to see if there was any new of a sequel coming. Just happened that I was dead on time to read the news of this brand new game RCT.

 

Take a look at this.

 

http://web.archive.o....com/main.shtml

 

The first ever RCT site. The Archived News is a trip down memory lane

I remember that site.

 

I posted in German on the message board and it turned into a page filling thread called "Translator please!!"

My dad used to play RTS games all the time and I saw him building a rollercoaster once and that got me into the game. 

Man. I miss Danimation. Some incredible stuff happened there.

Bump!

 

Never expected to ever find something like this. But we're moving Friday and we were packing some books. My mom gave me a book and she was like "hey do you want to keep this?". I opened it, and inside were a bunch of library receipts. And even though receipts are usually useless, i decided to keep them...

 

This right here is where i got addicted to RCT, ten years ago:

 

 

I also have another receipt which shows i got a fine for bringing it back too late...

My aunt and uncle got my the original for Christmas probably in 2001 or 2002, got RCT2 the year after that.

Not sure how I discovered the game, the story is probably really lame

 

I rediscovered it by wasting my life on reddit and thinking "i wonder if there's an rct subreddit", and here we are

Wouter, that's just awesome.

That's really cool, Wouter.

 

As far as I know, everyone played the game when I was young. Friends and I have gotten nostalgic over killing peeps more than once. Even when I meet new people and we'd talk about childhood, two things always come up. RCT and Pokemon.

My first RCT1 CD is a pirate version.

1. I bought it with another game CD using less than 5 dolar in 2000 or 2001.

2. I was attracted by the beautiful front cover so I decided to buy this one. Unfortunately the front cover has no relationship with RCT, it's totally of another game (until now I don't know what game it is).

3. When I back to home I found I bought a wrong game and all English, what the fuck! I didn't touch it for about 1 year (and I can't read English at that moment). 

4. God punish me for using pirate, I lend the CD to a friend and it lost forever.  

5. I still have the fake front cover which help me discover RCT.

My friend had it and we played it when I was at his crib. Must have been around 2003 I guess. I immediately got RCT2 myself, only afterwards I discovered there was a previous version of it. That's the reason why I'm not into RCT1  never played it lol. 

I played probably a dozen hours of the demo back when my entire gaming life consisted of finding free demos.

Sorry for bumping, but I have an interesting story.

I was a little kid, and I was into roller coasters at the time. I saw RCT2 on a shelf at a store and began to beg my mom to buy it. I believe that my grandma might have convinced her to buy it. I ended up getting all the RCT games eventually.

 

I actually got RCTLL last. I got everything in this order-

-RCT2

-RCT3+Soaked

-RCT1

-RCT CF/LL

 

IDK when I got RCT3 Wild! and RCT1 TT/WW, but it was probably between Soaked and RCT1. Not sure at all, though.

 

RCT2 probably also cemented my love for roller coasters in real life. Without RCT2, I probably wouldn't be the obsessive coaster enthusiast that I am today.

My version was free in a cereal box. I must have got 15 different games from cereal, maybe it was Cheerios. Anyway, I got rid of all the other games long ago, but I've held on to RCT2 ever since. Kept popping it into my computer off and on for years, until about a year and a half ago I discovered rct on reddit and NE shortly after, which has lassoed me into it more than ever! Would have been on the site long ago had I known it existed.

Such memories... First off never mind RCT my first experience of rollercoaster games was on like the ps1 with "Themepark" when i was 6 years old back in 1998 then maybe a year or two later we as a family got our first PC It was then when I was about 8/10 years old I thought the scenarios of RCT where so hard.... lol, aww good times, I think everyone is with me when I say I wish I could go back and do it all again. No matter how annoyed I was as a 10 year old because I repeatedly tried to beat certain scenarios

 

Fuck i'm only 23 but still, I look back and think man. Such good times and we all at one time felt the same thing. I love this game in its basic form. Which is pretty special