I was obsessed with Harriet the Spy as a kid and would walk around taking notes on people and one time I actually broke into someone's house - well, the back door was unlocked...I guess I thought I'd hide and take notes on them like Harriet does. But I got scared and left after a few seconds. I also remember getting in trouble for putting stuff in peoples' mailboxes.
When The Sims 2 came out, I was still kind of young, and it was my favorite game. So I used to create as many old people as possible, put them on the smallest building plot possible, with only beds for everyone but one. And I watched with silent amusement as my sims peed themselves, fainted, and died in various ways. When the sims died, I took the tombstones and slowly started to fill the building plot. When all the sims had died, I created new ones and did the whole thing all over again. And again. And again. I only think I got halfway with the tombstones, though, because I got bored. I feel like a horrible person.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who killed unsatisfied guests on Rollercoaster Tycoon. I also made sure my guests never left the park by placing a "No Entry" sign in front of the exit.
when i used to play roller coaster tycoon i used to make these pits as well but to get into the pit you would get on a ride that went straight up and the started to go down and become a drop off where all passengers in the carts would fall to their deaths or get seriously injured and then the survivors would crawl out of the extremely deep pit. I think I was a little worse than you, Kristina
That pit of evil thing was genius. I did delete the ladder out of the pool in Sims causing them to drown sometimes...Who didn't? Dude I was so rich on neopets, it was ridiculous! And you're right, paintbrushes are for suckers.
Oh my god your Roller Coaster Tycoon story was CLASSIC! I did similar things too - dropping into the lake or less "pit of doom" but similar "ride my roller coaster to get out" type deals. I was pretty horrible when playing The Sims as well - taking away the ladder from the pool, putting people in mazes or dooms without doors. I also cheated like crazy so that I never had to worry about not having enough money or needing to tend to my Sims needs. But let's be real, what person doesn't cheat at simulated games at least once?
I did the same things in roller coaster tycoon! And in Age of Empires (III), I sometimes made my catapult destroy my allies, who wouldn't fight back. I also sent my forces on obvious suicide missions.
I frequently used to do the classic (now highly frowned-upon) act of making my sims swim eternally in a pool with no ladder. Also the whole leave-your-sim-in-a-doorless-room-forever one. I can totally relate to you on the Neopets thing, Kristina. Such terrible children we were.
You mean like trap a person in the bathtub and see how long it would take them to die? FYI, in the original Sims, they can't die while they are in the bathtub. They can stay there for weeks starving and not die, the death check doesn't happen until after they get out of the bathtub. I seem to recall also burning a whole family to death.
My sister and I played "Reality Show" in the Sims. We would cheat up enough money to build a mansion and have a million dollars banked. Then we put eight people in the house filled with death traps. We had one closet-sized room that had a love seat and a flat screen TV along the wall, invisible to the player. Whenever somebody would wander into that room, we screen-capped it and wrote a "confessional." The last surviving housemate got a million dollars and a haunted mansion. As an adult, I made several variations of my "Cage of Pain" level in Smash Bros, which was incredibly easy to rack up damage but near impossible to get a KO.
I was obsessed with roller coaster tycoon as well, I used to play that game for hours! And yeah I also sometimes drowned my guests if they were pissing me off, but I was never imaginative enough to think up a pit of doom, and I can't believe I never thought of increasing the umbrella prices! This has made me want to play it again so bad omg
This Neopets throwback was the greatest thing. I definitely had pages open that I'd refresh obsessively. But I was always really poor (I was one of those suckers who would have bought the paintbrushes to paint my pets like rainbows ... if I'd ever had enough NeoPoints).
I remember the referral system in neopets. I remember when I was 10 or so, I found a fan website for something or other that had a guestbook that people could sign, and they could put their email addresses down. So I collected the email addresses and sent a bunch of random strangers the referral link. I sent people spam at the age of 10...
I did the same thing with roller coaster tycoon! I also particularly enjoyed building a beautiful oasis with only one square of sidewalk. People would then stand on that one square not enjoying the willow trees and the benches and the sand.
Me and my friends used to do something quite odd when we were playing the sims. The idea was simple, like a reality television show, with eight women and a very ugly farmer that lived together in a big house. We wanted the girls to fall in love with him, but every ten minutes we would pick a sim at random and kill her. We had this cheat code that made it possible for you to choose how a sim would die. And the winner of the show won the farmer and was the only survivor.
I started playing computer games when I was 4, and so I had a very early understanding of the evilness of Rollercoaster Tycoon. I used to remove the doors to the park and spike the price of food and just have an infinite money cycle, and I made it my job to create the most dangerous park, having it end in a exit-less pool or something. It was awesome. I also used to have this other game - I forget what it was be called - but basically there weren't invisible walls in this game at all, so I would pick up children from the villages and take them deep into the mountains and throw them off this giant (and visually impressive) cliff. This trip took about 10 minutes. I swear to god, with the consecutive hours spent doing this between the ages of 4-9, I must have mercilessly thrown hundreds of small children off of this cliff.
I didn't have rollercoaster tycoon, but your pit of doom reminds me of playing video games with my brother as a kid. We had a tony hawk game that you could make skate parks in. I would make my brother an 'obstacle course' where he'd get stuck in a hole and get super upset because he couldn't get out. I think one time I did it, but I gave him stairs that were so thin that he'd get halfway up, then he'd slide back down them all. I was cruel. Don't worry though. I fell down one of my own pits at some point. And it was one of the ones with lava at the bottom.
When I played Roller Coaster Tycoon, I used to have one roller coaster. This one roller coaster had no end, it just hit a ramp and then crashed into a fiery ball of death. I had no Pit of Doom, only a Roller Coaster of Death.
Oh, Neopets and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Lol! I played a LOT of Zoo Tycoon, and when people pissed me off I would either put them IN the lion/tiger cages or sometimes let the lions/tigers OUT. :/
I love how your "evil" things are all stuff that you did on games. I honestly can't think of anything I really did in games like that, although I always felt really bad when I abandoned Neopets for a while and then would come back and my pets would be starving.
