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Lost my mind when I heard your voice! I was thinking how cool it'd be to hear your input on the franchise when the video began and was so happy to hear they consulted you for the production. Congrats man!
I haven't been around the coaster community as I was when the Planet Coaster alpha came out, but I still immediately recognized your profile picture silvarret. Great stuff when you were showing how to use pieces creatively and fiddle with the object attachment rules to get them to add so much detail to things, thank you for all your contribution as well
That's how we did this, Alias wavefront was my skill, exporting the CGI to Photoshop, importing it to the library, height maps i did with colors, real paint on Xerox machine maps, scanning it, getting the real world.
@@lucasrem Did you work on RCT? I remember Simon Foster had a RUclips channel where he talk about creating the coasters back in mid 90s, And how much of a pain it was to render like 900 pieces of a 360º full Roller Coaster cart on 3D studio Max
Cannot recommend checking out Open RCT2 enough if you're looking to scratch a nostalgic itch after watching this video and want to play some RollerCoaster Tycoon. Incredible work that makes perhaps the best game in the series playable in HD, with multiplayer and with a whole host of other great features added too.
I haven't played this for probably close to ten years and now want to try it again. So many hours of my life spent in RCT2 and the original Zoo Tycoon.
Thanks for the love @9:00! We've done our best to keep the flame burning for the past two decades, and it has been great to see OpenRCT, but also high profile youtube activity from channels like these or Marcel Vos turn that flame into an inferno again. RCT is alive and kicking!
@@catonkatonk It does still exist, and it's doing well! You should come by sometimes and say hi! There are still a few members from the old guard around.
Chris Sawyer, if you're reading this, thanks! I can't even begin to explain how as a young kid out of communist Romania seeing and obsessively replaying that first Transport tycoon demo has defined my career and life path and where I ended up later on. A lot of love.
Yes massive thanks to Dan Silverstone (Pica) for creating it! Check out his work here; Twitter: twitter.com/pica_creative IG: instagram.com/vivapica/ www.pica.me.uk
@@NoclipDocs Buy them an extra beer/latte/scotch/whatever because that was absolutely stunning work. The intro actually matches the quality of your actual content, and that's saying something!
The last segment. Right in the feels. TTD / RCT was my childhood. So many memories. I really wish Chris could have been apart of this, however I completely respect his wishes. I do hope he can see this, and fully understand and appreciate the massive community he spawned. Well done guys. Awesome episode!
I think the best part of noclip is how, despite having no connection to a particular game myself, they help me understand the emotional connections that others have developed to that game over their own lives. Always excited for the next noclip project what ever it is.
It was briefly mentioned in the video, but for me a huge reason why I loved the first two games so much was the visual aesthetic. It's hard to put into words the exact appeal, but I would say it has a timeless art style, or even a "stylized realism" look, whereas games like RCT 3 or Theme Park had a more cartoon-y look. And while Planet Coaster and Parkitect are both great games, for me personally they unfortunately couldn’t capture the specific charm of RCT 1 and 2. But I think there’s another element in the appeal of the first two games that doesn’t really get mentioned: the sound design. The sound of the rides operating and running up and down hills, the guests’ chatter and laughs and screams, the ride tickets ticking, the solid thud when placing rollercoaster tracks and pressing any of the UI buttons, and the diegetic music from rides like the Merry-Go-Round. All these sounds harmonize together perfectly and create a real meditative experience. This is another aspect I think unfortunately the successors haven’t been able to truly recapture. Great documentary, I enjoyed it immensely! It’s heartwarming to see the game still being played and attracting new audiences, which I think speaks to the game’s design. It’s also great seeing developers who are inspired by the game and using that inspiration in their own games (which includes myself!)
When he asked why people enjoyed this game so much near the beginning of this video I immediately thought of your video. And low and behold it's recommended for me on the right at the moment.
Me - 32 year old, Scottish, videogame dev - a lot because of these games growing up. I remember being in the Wellgate, Dundee, Scotland, being 11 years old, and seeing a computer store just playing the idle menu cycle animations of all the theme parks created in this game, and being starry eye-d and just NEEDING this game. Eventually I convinced my parents to buy it for me and I loved it. Still do. This video is SO true and unrenowned to how I've felt over growing up with the series, and how Atari milked it into oblivion. Parkitect was also the first Kicstarter game project I backed cause I needed that nostialgia, and love OpenRCT2 a bunch......heck, what a fucking feels trip.
16 years ago during school break I discovered a PC on which RCT1 was installed on. For the whole year I always ran to the PC every break and played.... Good times
I was worried about the Greatest HIts videos because not every dev is gonna be up for a behind-the-scenes interview, but focusing on the legacy and community behind these games was a great call.
Again, such a great documentary! Thanks! I got really excited when you said "There are 2 spritiual successors". Planet Coaster is just so good and I have followed Parkitect since the days where Sebastian just wrote Devlogs on Tumblr. Every time I got excited when he made a new entry. So cool to see them in such a high quality game documentary!
Grew up playing RCT2 as a kid. One of the few games that worked on my very non-gaming PC all those years ago. So glad to see the love for this series is shared by so many other people. Nobody I knew at all knew or cared about this series so I had nobody to relate with. Chris Sawyer's radio silence is also very endearing. Just the mystery of it all and the man. Would love to pick his brain and get insight from the man himself. As always, fantastic video Danny. The composition really was quite emotional.
So many memories. I would get off school... Hang out with friends in parking lot for about half an hour before they got picked up.... head to the on-campus after-school program... play Roller Coaster Tycoon with the other kids and even the adults there... play roller coaster evey day while i wait for my dad, sometimes after everyone else has left... playing this game as the sun went down and the staff was cleaning everything up is such a wierdly particularly vivid part of my life.
