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Posted March 24, 2014
Little pixel people, great entertainment!

Theme Park, a classic, complex, and colorful amusement park management sim from Bullfrog Productions, is available 50% off for Windows and Mac OS X on GOG.com. That's only $2.99 for the next 24 hours!

[url=http://www.gog.com/game/theme_park][/url]Put more salt in the popcorn and raise the price of soda: this is how big bucks are made in Theme Park, a classic amusement park management game from Bullfrog Productions. Yes, snacks play a big role in your business, but let's not forget about all the amazing rides and attractions you can build to make your little pixel visitors happy. Give them roller coasters, ferris wheels, love boats, haunted houses, and bouncy castles and they'll keep coming back for more. This amazing classic offers you the option to manage every little detail of your park's design and economy, to make it the best--and the most profitable--in the world. With colorful graphics, surprisingly deep mechanics, and tons of light-hearted humor, Theme Park is sure to entertain you for many carefree hours.

Get into the business of entertaining the pixelfolk and design the greatest money-machine in Theme Park, for only $2.99 on GOG.com. The Classic Gem Promo 50% discount offer lasts until Tuesday, March 25, at 10:59AM GMT.
Posted March 24, 2014
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budejovice: On my wishlist since I created my wishlist? Half price? Bought.

Edit: And only then did I realize... no manual?
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amcdermo: For the Amiga and typed rather than a scan but better than nothing. http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/docs.php?id=1634
That is going to be super helpful. Thanks for doing my work for me! :)

I bought Theme Hospital when it was on sale about a week ago and it came with the manual; I was going to assume some UI crossover, but I appreciate that.
Posted March 24, 2014
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amcdermo: For the Amiga and typed rather than a scan but better than nothing. http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/docs.php?id=1634
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budejovice: That is going to be super helpful. Thanks for doing my work for me! :)
I see amcdermo's bet and I raise with: http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.5749 (PC PDF manual) ;)

Oh, wait, it's a technical manual. Let me check a bit more...

This one is for PSX, but at least explains the gameplay: http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.7857
Post edited March 24, 2014 by Thespian*
Posted March 24, 2014
So so tempted since I know that it will be sale again (at a lower price) during the summer sale (and my backlog is big enough)
Posted March 24, 2014
This is better news than the entire bargain bin sale, imho.
The sad thing is that with Theme Park off my wishlist, there aren't any games left on GOG that I seriously want, maybe the Feeble Files but that's about it. There's quite a few titles I'd definitely buy if available so I voted on the respective community wishlists but other than that, not much left to do here...except for playing all the dozens of games I already bought.
Posted March 24, 2014
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budejovice: On my wishlist since I created my wishlist? Half price? Bought.

Edit: And only then did I realize... no manual?
S..t - same here :-(
Posted March 24, 2014
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InfraSuperman: <snip>
Which is why I mentioned Theme Park World and Theme Park Inc., which leveraged the personality and fun aspect of the first game and stripped it of the useless and clunky micromanagement, making for much better games, and certainly very different to the first one. The original Theme Park made the mistake of trying to be all things to all people, and didn't do any of it particularly well.
Posted March 24, 2014
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budejovice: On my wishlist since I created my wishlist? Half price? Bought.

Edit: And only then did I realize... no manual?
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tburger: S..t - same here :-(
Good links from amcdermo & Thespian* - it's a start. :) Thanks guys.
Posted March 24, 2014
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budejovice: Good links from amcdermo & Thespian* - it's a start. :)
Yeah, already downloaded both but still - classics without manual - such things shouldn't happen.
Posted March 25, 2014
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lukaszthegreat: can somebody tell me how does the campaign works? I had that game (it was on one cd together with Transport Tycoon) but I don't remember how the game works.

I've beaten Theme Hospital a year ago and had a blast. Yet I decided to do it instead of playing something else because i didn't beat it when i was a kid.
Can TP be beaten? do you move from one park to another getting access to new rides, shops and new challenges like in TH with diseases and new tech?
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InfraSuperman: Theme Park isn't really based around scenarios like Theme Hospital. It's much more of a free-form kind of game. At the beginning, you're presented with a world map full of locations, although you can only choose the UK at first. Your goal is then to simply build a profitable park. Pretty much all shops, rides and such are available at the very beginning, after they have been researched, of course. Once your park is worth enough, you can sell it, which provides you with money to buy a plot of land in another location. While these locations differ in various ways, the basic goal (build park, then sell park) and your "tools" to achieve it remain the same. I am not sure, but I think you can "beat" the game by going through every location, but that's not really the rewarding element about it.
After all, it's essentially just about building fun parks. I think it works in its favour, as well. While the linear scenario structure made Theme Hospital (or the similar Dungeon Keeper) engaging, it might be too restrictive in a game like this.
thx. +1 rep
and yeah. then i can skip it. i've done what you described 20 years ago and no real reason in trying to repeat it.
Never fell in love with this game anyway. TT pretty much consumed my time back then.
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