As SOON as you said "Roller Coaster Tycoon" I started laughing because I knew what you were going to say. I did the same thing. xD But besides the drowning-bit I always made a roller coaster that was super populair, and I didn't necessarily have a high price at the entrance (because I realized people would leave), but I made the exit-road not go back to the main park, but like a secret part of your park with shops and other things and those prices would be very high, and my idea was: "They cannot leave, because there is no way back and for surviving they need to buy ALL the expensive things! >:D" But it never worked out, because eventually they would start walking on the grass... Which led to more drowning. xD Oh, and another memory: my siblings wanted to make the biggest graveyard in Sims 1. So they always made families of 8, small house, lots of carpets / wooden stuff and a nice, "cosy" fireplace. And then they watched them burn and be super happy about it. But I was like 5 or 6 years old and it scared me so much! (especially Grim Reapers song) So I'm still kinda traumatized by that. XD Sorry for the long comment but I had to share it. :P
I loved Roller Coaster Tycoon. There was one roller coaster wasn't a complete circuit. Bump up the speed and watch as it crashes. That and the drowning whinny guests were why I loved playing it as a kid
My siblings and I also used to play Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was a kid. When reviews for my park started going down, I would delete the path for the park exit, and trap the guests. I also used to throw people, sometimes my own workers, in lakes. My brother, however, would design roller coasters to run off the tracks and kill people for fun. He also made parks entirely out of water rides, had a lot of drink stands and things, and wouldn't build a single bathroom. Or, he would put one and charge the highest amount possible to use them.
I loved Roller Coaster Tycoon! I would create something like a pit of doom too for people who were unhappy and wanted to leave. But I felt bad whenever someone died in my park...
haha I used to always play Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 (Deluxe Edition) and I would just build parks that killed the people that road on the rides. Also I enjoyed picking the people up and watching them flail as I dropped them in the ocean. Wow I was a tiny sociopath when I was younger!
As my cousins and I came of age, we played, "Bum Love," which entailed pretending to be Skid Row bums, trying to pick up dates outside of liquor stores. Not much to do in North Bay, San Francisco...
I used to drown the people in roller coaster tycoon too. Also I build roller coasters that just went up in a line with no end (the wagon went back if the speed was right) and see how fast it could go without crashing, and then how long the wagon could fly. It was awesome, and take away the ladder in the swimming pool for the sims. (duh)
This one time my friend and I were playing Roller Coaster Tycoon and we had built this really awesome park together. One of the roller coasters was the kind where it isn't a loop, you just go up to the top of the track and fall back down. I was messing around with the launch speed of this coaster and accidentally made it too fast, and before I tested it I reopened the ride and the cart went flying off the track. Everyone on that ride died. My friend was so mad at me because we hadn't saved this game at all yet, so we had to start all over.
In Zoo Tycoon, I would make mazes inside the water using fencing, and make people (that i would name after people I knew in real life) swim through them, only to get eaten by sharks at the end :)
I mainly played Sims and would put together couples and then make everyone cheat with each other and ruin their lives and for some reason this made 8 year old me maniacally happy
Kristina… this is not evil. My neighbor and I thought we were real life entrepreneurs at about 9-10 years old and we would make "perfumes' with water and flower petals… but… we took the flowers from people's yards……
Kristina Horner Once a friend & I found/dug up flower bulbs from our complex's garden and went around the buildings selling the 'onions' for 50p each. In our defence, we didn't know they weren't onions. City kids.
Every day of middle school I would come home, go on neopets, and buy and resell stuff from shops. I would only go the shops that I thought were "cool" though, so I mostly went to the weapon stores and shops in the Haunted Woods and pretended I was some kind of underground dealer in arms and spooky objects.
I did the same things in Rollercoaster Tycoon, but the pit of doom strategy is too great not to try out now. In Zoo Tycoon, I'd create I thriving zoo, trap all of the visitors, and set lions and wolves on them. In the Sims, I made people shoot off fireworks in their homes filled with counters to murder them, or I'd do the good old "make them go to the pool and remove the ladder" trick. Looking back, those probably weren't the healthiest of ways to have fun, but it's whatever.
My sister and I played Zoo Tycoon with all the expansions and when visitors annoyed us we would build an electric fence across the exit, then release the lions. Or T-rexes if we were particularly angry.
I remember playing Zoo Tycoon and instead of creating a zoo I would have all the different biomes and no fences, letting natural selection take its course... Or letting the velociraptors loose on occasion when I did play it the way you were supposed to.
I have RCT3 and you can put zoo's in it. So whenever someone moans about my park I put them in the Polar Bear enclosure. If there was lots of complaints I'd block the exit and put some Lions and Rhinos outside the enclosures. The lakes also have sharks in them now, so I put the people near sharks when I dump them in the lake.
My little sister and I pooled our Neopoints to buy all the Secret Lab Map pieces. I convinced her that we'd put it together on my account first, and then I'd send it to her. Except then we discovered you couldn't exchange it once it was put together, so I convinced her to give her to "abandon her neopet," so I could adopt it. Except someone else adopted it first and she lost her pet forever and ever. I also once switched our family computer's Microsoft Word to Autocorrect her name to "Toe Rag" and her nickname to something similar. This caused problems when my mom tried to type an excuse note up for her for school and couldn't figure out how to fix it.
I did almost the same thing! I always played Zoo Tycoon, which was basically the same thing as Rollercoaster Tycoon. When my zoo guests used to complain about those things, I would put them in the lion exhibit and watch them scream and run around until they got eaten! Looking back I obviously realize how awful that was, but to be honest I don't think I would play it much differently…...
in Roller coaster Tycoon, my brother and i made this fenced-off area completely isolated from the rest of the park, the only way to get out of it was by riding a roller coaster we built which was the most terrifying thing possible. when ever someone complained, littered or was sick in the park, we put them in there. WE PUT SICK PEOPLE COMPLETELY ISOLATED WITH ONLY A TERRIFYING ROLLER COASTER TO GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I made this giant graveyard in the sims. I literally would just sit and make sim characters only to kill them so I had their headstones. This was before they made graveyards thing by the way. I also played this Zoo Tyroon, you could make dinosaurs in it so I would block the exit of the pack and then realise all my animals. Even the Zimbas and watch the chaos as the animals killed everyone and each other.
Could be worse- you could have found a way to charge your theme park goers for entering the pit of doom, or had you $50 dollar rollercoaster take them from one pit to another (and then had an even more expensive rollercoaster to get out of the pit).
