Or when the dinosaurs would ask for more trees then immediately destroy them then say they want more trees and for you to remove the rubble of the old ones
This was EXACTLY how I played this game as a kid! Slave away for hours failing to acheive some goal, then inevitably get frustrated and feed all my guests to dinosaurs. What a trip down memory lane
I remember as a kid I once made a "human zoo" where i captured a bunch of guests and made themed exhibits for them to live in while the animals roamed free... good times
2:17 You don't get your first big paycheck by making a zoo, you get your first big paycheck by selling the entire perimeter fence you start with in the original zoo tycoon, any real fan knows this
It was the monkeys climbing trees next to the fences that did it for me. Also, I ended every scenario with closing off the entrance and releasing the animals once the objectives were met. The tour guides always got eaten first for some reason.
@@EmptyZoo393 Sounds just like my experience with Jurassic Park Operation Genesis.....5 star park! The reward? Massive piles of cash to create dozens of dinos and to fence in the people with them
Zoo Tycoon was the first video game I ever played, I spent hundreds of hours building the perfect little pixelated zoo for my pixelated animals. It filled my young elementary school mind with such joy. Thank you for bringing back those memories
My most memorable moment of this game is when I had a huge zoo, so big I couldn't monitor it well enough. After few hours I realized my penguins didn't exist anymore, and when I checked their exhibit I saw crocodiles in it, the crocodiles's exhibit next to it had a breach into the penguins's exhibit and they ate them all. I used the best walls to build those exhibits though but since both sides of the wall had water tiles the maintenance guys couldn't access it to repair it.
As a kid I liked creating "gauntlets" of exhibits where guests would have to run from one dangerous animal after the other to get out of a long, fenced-in maze. As an adult I'm actually trying to beat all of the scenarios lol. Just successfully completed Save the Great Cats 🐯
@@abs_nobody It's still not a newsworthy story. The level of violence on display here is that of saturday morning cartoons. A far cry from the ultra realistic violence stirring controversy with today's games.
I remember playing this in English, which is not my native language, and making a mistake: The tutorial had told me that each guest had meters depicting their needs, and one of those needs could be fulfilled with a restroom. At the time I did not know what "restroom" meant, but I assumed it was a room where you get rest. I then spent the campaigns going: "What? That meter is depleted again? Look, I've placed plenty of benches; just sit down and get some rest there!".
In my case it was RollerCoaster Tycoon, where my lack of English understanding led me to think that "hungry" meant "angry" (I wasn't too far phonetically), and "thirsty" meant "sad" (since "sad" is "triste" in French). So I would send thirsty guests to an area where all rides were free to cheer them up, and I would drown all hungry guests.
I am English and I had a similar situation with GTA San Andreas cheat codes. I entered the code for “commit suicide” because I thought it meant “commit succeed” and it would complete all the missions. Lmao
I feel like the destructive aspect of this game makes it full circle, you spend hours and hours playing god creating the perfect environment for these picky guests, only to smite them for not conforming to your rules. It’s perfection
whenever I went to our local zoo as a kid, they always let the peacocks roam around freely among the guests and exhibits. I’d never known anything else so when I built my zoo I just plopped them down in the guest areas. Did not understand what everyone was so upset about. Edit: it's fascinating that this seems to be a universal phenomenon! For the record I was at the Detroit zoo, but it seems like a ton of places do this! All the more reason it should have been a real feature.
That sounds like that'd be such a neat thing! in real zoos I mean- not that it wouldn't in the game Must've been cool at the time to experience just seeing those big colorful birds just walking among crowds n whatnot
@@idi0tsanswich379 Oh totally, for a 5 year old it was just an overwhelming temptation to chase and catch them, but they were pretty wily! To this day I’m not sure why it was like that. They never seemed stressed, at least.
You can sort of do this in Planet Zoo, where some animals are absolutely fine with guests walking through their enclosure. Peafowl are one of them. They are pretty chill and tend to hang around a single area - there's a population of them at my university and they basically just hang around the arts faculty.
This man is recreating my childhood, game by game. I've never found a TH-camr whose gaming history aligned with mine so much. I missed a lot of the common ones. But Mr. Phibian is going like 8 for 8 on games I lost uncountable hours on.
