Improved Coaster Construction and Game Controls. RollerCoaster Tycoon ® 3 offers new ease-of-use features, such as coaster construction auto–complete, and improved game controls including a new dashboard interface to maximize the information available to you while maintaining an unobstructed view of your amusement park. Fireworks MixMaster ™. RollerCoaster Tycoon has a number of patches available from Atari's FTP server. Additionally, Corkscrew Follies and Loopy Landscapes each have one patch. These will update RollerCoaster Tycoon to v1.08.187, Corkscrew Follies/Added Attractions to v1.10.026, and Loopy Landscapes v1.20.013.
RollerCoaster Tycoon | Table of Contents | Walkthrough
Table of Contents
The mouse and keyboard are used for RollerCoaster Tycoon. The left mouse button interacts with all buttons, objects, and people on the park by clicking once. The right mouse button can be held down to freely drag the view of the park in any direction by moving the cursor. The cursor itself can move the view by lying near the edges of the screen, but this does not work if the game is running in a window.
The keyboard's arrow keys are used to move the view of the park around. In addition, some keys are assigned to other actions by default. To see the list of available hotkeys, click on the Game Options button on the toolbar, select Options, and click on Customize Keys which is located under Controls. You can assign different keys as well by clicking on a shortcut and pressing the key you want to have assigned. The table below shows the pre-assigned keys.
| Action | Hotkey |
|---|---|
| Close Top-most Window | Backspace |
| Close All Floating Windows | Shift + Backspace |
| Cancel Construction Mode | Escape |
| Pause Game | Pause |
| Zoom View Out | Page Up |
| Zoom View In | Page Down |
| Rotate View | Return |
| Rotate Construction Object | Z |
| Underground View Toggle | 1 |
| Underwater View Toggle | 2 |
| Remove Base Land Toggle | H |
| Remove Vertical Land Toggle | V |
| See-Through Rides Toggle | 3 |
| See-Through Scenery Toggle | 4 |
| Invisible Supports Toggle | 5 |
| Invisible People Toggle | 6 |
| Gridlines Display Toggle | 7 |
| Height Marks on Land Toggle | 8 |
| Height Marks on Ride Tracks Toggle | 9 |
| Height Marks on Paths Toggle | 0 |
| Adjust Land | F1 |
| Adjust Water | F2 |
| Build Scenery | F3 |
| Build Paths | F4 |
| Build New Ride | F5 |
| Show Financial Information | F |
| Show Research Information | D |
| Show Rides List | R |
| Show Park Information | P |
| Show Guest List | G |
| Show Staff List | S |
| Show Recent Messages | M |
| Show Map | Tab |
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Playing a game with just two controls on your keyboard will be a wonderful experience right? You will be leading the career as a brakeman in this game. Show your talent by riding the available 25 snaky tracks using left and right arrow keys of your key board. On the right top of the screen your total earned points in the country will be displayed.
Every time you increase your score for gaining three stars, a new level will be unlocked. Use the left key wisely for applying brakes wherever you find the speed is high and car is having the chances of getting toppled. Use the right arrow key to increase the speed giving the passengers a fantastic experience.
The more the passengers in the fan get happier the more points you earn. As the points increase your will get 3 stars which are required to clear the level. Use the menu button at the top of the careen to pause the game at any point of the game.
How to earn more points?
While playing the game all you have to do for earning the points is observing the reactions of the passengers by eyeing them. Flying smiles mean that the passengers are enjoying the ride. The wider the smiles become the more they are enjoying.
For each passenger on the fan the more smiles you get for a good ride. More passengers mean you are having more chances to get more and more smiles. Keeping all the passengers in the current track happy creates word of mouth among all and the number of passengers will increase in the next track.
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum Keyboard Controls
What are these traffic signals?
The traffic signals that comes in the track show the elements of the track you are about to face in the ride. Elements will be like loop, slope and jump. When your signal reaches its frame in the game your car will be on the element.