Oh. This is all relatively tame compared to what I was expecting. I guess I must have really been an evil child because my first thought when I saw this video title was the time my brother wouldn't stop jumping on my bed, so I bit him so hard he still has a scar from it.
In Rollercoaster Tycoon, I would build a "jail" (basically just a sunken area that people couldn't escape from) and drop all the people about to throw up there and all of the really angry people. I was a troubled child...
I did something on Neopets that was so bad, I actually got banned. I don't even remember what it was anymore. I think I sold stuff for a lot of money that I wasn't allowed to charge for.
I remember I loved thid game called Fantage. There was a fashion show and you would have a player as the host and players as the models. However, I didn't have many clothes, especially for the last one where you had to match an outfit. During the first and second rounds, the host had 4 options for themes and had to pick one. For the last round, there was an outfit you had to match. The components to that outfit had to be generally paid for with special money that you actually paid for. I had two accounts, so I always joined fashion shows that I hosted, so I could make sure I got to the end. I only had one set of special clothes and hair. (I think I had blue braids, a bow, and a shirt, skirt and shoes) Most of the time that specific outfit came up. Basically, I rigged it so I would win, so I could get stuff.
I used to do all those things on neopets too. The only difference being, you did it when you were 11 which is somewhat more socially expectable than me doing it when I was 20 to procrastinate from Uni work ...
One of my earliest memories is when my friends and I were convinced that the dog that was walked past our playground every day was rabid and the old woman was a witch... And actively attempted to prove it to other kids... Also, my brother or I threw my pogo stick at the other one (and missed)... And apparently both of us are repressing that memory because we cannot remember who did the throwing.... The fact that it missed makes me think I threw the pogo stick at him...
Definitely used to make a puke pit in roller coaster tycoon. That's where you take one the ques with railings and make a square. Then I would put the guests with Green faces in the puke pit and watch it become disgusting. So messed up!
In Neopets, my weird thing was not so much making money / collecting points - it was more about collecting the cutest and yummiest looking foods..?! I dont know why! haha! but I collected points just to buy faerie foods and all sorts of awesome looking cakes and delicious looking baked goods.
Was actually playing RCT1 on a laptop while watching this - still a great game. Yeah, used to drown guests as a kid too and generally torture guests, oh and shuttle launch steel coasters set to crash at 100mph
I thought this was going to be about evil things you did to other kids. When I look at the sum of that I wonder how I turned out "normal". My mother's boyfriend had a son who was 14 at the time, my sister and I were 12 and 10 I think. The first time we met him we lured him into our room, tied him up on a chair, tried to annoy him and had our little cousins throw balls at him from the safety of our bunk bed. We were such creeps.
My sisters and I all had neopets accounts when we were younger, and every time I left the computer while signed onto my account...my sister would sneak on and spend all my neopoints on every kind of "dung" on the website, especially "rainbow dung", sometimes she'd try to feed it to my neopet lol The lucky charms game and that dungeons boat gallons game thing were the best :P
Caught two spiders, a giant wolf spider and a black widow, and put them together in the same jar to fight to the death. Also put three praying mantids together not knowing there was a female among the three (and you know what happens when a female is impregnated.... I didn't know where the other two escaped for a couple hours till I looked it up :( ).
When I was 11 I made a house in sims 2 that I named "the death house", which was a tiny house with no bathroom or kitchen, put two people in it, and just watched them die. Also when I realised you could move your families in with NPC families for free I would make a room just wide enough for one sim to stand in, make the npcs go in, and remove the door so they were stuck.
This is SO not evil (the neopets ones). When I was little and was staying at a hotel with my parents and we were checking out, I saw the money that my dad had left for tip and TOOK THE MONEY, even though I didn't even need it. I mean, to be fair, I thought he had just forgotten to take it when we were leaving, but oh my gosh I feel horrible about it now.
My brother and sister and I used to totally do all those things amongst others on roller coaster tycoon. you are not alone. Also, whenever my sister and I went to park, don't know if its evil but it was weird, we would build whole new identities for ourselves and tell the other children we met there our elaborate and made up backgrounds and convince them it was true. Until my brother came over and spoil it.
You were a lot smarter than me on Rollercoaster Tycoon. Instead of killing the complainers I made like a prison area of the park where it was just a group of pathway that wasn't connected to any other paths, and there was no food or bathrooms or anything. I would move the complainers there and just leave them there. It didn't help my park rating but it made me feel better
I definitely put complainers in the pit of doom. That was so they could pay for changes that they wanted. And I might put them in a couple of times if it was expensive.
I never had RC Tycoon, but I did have a Mall Tycoon game that I'd gotten from a book order once. If there was a shopper that got mad about something I would pick them up and drop them in a part of the mall between stores where they could never get out. I would also move people's children like, floors away for no reason other than to watch these people look around the mall for their child. Needless to say I was the worst mall owner EVER.
When I was in kindergarden and first grade I would often sneak into the classroom after school and steal things out of other kids' desks. Yep... I was a thief. I know that there are other terrible things that I did, but I must have blocked them out :P
On Theme Park World I would build a path to the middle of nowhere, wait for someone to walk down it and then delete it behind them so they only had one square. They would get so confused they'd eventually soil themselves before walking back across the grass.
My cousin and I would hack into random kid's accounts on some kind of interactive online barbie game because the usernames and passwords were often so predictable, and we would mess up there outfits or whatever....wow that really was evil
We also trolled people on club penguin. We would go to heavily occupied areas and say something like "BIG NEWS FOLLOW ME." Once we got enough people to follow us around we would say like never mind or something and logout...
I used to trap the sims I didn't like anymore in four walls and let them starve to death ^^ altough, I never did any evil things in roller coaster tycoon except for the umbrellaprices :P But there is some evil stuff I did in real life, like telling a kid I wouldn't go to her birthdayparty because I didn't like the drawing on the invitation :P
OMG I was obsessed with Neopets too!! I would always haggle and try to get the lowest price on things ;) I mostly played games to earn points. I tried having my own shop too!
My mom loves to give me all of her rare items in games, and the best of this was in Gaia. She gave me all of her demon stuff, I sold it for millions of gold. I am a very persuasive child, and decided to be super nice to everyone until they would buy me stuff that costs over 1,000,000 gold. I only did this to people who looked rich. Always works.
I was worse with Neopets. Once I reached a certain point I just got a refresher program that would refresh the game over and over again to get random events and I would get soooo much stuff. It was really cool but I guess I grew out of it because I don't know what ever became of my account, lol.
I would save the programs I wrote on my Timex Sinclair over my sister's music cassette tapes - but only the crappy stuff like "Twisted Sister" and "Great White".
I'm pretty sure everyone had a way of torturing negative theme park goers on Roller Coaster Tycoon. I just created a fence cage for them and renamed them stupid things... And of course put in a bathroom and charged for it...
When I was bored on the sims I would build a pool with only a diving board or put a fire place right next to a radio or just not let my sim eat for days. But I'm pretty sure everyone did that though... right?
I played Nuns and Orphans. Whoever could get the most nuns/orphans into the biggest bus, and then push it, and the exact moment, in front of oncoming freight trains, would get the prize. Then my cousins and I played "Fight in The Night, " which entailed getting both male/female members into the biggest room, turn off the lights, and beat the hell outta of each other.
I did the same thing with the referral links just not on Neopets because I never got into that one. Virtual Magic Kingdom was my absolute favorite thing (if anyone remembers this they will definitely agree). Also the amount of time I spent killing my Sims in the various ways you could was ridiculous. I was meticulous with my Sims, I would use cheats so that they didn't have needs and I'd have them study/work/steal (in Sims 3) all day so they would make all the money and I'm a little concerned with my psychological state as a kid because I'd have them cheating with like 10 different people (all of whom they'd have a kid with of course) and they all looked completely ridiculous lol
I used to play Zoo Tycoon and it had this sweet extension pack with marine life and dinosaurs that you could have in your zoo. So naturally I would throw random people into the dinosaur exhibit or killer whale tank. When I was feeling particularly nasty I'd build a fence blocking the zoo exit/entrance and just break down the dinosaur's fences and let them, uhh, eat all the visitors. I think it's safe to say I didn't care about zoo ratings. :/
Talking about games, I used to make my Sims marry and kill their spouses to get more money. That was the time I did not know we could do a money cheat, so I'd build a wall and a door with a phone and create a person there. Then I'd create my character and my character would wait outside the door for the other character to come and I'll talk to that person and make them fall in love with me and when they marry me I would get the money, then I would kill them. I'll put them in a room and let them starve, let them get burned, let them drown (drowning was the easiest, they die faster and I get a gravestone) Then I built a cemetery behind my house for all the killed spouses... i missed that game...
I had a friend who had a huge crush on my brother for some reason. And she lied ALL the time and tried scaring me all the time. So one day I tried getting back at her by telling her my brother died (when he did not really die).....
Pardon my, while I go check my neopets stocks... I use to buy up a few hundred Halloween goodie bags every year when they were released, because you could get them for under 2000 neopoints, and every halloween they would release a new one, but the price of the old ones would go up to like 20,000 or more, depending on how old it was. I still have about 200 total in my safety deposit box, and sell a few every once in a while...
i have three stories of my evilness as a child 1. my brother, myself, and some neighborhood friends convinced my little sister that she was adopted when we were being babysat in the summer. She ended up calling my mom crying asking if she was adopted. I still find it pretty funny. 2. my siblings and i and some more neighborhood friends took our babysitter's wallet while we were using a slip n' slide, and dunked it in a bucket of water (we didn't like this guy btw) 3. My family had just got a kitten, and she tended to be pretty mean (she would scratch and bite A LOT) and my babysitter (different one from the previous story) and my siblings decided to put her in a tshirt. However, we had to wear gloves and sweatshirts because she was clawing at us, and when we finally got the shirt on her we had to lock her in our mud room for an hour or something because she would try to attack us when we let her go. To this day, (i was about 5 at the time and im 18 now) my siblings and i cannot pick this cat up and she still doesnt trust us three.
I played God with all my Sims characters when I got bored with them. I would tell them to go stand in fire, I would make them swim with no means of escape, and I would put them in a room with no doors or windows.
Ahhh I guess I was evil too with the Rollercoaster Tycoon thing. I used to name them something I considered 'mean' first, and then drop them in the lake. There was a weird sense of enjoyment I got from seeing the bulletin at the bottom saying something along the lines of 'stupidface is drowning!' Ah, to be young.
nah okay when i was little my mom wouldn't get these toys down from the attic like i wanted her to, and i was getting really angry that she wouldn't get these toys down so I looked her straight in the eye and said, "well your mom is dead and your dad left you and i dont care!" i was the worst child ever!!
Oh man, The only time I was ever grounded growing up was when I made explosives using random house hold bits as well as cutting apart my father's shotgun shells... Come to think of it, I could probably do a video on that story - so I'm not going to embellish much more :-D
I didn't have Rollercoaster Tycoon, but my friend did, and I played it at her house once. I remember forcing the janitors to wear yellow and brown. I thought it was hilarious.
I was obsessed with Harriet the Spy as a kid and would walk around taking notes on people and one time I actually broke into someone's house - well, the back door was unlocked...I guess I thought I'd hide and take notes on them like Harriet does. But I got scared and left after a few seconds. I also remember getting in trouble for putting stuff in peoples' mailboxes.
I hid in people's backyards and took notes on them as well! I wish I had thought to put that in this video!
I never played rollercoaster tycoon but I played zoo tycoon and annoying visitors may have been forced into the animal enclousures...
At some point I became obsessed with magnifying glasses. I used to fry ants and other bugs. I stopped when I managed to set a phone book on fire...
When The Sims 2 came out, I was still kind of young, and it was my favorite game. So I used to create as many old people as possible, put them on the smallest building plot possible, with only beds for everyone but one. And I watched with silent amusement as my sims peed themselves, fainted, and died in various ways. When the sims died, I took the tombstones and slowly started to fill the building plot. When all the sims had died, I created new ones and did the whole thing all over again. And again. And again. I only think I got halfway with the tombstones, though, because I got bored. I feel like a horrible person.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who killed unsatisfied guests on Rollercoaster Tycoon. I also made sure my guests never left the park by placing a "No Entry" sign in front of the exit.
when i used to play roller coaster tycoon i used to make these pits as well but to get into the pit you would get on a ride that went straight up and the started to go down and become a drop off where all passengers in the carts would fall to their deaths or get seriously injured and then the survivors would crawl out of the extremely deep pit. I think I was a little worse than you, Kristina
That pit of evil thing was genius. I did delete the ladder out of the pool in Sims causing them to drown sometimes...Who didn't? Dude I was so rich on neopets, it was ridiculous! And you're right, paintbrushes are for suckers.
Oh my god your Roller Coaster Tycoon story was CLASSIC! I did similar things too - dropping into the lake or less "pit of doom" but similar "ride my roller coaster to get out" type deals. I was pretty horrible when playing The Sims as well - taking away the ladder from the pool, putting people in mazes or dooms without doors. I also cheated like crazy so that I never had to worry about not having enough money or needing to tend to my Sims needs. But let's be real, what person doesn't cheat at simulated games at least once?
I did the same things in roller coaster tycoon! And in Age of Empires (III), I sometimes made my catapult destroy my allies, who wouldn't fight back. I also sent my forces on obvious suicide missions.
I frequently used to do the classic (now highly frowned-upon) act of making my sims swim eternally in a pool with no ladder. Also the whole leave-your-sim-in-a-doorless-room-forever one. I can totally relate to you on the Neopets thing, Kristina. Such terrible children we were.
I'm reminded of the things I used to do in "The Sims"...
You mean like trap a person in the bathtub and see how long it would take them to die? FYI, in the original Sims, they can't die while they are in the bathtub. They can stay there for weeks starving and not die, the death check doesn't happen until after they get out of the bathtub.
I seem to recall also burning a whole family to death.
The Sims manages to bring out everyone's sadistic side...
Also, putting only a diving board and no ladder in the swimming pool so they could get in but never get out.
wait that game wasnt a murder simulator?
My sister and I played "Reality Show" in the Sims. We would cheat up enough money to build a mansion and have a million dollars banked. Then we put eight people in the house filled with death traps. We had one closet-sized room that had a love seat and a flat screen TV along the wall, invisible to the player. Whenever somebody would wander into that room, we screen-capped it and wrote a "confessional." The last surviving housemate got a million dollars and a haunted mansion.
As an adult, I made several variations of my "Cage of Pain" level in Smash Bros, which was incredibly easy to rack up damage but near impossible to get a KO.
I was obsessed with roller coaster tycoon as well, I used to play that game for hours! And yeah I also sometimes drowned my guests if they were pissing me off, but I was never imaginative enough to think up a pit of doom, and I can't believe I never thought of increasing the umbrella prices! This has made me want to play it again so bad omg
This Neopets throwback was the greatest thing. I definitely had pages open that I'd refresh obsessively. But I was always really poor (I was one of those suckers who would have bought the paintbrushes to paint my pets like rainbows ... if I'd ever had enough NeoPoints).
I remember the referral system in neopets. I remember when I was 10 or so, I found a fan website for something or other that had a guestbook that people could sign, and they could put their email addresses down. So I collected the email addresses and sent a bunch of random strangers the referral link.
I sent people spam at the age of 10...
I did the same thing with roller coaster tycoon! I also particularly enjoyed building a beautiful oasis with only one square of sidewalk. People would then stand on that one square not enjoying the willow trees and the benches and the sand.
Me and my friends used to do something quite odd when we were playing the sims. The idea was simple, like a reality television show, with eight women and a very ugly farmer that lived together in a big house. We wanted the girls to fall in love with him, but every ten minutes we would pick a sim at random and kill her. We had this cheat code that made it possible for you to choose how a sim would die. And the winner of the show won the farmer and was the only survivor.
I started playing computer games when I was 4, and so I had a very early understanding of the evilness of Rollercoaster Tycoon. I used to remove the doors to the park and spike the price of food and just have an infinite money cycle, and I made it my job to create the most dangerous park, having it end in a exit-less pool or something. It was awesome. I also used to have this other game - I forget what it was be called - but basically there weren't invisible walls in this game at all, so I would pick up children from the villages and take them deep into the mountains and throw them off this giant (and visually impressive) cliff. This trip took about 10 minutes. I swear to god, with the consecutive hours spent doing this between the ages of 4-9, I must have mercilessly thrown hundreds of small children off of this cliff.
Hahaha this is hilarious! And cruel ;)
I didn't have rollercoaster tycoon, but your pit of doom reminds me of playing video games with my brother as a kid. We had a tony hawk game that you could make skate parks in. I would make my brother an 'obstacle course' where he'd get stuck in a hole and get super upset because he couldn't get out. I think one time I did it, but I gave him stairs that were so thin that he'd get halfway up, then he'd slide back down them all. I was cruel.
Don't worry though. I fell down one of my own pits at some point. And it was one of the ones with lava at the bottom.
When I played Roller Coaster Tycoon, I used to have one roller coaster. This one roller coaster had no end, it just hit a ramp and then crashed into a fiery ball of death.
I had no Pit of Doom, only a Roller Coaster of Death.
Oh, Neopets and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Lol! I played a LOT of Zoo Tycoon, and when people pissed me off I would either put them IN the lion/tiger cages or sometimes let the lions/tigers OUT. :/
I would do the same thing! After I completed all my goals I'd block the exit, delete all the fences and let the animals run wild.
Jen Hanson me too!!!
I love how your "evil" things are all stuff that you did on games. I honestly can't think of anything I really did in games like that, although I always felt really bad when I abandoned Neopets for a while and then would come back and my pets would be starving.
As SOON as you said "Roller Coaster Tycoon" I started laughing because I knew what you were going to say. I did the same thing. xD But besides the drowning-bit I always made a roller coaster that was super populair, and I didn't necessarily have a high price at the entrance (because I realized people would leave), but I made the exit-road not go back to the main park, but like a secret part of your park with shops and other things and those prices would be very high, and my idea was: "They cannot leave, because there is no way back and for surviving they need to buy ALL the expensive things! >:D" But it never worked out, because eventually they would start walking on the grass... Which led to more drowning. xD
Oh, and another memory: my siblings wanted to make the biggest graveyard in Sims 1. So they always made families of 8, small house, lots of carpets / wooden stuff and a nice, "cosy" fireplace. And then they watched them burn and be super happy about it. But I was like 5 or 6 years old and it scared me so much! (especially Grim Reapers song) So I'm still kinda traumatized by that. XD
Sorry for the long comment but I had to share it. :P
I loved Roller Coaster Tycoon. There was one roller coaster wasn't a complete circuit. Bump up the speed and watch as it crashes. That and the drowning whinny guests were why I loved playing it as a kid
OMG...Neopet paintbrush! As soon as you said that I was like "man, those were worth a lot!"...wow...flash back
That is well cool Kristina. I never thought of the pit of doom! Loved that game though. Also nice bow!
