Why Roller Coaster Tycoon is a Game Development Masterpiece

WHAT ???? no errors ? alot of errors ! not so big as popular, and took old time games, not new with alot of bugs, for example take starcraft, its almost bugless game, but still have some small bugs. in RCT there calc errors, opacity errors, speed, many small, but they exist ! And sometimes there music errors, screen scale errors that can throw even BSOD!
Optimisation in game - is fully ok, agree with you!

Chris if you reading this, thank you, continue your coding, please! Even if transport tycoon is beta ver of RCT, keep coding! there stuff that need to be updated, weight of guests, and so on !

Great video man!

I did not knew he also coded Transport Tycoon, im totally amazed and he is indeed the god of game programing

Loved this game back in school, I played it in IT and keyboard writing class after being done with my assignments :). And quite a bit of settlers 2, it was awesome too.

I played Transport Tycoon soooo much. It was amazing. Legend!

i used to play rct2
now i play open rct2.
times have changed

2024 and we are satill playing!!!

And here I am, having to redo an x86 asm course in my uni because I failed to comprehend how to create a Hello World program

Chris Sawyer, The Legend

i LOVED these games as a kid. they were SO GOOD!!!!

RCT is an absolute banger and the best theme park game til this day, a modern work of art that will be looked at in the future as we do now famous artists of the past

sawyer mvp goat

Some kid just beat tetris yesterday

I never heard of RCT or never had a chance to play but hearing that being able to make a bug free game in 90 is what blow my mind.

As a kid I loved rtc and I still do

Classic works on my old Samsung phone, such a great time waster

In assembly you can name memory locations and thus making it behave like a variable.
In machine language you can’t. But he used an assembler, though. Still a massive achievement, don’t get me wrong but up to the mid 90s we all coded games in assembly. It was just a necessity and when you get practice it becomes much like writing C. And you will make what is called macros for recurring code and you can pass argument into a macro much like an inline function in C

i still play OpenTTD and RCT2 from time to time. these games are timeless, and i never knew about this history!

Thanks to Marcel Vos we are all rediscovering it especially open RCT2 and the many mind boggling challenges he has accomplished.

What is he doing now?

Transport Tycoon was much better.

And now over 20 y later I still play this game. Difference, is that I play on the phone :D

basically it was the rdr2 of 19's where reality and physics still unbelievable years pass by.

i still play it, an absolute legend 🙏🙏

ZGAD!

No need to blasphemy in your content.

i need to play RCT one day

Notch? Mentioned with Carmack? 🤮

Omfg.. this is fuckin nuts.. all of this written in assembly

I remember going through digital circuits class in college and learning some assembly. I really enjoyed it and was actually quite good at it but I never could realize a practical aspect to it, much later I learned one of my favorite games of all time was written in assembly by one man and I was absolutely blown away. I still don't think I've picked my jaw up off the floor.

He's a legit genius, fueled by passion for creation. You can clearly see it in his eye.

Everybody gangsta until someone develops the greatest game of all time using Assembly.

So grateful for the time spent with Chris and the badminton club as a kid. What a legend

assembly did have symbols tho

Impressive. But the creator of Theme Park didn’t disappear - instead he became an AI god 👀😱

If you work in this field and understand how intricate and complicate (specially debugging) system of systems of systems (it probably goes deeper than that) is. And on top of it, was mostly written in asm, makes me want to get back in time and pay him to adopt me. Please be my dad!

I played TT, RC1, RC2 and Locomotion as a kid. But boy i tell you RC and RC2 is something that lives within me and will probably never cease to keep my heart warm. I have such gratitude towards this man and the childhood he gave me. I vividly remember Christmas times, snowing outside, colorful Christmas tree and beautiful peace, playing RCT2... I'll never forget it. Thank you Chris.

I played the heck out of Zoo Tycoon but for some reason I never played this. I know ZT is not a Sawyer game. I wish I would’ve played this one

What a hero. Absolute legend man.

Flashback to childhood

One of my all time favourite. Many Mny hours, days, god even months gone by still play it now!

Respect, incredible! But really 0 bug?

Still playing it today chris is gold

as a kid i thought this was a masterpiece. i think there was a golf tycoon too which was pretty good

Could someone explain this term Goat to me?
I see reference in the game Fallout too.

For someone studying computer engineering and struggling really hard on the assembly language subject, he is pretty much a deity in my view.

Spent a looot of time with it. Very fun game. Didn't even know it was one guy who developed it. As a dev myself I can only say incredible!