I don't know if someone has already mentioned this, but in ZT2 when you're in the map selection page with the globe and the flag markers, if you spin the globe around really fast you'll hear people screaming. That was always my favorite little easter egg :pp
Yeah, I got those guys pretty often if I remember right - the first one nearly got eaten by a Utahraptor because I didn't know he was in there though... ^_^"
ZT2 was basically my childhood. Back before High School I was only allowed to have 2 hours of gaming time, except for "educational" games, which my parents counted Zoo Tycoon amongst. The Zoopedia taught me more about obscure animals then I could have ever hoped to learn. Want fun facts about the Gerenuk? I got you covered.
Gosh I remember gripping my seat I'd be so scared watching Stalker's spooky zoo tycoon videos. My game had a glitch where the zookeepers would walk around without a head sometimes and the first time I saw it I nearly had a heart attack thinking the monsters from his videos had made it into my game!
I was very young when I saw stalker's videos, like 11 or some. And I remember having pretty heavy nightmares with the zombies and even waking up my mama sometimes. But at the end always returning to the pc to curious around with the camera haha.
You want to know what the first real horror experience of any sort I finished in my life was? ‘The Things from Oslane Swamp’ by Dannybob filmed in Zoo Tycoon 2. It horrified me more than words, something that I can hardly believe rewatching it. I need a new laptop, man. I miss these games.
Yay! I’m glad you mentioned Magnet. Little kid me was amazed that you could download content online, including Magnet. I grew up in the Baltimore area, so it was really exciting seeing the same polar bear in my game that I had seen in real life.
I think if you put visitors inside it's exhibit they would vomit, I remember reading that and I found it so eerie lmao. Don't remember if I ever ended up trying it though
Zoo Tycoon was a massive part of my childhood; I kept pointing at the video going "Hey I remember this!" I especially loved all of Dannybob's series back in the day. I had no idea some things existed like the Asiatic Black Bear though. And I'm still puzzled as to where that marine show backdrop item went; it was visible in a promotional screenshot for Ultimate Collection but I don't recall ever seeing it in-game. Beautiful video, it was like a nostalgic recap of everything this series had to offer.
17:40 Xanadu is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's dream-version of the Ancient Chinese city of Shangdu, as described in his poem "Kubla Khan", a foundational work in British romanticism. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
I had Zookeeper collection! It was very fun and sometimes I would bring the customers inside the animal enclosures and the animals would attack them, it was fun but it made me lose all my stars lmao. I also had a version for the Nintendo DS (or Gameboy?) which was much less fun
I found it fascinating that most times you had a "fighting cloud" when an animal attacked another, but then for example when I dropped visitors into the White Shark Tank there would be a custom animation of them getting eaten.
Maybe I am too late, but I am in possession of a physical copy of Tycoon 2: Zookeeper's Collection. Haha, I remember getting it, thinking it was the complete collection, including the dinosaurs and marine animals, but was thoroughly disappointed to find myself completely wrong.
This doesn't even scratch the surface of the modding community that existed for this game... So much incredible custom content was created; I wonder how much has been lost.
There is one thing that I don't think was even a passing mention but I KNOW I didn't hallucinate as a kid: Mermaids! I don't believe it was DLC, though maybe it was, but I distinctly remember being able to put the mermaid statue inside salt water and it would eventually crack open and turn into a mermaid :) It was my favorite thing to do!
I think they were technically from the Marine Mania expansion due to the inclusion of the statue but it was an Easter egg and there was no hint it would happen lol
24:51 I wonder who made that video... But still, overall it's nice to see an iceberg video over Zoo Tycoon content. And this video is very well-researched including some obscure points like the adoptable Yeti for everything or the Asiatic black bear players could get if they completed the Zoo Tycoon mobile game.
This game was my childhood, id moslty play on sandbox mode making a ecosystem. Also this game does have its easter eggs such as spinning the globe that plays people screaming, and what ive heard of is if you place a coffe stand near the staff base building, the staff move faster to work. I would love to learn how to make mods for this game till this day.
I still own my copy of the Zookeeper Collection. Full plastic box, instruction booklet, and both disks. Didn't realize it had such a short release! I begged my parents to buy me anything zoo tycoon related back then. The instruction booklets for the second games always stood out as a favorite of mine. I would read through them again and again. My Ultimate Collection guide still has my own pen notes scrawled throughout it. The stalker videos are SO ICONIC to me. A huge part of my childhood. To this day I haven't met anyone else in real life who watched them as a kid.
I have the disks, but now no longer have a pc with a disk drive. Fortunately if you look, you can find downloads. Might have accidentally till 6am due to massive nostalgia trip. Quite enjoyable.
Jamás conocí a alguien que supiera tantos datos sobre zoo tycoon, definitivamente mereces bastante reconocimiento, estaré apoyándote cada que subas un vídeo; para mí ha sido muy difícil encontrar youtubers que hablen acerca de zoo tycoon. Sigue subiendo curiosidades acerca de zoo tycoon y a la vez algunos vídeos de construcción de hábitats, o "20 mods necesarios para zoo tycoon". Para finalizar, nuevamente, me encantó mucho tu vídeo, sigue así🤍
Pirating zoo tycoon in 2024 was one of the best things I've ever done. I can't believe how fun a 2002 game still is (2002 because it's the complete collection)
You should’ve included Aurora Designs as well as Radical Remake as they were some of the most popular mods of them all, as well as some of the more popular mod packs
This video popped up in my feed because I’ve been playing zoo tycoon. I decided to click and watch. I can say i was disappointed and you got another fan. Great content!