Roller Coaster Tycoon will forever be the main foundation for which 2 of my lifetime passions were born; Computer gaming, and roller coasters. I can not thank Chris enough for all the work he has done.
I sincerely hope Chris Sawyer sees this! What a legacy, carried on by Open RCT2 and Open TTD. THANK YOU to all the patrons who can afford to and choose to support Noclip, ya'll are awesome. There couldn't be a better documentary on RCT than this. Thanks for making it possible. Cheers
Both RCT2 and 3 are a huge part of my childhood. Lots of thanks to those who keep the genre alive with RCTopen, Planet Coaster and Parkitect. All other names in the genres should never be spoken off.
The first 2 games are so ahead of their time, still play them to this day sometimes. And the fact that they are written in Assembly Language is beyond remarkable lol
I know right, who ‘can’t find the park exit’ and then gives you bad reviews on Google until you are bankrupt in this day and age. Must be 2050 future soi karens.
"And mine is a Dutch guy with a RUclips channel" ..does he mean..? "Hello everyone and welcome to another video" Frick yes!! XD All in all, an absolute fantastic video! You got a new sub :)
I now work professionally in games as a programmer, and RCT1 was one of the driving inspirations behind my starting and learning to program. I hope wherever Chris is he's well.
He's one of the legendary names in the whole game industry. It's just kinda sad how things turned around for him and that he doesn't show himself anymore.
@@2009heyhow As he said in his 2016 _Eurogamer_ interview, though, his vision had already been fulfilled by the final game he designed himself. It'd be amazing if he came out of the woodwork to deliver another game, lend his expertise, or openly engage with the community, but he doesn't need to. He's already established the legacy he wants to leave.
I think the biggest thing that made RCT as timeless as it is is the nostalgia. Not necessarily the nostalgia from the game itself, but theme parks itself. Going there as a kid, all the fun you had, wanting to ride every ride you saw, never wanting to leave, always excited to go back. RCT gave us all a way to not only experience it through the eyes of each individual guest, but to put yourself in their shoes. Ride fun rides, eat tasty food, take in the sheer amount of fun each guest had before they ultimately went home. Once you were all done, you get to sit back and marvel at what you just made, imagining walking around your own park, riding your ride you just built... even if you were a kid playing the game, it made you feel like a kid. It didn't stress out too much about the management side of things. It was truly your sandbox and you got to make of it what you wanted, and the fact RCT was able to achieve that is not only magical, but define what video games should really be about.
The greatest part of this video is seeing so many of the names in it commenting. This game has thrived due to the community. I played it in school and even though only one person could, kids crowded around just to watch and it not being your turn was not a hinderance at all. Personally, I love the simplicity and ease of play of this era of games. There's something refreshing about being able to intuitively play a game with little to no tutorial. That's something lost in the industry today and a reason why some of these older games have such strong support today. I know my daughter will be playing this at an early age because she'll be able to unlike other games on the market.
This game is my childhood. I was born after the initial release and remember my sister showing me it. I love it. The personality, the functionality, the replay ability. There's not many games I'd say live up to the incredible standards of the first two RCT games. Masterpiece.
As someone who grew up far away from any amusement parks, Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 and 2 were my only exposure to theme parks and amusement parks in general for most of my life, and that's definitely part of what helped draw me into the game.
I was introduced to RollerCoaster Tycoon by my uncle, who had it on his PC at his house. I remember being excited to play "the rollercoaster game" whenever I went over, and one day he gave me a burned copy with funky yellow and green custom printed disk art. Sadly he passed away a good few years ago, but the game will never fail to make me think of him :)
First off, huge probs to Dan Silverstone on that intro! Secondly, I'm really happy this doc got made. I grew with the first RCT game, and still play it every now and then. Such an amazing game, that holds a special place in my heart. I mentioned Chris Sawyer and the RCT games during one of the NoClip streams a few months ago, but no one in the chat seemed to notice or react, so I feared that there weren't any interest for it. Glad to see that the patreons in the production tier thought differently. While I had initially hoped for an interview with Chris Sawyer, talking about the development of all the tycoon games he worked on, as well as his love for rollercoasters, you have to respect his privacy. And, as you mention, given the tumultuous history with the brand as well as Atari, it's very understandable, why he might not be easy to get a hold of. But you managed to give this a possibly even more interesting angle. The legacy, the people it touched, and the people who keep it alive and carry the torch onwards. I really enjoyed the small nods and easter eggs included in the video, like Mr Bones in the beginning of the video. I'll have to rewatch to see what else is hidden in there, as I didn't catch the hint for the next project. Once again, thanks to the people who voted for this, and everybody who worked on making this doc
My youngest nephew normally can't be bothered to play a game made before he was born (2010). For years I'd show him the games of my youth and his response would be, at best, patient boredom before inevitably asking to play something else. Except RCT. He immediately fell in love with this game and has played it whenever he visits for the past 5 years. He has had an ongoing park that he works on for about 3 years now. He even likes Sim City a bit but he *loves* RCT. It really is timeless.
I have played RCT for atleast 20 years and I still love it today. I had no idea there was a big community still watching and playing this game. It's been one of my faves since I was little. (Same with Theme Hospital, but no one ever seems to remember Theme Hospital) I've played all spiritual successors I could get my hands on but found that nothing had the same appeal - even Planet Coaster. Then, I found Parkitect, which is basically a modernised RCT with extra customisation and I am Obsessed. If you loved RCT, you have to play Parkitect!! EDIT - just noticed that theres a whole section in this video about Parkitect haha, should prob watch the whole thing before commenting....
Great doco! I grew up with this game and played the shit out of the demo. My sister and I drove my dad insane to buy the full version, I still remember going to the shop with my dad to buy the game and my sister and I played it pretty much daily for years back when we could only get 1 or 2 games per year. Amazing memories - still play the game every now and again and still get so much enjoyment out of it.
32:46 Talking about Chris Sawyer's radio silence and him not standing in the way... It truly is an amazing gift. He's give us the gift of a game and community that was able to take on a life of it's own, that developed into something that has continued to survive the test of time without roadblocks. It really is wonderful that projects around RCT and RCT2 have existed and continued without hindrances like threats of litigation and cease and decist orders.
The amount of hours I spent as a young kid playing this game...I would still boot the thing up in my adult years. Some of the most peaceful times in my life and some of the happiest were spent with a Saturday morning and waking up knowing I could play RCT all day long...and that's exactly what I did with a smile on my face.
I remember buying the original vividly. It was in a London Drugs store and it was in one of those large bins full of tons of PC games. It had a dark blue background and a single rollercoaster on it with cranes around it. Young me didn't even care about the Rollercoaster. I was obsessed with construction stuff so I was hoping you'd see the rollercoasters being built. Even though it wasn't exactly what I expected, I was instantly hooked. It's weird what sticks as a memory and what you forget. I remember playing this game while I had a sliver in my pointer finger. I was to chicken shit to take it out so I suffered with it while playing RCT. So many fond memories with this game. Thanks for the video
Great video! RCT was my first big "addiction" in video gaming. i was in middle school and my friend's dad was a bit of a PC gamer and that is where i learned of the game and got hooked. in 2000 (I was like 10 yr old) i was given an old windows 95 IBM or some-sort and did everything in my power to get RTC on it. I bought the game from my schools scholastic book fair for $15 in change (coins only) and If i actually remember properly the computer had something like a 5mb graphics and 200mhz processor. I would get up early for school just to play it for 30 mins and then i would day dream and plan my build all day while at school. RTC really showed me how amazing PC games can be and I've always been a PC guy since, the last time i owned a console was ps2/GameCube.
I can remember playing RCT for the first time around the year 2000. My family didn't have a PC back then, so I always played at a friend's house after school. RCT was one of the first PC games I've ever played and it is one of my favourites to this day.
I hope Chris watches this video, smiles knowing he has brought joy to the hearts of thousands. His hard work brought me joy back in 1999, it will soon enough do the same for my 3 year old and 4 month old.
rct has been one of those games that ive came across when i was younger but couldnt play becausr i dont have access to it. recently, i got myself rct2 and its almost like travelling back in time. theres just such a strong atmosphere to the game. having seen this video legit made me tear up even tho ive started to follow this game yesterday. the production here is just too good.
I remember finding my RollerCoaster Tycoon game in a cereal box, I think, back when I was perhaps 10-12 years old. I remember I started to play it without really knowing what it was and got hooked immediately. I couldn’t get my hands on the most recent games at the time, so I played those I could, and RollerCoaster was one of the best. That even at this age I could play it is a testament to how anybody can play to it.
My wish is that some day Chris will do a deep technical dive into the code he wrote for RCT and RCT2 for us programming nerds. I've always had a love for assembler and its community.
I still play Open RCT now and then. Everytime I play, I remember the joy I had to play with my friends back in the 2000's, one of my friends used to play it in a 486, it was amazing to play in a old machine and still be able to be so fun in such an old machine. Amazing video! Thanks for all the interviews and productions. Now I need to try Parkitect, somehow I never heard about it, and I am very much willing to try it :) Thanks Noclip for the astonishing work you have been doing..
By far one of my most played games and all time favourite games. The community surrounding the game is fantastic. The best modern interpretation is planet coaster for sure. You touched on some of the best youtubers out there, you did a fantastic job on this. Well done.
I used to play this game back in 2002, and we moved house and didn't play any computer games until I graduated college. I was so stoked that I could play RCT on my iPad. I made a park with everything i could build on the iPad version, I even had a coin hot air balloon. the park was basically running on its own, and I just visit it everyday. but suddenly one day the game didn't load, and I finally find out that they took the game off the app store in my region. Soooo i guess I lost my park, but i hope one day it will return to the app store again. I miss my park very much.
I was introduces to RCT in high school. For some reason there was an ad for the original in the back of our student planner books we were given for free one year. It offered to download the demo for the original game. After playing the demo a few times I was hooked. The simplistic yet challenging gameplay was amazing and nothing else that I had heard of at the time even came close. I did feel sort of let down when the RCT3 was released.
An interesting thing to further add to the confusion is that RCT3s rights were bought back by Frontier and the game has been rereleased by them for the PC after having disappeared from the digital space for several years. As for the rest, it would have also been very interesting to unearth a little more of the RCT communities, with much of the produced custom content being nowadays lost to time or semi-accessible through the Wayback Machine. I think that just goes to show how deep this well really is. Thank you for doing a documentary on this series though, and focusing on the really passionate guys out there! Great job, super professional as always!
Wow, good stuff, NoClip! That intro was sweet (offered some nice teases as to future episodes). I am more than happy to keep supporting y’all on Patreon. Keep up the stellar work!
RCT2 was a game I played quite a bit as a kid. Recently I found Marcel Vos' channel and it got me back into playing it. RCT2 is truly one of the greatest video games ever made.
Very well done! I played RCT1 & 2 as a kid and this was very fascinating to see how the genre evolved. I honestly never knew it was a one man dev that created such an iconic and beloved game. Great Doc!
I've joined one of the most interesting communities in my life: Dwarf Fortress and BlindiRL streams and discord in particular. All because of your interview with Tarn Adams some time ago. And it's really interesting to see BlindiRL here. Something I didn't really think about but glad he's in there.
