IE will install the Theme Park to your hard drive. To continue, click "Done" to close this text window and choose "OK" when the install script asks whether you wish to install the demo. To play the demo, exit IE and close Windows. Change to the directory to which you installed Theme Park and type INSTALL to configure the game for graphics and sound. Once you are finished with setup, you will be given the option to jump directly into the game. In the future, you can change to the directory where Theme Park is located and type PARK.
THEME PARK DEMO COPYRIGHT 1993 - 1994
BULLFROG PRODUCTIONS LTD.
Welcome to the fantastic world of Theme Park!
Being our extra special first visitor you are entitled to a sneak preview of the new park. But this isn't any old park- no, it's all yours...
When your Great Aunt passed away she left you a sum of money on one condition: That you keep her kindness and generosity alive by building the World's greatest theme park- a place where people can be happy, interested, safe and entertained. With this in mind you've hired a plot of land from the government and must now set about building your theme park.
From the initial lump sum you will have to design the layout and theme of your wonderland, purchase rides, hire staff and open snack shops while staying on top of your resources and making sure that everything is priced correctly- or you'll go bust and spoil everything, including Aunt's last wish.
In this, the Demonstration Version, you will be able to work from an existing layout and add new features as time passes.
Controlling the game is simple. Use the Mouse to scroll around your plot of land by holding the left mouse button down and pushing the border. You can also use the keyboard's cursor keys.
Left click on the information bar at the top of the screen to access the system menu. From here you will be able to change controls that will affect the entire game. When an option is faint it means you can't change it. An option with a tick before it means that it is activated. An arrow means that a sub menu hangs from this option and is accessible by pushing the mouse in that direction. Hint: For in game help left click on the Park menu and activate your Adviser.
Along the bottom of the screen is the control panel- use this to modify your park. The adviser will tell you what these do.
When you enter Question Mode a bank of indicators and buttons appear on the control panel depending on the feature that you left click on.
When you question a ride the indicator bank is filled up with icons. The first is an indicator of how long the ride lasts before stopping. Left click to make it last longer, right to make it a short one. The second indicator shows how full a ride must be before it starts. Left click to start it with many people, right to make it a start sooner. The third indicator shows how safe the ride is- send in the mechanics and keep this low! The button allows you to open (green) or close (red) this ride. It's always safer to close a faulty ride immediately. The last button allows you to alter the speed of the ride, but be careful, left clicking the speed too high will wear the ride out and make it dangerous although you can always right click it slower again.
Designing is simple. Choose the feature you want either from the menu (which gives more information) or the window with a left click, move to the area where you want it to go and left click to lay. Rides have an entrance and exit that you can place anywhere around the platform that holds the attraction.
Visitors will only go on rides that have a Queue leading up to the entrance. In fact your visitors are very fussy indeed! They prefer signposts to shops, rides and exits; They admire pleasant scenery and they become very worried if they lose themselves in unmarked parts of the park- so make sure you lay your paths and signposts wisely.
Playing Theme Park will take a lot of skill and finesse as you maintain your theme in a pleasing way, while at the same time, make prices just right to ensure that you can continue building. Keep an eye on the visitors- they will tell you exactly what they think. And listen to your advisers they've been in the wonderland business longer than you.
But that doesn't mean you can't have fun, after all, it is your Theme Park.
There are numerous extra features that will be present in the full game, including:
Thousands of animations
32 rides
4 different roller coasters
16 shops
6 design-your-own rides
Competing theme parks
Stocks and shares
Multi-player
Compete against other players` saved parks
Numerous Staff
Many different global locations
Fireworks
3D sound
Context sensitive adviser
Disasters
*** NOTE: A complete preview article on Theme Park is available on this disc. To view it, go to the Table of Contents and choose the Preview button, then select Theme Park.