This was such an awesome video. So many aspects of ZT "lore" touched upon here. Growing up I played Complete Collection, Zookeeper Collection+MM and EA, and had both DS iterations. I also had so many mods (or "downloads" as they were referred to back then) on my computer that they would slow down the game's performance like crazy (Arabian Nights, Island Excursions, Jurassic Park, Paranoia, etc.) Would love to see a video going deep into Zoo Tycoon Friends. Literally, remember only seeing the initial announcement trailer, and then the game completely disappeared
I loved the original Marine Mania and I am sad there hasn't been anything like it so far. Zoo Planet was okay, but I miss my massive fish tanks with Marine animals. Prehistoric Kingdom planned to include aquatic animals in the future, so I am looking forward to see what they planned.
The ghosts were definitely a glitch, I had them happen a lot in the past before I got into modding the game. Constantly had "ghost" animals and headless guests 😓
I remember having semi-transparent elephants, they behaved like any normal animal but I think they were like that when I placed them down and not after they died
I definitely encountered a glitch a few times where one animal was mysteriously translucent; not to the point of being invisible, but see-through. Namely, an American Bison. No idea what caused it.
As for the "ghost animals" I once had a Tapir become pale and white. It looked like a ghost. It never bred and it would just run around and act like a regular tapir. I tried so hard to find an answer to what it was, but never found one.
I remember playing Marine Park Tycoon to death when i was younger, i got it out of a cereal box and would spend entire afternoons building zoos. I distinctly remember the game expected perfection from you when it came to soil composition.
I inherited Zoo tycoon 1 from my older cousins, and my parents got me Zoo Tycoon 2: Zookeeper collection years later. One of my earliest memories is being amazed by being able to place animals anywhere I wanted, not just in exhibits on a grid system
I remember Zoo Tycoon 2 having a king cheetah variant which was commonly found by placing a bunch of cheetahs until you happened to come across one, the same with bengal tigers having a rare white variant. I don't remember if there were other variants for different species in ZT2 other than Zebras with different striping patterns or very small changes in some species that usually went unnoticed. I also remember a caveman frozen in an iceberg but I never saw that so I can't confirm if it is real or not. I loved downloading mods for ZT2, my favorite was probably one that gave you lots of different colors for horses. I was obsessed with various series' on youtube using ZT2 as a setting. I still have all my games but they unfortunately do not work on my current computer. I'm glad Zoo World exists as an alternative but I really miss the simplicity of ZT2.
Hahaha I remember when I was little I managed to get the killer penguin by accident. It actually scared me because I had no idea what was going on and found the model scary as a kid.
Hi there, I have the Zoo Tycoon 2 Zookeeper Collection in German. Don't know when I bought it as I was just a kid. It was from Toys R Us. Good old times :D
I thought for sure you'd mention the weird abusive zoos we had to revamp in the scenarios in ZT2, or how everyone's zoo tycoon experience eventually turned into animal mosh pit eventually. XD
Not something on the iceberg but opening ZT2 today I realized for the first time that the main menu buttons are the shape of a paw. So obvious, but it took over a decade for me to notice XD
Awesome video, so much nostalgia! And now let me be the bringer of good news to everybody: Treeceratops, a Swiss board game publisher, is developing an officially licenced Zoo Tycoon board game. It's coming to Kickstarter in October 2022 and promises to be a hit already.
I'm pretty sure both the Xanadu hack, that 80's movie, and pretty much everything else named Xanadu come from the 1797 poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Xanadu was the name Coleridge used for Shangdu, which was the real life summer capital of Mongol emperor Kublai Khan.
haha as someone who has grandparents that live in Kelowna BC and near the real lake Okanagan I just wanted to let you know it is pronounced O-kuh-nog-in lol. Ive never heard anyone say it like you and it brought a smile to my face
I didn't know the yellow brick path had a name. On the cardboard case for Complete Collection, there's a picture of a sample zoo inside using the yellow brick road. I remember trying to replicate it on multiple saves but could never find the right type of path. Now I know why. It's also worth mentioning, as far as I remember, one of the starting maps on complete collection has the yellow brick road path near the zoo entrance. This is the only time I ever saw the yellow brick road path in game.
I remember back in the day seeing a yellow brick road somewhere in the Zoo Tycoon 2 "zookeeper's manual" and always wanted it, turns out it was just the safari path. Still, I remember finally unlocking the path theme after several years and popping off
I definitely think you could have expanded on the mods more! No mention of Radical Remake, or the forums that existed that made new animals, additional animal variants, items, and so much more.
What a fantastic video ! Zoo Tycoon was one of my favorite games throughout my childhood, and I never knew jellyfish could perform in shows :O I have some information to add, too, that I'm surprised wasn't on the iceberg. ZT1 also had a very vibrant modding scene; it was all over message boards and fan pages during the early 2000s! I remember a program fan-made specifically to help create your own animals and objects- the Animal Project Editor or APE. I thought it would at least be near the bottom of the iceberg, but no. I guess it has become extremely obscure!
i remember there was this one zoo tycoon-like phone game where you had to breed certain animals to get others (something like elephant plus something else equals mammoth or something like that).
I had zookeeper collection! We missed the announcement that zoo tycoon 2 had been released so when we saw the zookeeper collection for sale my dad bought it for me. It took another 5 or so years to get Marine Mania, and I only bought extinct animals two years ago, even tho I’ve been playing this game for over a decade. I love it so much. The amount of time I spent making dodos in the demo for extinct animals in incalculable, and the joy I got when I realised every animal added in extinct animals got the fun mini games was amazing. 10/10 best game ever
Totally got the ghost animals on several occasions, but if i remember correctly, they were alive and acted normally. They were just transluscent, and not always to the same degree. You could barely see some of them, while others were just a little see-through. No idea what caused it.