I LOVE how you guys came out so hard for _RollerCoaster Tycoon._ thank you so much for that. because I love _Dark Souls_ and _Metal Gear Solid_ too (I don't know what games were in contention for winning first), but yeah -- there really is just something about _RollerCoaster Tycoon._ there always has been. I'm really glad I'm not the only one who feels that. there's an innocence of design and elegance of creation. it's a gentle game, but never a BORING one. solid. solid, solid, solid. it holds up. great choice, Noclip Patrons.
A little late with my comment, but I still want to say it: Thank you so much for creating this documentary. My love for this game, like with so many other people, is through the roof. I also feel very proud for those who kept the community alive for all this time. Wether it's by simply playing and sharing your experiences all the way to maintaining OpenRCT2. Thank you all and thank you Noclip. I'm going back to my theme park, apparently a lot of guests are lost (in nostalgia)....
I remember how fun this game was. I only played part 1, though. At the end I was finally able to build a max excitement, low intensity, low nausea coaster. Every rider exited it, jumped in the air, and got right back in line.
I was literally just playing OpenRtc2 the other day after watching Marcel's latest video. I play it for the strategic scenario play. I look at the game with the eye of a mathematician so going through all the numbers to beat each scenario as well as possible is so fun. I really love seeing the creative and artistic parks people come up with too since mine have the artistic flare of a baldly drawn stick man haha. There is a lot of depth to the game, but it's simple enough that the depth isn't overwhelming in a way that a lot of other simulation games are. I've tried playing other simulation games and was completely confused on how to play them well, but RCT really nailed the balance of easy to understand gameplay with plenty of depth for those who want to dive in way more.
This video got me interested in playing Parkitect- which then got me more interested in the physics of roller coasters (to create them accurately). Which then got me interesting in real life roller coasters. I've been going to my home park every week since this video came out and I'm having the time of my life. This video literally changed my life!!
There's something timeless about RCT 1 and 2. I've been playing them since they first came out and I take breaks from them, but I've never stopped playing them.
I had no idea there were open source versions of Rollercoaster Tycoon! I try it out as well as Transport Tycoon. I remember spending so much time with RC2 & 3, as well as Zoo Tycoon 1 & 2. They were such time sinks! I remember getting RC2 through the Scholastic book fair.
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This is a great idea. I worked on a ton of games in the late 90s when QA outsourcing was a thing. and there were so many good ones from that era.
Really nice idea for a series. Going to watch future ones. Having grown up with Amiga, this tickles my nostalgia
can't wait for the interviews with the team behind Outlaw Golf
Man that intro is crazy good
PLEASE YOU HAVE TO TALK TO HIM. HE TEACHES TECH FOR KIDSNOWADAYS
Great video! Thanks for letting me be a part of this.
Your videos are great man, was so happy to hear you in this video!
Lost my mind when I heard your voice! I was thinking how cool it'd be to hear your input on the franchise when the video began and was so happy to hear they consulted you for the production. Congrats man!
Super glad to see you included!
you make cool videos
the dude himself, you have some good vids
I'm just fanboying for all the amazing people in this video who keep this genre going
SAME. Also I am emotional AF right now over this whole video.
Big fans of your work, thanks so much for checking this out!
@@NoclipDocs thank you for all the time, effort and love you've put into this video about our coaster sim community, I think you've done it justice!
10/10 👌🏽
I haven't been around the coaster community as I was when the Planet Coaster alpha came out, but I still immediately recognized your profile picture silvarret. Great stuff when you were showing how to use pieces creatively and fiddle with the object attachment rules to get them to add so much detail to things, thank you for all your contribution as well
Chris Sawyer programmed this ALONE AND IN ASSEMBLY. Holy shit that it impressive
Most games were programmed alone and in assembly during the golden age of computer games.
@@IntrinsicPalomides Most of those games were quite a bit simpler than this though
That's how we did this, Alias wavefront was my skill, exporting the CGI to Photoshop, importing it to the library, height maps i did with colors, real paint on Xerox machine maps, scanning it, getting the real world.
@@lucasrem Did you work on RCT?
I remember Simon Foster had a RUclips channel where he talk about creating the coasters back in mid 90s,
And how much of a pain it was to render like 900 pieces of a 360º full Roller Coaster cart on 3D studio Max
It is a huge undertaking for one person, even if graphics were made by another person.
Cannot recommend checking out Open RCT2 enough if you're looking to scratch a nostalgic itch after watching this video and want to play some RollerCoaster Tycoon. Incredible work that makes perhaps the best game in the series playable in HD, with multiplayer and with a whole host of other great features added too.
Just like OpenTTD!
*And* Ultrawide.
I haven't played this for probably close to ten years and now want to try it again. So many hours of my life spent in RCT2 and the original Zoo Tycoon.
the straight steam version of vanilla rollercoaster tycoon (has all the expansions) also works fine.
I never played the original RCT2, however, being a fan of OpenTTD, when I heard about Open RCT2 I bought it only to play the Open version.
Thanks for the love @9:00! We've done our best to keep the flame burning for the past two decades, and it has been great to see OpenRCT, but also high profile youtube activity from channels like these or Marcel Vos turn that flame into an inferno again. RCT is alive and kicking!
Great work!
Hear Hear! New Element represent!
hell yeah brother!
Can't believe New Element still exists. And that some of the same people still post there.. I saw Posix in the video?? Absolutely wild.
@@catonkatonk It does still exist, and it's doing well! You should come by sometimes and say hi! There are still a few members from the old guard around.
Whoever you got to make the intro for this video needs huge props. That is basically the greatest statement of love for games I've seen in a while.
I was just thinking the same thing, holy crap that intro was insanely tight and well produced!
