We’ve been stuck in isolation for a while now. There’s a good chance you’ve finished off your list of movies you’ve been meaning to watch, you’re done re-watching The Office, and you’ve built your dream life on The Sims a few times over. I have a new suggestion for what we should be doing during isolation, and that is playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 24/7.
Let the GOAT Team fill you in on a childhood game that actually did get brought back….
If you haven’t played the game before, the concept is pretty simple. You’re put in charge of a massive blank square of land, and you have to build a rollercoaster park. It’s a bit like The Sims in that it sounds deceptively easy, and honestly kind of boring, but you’re going to waste days of your life playing it. And you won’t regret it one bit.
The first reason we should bring it back is because, like I said, you’re going to get sucked into a hole where the only things you think about are how many popcorn stands you can give your guests, and whether or not the rollercoaster you just built would actually work in real life. We’ve never had more time to kill than now, we might as well make it feel like it’s passing more quickly.
The second reason is the nostalgia factor. This is a double whammy, because you can be nostalgic for both your childhood when you played this game for the first time, and for three months ago when you were still allowed to go to a theme park. Time flies.
The third reason is because, quite frankly, nothing was ever quite as funny as building an incomplete rollercoaster and launching a bunch of computerised people across the park. It was far more dramatic than deleting a pool ladder. Don’t judge, you know you did it too.
RollerCoaster Tycoon is due for a comeback, and it would make quarantine a hell of a lot easier.
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