ong lines. Bad food. High prices. If you've ever visited an amusement park, you've undoubtedly experienced these frustrations first-hand.

If you've ever thought that you could do a better job building an amusement park, you finally have your chance to prove it with RollerCoaster Tycoon. Starting with little more than some money and a plot of land, your challenge is to design and maintain a thriving amusement park that will keep your guests coming back year after year.

RCT's depth and detail are its greatest strengths. Oh, and it's a lot of fun too!

As the title suggests, great roller coasters are an important part of building a great park, but they are just the beginning. Along the way, you must think about setting prices, buying land, hiring and managing a good staff, providing food and drink for your guests, laying down footpaths, and even (gasp!) dealing with accidents.

Along the way, you'll discover that it takes a lot of hard work and tender loving care to build the "perfect" park, but the joyful (or terrified) screams of your guests as they experience your latest roller coaster masterpiece will make it all worthwhile.

In this guide, you'll find: