Zoo Tycoon

My favorite video game.

Yes, it's old, but I still play it pretty regularly. It's got everything I love. I've never found another game more rewarding.

I get to build a "world" from the ground up, so it looks exactly the way I want it to. Pretty and organized.

I get to decide how many people are allowed to come in, even to the point of keeping them all out (which isn't the most financially ambitious choice).

I get to make all of my citizens (animals) as happy, content, and adapted to their environment as their programming allows (most allow up to 100%, a few freak animals can go to 101%). I can delete the animals who I can't make happy. I have absolute power over their reproduction. I can make the guests eat healthy food and absolutely eliminate pollution by not using Fast Food kiosks. Nobody dies unless I'm careless and choose the wrong fence, and the T-Rex eats an unsuspecting bystander or my son sits down at my desk when I get up to make a cup of tea, and he feeds an unsuspecting bystander to the T-Rex.

It's the ultimate Benign Dictator video game :humble:

 

I have them both, and was pretty excited leading up to the release of ZT2, but I was rather disappointed with it when I got it. It looks great, but isn't as adaptable.

I still play the original upgrade, Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection (contains Marine Mania and Dinosaur Digs add-ons).

By the way, I have versions for both computers. The Mac versions are unstable. The original ZT isn't stable in a few inconvenient but not fatal ways, ZT2 doesn't work at all (closes routinely after 5 mins of gameplay).

Both work fine on the PC.

 

I tried it... the guests who puked after the rides freaked me out uke:

 

Once when I saw some of my child-shaped zoo guests throwing rocks at my elephants, I put them in a cage with the tiger. Don't tell anyone though, it's not my usual style

 

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