Seeing the Dannybobs videos on this list rushed do memories to my head. God Zoo tycoon series alongside rollercoaster tycoon and transport tycoon were some of the fondest tycoon game memories I had
Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania also had a demo, unsure about any of the other expansion packs. The adoptable animals were the rockhopper penguin, green sea turtle, bottlenose dolphin, and orca. I had a disc as a kid that came with a pack of chicken nuggets lol, it was my introduction to ZT!
Very similar story to yours. I watched the heck out of those weird Zoo Tycoon story videos and one of the tutorials was my first exposure to the hamsterdance song. Such a key part of my childhood and I hate that it doesn't work on anything past Windows 7
Ah a trip down memory lane for me, with some new easter eggs and surprises I wasn't aware of. I think there was a zoo tycoon 1 mod that added poke'mon, dragons, and mythical creatures with me also hoping someday they'd make a mod for zoo tycoon but with mythical beasts.
I love this video! I played the original game collection a LOT as a very young kid but I had no knowledge of the online fanbase so anything more obscure than the holiday-specific flyovers were unknown to me till now. Tempted to dig out my old CD now
I have Zookeeper Collection. Never did get Ultimate Collection. Also hold up, you can't just make a huge claim such as "Belle Delphine was in a Zoo Tycoon ad" and just leave it at that. Was that a joke or...
I know for a fact that the Killer Penguin is not accessible in the Ultimate Collection. I'm surprised that there wasn't a mention in how if you didn't install Extinct Animals or Marine Mania, you skated above the surface of deep water, but with an expansion pack, you could dive under the surface.
As a French speaking person who always played Zoo Tycoon 2 in French, i'll try to make it as clear as possible: I remember that when visitors used that panoramic tower (idk the english name for that thingy >
Not surprising the Spinosaurus wasn’t included in the extinct animals expansion. The Jurassic Park franchise (Universal Pictures) has such a monopoly on the usage of that specific dinosaur. Wouldn’t have been worth trying to get around all the litigation just to use it in the game.
But the Jurassic Park franchise existed before ZT1, wouldn't that have been an equally big problem with ZT1 then? Maybe even a larger issue since ZT1 was released closer to the Jurassic Park movies in relation to ZT2?
I had a ghost quagga happen once and I didn't have any mods installed at the time. I had two normal quaggas and got a notification that one of them had died. When I went to go check the quagga that had died had turned white and was somewhat see through. It wasn't super transparent like in the video, but it also definitely wasn't an albino because it only changed color after it died and not after it was placed originally. I took pictures with the in-game camera because the rumors at the time were that ghost animals were a rare occurance. The quagga disappeared entirely when I reopened my save the next time. This makes me want to dig up the jump drive that I backed up my old zoos on to see if I can get the pictures of the ghost quagga.
I actually had the zookeeper collection as a kid when I played zoo tycoon 2 for the first time. Of course, I wanted the ultimate collection since I was OBSESSED with dinosaurs as a kid, still am lol. I remember going to best buy with my dad's mom to get it as a kid, good times. Though, I will agree with the selection of dinosaurs not being that great compared to zoo tycoon 1. Sure, the other extinct animals were cool, and the pack was called that. But more dinosaurs would be nice. It is what most kids got it for anyway lol. Also, quick correction, the jellyfish isn't needed at all to get the iceberg in zoo tycoon 1. The animals required are: Wooly mammoth, wooly rhino, polar bear, arctic wolf, walrus, narwhal, and beluga. Only those 7 are required to get it, I did it in game myself. Other than that, good iceberg video!
My favorite ZT-related video ever put on TH-cam was a tutorial on how to build a house... while the soundtrack of The Dark Knight was playing in the background.
My god...never heard again from tjis series after I bought the complete collection as a kid...never realized it had a sequel and a reboot (although it having tons of DLC priced at 10 dollars each just makes it look like a mtx hell). Thanks for the nostalgia trip, I spent dozens of hours with the first game, which had an unique aesthetic...and many of those were letting loose the dinos on the park visitors when I got bored 😂
I haven't played in ages being a Jurassic World / Roller Coaster Tycoon kid but thank you for giving me closure on who 'Magnet' was and why the penguin would kill everything.
YES!!! I had the original Zoo Tycoon (idky I say had. I still have the disc), and I used to be OBSESSED with it when I was a kid. Then when I was a teenager and had internet and stuff, I found out about the Easter eggs like the unicorns if you name a exhibit "Za--" something.... I haven't watched the video yet, but it's probably in there. Then I saw one about a dino Easter egg and my mind exploded man. One of my favorite games to this day (besides the fact that no matter what, after like year 3, I always go bankrupt)
Fun fact, the Quagga is technically not extinct. It is quite hotly debated weather they are real Quagga, but a project in South Africa bred them back into existence from Zebras, and even argues that Quagga are just a subspecies of Zebra and not a distinct species.
Funny game glitch: in Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection, if you start a new zoo and leave the game running, your zoo will naturally unlock new animals. Just walk away, do something else, come back after a short time and everything will be unlocked. I remember my game working like this, I'm unsure if anyone else has the same glitch.
18:25 I have a hard time believing they would include 2 animals that are famous for nearly killing people and a gorilla who was famous for being killed. Also I laughed for like 5 minutes straight at the " in this business, The snakes are much easier to find" joke
While I didn't play Zoo Tycoon itself I played a very similar game in my childhood, Wildlife Park 2, which is very nostalgic for me. It had similar DLCs (back then they were called "Add-ons"), with a sea creature one called Marine World, and it also had a mermaid easter egg. I think it was in one of the last missions where you had to earn enough money to buy a mermaid for 30 million dollars (it had a story about how the mermaid was found by fishermen) at the end of the mission. The mermaid was quite weird since it was only an easter egg creature, it was its own species where you could choose male or female, but the males looked exactly like the females, it also somehow didn't need any food.
