{"id":623,"date":"2004-09-05T22:02:23","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T05:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2008-07-12T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T02:11:12","slug":"tycoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Tycoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, I know this game has been out for years, but I got my first taste of Rollercoaster Tycoon<\/a> this weekend. I borrowed it from the library and Joe’s daughter spent a few hours playing it yesterday. <\/p>\n

Tonight I took a stab at it and suddenly three hours whizzed by like mere seconds. Thank god we don’t work tomorrow, because I wasted the hours between 6-9 building my amusement park. At first I was doing really good, but no matter how many handymen, maintenance guys and security guards I hired, the grounds were still un-mowed, dirty, and riddled with vandalism. Plus my rides kept breaking down. <\/p>\n

But the most frustrating thing was that despite the minimal pathways and access to several centrally-located information kiosks, the stupid visitors kept getting lost and were unable to find the exit, even when they were standing right in front of it. Grrr. By the time I finally pulled myself away from the computer to watch Dead Like Me<\/i>, I was starting to lose money.<\/p>\n

I can totally see how people get addicted to games like The Sims. It seems there are several Tycoon-like games out there too, where you can build a zoo, Sea World, a circus, and a mall. At least now I’ll have something to pass the time once we move and have less money to go out for entertainment. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, I know this game has been out for years, but I got my first taste of Rollercoaster Tycoon this weekend. I borrowed it from the library and Joe’s daughter spent a few hours playing it yesterday. Tonight I took a stab at it and suddenly three hours whizzed by like mere seconds. Thank god we don’t work tomorrow, because I wasted the hours between 6-9 building my amusement park. At first I was doing really good, but no matter how many handymen, maintenance guys and security guards I hired, the grounds were still un-mowed, dirty, and riddled with vandalism. Plus my rides kept breaking down. But the most frustrating thing was that despite the minimal pathways and access to several centrally-located information kiosks, the stupid visitors kept getting lost and were unable to find the exit, even when they were standing right in front of it. Grrr. By the Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}