🙏🏽 thanks man. So glad you liked it.
@@viva_pica that was absolutely incredible! Thank YOU for that :)
@@viva_pica where is this piece of music from?!?
Dan Silverstone incredible intro sequence. So many references!
Chris Sawyer, if you're reading this, thanks! I can't even begin to explain how as a young kid out of communist Romania seeing and obsessively replaying that first Transport tycoon demo has defined my career and life path and where I ended up later on. A lot of love.
He’s not
@@MrShanester117 Tear.
That opening is an absolute banger!!
Well done, Noclip! Love the way this one came together :)
Yes massive thanks to Dan Silverstone (Pica) for creating it! Check out his work here;
Twitter: twitter.com/pica_creative
IG: instagram.com/vivapica/
www.pica.me.uk
@@NoclipDocs Neither of those links seem to be working for me. Anyone else?
@@russellfranklinwrites Links work if you remove the link info at the end (%E2%80%8B).
@@NoclipDocs Buy them an extra beer/latte/scotch/whatever because that was absolutely stunning work. The intro actually matches the quality of your actual content, and that's saying something!
@@NoclipDocs Who did the theme music? It's kind of like a modernized '80s vibe. It's pretty good.
The last segment. Right in the feels. TTD / RCT was my childhood. So many memories. I really wish Chris could have been apart of this, however I completely respect his wishes. I do hope he can see this, and fully understand and appreciate the massive community he spawned. Well done guys. Awesome episode!
I think the best part of noclip is how, despite having no connection to a particular game myself, they help me understand the emotional connections that others have developed to that game over their own lives. Always excited for the next noclip project what ever it is.
It was briefly mentioned in the video, but for me a huge reason why I loved the first two games so much was the visual aesthetic. It's hard to put into words the exact appeal, but I would say it has a timeless art style, or even a "stylized realism" look, whereas games like RCT 3 or Theme Park had a more cartoon-y look. And while Planet Coaster and Parkitect are both great games, for me personally they unfortunately couldn’t capture the specific charm of RCT 1 and 2.
But I think there’s another element in the appeal of the first two games that doesn’t really get mentioned: the sound design. The sound of the rides operating and running up and down hills, the guests’ chatter and laughs and screams, the ride tickets ticking, the solid thud when placing rollercoaster tracks and pressing any of the UI buttons, and the diegetic music from rides like the Merry-Go-Round. All these sounds harmonize together perfectly and create a real meditative experience. This is another aspect I think unfortunately the successors haven’t been able to truly recapture.
Great documentary, I enjoyed it immensely! It’s heartwarming to see the game still being played and attracting new audiences, which I think speaks to the game’s design. It’s also great seeing developers who are inspired by the game and using that inspiration in their own games (which includes myself!)
Great work by all
I had just watched your video on the series last night, then I saw this one after waking up. What great timing!
When he asked why people enjoyed this game so much near the beginning of this video I immediately thought of your video. And low and behold it's recommended for me on the right at the moment.
Me - 32 year old, Scottish, videogame dev - a lot because of these games growing up. I remember being in the Wellgate, Dundee, Scotland, being 11 years old, and seeing a computer store just playing the idle menu cycle animations of all the theme parks created in this game, and being starry eye-d and just NEEDING this game. Eventually I convinced my parents to buy it for me and I loved it. Still do. This video is SO true and unrenowned to how I've felt over growing up with the series, and how Atari milked it into oblivion. Parkitect was also the first Kicstarter game project I backed cause I needed that nostialgia, and love OpenRCT2 a bunch......heck, what a fucking feels trip.
What a fantastic game, a must have for anyone and no doubt so many game creators have been inspired by it in some way. AWESOME!!!
why ask patrion, you should ask developers !!!!!!
Patrion is nerdy crap !!! me mom is gone, please chat with me crap community !!!!!!!!
16 years ago during school break I discovered a PC on which RCT1 was installed on. For the whole year I always ran to the PC every break and played.... Good times
Same for me. The computer it also had Railroad Tycoon 2 installed.
@@Blood-PawWerewolf That game is so good as well, just loved watching my well running train network run.
Roller Coaster Tycoon - Some Assembly Required ;)
Learning about assembly programming right now has made me realize how impressive this game truly is
I was worried about the Greatest HIts videos because not every dev is gonna be up for a behind-the-scenes interview, but focusing on the legacy and community behind these games was a great call.
we all talk now, 2D titles in 1999 ?
Unreal ATARI, i was unreal dev back then, we did not do this title!
That intro of greatest hits, hit me with a million nostalgic feelings
Again, such a great documentary! Thanks!
I got really excited when you said "There are 2 spritiual successors". Planet Coaster is just so good and I have followed Parkitect since the days where Sebastian just wrote Devlogs on Tumblr. Every time I got excited when he made a new entry. So cool to see them in such a high quality game documentary!
Grew up playing RCT2 as a kid. One of the few games that worked on my very non-gaming PC all those years ago. So glad to see the love for this series is shared by so many other people. Nobody I knew at all knew or cared about this series so I had nobody to relate with.
Chris Sawyer's radio silence is also very endearing. Just the mystery of it all and the man. Would love to pick his brain and get insight from the man himself.
As always, fantastic video Danny. The composition really was quite emotional.
I was NOT expecting marcel vos to make an appearance here, what a great surprise
So many memories. I would get off school... Hang out with friends in parking lot for about half an hour before they got picked up.... head to the on-campus after-school program... play Roller Coaster Tycoon with the other kids and even the adults there... play roller coaster evey day while i wait for my dad, sometimes after everyone else has left... playing this game as the sun went down and the staff was cleaning everything up is such a wierdly particularly vivid part of my life.
