Coaster, the game by Disney.

[EpcotLova]

I was at a Salvation Army type store lookin around for any useful junk and I ran across Coaster, a game by Disney. It was made back in 1995. Its like an early RCT only you cannot create parks.

 

Anyone else heard of this game?

[socalMAN123]

I have actually heard of this game! It was in my second grade teacher's classroom. We could never get it to work, but back then when I was a second grader, I thought it would be better than RCT. Boy, would I be wrong. I've still never played it.

---Brent 8)

[coaster1]

Yeah I used to play it .. it was decent for the time .. nice little game until RCT/No Limits came out.

[AllisonY2K]

was it like No Limits, where you can build then ride a coaster and have their 5 in-game characters rate it? If so then I think I still have the disks for it somewhere, along with a coaster screen saver that had compter animated on-ride POV.

[coasterdude5]

^No, that was there most recent game after ultimate ride deluxe.

[YoshiFan]

Actually, they did have 5 people rate the coaster, just not Disney Characters like in the new game.

 

I used to play Coaster all the time years ago. What I thought was cool but unrealistic was if you held down the mouse button, you could accelerate the coaster so if you made too big of a hill, you could still get over the hill. I think it also had the Matterhorn track layouts (but just the track with no theming)

[denning]

Yeah one guy was obessed with puka shells dude -

 

Each of the five raters looked for different coaster types.

[ebl]

I got that game back in about 1994. It was actually a lot of fun. I made a Superman--The Escape ride where the car went off the top of the track on purpose and crash-landed on the other side.

 

True, it isn't state-of-the-art, but for its time was a lot of fun. I think I can still play it, but I'm not sure.

 

Eric

[coasterdude5]

Does anybody have any screenshots of it or something?

[WillMontu]

Here you go

The six in-game characters that rate how good/bad your coaster is

Let's ride!

The ride editor, quite primitive by todays standard. Can we say "whiplash"?

[AllisonY2K]

^^^ Yes! that's the one I have. I still have the original 3.5" disks it came on.

 

good lord, 3.5" disks? how old.....

[alpengeistdude321]

Oh yeah, I remember that game. It was pretty cool, until RCT and No Limits came out.

[Real]

The old lady was obsessed with wood... heh.

 

I copied it to my HD. Anyone have any idea how to get this thing workin with XP?

 

 

I might be missing a few files. if you could, zip up the contents and send it my way at coasterreal@gmail.com

 

 

Would LOVE to use my knowledge now on it.

[Canobie Fan]

LMAO I had this game.. It was the first bootleg I ever got.. back in the day........

 

I remeber the old women would also be like "that was wilder then that tornado in 1926!"

[ChrisFL]

I used to play this game a lot also...and it was pretty cool for the time, but you didn't have a whole lot of choices as far as ride designs.

 

Even worse, I found some rollercoaster shooting game where you're on a ride and you have to move your character around and shoot at stuff...it sucked horribly, that was also in the early 90's

[ebl]

AllisonY2K said: "good lord, 3.5" disks? how old..."

 

Heck, I still have some 5.25" disks with stuff on them laying around. My last computer had a 3.5/5.25 disk drive on it.

 

Eric

[coasterking]

Forgive me for being young, but what are 3.5 and 5.25 disks? Are they floppy disks?

[YoshiFan]

3 1/2" disk:

http://www.8bitclassics.com/images/3.5%20disk.jpg

 

5 1/4" disk:

http://www.8bitclassics.com/images/5.25%20disk.jpg

 

I hated the 5 1/4" disks, they were so fragile. I had to use them in middle school and that was in the mid 1990's (just shows how out of date my school district was)

[Coasterkid20]

That game was the s#*t! I wish No limits had the five people to rate the coasters, I could never get enough of the people and their ratings! I made same serious death coasters and still never seemed to get above a 90 I think.... It kinda pissed me off, lol. Man I played that from 1994 until like 1998, and then I remember after RCT came out I found the disk again and I loaded it and man did it suck horribly!