''RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic'' is a

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video game developed by Origin8 Technologies and published by Atari. The game's initial release is a

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of both '' RollerCoaster Tycoon'' and ''

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 ''RollerCoaster Tycoon 2'' is a 2002 construction and management simulation game developed by Chris Sawyer and published by Infogrames Interactive. Released in October 2002 as the sequel to ''RollerCoaster Tycoon'', the game simulates the manage ...

'' combined into a single game. Both games were amusement park management simulators created by Chris Sawyer for the PC. ''RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic'' was released for Android and

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in December 2016 and for Microsoft Windows and

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in September 2017.

Gameplay

''Classic'' implements the same gameplay as the first two games in the ''RollerCoaster Tycoon'' series. Played from an isometric view, players are tasked with building or revitalizing an amusement park by adding rides, attractions, facilities, paths, landscaping, and staff to manage the park. In particular, the game allows players to plan out a wide array of custom roller coasters and other rides using tracks, such as

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s and

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s. The player also must manage the park's finances to make sure they bring in sufficient revenues from guests to cover the cost of running the park and installing new features.

Development

Chris Sawyer had developed the original '' RollerCoaster Tycoon'' and its sequel ''

'', which released respectively in 1999 and 2002. The games had come out of his work developing a sequel to ''

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'', which he released in 1994. Sawyer allowed Frontier Developments to develop ''

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 ''RollerCoaster Tycoon 3'' is a 2004 construction and management simulation video game. It is the third installment in the '' RollerCoaster Tycoon'' series. ''RollerCoaster Tycoon 3'' places players in charge of managing amusement parks; rides ...

'' while he worked on ''

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'', a 2004 spiritual successor to ''Transport Tycoon''. Sawyer re-emerged in 2010 with the opening of 31X Ltd. a

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for his ''Transport Tycoon''

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, and took 31X in a direction towards mobile development. Sawyer recognized that there was a demand for a game that used the more simple controls and graphics offered in the original ''Tycoon'' games, which worked well for mobile and touch-screen devices. In 2013, he announced the mobile version of ''Transport Tycoon'', developed with Origin8. With Origin8's help, Sawyer was able to convert the original ''Transport Tycoon'' code from a form that relied heavily on

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to transfer it into a more portable form. Origin8 continued to work with Sawyer to help port ''RollerCoaster Tycoon'' into a similar mobile format. In March 2016, Sawyer affirmed he had started work on ''RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic'' with Origin8, to be released for mobile devices. As with the rework of ''Transport Tycoon'', this required Sawyer and Origin8 to rework the assembly code from ''RollerCoaster Tycoon 2'' into C. They were also able to add new elements to the game during this period. The game was released for both Android and iOS devices on December 22, 2016. On that same day, Sawyer released a statement explaining his reason for developing the game: "It was my long term ambition to bring the classic game to modern touch screen devices as its visual style and tactile nature are so well suited to smartphones and tablets." Meanwhile, the CEO of Atari stated that the game should appeal to both long-time fans, as well as new players. A

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and

port of the game was released on September 28, 2017.

Reception

Bob Fekete of ''

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'' praised the game for faithfully porting the original games on mobile devices for a low price tag, but criticized the game's "cramped" feel and occasionally low

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s. '' Kotaku Australia'' was critical of the release, citing the system specification requirements- which are considerably higher than that of the original games- and the lack of multiplayer support, which had been added to the original game via the community-driven ''

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'' project. In 2022, an update to ''OpenRCT2'' would allow the use of ''RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic'' as a base install path, rather than the original games.

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* {{RollerCoaster Tycoon series 2016 video games Amusement park simulation games Android (operating system) games IOS games MacOS games Roller coaster games and simulations

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