33:38 "I like teaching people stuff or showing off cool stuff I made" shows how to drown hundreds of guests
That's Lord Marcel for you.
Roller Coaster Tycoon will forever be the main foundation for which 2 of my lifetime passions were born; Computer gaming, and roller coasters. I can not thank Chris enough for all the work he has done.
I sincerely hope Chris Sawyer sees this! What a legacy, carried on by Open RCT2 and Open TTD. THANK YOU to all the patrons who can afford to and choose to support Noclip, ya'll are awesome. There couldn't be a better documentary on RCT than this. Thanks for making it possible. Cheers
Both RCT2 and 3 are a huge part of my childhood. Lots of thanks to those who keep the genre alive with RCTopen, Planet Coaster and Parkitect. All other names in the genres should never be spoken off.
Theme Park was the original though, Theme Park World was great as well. Theme Park on SNES created the entire sim management genre though.
This Chris Sawyer guy is a bloody genius. Loved transport tycoon!
That intro is soooo sick
Edit: The credits theme is sick too! Great vid!
The intro is just one of the many things I already love about this series!
yes! intro and music!
The moment you mentioned RCT content creators I knew I was gonna hear a "Hello everyone, and welcome to another veedeo" at some point in the doc.
who knows how many hundreds of hours I have poured into open rollercoaster tycoon 2, thanks SO MUCH for making this!
I do hope Chris Sawyer ends up seeing this at some point.
Next time I bump into him at the shop I will ask him but he doesn’t really like talking about the games.
@@BlueAngelsMCScotland You know him? Huh, small world.
The first 2 games are so ahead of their time, still play them to this day sometimes. And the fact that they are written in Assembly Language is beyond remarkable lol
I know right, who ‘can’t find the park exit’ and then gives you bad reviews on Google until you are bankrupt in this day and age. Must be 2050 future soi karens.
Noclip content is as pure, honest, and enjoyable as the first two Roller Coaster Tycoon games.
"And mine is a Dutch guy with a RUclips channel"
..does he mean..?
"Hello everyone and welcome to another video"
Frick yes!! XD
All in all, an absolute fantastic video!
You got a new sub :)
it was either him or DeurKlink
Throughput
@@GetgainzDe throughput!
Damn, that last almost made me tear up. 3 games. Fans keeping all 3 going, years later. That's damn beautiful.
I now work professionally in games as a programmer, and RCT1 was one of the driving inspirations behind my starting and learning to program. I hope wherever Chris is he's well.
"drop the mic and walk away" Thank you Chris from the bottom of my heart.
He's one of the legendary names in the whole game industry. It's just kinda sad how things turned around for him and that he doesn't show himself anymore.
@@2009heyhow As he said in his 2016 _Eurogamer_ interview, though, his vision had already been fulfilled by the final game he designed himself. It'd be amazing if he came out of the woodwork to deliver another game, lend his expertise, or openly engage with the community, but he doesn't need to. He's already established the legacy he wants to leave.
I think the biggest thing that made RCT as timeless as it is is the nostalgia. Not necessarily the nostalgia from the game itself, but theme parks itself. Going there as a kid, all the fun you had, wanting to ride every ride you saw, never wanting to leave, always excited to go back. RCT gave us all a way to not only experience it through the eyes of each individual guest, but to put yourself in their shoes. Ride fun rides, eat tasty food, take in the sheer amount of fun each guest had before they ultimately went home. Once you were all done, you get to sit back and marvel at what you just made, imagining walking around your own park, riding your ride you just built... even if you were a kid playing the game, it made you feel like a kid. It didn't stress out too much about the management side of things. It was truly your sandbox and you got to make of it what you wanted, and the fact RCT was able to achieve that is not only magical, but define what video games should really be about.
Just my luck, exactly when I randomly feel like reminiscing over the Rollercoaster Tycoon franchise, Noclip comes in clutch
The greatest part of this video is seeing so many of the names in it commenting. This game has thrived due to the community. I played it in school and even though only one person could, kids crowded around just to watch and it not being your turn was not a hinderance at all.
Personally, I love the simplicity and ease of play of this era of games. There's something refreshing about being able to intuitively play a game with little to no tutorial. That's something lost in the industry today and a reason why some of these older games have such strong support today. I know my daughter will be playing this at an early age because she'll be able to unlike other games on the market.
As good as anything from NoClip. Ever. I’d love to know the music used in the intro sequence and credits.
This game is my childhood.
I was born after the initial release and remember my sister showing me it. I love it. The personality, the functionality, the replay ability. There's not many games I'd say live up to the incredible standards of the first two RCT games.
Masterpiece.
That intro sequence is amazing!
As someone who grew up far away from any amusement parks, Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 and 2 were my only exposure to theme parks and amusement parks in general for most of my life, and that's definitely part of what helped draw me into the game.
Literally grew up with RCT and RCT2 so excited to watch this! Thank you!
I was introduced to RollerCoaster Tycoon by my uncle, who had it on his PC at his house. I remember being excited to play "the rollercoaster game" whenever I went over, and one day he gave me a burned copy with funky yellow and green custom printed disk art. Sadly he passed away a good few years ago, but the game will never fail to make me think of him :)
Honestly I could go for a full five minutes of that intro jam. This is some fresh (old) stuff!
First off, huge probs to Dan Silverstone on that intro!
Secondly, I'm really happy this doc got made.
I grew with the first RCT game, and still play it every now and then. Such an amazing game, that holds a special place in my heart. I mentioned Chris Sawyer and the RCT games during one of the NoClip streams a few months ago, but no one in the chat seemed to notice or react, so I feared that there weren't any interest for it. Glad to see that the patreons in the production tier thought differently.