My siblings and I also used to play Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was a kid. When reviews for my park started going down, I would delete the path for the park exit, and trap the guests. I also used to throw people, sometimes my own workers, in lakes. My brother, however, would design roller coasters to run off the tracks and kill people for fun. He also made parks entirely out of water rides, had a lot of drink stands and things, and wouldn't build a single bathroom. Or, he would put one and charge the highest amount possible to use them.
I loved Roller Coaster Tycoon! I would create something like a pit of doom too for people who were unhappy and wanted to leave. But I felt bad whenever someone died in my park...
well... a lot of sims in the sims 2 game like to see a ghost, but because, I didn't let my own sims die, some neighbours had to...
haha I used to always play Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 (Deluxe Edition) and I would just build parks that killed the people that road on the rides. Also I enjoyed picking the people up and watching them flail as I dropped them in the ocean. Wow I was a tiny sociopath when I was younger!
Wow. You evil Theme Park things were really creative... You were really thinking outside the box.
As my cousins and I came of age, we played, "Bum Love," which entailed pretending to be Skid Row bums, trying to pick up dates outside of liquor stores. Not much to do in North Bay, San Francisco...
We've all had dark times with The Sims... I can't be alone
Your hair is gorgeous Kristina!!!!! I'm in awe, I need to learn how to curl mine like that!!! :D
Oh man, Neopets was my favorite thing to do as a kid!!! That giving tree was my savior!
I used to drown the people in roller coaster tycoon too. Also I build roller coasters that just went up in a line with no end (the wagon went back if the speed was right) and see how fast it could go without crashing, and then how long the wagon could fly. It was awesome, and take away the ladder in the swimming pool for the sims. (duh)
This one time my friend and I were playing Roller Coaster Tycoon and we had built this really awesome park together. One of the roller coasters was the kind where it isn't a loop, you just go up to the top of the track and fall back down. I was messing around with the launch speed of this coaster and accidentally made it too fast, and before I tested it I reopened the ride and the cart went flying off the track. Everyone on that ride died. My friend was so mad at me because we hadn't saved this game at all yet, so we had to start all over.
In Zoo Tycoon, I would make mazes inside the water using fencing, and make people (that i would name after people I knew in real life) swim through them, only to get eaten by sharks at the end :)
I mainly played Sims and would put together couples and then make everyone cheat with each other and ruin their lives and for some reason this made 8 year old me maniacally happy
Kristina… this is not evil. My neighbor and I thought we were real life entrepreneurs at about 9-10 years old and we would make "perfumes' with water and flower petals… but… we took the flowers from people's yards……
Haha. I did something like that as well.
Kristina Horner Once a friend & I found/dug up flower bulbs from our complex's garden and went around the buildings selling the 'onions' for 50p each. In our defence, we didn't know they weren't onions. City kids.
Every day of middle school I would come home, go on neopets, and buy and resell stuff from shops. I would only go the shops that I thought were "cool" though, so I mostly went to the weapon stores and shops in the Haunted Woods and pretended I was some kind of underground dealer in arms and spooky objects.
I did the same things in Rollercoaster Tycoon, but the pit of doom strategy is too great not to try out now. In Zoo Tycoon, I'd create I thriving zoo, trap all of the visitors, and set lions and wolves on them. In the Sims, I made people shoot off fireworks in their homes filled with counters to murder them, or I'd do the good old "make them go to the pool and remove the ladder" trick. Looking back, those probably weren't the healthiest of ways to have fun, but it's whatever.
My sister and I played Zoo Tycoon with all the expansions and when visitors annoyed us we would build an electric fence across the exit, then release the lions. Or T-rexes if we were particularly angry.
I remember playing Zoo Tycoon and instead of creating a zoo I would have all the different biomes and no fences, letting natural selection take its course... Or letting the velociraptors loose on occasion when I did play it the way you were supposed to.
I have RCT3 and you can put zoo's in it. So whenever someone moans about my park I put them in the Polar Bear enclosure. If there was lots of complaints I'd block the exit and put some Lions and Rhinos outside the enclosures. The lakes also have sharks in them now, so I put the people near sharks when I dump them in the lake.
My little sister and I pooled our Neopoints to buy all the Secret Lab Map pieces. I convinced her that we'd put it together on my account first, and then I'd send it to her. Except then we discovered you couldn't exchange it once it was put together, so I convinced her to give her to "abandon her neopet," so I could adopt it. Except someone else adopted it first and she lost her pet forever and ever.
I also once switched our family computer's Microsoft Word to Autocorrect her name to "Toe Rag" and her nickname to something similar. This caused problems when my mom tried to type an excuse note up for her for school and couldn't figure out how to fix it.
The classic missing track piece on the rollercoaster was a favourite of mine.
I did almost the same thing! I always played Zoo Tycoon, which was basically the same thing as Rollercoaster Tycoon. When my zoo guests used to complain about those things, I would put them in the lion exhibit and watch them scream and run around until they got eaten!
Looking back I obviously realize how awful that was, but to be honest I don't think I would play it much differently…...
in Roller coaster Tycoon, my brother and i made this fenced-off area completely isolated from the rest of the park, the only way to get out of it was by riding a roller coaster we built which was the most terrifying thing possible. when ever someone complained, littered or was sick in the park, we put them in there. WE PUT SICK PEOPLE COMPLETELY ISOLATED WITH ONLY A TERRIFYING ROLLER COASTER TO GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I made this giant graveyard in the sims. I literally would just sit and make sim characters only to kill them so I had their headstones. This was before they made graveyards thing by the way. I also played this Zoo Tyroon, you could make dinosaurs in it so I would block the exit of the pack and then realise all my animals. Even the Zimbas and watch the chaos as the animals killed everyone and each other.