Oh my god the Kid's Map was all I played. I got the game when I was 6 and spent hundreds of hours on it in the computer room. I remember every time I started a new game I went through a routine of destroying all the pre-made exhibits on the kid's map, filling the entire area with grass, and levelling the terrain to give myself a custom playing field 😂
I played very few video games as a kid, but I LOVED Zoo Tycoon, I had the first one with all the expansions. I remember thinking I was an absolute genius for finding the mermaid thing online and then doing it.
I had the zookeeper collection as a kid but I got rid of it after I bought zoo tycoon 2 ultimate collection at target years ago. After playing zoo tycoon for over a decade I found 2 exploits. You can run faster by holding down the space bar and shift key when running (correct me if I'm wrong) I found an exploit where you can freeze time and still move around but I forgot how to do it but if I remember how to do it properly I might comeback and update it.
It is shift key, and it isn't an exploit. It is coded into the game to be like that added into the Extinct Animals expansion (and the Ultimate Collection), and is explained in the Extinct Animals pamphlet.
I think the Zookeeper Collection was my first edition of Zoo Tycoon 2! I got it from Walmart when I was in 4th or 5th grade. Now that you mention it, I don’t know how common it was. I’m one of the only few people to still have mine (I still pop it in every now and then)
Every time I remember playing zoo tycoon Complete Collection, I always remember my favourite animal that I’ll always place in my zoo. The Loch Ness Monster, which is apart of the endangered pack.
Holy crap I remember watching Dannyb0b's videos in like 2010, I was 8 at that time and barely knew english so I barely understood the text but damn, I wasn't sure if those videos actually existed now because it felt like a fever dream to me whenever I thought about them.
I had the OG complete collection as a kid and spent HOURS playing it, and I'm so sad I never found out about the mermaid statue or unicorn cheat. I would have loved that
Lifelong ZT fan here. Spent an unhealthy amount of hours on ZT2 growing up. The “ghost” animals were very much real but they weren’t ghosts of dead animals. They were regular animals that would glitch out and spawn in transparent. I ran dozens of tests as a kid and could never figure out what caused it. Only thing I could deduce is that is only happened with the African Adventure animals. Also I had the zookeeper collection so it’s likely that whatever glitch caused it was ironed out in the ultimate collection
I remember playing both zoo tycoon and zoo tycoon 2 obsessively as a child/young teen, I really miss these games. There are so many things in this iceberg I remember so distinctly, really hit me with a huge wave of nostalgia. I even had the ds game but I remember it being so bad that I never touched it again after playing a couple of hours.
I don't know if someone has already mentioned this, but in ZT2 when you're in the map selection page with the globe and the flag markers, if you spin the globe around really fast you'll hear people screaming. That was always my favorite little easter egg :pp
Yesss, I remember doing this when I was bored and deciding what map to play!
Yess! :D Good times, even tho I still play it today.
yeahhh, i remember it made me sad for the people on the globe
That easter egg startled me so bad the first time I encountered that over a decade ago. Vaguely unnerving at the time
dat fun
does anyone remember the caveman you can sometimes get frozen in the iceberg? Then you let it melt and he'll walk around and stuff??
I found him like the first time I placed an iceberg. Didn’t realize he was rare!
Yeah, I got those guys pretty often if I remember right - the first one nearly got eaten by a Utahraptor because I didn't know he was in there though... ^_^"
I remember building one of those guys a "house" far away from the rest of the actual zoo.
Omfg yes
When I discovered him that was the sickest shit
ZT2 was basically my childhood. Back before High School I was only allowed to have 2 hours of gaming time, except for "educational" games, which my parents counted Zoo Tycoon amongst. The Zoopedia taught me more about obscure animals then I could have ever hoped to learn. Want fun facts about the Gerenuk? I got you covered.
fun fact:fun facts are not fun
what the fuck is a gerenuk? id like some info and facts
My gaming time wasn't limited, so I played the first 2 Zoo Tycoon games for 10 hours straight during weekends 😅😅
... still no regrets
I LOVE GERENUKS
Gosh I remember gripping my seat I'd be so scared watching Stalker's spooky zoo tycoon videos. My game had a glitch where the zookeepers would walk around without a head sometimes and the first time I saw it I nearly had a heart attack thinking the monsters from his videos had made it into my game!
oh my god unlocked a core memory from me, i remember being scared of stalkers bigfoot video lol
I was very young when I saw stalker's videos, like 11 or some. And I remember having pretty heavy nightmares with the zombies and even waking up my mama sometimes. But at the end always returning to the pc to curious around with the camera haha.
I LOVED his videos, they were the best.
You want to know what the first real horror experience of any sort I finished in my life was? ‘The Things from Oslane Swamp’ by Dannybob filmed in Zoo Tycoon 2. It horrified me more than words, something that I can hardly believe rewatching it.
I need a new laptop, man. I miss these games.
I remember being terrified of DANNYB0B's 'farm of the dead' ZT2 story videos, damn 😂
I remember Zoo Tycoon 2 looking a lot graphically better than it really is lol
Same
Nostalgia is a helluva drug
that might have something to do with the "Remaster" mod which gives the game more realistic graphics
Yay! I’m glad you mentioned Magnet. Little kid me was amazed that you could download content online, including Magnet. I grew up in the Baltimore area, so it was really exciting seeing the same polar bear in my game that I had seen in real life.
