RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 shipped in 2002 under the Infogrames label, continuing the theme-park building line that had established itself on PC three years earlier. Every scenario hands you a plot of land, a starting budget and a goal that has to be met before a deadline runs out.

The centrepiece is still coaster construction, laid down one track segment at a time. You set the climbs, the banking on corners, the loops and the brake runs, and the game returns numbers for excitement, intensity and nausea. A badly judged layout shows up straight away, because guests simply refuse to queue for it.

Around the rides sits the whole business of running a park: ticket and food pricing, path routing, bins and benches, hiring mechanics and security staff, researching new attractions and setting wages. A single overhead view covers the entire site, so a growing queue or a litter problem is visible at a glance.

The visuals are 2D pixel art, a deliberate choice in 2002 that let the game run smoothly on machines which struggled with the 3D titles of the day. The biggest addition over the first game was the set of editors, letting players build their own scenarios, rides and parks and trade them with each other, which kept the community busy long after release. It is a single-player title throughout.

OldGame.cz lists this one with its release year, its publisher and a gallery of screenshots, but there is no in-browser version to launch.