Roller Coaster Tycoon Expansion Pack: Corkscrew Follies

by Atari

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00002CF5W
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 10, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (90 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,778 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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This add-on expansion pack enhances your original copy of RollerCoaster Tycoon by adding more features and options. Now you can create more coaster types and build your amusement park in new settings like the jungle. Thirty new pre-set scenarios let players jump right into different, preexisting parks and situations. New customization options include scenery and landscape additions plus the ability to paint the rides you design. The expansion pack makes a great program even better. Testers wished, however, for more onscreen info about what's new. As it is, you have to read the packaging and mini-manual to find out. Note: Requires RollerCoaster Tycoon.
Teaches: running a business, creativity
Age Range: 9-adult Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue

Amazon.com Review

RollerCoaster Tycoon will go down in history as one of the most popular games of all time. It lets novices have fun creating theme parks out of precreated objects and challenges more experienced players by letting them design their own wild rides. It was only a matter of time before both groups began clamoring for more, and Hasbro Interactive has answered those demands with the release of the Corkscrew Follies expansion pack.

Corkscrew Follies will keep fans of the original game busy for some time with over two dozen new and challenging scenarios, the inclusion of eight additional types of roller coasters to build, and new themes like Jungle that you can use to decorate your park. Minor additions such as new concessions stalls can be used both to generate extra revenue and to spice up the in-game graphics as visitors interact with the new objects. Follies also features new games such as miniature golf that you can use to entertain park guests.

There still is no option to build the park of your dreams with unlimited funds, but the cheat codes available on the Web will take care of that. Still, there are enough new thrills here that the few faults really don't add up to much. Fans of the original game will definitely want to step right up. --T. Byrl Baker

Pros:

• New roller coaster types, games, and stalls
• Scenarios are more challenging than ever

Cons:

• Still no mode that lets players create the park of their dreams with no monetary worries

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's like a whole other game, December 21, 1999

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"eaglez13" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roller Coaster Tycoon Expansion Pack: Corkscrew Follies (CD-ROM)

This expansion is more than an addition to the original Rollercoaster Tycoon game, it's like a whole other game. Besides the original features (see my review for RCT) this game includes 25 new scenarios, new roller coaster types, new attractions (rides, ride enhancements, stalls, and shops), new colors and painting techniques, new landscaping items, new landscaping themes, more entertainers, and more.

That may seem like a lot of new things, but it's less than it seems. That's why I gave it four stars. Another game: almost all of those things have to be earned in one way or another. Like you have to get the rest of the scenarios by starting with the first five new ones (like the original game), and you have to research the attractions, themes, entertainers, etc.

Another cool feature is that you can have almost all the rides play music. There are a lot of them too (like rock, techno, gentlle, horror...) and it really adds a lot of life to the park, to you and your guests. As a whole (the RCT and the expansion) this game is a sure winner. But Corkscrew Follies alone is not the best or the biggest expansion for RCT, but it's sure worth a hard-earned twenty bucks.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Game in the History of Mankind!, November 20, 1999

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Brian K (Parma, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roller Coaster Tycoon Expansion Pack: Corkscrew Follies (CD-ROM)

Okay, maybe that's a bit much, but this game rules! The original version is great (you need it to play the Expansion Pack), so buy it and this. I don't know yet if Sim Theme Park is any good, as I haven't played it yet, but it will have to go a long way in order to top this super, ADDICTIVE game. I haven't played Sim City since I bought Roller Coaster Tycoon. The different rides and the roller coasters are great. But building your own coasters and water slides is the really fun part. I can't say enough about this game. Buy it, and then clear your schedule, because you won't be traveling very far from your computer screen!

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OH.....MY......GOD:THIS IS SO COOOOL!, April 8, 2000

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Andy (Belmont, Mass) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roller Coaster Tycoon Expansion Pack: Corkscrew Follies (CD-ROM)

This game makes RCT even more enjoyable with new attractions like miniature golf and a ghost train with undergroung sections! You can even build a suspended monorail! There are 30 new scenarios. you can start your park that it partially built, futuristic, or long-neglected. Also, you can paint individual parts of you ride. And, there are about 20 new shops such as: candy apple stall, hat stall, sea food stall, hot dog stall, and... you can even build a mall! And to top it all off, there are new rides such as, a river ride with large capacity boats, circus tent, side friction roller coaster, heartline rollercoaster, steel and wooden twister rollercoaster with giant loops, virginia reel rollercoaster, steel wild mouse rollercoaster, log flume with turntable, miniature train with covered cars, a roto-drop and much much more. I higly suggest you buy this game. You will be crying with overwhelmedness over all the excitment!