Amusement Rides Utilised in The Game
Despite the fact that you are alone in the park, all is not quiet. The electricity is still up and running and the amusement rides have been left active overnight; they are in overdrive and erratic. This is simultaneously both a help to your task, and an obstacle. In order to reach some money bags that are placed in high positions or other awkward places you will need to utilise the rides. Some money bags, quite dangerously, have even been left in the centre of the moving rides.
The amusement park is not linear or constructed at ground level, but instead built entirely on a towering vertical tiered structure. The smallest rides are located at ground level, and gradually get larger and larger and more complicated the higher the player gets. At the summit, towering over all other rides, sits a gigantic roller coaster, the namesake of the game. It will take a lot of time and effort to reach the summit of the amusement park and subsequently the eponymous roller coaster which sits atop it.
You will need to hitch a ride on many of the attractions to progress through the amusement park, and to collect misplaced money bags in order that you may complete your task. Some of these attractions include:
- Big Wheel,
- cable cars,
- ghost train,
- flying carpet,
- log flume,
- river caves,
- bumper cars,
- gravitron,
- black hole,
- carousel,
- orbiter,
- and of course, the roller coaster.
The selection of rides, and physical attributes of those rides, strongly suggest the influence of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, which at the time featured almost all of the rides included in the game.
Some of these rides can be dangerous; for example the protagonist can be hit by moving carriages, or electrocuted by the rails. You may even have to perform stunts, such as jumping from a moving carriage to another to grab money bags left in between the tracks. In this effect the protagonist is also a daredevil stuntman.
The player must also navigate carefully through funhouses and motion platforms, which are treacherously going wild without operation, in your task to collect all the discarded money.
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—H., U.S. women’s magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine (February 1828)
“He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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