While I had initially hoped for an interview with Chris Sawyer, talking about the development of all the tycoon games he worked on, as well as his love for rollercoasters, you have to respect his privacy. And, as you mention, given the tumultuous history with the brand as well as Atari, it's very understandable, why he might not be easy to get a hold of.
But you managed to give this a possibly even more interesting angle. The legacy, the people it touched, and the people who keep it alive and carry the torch onwards.
I really enjoyed the small nods and easter eggs included in the video, like Mr Bones in the beginning of the video. I'll have to rewatch to see what else is hidden in there, as I didn't catch the hint for the next project.
Once again, thanks to the people who voted for this, and everybody who worked on making this doc
I remember trying to find cheat codes for this game with my friends in Middle School. Melanie Warn ftw
Mr. Bean
I am a cheat code :-)
My youngest nephew normally can't be bothered to play a game made before he was born (2010). For years I'd show him the games of my youth and his response would be, at best, patient boredom before inevitably asking to play something else.
Except RCT. He immediately fell in love with this game and has played it whenever he visits for the past 5 years. He has had an ongoing park that he works on for about 3 years now.
He even likes Sim City a bit but he *loves* RCT. It really is timeless.
Loving the Marcel Vos interview. It's great to hear him talk a bit more candidly.
oh my gosh... watching this is bringing so many memories. Every single visual aspect. from the can stalls to the bubble round workers and the colors
This is so damn good. The intro... holy moly. Truly got goosebumps.
I have played RCT for atleast 20 years and I still love it today. I had no idea there was a big community still watching and playing this game. It's been one of my faves since I was little. (Same with Theme Hospital, but no one ever seems to remember Theme Hospital) I've played all spiritual successors I could get my hands on but found that nothing had the same appeal - even Planet Coaster. Then, I found Parkitect, which is basically a modernised RCT with extra customisation and I am Obsessed. If you loved RCT, you have to play Parkitect!! EDIT - just noticed that theres a whole section in this video about Parkitect haha, should prob watch the whole thing before commenting....
No way, I just binged through Marcel's channel and started playing RCT again!
Great doco! I grew up with this game and played the shit out of the demo. My sister and I drove my dad insane to buy the full version, I still remember going to the shop with my dad to buy the game and my sister and I played it pretty much daily for years back when we could only get 1 or 2 games per year.
Amazing memories - still play the game every now and again and still get so much enjoyment out of it.
32:46 Talking about Chris Sawyer's radio silence and him not standing in the way... It truly is an amazing gift. He's give us the gift of a game and community that was able to take on a life of it's own, that developed into something that has continued to survive the test of time without roadblocks. It really is wonderful that projects around RCT and RCT2 have existed and continued without hindrances like threats of litigation and cease and decist orders.
I WANT TO GET OFF MR BONES' WILD RIDE
The amount of hours I spent as a young kid playing this game...I would still boot the thing up in my adult years. Some of the most peaceful times in my life and some of the happiest were spent with a Saturday morning and waking up knowing I could play RCT all day long...and that's exactly what I did with a smile on my face.
Never expected to hear Marcel Vos in a Noclip video.
This seems to be the start of a great series!
*hug*
I remember buying the original vividly. It was in a London Drugs store and it was in one of those large bins full of tons of PC games. It had a dark blue background and a single rollercoaster on it with cranes around it. Young me didn't even care about the Rollercoaster. I was obsessed with construction stuff so I was hoping you'd see the rollercoasters being built. Even though it wasn't exactly what I expected, I was instantly hooked. It's weird what sticks as a memory and what you forget. I remember playing this game while I had a sliver in my pointer finger. I was to chicken shit to take it out so I suffered with it while playing RCT. So many fond memories with this game. Thanks for the video
The fact that Marcel Vos was a part of this makes me happier than I should be.
Whoever edited the intro, keep that man around. Incredible work.
Parkitekt is truly the spiritual successor to Chris Sawyer's games. If you have not played it, I definitely recommend it. You won't regret it.
Great video! RCT was my first big "addiction" in video gaming. i was in middle school and my friend's dad was a bit of a PC gamer and that is where i learned of the game and got hooked. in 2000 (I was like 10 yr old) i was given an old windows 95 IBM or some-sort and did everything in my power to get RTC on it.
I bought the game from my schools scholastic book fair for $15 in change (coins only) and If i actually remember properly the computer had something like a 5mb graphics and 200mhz processor. I would get up early for school just to play it for 30 mins and then i would day dream and plan my build all day while at school.
RTC really showed me how amazing PC games can be and I've always been a PC guy since, the last time i owned a console was ps2/GameCube.
Fantastic episode!
I can remember playing RCT for the first time around the year 2000. My family didn't have a PC back then, so I always played at a friend's house after school. RCT was one of the first PC games I've ever played and it is one of my favourites to this day.
That intro tho! Kreygasm
That credits intro is amazing!!!! Love how it pays homage to so many games while being so cool. It must have been such a great amount of work
A fantastic new series! There are so many cult classics you could cover this way, I can't wait to see where this goes.
I hope Chris watches this video, smiles knowing he has brought joy to the hearts of thousands. His hard work brought me joy back in 1999, it will soon enough do the same for my 3 year old and 4 month old.
rct has been one of those games that ive came across when i was younger but couldnt play becausr i dont have access to it. recently, i got myself rct2 and its almost like travelling back in time. theres just such a strong atmosphere to the game. having seen this video legit made me tear up even tho ive started to follow this game yesterday. the production here is just too good.
Really well done - Nobody better than NoClip to cover such a massive franchise and all its offshoots
I remember finding my RollerCoaster Tycoon game in a cereal box, I think, back when I was perhaps 10-12 years old. I remember I started to play it without really knowing what it was and got hooked immediately. I couldn’t get my hands on the most recent games at the time, so I played those I could, and RollerCoaster was one of the best. That even at this age I could play it is a testament to how anybody can play to it.