Could be worse- you could have found a way to charge your theme park goers for entering the pit of doom, or had you $50 dollar rollercoaster take them from one pit to another (and then had an even more expensive rollercoaster to get out of the pit).
Oh. This is all relatively tame compared to what I was expecting. I guess I must have really been an evil child because my first thought when I saw this video title was the time my brother wouldn't stop jumping on my bed, so I bit him so hard he still has a scar from it.
In Rollercoaster Tycoon, I would build a "jail" (basically just a sunken area that people couldn't escape from) and drop all the people about to throw up there and all of the really angry people. I was a troubled child...
I did something on Neopets that was so bad, I actually got banned. I don't even remember what it was anymore. I think I sold stuff for a lot of money that I wasn't allowed to charge for.
I got banned too. Ha.
I remember I loved thid game called Fantage. There was a fashion show and you would have a player as the host and players as the models. However, I didn't have many clothes, especially for the last one where you had to match an outfit. During the first and second rounds, the host had 4 options for themes and had to pick one. For the last round, there was an outfit you had to match. The components to that outfit had to be generally paid for with special money that you actually paid for. I had two accounts, so I always joined fashion shows that I hosted, so I could make sure I got to the end. I only had one set of special clothes and hair. (I think I had blue braids, a bow, and a shirt, skirt and shoes) Most of the time that specific outfit came up. Basically, I rigged it so I would win, so I could get stuff.
I used to do all those things on neopets too. The only difference being, you did it when you were 11 which is somewhat more socially expectable than me doing it when I was 20 to procrastinate from Uni work ...
One of my earliest memories is when my friends and I were convinced that the dog that was walked past our playground every day was rabid and the old woman was a witch... And actively attempted to prove it to other kids...
Also, my brother or I threw my pogo stick at the other one (and missed)... And apparently both of us are repressing that memory because we cannot remember who did the throwing.... The fact that it missed makes me think I threw the pogo stick at him...
Definitely used to make a puke pit in roller coaster tycoon. That's where you take one the ques with railings and make a square. Then I would put the guests with Green faces in the puke pit and watch it become disgusting. So messed up!
In Neopets, my weird thing was not so much making money / collecting points - it was more about collecting the cutest and yummiest looking foods..?! I dont know why! haha! but I collected points just to buy faerie foods and all sorts of awesome looking cakes and delicious looking baked goods.
Was actually playing RCT1 on a laptop while watching this - still a great game.
Yeah, used to drown guests as a kid too and generally torture guests, oh and shuttle launch steel coasters set to crash at 100mph
I thought this was going to be about evil things you did to other kids. When I look at the sum of that I wonder how I turned out "normal". My mother's boyfriend had a son who was 14 at the time, my sister and I were 12 and 10 I think. The first time we met him we lured him into our room, tied him up on a chair, tried to annoy him and had our little cousins throw balls at him from the safety of our bunk bed. We were such creeps.
Fun video! I'm glad I checked it out- your last 5 videos didn't show up in my sub feed :(
Definitely a Slytherin.
Also, that pit of doom thing is brilliant. I love it.
My sisters and I all had neopets accounts when we were younger, and every time I left the computer while signed onto my account...my sister would sneak on and spend all my neopoints on every kind of "dung" on the website, especially "rainbow dung", sometimes she'd try to feed it to my neopet lol
The lucky charms game and that dungeons boat gallons game thing were the best :P
Caught two spiders, a giant wolf spider and a black widow, and put them together in the same jar to fight to the death. Also put three praying mantids together not knowing there was a female among the three (and you know what happens when a female is impregnated.... I didn't know where the other two escaped for a couple hours till I looked it up :( ).
When I was 11 I made a house in sims 2 that I named "the death house", which was a tiny house with no bathroom or kitchen, put two people in it, and just watched them die. Also when I realised you could move your families in with NPC families for free I would make a room just wide enough for one sim to stand in, make the npcs go in, and remove the door so they were stuck.
Oh my gosh. This is hilarious. You were all terrifying and power hungry! I wasn't sophisticated enough to think up those types of schemes
This is SO not evil (the neopets ones).
When I was little and was staying at a hotel with my parents and we were checking out, I saw the money that my dad had left for tip and TOOK THE MONEY, even though I didn't even need it. I mean, to be fair, I thought he had just forgotten to take it when we were leaving, but oh my gosh I feel horrible about it now.
My brother and sister and I used to totally do all those things amongst others on roller coaster tycoon. you are not alone. Also, whenever my sister and I went to park, don't know if its evil but it was weird, we would build whole new identities for ourselves and tell the other children we met there our elaborate and made up backgrounds and convince them it was true. Until my brother came over and spoil it.
You were a lot smarter than me on Rollercoaster Tycoon. Instead of killing the complainers I made like a prison area of the park where it was just a group of pathway that wasn't connected to any other paths, and there was no food or bathrooms or anything. I would move the complainers there and just leave them there. It didn't help my park rating but it made me feel better
I definitely put complainers in the pit of doom. That was so they could pay for changes that they wanted. And I might put them in a couple of times if it was expensive.
I never had RC Tycoon, but I did have a Mall Tycoon game that I'd gotten from a book order once. If there was a shopper that got mad about something I would pick them up and drop them in a part of the mall between stores where they could never get out. I would also move people's children like, floors away for no reason other than to watch these people look around the mall for their child. Needless to say I was the worst mall owner EVER.
When I was in kindergarden and first grade I would often sneak into the classroom after school and steal things out of other kids' desks. Yep... I was a thief. I know that there are other terrible things that I did, but I must have blocked them out :P
On Theme Park World I would build a path to the middle of nowhere, wait for someone to walk down it and then delete it behind them so they only had one square. They would get so confused they'd eventually soil themselves before walking back across the grass.
when i played roller coaster tycoon i always made a 'cage' somewhere in the park and kept the first guest to the park as a pet.
My cousin and I would hack into random kid's accounts on some kind of interactive online barbie game because the usernames and passwords were often so predictable, and we would mess up there outfits or whatever....wow that really was evil
We also trolled people on club penguin. We would go to heavily occupied areas and say something like "BIG NEWS FOLLOW ME." Once we got enough people to follow us around we would say like never mind or something and logout...
