User Guide

Water allows you to create areas of water and adjust the
depth and bottom slope of any existing water tile (square)
in the park. (There’s more detail later in this section.)
Scenery is what you use to place gardens, statuary, benches,
shrubs, and other useful or decorative non-ride items in your
park. (There’s more detail later in this section.)
Footpaths is one you’ll use often. This button opens the feature with
which you create (and tear up) walking paths, queuing lines, ramps,
and bridges. (There’s more detail later in this section.)
New Ride opens the
Ride Selection window.
(There’s more detail later in this section.)
Finances opens the Finances window, in which you can study
and control (to some extent) your income, outlays, and other
financial matters. (There’s more detail later in this section.)
Research takes you to the R&D lab feature that allows you ton determine
how much money you spend on developing new rides and what you’re
developing. (There’s more detail later in this section.)
Rides Info presents a number of useful
overall reports on every ride in the park.
(There’s more detail later in this section.)
Park Status does the same thing
as clicking on the Park Entrance;
it opens the Park Status window.
Guest Info is a great
source of information
on every guest in the
park as an individual
and on all of your
guests taken as a group.
(There’s more detail later in this section.)
Staff opens the window in which you hire,
sack, and control your park employees.
(There’s more detail later in this section.)
Messages shows you recent messages you’ve received
since the scenario began. Note that any icons included
with a message are buttons you can click to take a more
detailed look at the source of the notice.
Some of these buttons need no more explanation than that, but let’s
take a closer look at the more complicated features.
Note that any icons included with a message are buttons you can click to take a more detailed
look at the source of the notice. If you miss a message, you can use the Messages button (on
the toolbar) to review past notices.
The Situation Box apprises you of the state of the natural world. It is updated constantly by your
friends in the local weather bureau, and double-checked by a small weather station installed
inside the park entrance. This box lists:
1) The current month and year. Note that a “year” in RollerCoaster Tycoon is measured as one
park season; that’s the eight months from March through October.
2) The present temperature in your park.
3) The weather at your park.
The Toolbar
The Toolbar is a group of buttons positioned across the top of the landscape screen. These
provide all of the functions you should need for building and running your park–and for
managing your game.
Pause stops time–pauses the game–until you click this button again
to restart time. Nothing happens in the park and you cannot build
anything while the game is paused.
Game Options opens a menu of basic functions
for things like saving a game and quitting.
(There’s more detail later in this section.)
Sound toggles the
game sound on
and off.
Zoom Out enlarges the amount of
the park you see in the landscape
view. This means that you see less detail.
Zoom In increases the amount of detail
you see in the landscape view. This means
that you see less area of the park.
Rotate turns the landscape a quarter turn (90 degrees)
clockwise. The result is as if you moved 90 degrees to
your right (counter-clockwise) around the park.
View Options opens a menu of visual functions–things
like making trees or rides temporarily transparent.
(There’s more detail later in this section.)
Map opens a map of the entire park area; this is a large
scale map with very little detail. Paths, rides, and guests
are marked on it, and land owned by the park is a lighter
shade than other land. Click anywhere on this map to
centre the landscape view there.
Land is the feature you use to adjust the height and slope
of any landscape tile (square) in the park. (There’s more
detail later in this section.)
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