Same here! It was the first videogame DLC i ever downloaded, So cool to find out BlueFang Studio was based in Massachusetts. Hope you have a good day.
i want to see a pic of magnet the bear
I think if you put visitors inside it's exhibit they would vomit, I remember reading that and I found it so eerie lmao. Don't remember if I ever ended up trying it though
Zoo Tycoon was a massive part of my childhood; I kept pointing at the video going "Hey I remember this!" I especially loved all of Dannybob's series back in the day.
I had no idea some things existed like the Asiatic Black Bear though. And I'm still puzzled as to where that marine show backdrop item went; it was visible in a promotional screenshot for Ultimate Collection but I don't recall ever seeing it in-game.
Beautiful video, it was like a nostalgic recap of everything this series had to offer.
17:40 Xanadu is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's dream-version of the Ancient Chinese city of Shangdu, as described in his poem "Kubla Khan", a foundational work in British romanticism.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
I had Zookeeper collection! It was very fun and sometimes I would bring the customers inside the animal enclosures and the animals would attack them, it was fun but it made me lose all my stars lmao. I also had a version for the Nintendo DS (or Gameboy?) which was much less fun
Man when I got bored of my zoo, I selected everything and deleted it and watched everyone get attacked by my animals
I'm so glad I wasnt the only one with the DS game haha it was terrible, I never finished it
@@pidgeandtitus same
@@pidgeandtitus Out of curiosity, did anyone else have the DS ports of Age of Empires?
I found it fascinating that most times you had a "fighting cloud" when an animal attacked another, but then for example when I dropped visitors into the White Shark Tank there would be a custom animation of them getting eaten.
Maybe I am too late, but I am in possession of a physical copy of Tycoon 2: Zookeeper's Collection.
Haha, I remember getting it, thinking it was the complete collection, including the dinosaurs and marine animals, but was thoroughly disappointed to find myself completely wrong.
This doesn't even scratch the surface of the modding community that existed for this game... So much incredible custom content was created; I wonder how much has been lost.
There is one thing that I don't think was even a passing mention but I KNOW I didn't hallucinate as a kid: Mermaids! I don't believe it was DLC, though maybe it was, but I distinctly remember being able to put the mermaid statue inside salt water and it would eventually crack open and turn into a mermaid :) It was my favorite thing to do!
yep! i did that all the time in my zoos, they sang too
13:20
15:36 Gpd I played that demo was a torture until I got the real one
Dude, you just unlocked a lost memory from my childhood
I think they were technically from the Marine Mania expansion due to the inclusion of the statue but it was an Easter egg and there was no hint it would happen lol
24:51 I wonder who made that video...
But still, overall it's nice to see an iceberg video over Zoo Tycoon content. And this video is very well-researched including some obscure points like the adoptable Yeti for everything or the Asiatic black bear players could get if they completed the Zoo Tycoon mobile game.
Yeah my bad I forgot to credit you for that, I think I even wrote it down in the script but must have forgot.
@@RobsMedia25 It's alright, it happens to the best of us.
I very much enjoy the aesthetic of zoo tycoon and similar ganes from the time
This game was my childhood, id moslty play on sandbox mode making a ecosystem.
Also this game does have its easter eggs such as spinning the globe that plays people screaming, and what ive heard of is if you place a coffe stand near the staff base building, the staff move faster to work.
I would love to learn how to make mods for this game till this day.
I still own my copy of the Zookeeper Collection. Full plastic box, instruction booklet, and both disks. Didn't realize it had such a short release! I begged my parents to buy me anything zoo tycoon related back then.
The instruction booklets for the second games always stood out as a favorite of mine. I would read through them again and again. My Ultimate Collection guide still has my own pen notes scrawled throughout it.
The stalker videos are SO ICONIC to me. A huge part of my childhood. To this day I haven't met anyone else in real life who watched them as a kid.
I have the disks, but now no longer have a pc with a disk drive. Fortunately if you look, you can find downloads. Might have accidentally till 6am due to massive nostalgia trip. Quite enjoyable.
I have absolutely no memory of reciving the disks of zoo tycoon 1 and 2... they've just always been here. I love them both
Jamás conocí a alguien que supiera tantos datos sobre zoo tycoon, definitivamente mereces bastante reconocimiento, estaré apoyándote cada que subas un vídeo; para mí ha sido muy difícil encontrar youtubers que hablen acerca de zoo tycoon. Sigue subiendo curiosidades acerca de zoo tycoon y a la vez algunos vídeos de construcción de hábitats, o "20 mods necesarios para zoo tycoon". Para finalizar, nuevamente, me encantó mucho tu vídeo, sigue así🤍
Pirating zoo tycoon in 2024 was one of the best things I've ever done. I can't believe how fun a 2002 game still is
(2002 because it's the complete collection)
You should’ve included Aurora Designs as well as Radical Remake as they were some of the most popular mods of them all, as well as some of the more popular mod packs
No
Yeah! Can't believe you missed this, they were huge in the zootycoon community.
Yes! I even still have a lot of those mods just archived in my computer. I can't bring myself to delete them lol
Wait, I can't download them anymore?!
As he said in the video, he never downloaded mods so he doesn't know about it, and he seems to think that the mods made the game buggy xd
Now this. THIS is the niche content I subscribe for.
This video popped up in my feed because I’ve been playing zoo tycoon. I decided to click and watch. I can say i was disappointed and you got another fan. Great content!