My wish is that some day Chris will do a deep technical dive into the code he wrote for RCT and RCT2 for us programming nerds. I've always had a love for assembler and its community.
I still play Open RCT now and then. Everytime I play, I remember the joy I had to play with my friends back in the 2000's, one of my friends used to play it in a 486, it was amazing to play in a old machine and still be able to be so fun in such an old machine. Amazing video! Thanks for all the interviews and productions. Now I need to try Parkitect, somehow I never heard about it, and I am very much willing to try it :) Thanks Noclip for the astonishing work you have been doing..
By far one of my most played games and all time favourite games. The community surrounding the game is fantastic. The best modern interpretation is planet coaster for sure. You touched on some of the best youtubers out there, you did a fantastic job on this. Well done.
I used to play this game back in 2002, and we moved house and didn't play any computer games until I graduated college. I was so stoked that I could play RCT on my iPad. I made a park with everything i could build on the iPad version, I even had a coin hot air balloon. the park was basically running on its own, and I just visit it everyday. but suddenly one day the game didn't load, and I finally find out that they took the game off the app store in my region. Soooo i guess I lost my park, but i hope one day it will return to the app store again. I miss my park very much.
Greatest hits? I’m 3 minutes in and I’m thinking “Greatest intro sequence ever!” Those title cards were awesome!
I was introduces to RCT in high school. For some reason there was an ad for the original in the back of our student planner books we were given for free one year.
It offered to download the demo for the original game. After playing the demo a few times I was hooked.
The simplistic yet challenging gameplay was amazing and nothing else that I had heard of at the time even came close.
I did feel sort of let down when the RCT3 was released.
An interesting thing to further add to the confusion is that RCT3s rights were bought back by Frontier and the game has been rereleased by them for the PC after having disappeared from the digital space for several years. As for the rest, it would have also been very interesting to unearth a little more of the RCT communities, with much of the produced custom content being nowadays lost to time or semi-accessible through the Wayback Machine. I think that just goes to show how deep this well really is. Thank you for doing a documentary on this series though, and focusing on the really passionate guys out there! Great job, super professional as always!
Am I the only one that might have as many fond memories with RCT3 as I do with the first two games? I loved all 3.
Love to see Parkitect getting some love! I wish more people knew about it. Amazing team and community behind the game.
One of my favorite series growing up ❤️
Wow, good stuff, NoClip! That intro was sweet (offered some nice teases as to future episodes). I am more than happy to keep supporting y’all on Patreon. Keep up the stellar work!
RCT2 was a game I played quite a bit as a kid. Recently I found Marcel Vos' channel and it got me back into playing it. RCT2 is truly one of the greatest video games ever made.
Very well done! I played RCT1 & 2 as a kid and this was very fascinating to see how the genre evolved. I honestly never knew it was a one man dev that created such an iconic and beloved game. Great Doc!
I've joined one of the most interesting communities in my life: Dwarf Fortress and BlindiRL streams and discord in particular. All because of your interview with Tarn Adams some time ago.
And it's really interesting to see BlindiRL here. Something I didn't really think about but glad he's in there.
I LOVE how you guys came out so hard for _RollerCoaster Tycoon._ thank you so much for that.
because I love _Dark Souls_ and _Metal Gear Solid_ too (I don't know what games were in contention for winning first), but yeah -- there really is just something about _RollerCoaster Tycoon._ there always has been.
I'm really glad I'm not the only one who feels that. there's an innocence of design and elegance of creation. it's a gentle game, but never a BORING one.
solid. solid, solid, solid. it holds up. great choice, Noclip Patrons.
This video gave me so much joy! I loved those first two games so much as a kid. 10 year old me on the ole Compaq I can see it now wow!
Do you think he's reading the comments? Chris Sawyer holler back if your here. Holla back, Chris. Thanks
A little late with my comment, but I still want to say it: Thank you so much for creating this documentary. My love for this game, like with so many other people, is through the roof. I also feel very proud for those who kept the community alive for all this time. Wether it's by simply playing and sharing your experiences all the way to maintaining OpenRCT2. Thank you all and thank you Noclip. I'm going back to my theme park, apparently a lot of guests are lost (in nostalgia)....
I remember how fun this game was. I only played part 1, though. At the end I was finally able to build a max excitement, low intensity, low nausea coaster. Every rider exited it, jumped in the air, and got right back in line.
I was literally just playing OpenRtc2 the other day after watching Marcel's latest video. I play it for the strategic scenario play. I look at the game with the eye of a mathematician so going through all the numbers to beat each scenario as well as possible is so fun. I really love seeing the creative and artistic parks people come up with too since mine have the artistic flare of a baldly drawn stick man haha. There is a lot of depth to the game, but it's simple enough that the depth isn't overwhelming in a way that a lot of other simulation games are. I've tried playing other simulation games and was completely confused on how to play them well, but RCT really nailed the balance of easy to understand gameplay with plenty of depth for those who want to dive in way more.
This video got me interested in playing Parkitect- which then got me more interested in the physics of roller coasters (to create them accurately). Which then got me interesting in real life roller coasters. I've been going to my home park every week since this video came out and I'm having the time of my life. This video literally changed my life!!
There's something timeless about RCT 1 and 2. I've been playing them since they first came out and I take breaks from them, but I've never stopped playing them.
I had no idea there were open source versions of Rollercoaster Tycoon! I try it out as well as Transport Tycoon. I remember spending so much time with RC2 & 3, as well as Zoo Tycoon 1 & 2. They were such time sinks! I remember getting RC2 through the Scholastic book fair.