Right now Planet Coaster is kind of over hyped in my opinion, the creation part is good if that's all you're interested in but the scenario/management part is lacking in comparison to the older theme park management games.
Yeah this was my jam too, I loved it.One of my favorites I consider underrated is Theme Park World
It's more of a sequel to the original Theme Park and less a reaction to Rollercoaster Tycoon. Which came out the same year.
It's simulation aspect is also much simpler. It's designed more for younger children, especially with it's very goofy and upbeat atmosphere. Like there's park themes ranging from a "Space" themed park to a "Halloween" themed park.
I also remember one of my favorite aspects of it was you could view the park from the perspective of a guest and ride all of the rides. Or walk around. This is a relatively mundane feature today but at the time I was blown away by it.
It also had no copy protection and kind of hard to run on modern systems. I remember I played the PS1 version the most.
Chex Quest was a few years before my time snagging CDs from cereal, but I imagine I'd have loved it if I had it when I was that age.
Was this before\after the Hasbro CD Roms in cereal boxes? I'm fairly certain I remember seeing RCT and others around the time I snagged a few Hasbro board game discs from boxes.
Yeah, it was around that time. I remember getting a couple others from that promotion too, like Monopoly Jr., Tonka Search & Rescue and Sorry.
I know I gave it a spin but it felt like it was designed to be used if you really liked RCT2 back in the day. Sort of like how SimCity 4 in its patched-together state isn't really meant to be played unless you were playing it twenty years ago.