This was such an awesome video. So many aspects of ZT "lore" touched upon here. Growing up I played Complete Collection, Zookeeper Collection+MM and EA, and had both DS iterations. I also had so many mods (or "downloads" as they were referred to back then) on my computer that they would slow down the game's performance like crazy (Arabian Nights, Island Excursions, Jurassic Park, Paranoia, etc.) Would love to see a video going deep into Zoo Tycoon Friends. Literally, remember only seeing the initial announcement trailer, and then the game completely disappeared
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I loved the original Marine Mania and I am sad there hasn't been anything like it so far. Zoo Planet was okay, but I miss my massive fish tanks with Marine animals.
Prehistoric Kingdom planned to include aquatic animals in the future, so I am looking forward to see what they planned.
The ghosts were definitely a glitch, I had them happen a lot in the past before I got into modding the game. Constantly had "ghost" animals and headless guests 😓
or just floating guest heads xD
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I remember having semi-transparent elephants, they behaved like any normal animal but I think they were like that when I placed them down and not after they died
I definitely encountered a glitch a few times where one animal was mysteriously translucent; not to the point of being invisible, but see-through. Namely, an American Bison. No idea what caused it.
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Remember when icebergs were based entirely on theories and fan creations, not just.. listing the library? Christ.
As for the "ghost animals" I once had a Tapir become pale and white. It looked like a ghost. It never bred and it would just run around and act like a regular tapir. I tried so hard to find an answer to what it was, but never found one.
Albino?
never saw albino
I remember playing Marine Park Tycoon to death when i was younger, i got it out of a cereal box and would spend entire afternoons building zoos. I distinctly remember the game expected perfection from you when it came to soil composition.
I inherited Zoo tycoon 1 from my older cousins, and my parents got me Zoo Tycoon 2: Zookeeper collection years later. One of my earliest memories is being amazed by being able to place animals anywhere I wanted, not just in exhibits on a grid system
I remember Zoo Tycoon 2 having a king cheetah variant which was commonly found by placing a bunch of cheetahs until you happened to come across one, the same with bengal tigers having a rare white variant. I don't remember if there were other variants for different species in ZT2 other than Zebras with different striping patterns or very small changes in some species that usually went unnoticed. I also remember a caveman frozen in an iceberg but I never saw that so I can't confirm if it is real or not. I loved downloading mods for ZT2, my favorite was probably one that gave you lots of different colors for horses. I was obsessed with various series' on youtube using ZT2 as a setting. I still have all my games but they unfortunately do not work on my current computer. I'm glad Zoo World exists as an alternative but I really miss the simplicity of ZT2.
best way to get white tiger:place in water
Hahaha I remember when I was little I managed to get the killer penguin by accident. It actually scared me because I had no idea what was going on and found the model scary as a kid.
Hi there, I have the Zoo Tycoon 2 Zookeeper Collection in German. Don't know when I bought it as I was just a kid.
It was from Toys R Us. Good old times :D
just seeing videos of zoo tycoon brings back so much nstalgia to the point that it's painful
I thought for sure you'd mention the weird abusive zoos we had to revamp in the scenarios in ZT2, or how everyone's zoo tycoon experience eventually turned into animal mosh pit eventually. XD
Not something on the iceberg but opening ZT2 today I realized for the first time that the main menu buttons are the shape of a paw. So obvious, but it took over a decade for me to notice XD
Awesome video, so much nostalgia! And now let me be the bringer of good news to everybody: Treeceratops, a Swiss board game publisher, is developing an officially licenced Zoo Tycoon board game. It's coming to Kickstarter in October 2022 and promises to be a hit already.
I'm pretty sure both the Xanadu hack, that 80's movie, and pretty much everything else named Xanadu come from the 1797 poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Xanadu was the name Coleridge used for Shangdu, which was the real life summer capital of Mongol emperor Kublai Khan.
haha as someone who has grandparents that live in Kelowna BC and near the real lake Okanagan I just wanted to let you know it is pronounced O-kuh-nog-in lol. Ive never heard anyone say it like you and it brought a smile to my face
I didn't know the yellow brick path had a name. On the cardboard case for Complete Collection, there's a picture of a sample zoo inside using the yellow brick road. I remember trying to replicate it on multiple saves but could never find the right type of path. Now I know why.
It's also worth mentioning, as far as I remember, one of the starting maps on complete collection has the yellow brick road path near the zoo entrance. This is the only time I ever saw the yellow brick road path in game.
I remember back in the day seeing a yellow brick road somewhere in the Zoo Tycoon 2 "zookeeper's manual" and always wanted it, turns out it was just the safari path. Still, I remember finally unlocking the path theme after several years and popping off
3:43 floppa jumpscare warning
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nope that is a carcal.
@@nickymejias5763 floppa is the name of a internet famous caracal
I have no clue why would anyone make this, but I'm hella glad it exists.
I definitely think you could have expanded on the mods more! No mention of Radical Remake, or the forums that existed that made new animals, additional animal variants, items, and so much more.
Yeah the moding community was huge. I went so far they even managed to make bigger maps and alter the base coding of the game
The community is still active, although many modders switched to planet zoo and other recent games such as prehistoric kingdom :(
What a fantastic video ! Zoo Tycoon was one of my favorite games throughout my childhood, and I never knew jellyfish could perform in shows :O I have some information to add, too, that I'm surprised wasn't on the iceberg. ZT1 also had a very vibrant modding scene; it was all over message boards and fan pages during the early 2000s! I remember a program fan-made specifically to help create your own animals and objects- the Animal Project Editor or APE. I thought it would at least be near the bottom of the iceberg, but no. I guess it has become extremely obscure!
i remember there was this one zoo tycoon-like phone game where you had to breed certain animals to get others (something like elephant plus something else equals mammoth or something like that).
you missed the caveman in the iceberg in zootycoon 2 :D are rare chance
trueee!! I always got happy when I got him, silly little guy
Fucking loved Zoo Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon 2 was the best. The demos had some unique stuff you couldn't get in the base game too
I had zookeeper collection! We missed the announcement that zoo tycoon 2 had been released so when we saw the zookeeper collection for sale my dad bought it for me. It took another 5 or so years to get Marine Mania, and I only bought extinct animals two years ago, even tho I’ve been playing this game for over a decade. I love it so much. The amount of time I spent making dodos in the demo for extinct animals in incalculable, and the joy I got when I realised every animal added in extinct animals got the fun mini games was amazing. 10/10 best game ever
Totally got the ghost animals on several occasions, but if i remember correctly, they were alive and acted normally. They were just transluscent, and not always to the same degree. You could barely see some of them, while others were just a little see-through. No idea what caused it.