I used to trap the sims I didn't like anymore in four walls and let them starve to death ^^ altough, I never did any evil things in roller coaster tycoon except for the umbrellaprices :P
But there is some evil stuff I did in real life, like telling a kid I wouldn't go to her birthdayparty because I didn't like the drawing on the invitation :P
OMG I was obsessed with Neopets too!! I would always haggle and try to get the lowest price on things ;) I mostly played games to earn points. I tried having my own shop too!
My mom loves to give me all of her rare items in games, and the best of this was in Gaia. She gave me all of her demon stuff, I sold it for millions of gold. I am a very persuasive child, and decided to be super nice to everyone until they would buy me stuff that costs over 1,000,000 gold. I only did this to people who looked rich. Always works.
I was worse with Neopets. Once I reached a certain point I just got a refresher program that would refresh the game over and over again to get random events and I would get soooo much stuff. It was really cool but I guess I grew out of it because I don't know what ever became of my account, lol.
Oh, boy, what evil things I did as a child? Let's not go there, it's full of dead insects and bite marks.
I would save the programs I wrote on my Timex Sinclair over my sister's music cassette tapes - but only the crappy stuff like "Twisted Sister" and "Great White".
I'm pretty sure everyone had a way of torturing negative theme park goers on Roller Coaster Tycoon. I just created a fence cage for them and renamed them stupid things... And of course put in a bathroom and charged for it...
When I was bored on the sims I would build a pool with only a diving board or put a fire place right next to a radio or just not let my sim eat for days. But I'm pretty sure everyone did that though... right?
I played Nuns and Orphans. Whoever could get the most nuns/orphans into the biggest bus, and then push it, and the exact moment, in front of oncoming freight trains, would get the prize. Then my cousins and I played "Fight in The Night, " which entailed getting both male/female members into the biggest room, turn off the lights, and beat the hell outta of each other.
When faced with easy to torture fake people, who doesn't make them go through hardships?
I did the same thing with the referral links just not on Neopets because I never got into that one. Virtual Magic Kingdom was my absolute favorite thing (if anyone remembers this they will definitely agree). Also the amount of time I spent killing my Sims in the various ways you could was ridiculous. I was meticulous with my Sims, I would use cheats so that they didn't have needs and I'd have them study/work/steal (in Sims 3) all day so they would make all the money and I'm a little concerned with my psychological state as a kid because I'd have them cheating with like 10 different people (all of whom they'd have a kid with of course) and they all looked completely ridiculous lol
In Roller Coaster Tycoon I would put one of the "No Entry" signs on the park exit so people could not leave. Not too original but it got the job done.
I used to play Zoo Tycoon and it had this sweet extension pack with marine life and dinosaurs that you could have in your zoo. So naturally I would throw random people into the dinosaur exhibit or killer whale tank. When I was feeling particularly nasty I'd build a fence blocking the zoo exit/entrance and just break down the dinosaur's fences and let them, uhh, eat all the visitors. I think it's safe to say I didn't care about zoo ratings. :/
Talking about games, I used to make my Sims marry and kill their spouses to get more money. That was the time I did not know we could do a money cheat, so I'd build a wall and a door with a phone and create a person there.
Then I'd create my character and my character would wait outside the door for the other character to come and I'll talk to that person and make them fall in love with me and when they marry me I would get the money, then I would kill them.
I'll put them in a room and let them starve, let them get burned, let them drown (drowning was the easiest, they die faster and I get a gravestone)
Then I built a cemetery behind my house for all the killed spouses... i missed that game...
Oh my god the pit of doom and the roller coaster queue is genius.
I had a friend who had a huge crush on my brother for some reason. And she lied ALL the time and tried scaring me all the time. So one day I tried getting back at her by telling her my brother died (when he did not really die).....
I could never make a good park in Roller Coaster Tycoon, but I definitely didn't terrorize my park goers to vent my frustration!
Pardon my, while I go check my neopets stocks...
I use to buy up a few hundred Halloween goodie bags every year when they were released, because you could get them for under 2000 neopoints, and every halloween they would release a new one, but the price of the old ones would go up to like 20,000 or more, depending on how old it was. I still have about 200 total in my safety deposit box, and sell a few every once in a while...
i have three stories of my evilness as a child
1. my brother, myself, and some neighborhood friends convinced my little sister that she was adopted when we were being babysat in the summer. She ended up calling my mom crying asking if she was adopted. I still find it pretty funny.
2. my siblings and i and some more neighborhood friends took our babysitter's wallet while we were using a slip n' slide, and dunked it in a bucket of water (we didn't like this guy btw)
3. My family had just got a kitten, and she tended to be pretty mean (she would scratch and bite A LOT) and my babysitter (different one from the previous story) and my siblings decided to put her in a tshirt. However, we had to wear gloves and sweatshirts because she was clawing at us, and when we finally got the shirt on her we had to lock her in our mud room for an hour or something because she would try to attack us when we let her go. To this day, (i was about 5 at the time and im 18 now) my siblings and i cannot pick this cat up and she still doesnt trust us three.
I played God with all my Sims characters when I got bored with them. I would tell them to go stand in fire, I would make them swim with no means of escape, and I would put them in a room with no doors or windows.
Ahhh I guess I was evil too with the Rollercoaster Tycoon thing. I used to name them something I considered 'mean' first, and then drop them in the lake. There was a weird sense of enjoyment I got from seeing the bulletin at the bottom saying something along the lines of 'stupidface is drowning!' Ah, to be young.
nah okay when i was little my mom wouldn't get these toys down from the attic like i wanted her to, and i was getting really angry that she wouldn't get these toys down so I looked her straight in the eye and said, "well your mom is dead and your dad left you and i dont care!"
i was the worst child ever!!
Oh man, The only time I was ever grounded growing up was when I made explosives using random house hold bits as well as cutting apart my father's shotgun shells...
Come to think of it, I could probably do a video on that story - so I'm not going to embellish much more :-D
I didn't have Rollercoaster Tycoon, but my friend did, and I played it at her house once. I remember forcing the janitors to wear yellow and brown. I thought it was hilarious.
Aww I loved Neopets!!!