2022 and there is an iceberg of Zootycoon ?
Gurl
What a privilege
Seeing the Dannybobs videos on this list rushed do memories to my head. God Zoo tycoon series alongside rollercoaster tycoon and transport tycoon were some of the fondest tycoon game memories I had
even hearing his name xD I remember writing with him at his forum a few times when he was actively modding
Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania also had a demo, unsure about any of the other expansion packs. The adoptable animals were the rockhopper penguin, green sea turtle, bottlenose dolphin, and orca. I had a disc as a kid that came with a pack of chicken nuggets lol, it was my introduction to ZT!
Very similar story to yours. I watched the heck out of those weird Zoo Tycoon story videos and one of the tutorials was my first exposure to the hamsterdance song. Such a key part of my childhood and I hate that it doesn't work on anything past Windows 7
Couldnt have asked for a better iceberg! ^^ thanks for this
Ah a trip down memory lane for me, with some new easter eggs and surprises I wasn't aware of. I think there was a zoo tycoon 1 mod that added poke'mon, dragons, and mythical creatures with me also hoping someday they'd make a mod for zoo tycoon but with mythical beasts.
I love this video! I played the original game collection a LOT as a very young kid but I had no knowledge of the online fanbase so anything more obscure than the holiday-specific flyovers were unknown to me till now. Tempted to dig out my old CD now
This video unlocked a room in my brain that I haven't been in for a long time.
I can confirm the ghost animals have nothing to do with mods. I got them before i even knew how to mod this game
I have Zookeeper Collection. Never did get Ultimate Collection.
Also hold up, you can't just make a huge claim such as "Belle Delphine was in a Zoo Tycoon ad" and just leave it at that. Was that a joke or...
I remember having the zoo tycoon 2 mobile game it was very forgettable but was just nice to have X'D Great video!
I know for a fact that the Killer Penguin is not accessible in the Ultimate Collection. I'm surprised that there wasn't a mention in how if you didn't install Extinct Animals or Marine Mania, you skated above the surface of deep water, but with an expansion pack, you could dive under the surface.
Zoo Tycoon 1 is one of my all-time favorite games till today
As a French speaking person who always played Zoo Tycoon 2 in French, i'll try to make it as clear as possible: I remember that when visitors used that panoramic tower (idk the english name for that thingy >
Not surprising the Spinosaurus wasn’t included in the extinct animals expansion. The Jurassic Park franchise (Universal Pictures) has such a monopoly on the usage of that specific dinosaur. Wouldn’t have been worth trying to get around all the litigation just to use it in the game.
But the Jurassic Park franchise existed before ZT1, wouldn't that have been an equally big problem with ZT1 then? Maybe even a larger issue since ZT1 was released closer to the Jurassic Park movies in relation to ZT2?
I had a ghost quagga happen once and I didn't have any mods installed at the time. I had two normal quaggas and got a notification that one of them had died. When I went to go check the quagga that had died had turned white and was somewhat see through. It wasn't super transparent like in the video, but it also definitely wasn't an albino because it only changed color after it died and not after it was placed originally. I took pictures with the in-game camera because the rumors at the time were that ghost animals were a rare occurance. The quagga disappeared entirely when I reopened my save the next time. This makes me want to dig up the jump drive that I backed up my old zoos on to see if I can get the pictures of the ghost quagga.
I remember having a Zoo Tycoon game on my DS, but I can’t remember which one. I remember I used to like the minigame where you could clean the animals
30 years old and i just found out BlueFang Studios was based in my state Massachusetts! Lost so many hours to that game in my youth, Damn i'm old...
I actually had the zookeeper collection as a kid when I played zoo tycoon 2 for the first time. Of course, I wanted the ultimate collection since I was OBSESSED with dinosaurs as a kid, still am lol. I remember going to best buy with my dad's mom to get it as a kid, good times. Though, I will agree with the selection of dinosaurs not being that great compared to zoo tycoon 1. Sure, the other extinct animals were cool, and the pack was called that. But more dinosaurs would be nice. It is what most kids got it for anyway lol. Also, quick correction, the jellyfish isn't needed at all to get the iceberg in zoo tycoon 1. The animals required are: Wooly mammoth, wooly rhino, polar bear, arctic wolf, walrus, narwhal, and beluga. Only those 7 are required to get it, I did it in game myself. Other than that, good iceberg video!
My favorite ZT-related video ever put on TH-cam was a tutorial on how to build a house... while the soundtrack of The Dark Knight was playing in the background.
23:28 AH YES! My sister and I used to put 2 random animals in exhibits to see who would win in the fight and our favorite was penguin vs camel!
My god...never heard again from tjis series after I bought the complete collection as a kid...never realized it had a sequel and a reboot (although it having tons of DLC priced at 10 dollars each just makes it look like a mtx hell).
Thanks for the nostalgia trip, I spent dozens of hours with the first game, which had an unique aesthetic...and many of those were letting loose the dinos on the park visitors when I got bored 😂
I haven't played in ages being a Jurassic World / Roller Coaster Tycoon kid but thank you for giving me closure on who 'Magnet' was and why the penguin would kill everything.
YES!!! I had the original Zoo Tycoon (idky I say had. I still have the disc), and I used to be OBSESSED with it when I was a kid. Then when I was a teenager and had internet and stuff, I found out about the Easter eggs like the unicorns if you name a exhibit "Za--" something.... I haven't watched the video yet, but it's probably in there. Then I saw one about a dino Easter egg and my mind exploded man. One of my favorite games to this day (besides the fact that no matter what, after like year 3, I always go bankrupt)
Zoo Tycoon is a game I never plan on playing but this was an enjoyable ice berg despite that, excellent narration
Fun fact, the Quagga is technically not extinct.
It is quite hotly debated weather they are real Quagga, but a project in South Africa bred them back into existence from Zebras, and even argues that Quagga are just a subspecies of Zebra and not a distinct species.
Me, turning my head and looking at my PC games shelf: Wait I HAVE the zookeeper collection!
Oh man. So many things I had forgotten. I played so much zoo tycoon 2.
Funny game glitch: in Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection, if you start a new zoo and leave the game running, your zoo will naturally unlock new animals. Just walk away, do something else, come back after a short time and everything will be unlocked. I remember my game working like this, I'm unsure if anyone else has the same glitch.
18:25 I have a hard time believing they would include 2 animals that are famous for nearly killing people and a gorilla who was famous for being killed. Also I laughed for like 5 minutes straight at the " in this business, The snakes are much easier to find" joke
While I didn't play Zoo Tycoon itself I played a very similar game in my childhood, Wildlife Park 2, which is very nostalgic for me. It had similar DLCs (back then they were called "Add-ons"), with a sea creature one called Marine World, and it also had a mermaid easter egg. I think it was in one of the last missions where you had to earn enough money to buy a mermaid for 30 million dollars (it had a story about how the mermaid was found by fishermen) at the end of the mission. The mermaid was quite weird since it was only an easter egg creature, it was its own species where you could choose male or female, but the males looked exactly like the females, it also somehow didn't need any food.
awesome video! id love to see more content like this.
Oh my god the Kid's Map was all I played. I got the game when I was 6 and spent hundreds of hours on it in the computer room. I remember every time I started a new game I went through a routine of destroying all the pre-made exhibits on the kid's map, filling the entire area with grass, and levelling the terrain to give myself a custom playing field 😂
Zoo tycoons my favorite game!! I wish more people played it, it's so good
I played very few video games as a kid, but I LOVED Zoo Tycoon, I had the first one with all the expansions. I remember thinking I was an absolute genius for finding the mermaid thing online and then doing it.
I had the zookeeper collection as a kid but I got rid of it after I bought zoo tycoon 2 ultimate collection at target years ago. After playing zoo tycoon for over a decade I found 2 exploits. You can run faster by holding down the space bar and shift key when running (correct me if I'm wrong) I found an exploit where you can freeze time and still move around but I forgot how to do it but if I remember how to do it properly I might comeback and update it.
It is shift key, and it isn't an exploit. It is coded into the game to be like that added into the Extinct Animals expansion (and the Ultimate Collection), and is explained in the Extinct Animals pamphlet.
And there is an secret tip where you place a coffee stand next to a staff center and your staff will gain a burst of speed.
Its quite fascinating.
I did know most of the stuff here, but the Asiatic Black Bear was complete news to me.
I think the Zookeeper Collection was my first edition of Zoo Tycoon 2! I got it from Walmart when I was in 4th or 5th grade. Now that you mention it, I don’t know how common it was. I’m one of the only few people to still have mine (I still pop it in every now and then)
Every time I remember playing zoo tycoon Complete Collection, I always remember my favourite animal that I’ll always place in my zoo. The Loch Ness Monster, which is apart of the endangered pack.
I just started playing the original Zoo Tycoon a few days ago and there was so much stuff in this video I never knew about. Crazy
How? Where did you find it?
Holy crap I remember watching Dannyb0b's videos in like 2010, I was 8 at that time and barely knew english so I barely understood the text but damn, I wasn't sure if those videos actually existed now because it felt like a fever dream to me whenever I thought about them.
I had the OG complete collection as a kid and spent HOURS playing it, and I'm so sad I never found out about the mermaid statue or unicorn cheat. I would have loved that
Zoo Tycoon is one of those games where you've literally never met another person irl whose played it
Thanks for making a video on probably my favorite game series as a kid
I'm so glad you made this
glad Asiatic Black Bear got a mention, I helped test an old remaster years ago
I absolutely love Zoo Tycoon! I still play it to this day! Currently on my channel I upload exhibit speed builds every Sunday! I love this video!
Lifelong ZT fan here. Spent an unhealthy amount of hours on ZT2 growing up. The “ghost” animals were very much real but they weren’t ghosts of dead animals. They were regular animals that would glitch out and spawn in transparent. I ran dozens of tests as a kid and could never figure out what caused it. Only thing I could deduce is that is only happened with the African Adventure animals. Also I had the zookeeper collection so it’s likely that whatever glitch caused it was ironed out in the ultimate collection
I remember playing both zoo tycoon and zoo tycoon 2 obsessively as a child/young teen, I really miss these games.
There are so many things in this iceberg I remember so distinctly, really hit me with a huge wave of nostalgia. I even had the ds game but I remember it being so bad that I never touched it again after playing a couple of hours.
You forgot that in Complete Collection, if a T-rex destroys a bathroom, it shows a man sitting inside it like in Jurassic Park
Thank you for making this video!
Amazing work!