I found his channel last weekend looking for Sim City videos for nostalgic purposes. And then I looked through his channel and saw Rollercoaster Tycoon, Spore, The Sims.. and even better, a goldmine of Rimworld content which is one of my favorite games these days. Who knew there was someone out there who makes quality content about every game I've loved and played.
I remember learning that penguins, when starved, would eat anything including predatory animals and guests. Between this, RCT and Sims, things kind've got...weird from there. I guess that explains a lot
My absolute favorite thing to do in this game was to make mermaids. There is a mermaid statue that, if you put it in a marine exhibit, will "hatch" into a mermaid. I think you needed to research the statue to get it, but I'm a little fuzzy on the details, having not played this game for maybe twenty years. Also the ethics of housing a creature with human or near-human intelligence in a zoo is a little cringe... though so is feeding your guests to the wildlife. I also remember there being rumors of unicorns in the game, though I never figured out if they were real or not. Also, I loved this video, if that wasn't already obvious. This was my absolute favorite game to play when I was little. It was a real treat to see it again.
There are unicorns in the game! If you rename an exhibit Xanadu, then the unicorns will be unlocked in the animal purchasing list. I remember doing it all the time as a kid, I just had to google what the name of the exhibit had to be.
@@briannabribri1 omg omg omg no way!!! Thank you!! I have to find a way to play this on my computer now (mac unfortunately). Also... I have no explanation to why I didn't google it myself back then. Maybe I didn't know about google. I was rather young lol
YES the mermaids was my favourite thing too!! I remember accidentally finding this out when I was decorating some dolphin tank with the statue and out popped a real mermaid. I was so shocked and amazed, and as an 8-year old who was completely obsessed with mermaids, it was the best day of my little gamer life. I made so many mermaid only exhibits after that lol. Best things eveeer.
@@briannabribri1 WHAT NO WAY!??!! OMG!! I think the game manual mentioned unicorns but I never figured out how to find them. I already wanted to reinstall the game thanks to this video but you've convinced me. This is amaziiiing
Ya know, you are really entertaining to watch but one thing needs to be said: it takes some serious skills to be able to play the games challenges you do and still be entertaining. Like you are doing difficult scenarios and completing them with great success. I guess what I’m saying is I’m impressed that not only are you a joy to listen to/ watch, you are also a talented gamer.
this was my favorite game when i was little!! i used to have the boxes and cds for them but they’ve been long lost… it’s crazy seeing how much they go for now
You know, going wild in Tycoon games and murdering patrons in bizarre ways is fun, but I also enjoy the genuine gameplay from someone who knows the game well and likes playing it. There’s shockingly not enough of that. Good vid bro, and would you ever play Impossible Creatures?
You just brought so much nostalgia and so many memories from my child self to my adult self. I spent so many hours playing the complete edition along with The Sims Deluxe edition (with Superstar, Pets, Vacation). So wholesome. So…healing, in a weird way. Thank you so much.
There's no game that has as much nostalgia attached to it then Zoo Tycoon for me. I remember when I found out that you can make shows with the jellyfish, but the only "trick" they can is swimming up and swimming down and neither of them brought any positiv points...
if you wanted that try Jurassic park operation genesis it has a mode where you fly around and shoot dinosaurs also you can drive a jeep around in 1st person or walk around the park in 1st person but beware it doesn't look good on a lcd monitor
This is the way I learned about foliage too! I remember being so proud of my self for using context clues to figure out what it meant (even tho I literally could have Googled it lmao) I wonder how many other kids were introduced to it this way. One of my favorite things to do was to make a massive extensively decorated exhibit that contained every dino egg and see what happened. Or to just make an absolutely gigantic wolf pack.
It’s been so long since I’ve played this game, but I distinctly remember the sounds of the happy and unhappy faces and the sequence of happies when placing trees, followed by one unhappy when placing that one too many, followed by one happy when removing that one tree. Repeat for rocks, terrain, etc. I also remember something with elephant seals liking walruses but walruses not liking elephant seals, but it’s been a while so that might have been the other way around.
I remember the day I discovered that big rocks count for more than one small rock, so you can delete the big rock and make them happy but they’ll still be unhappy because they still want one small rock. And their happiness with the terrain comes down to individual squares. Seriously. And real animals really are like that….
Just got back into this game recently. Loved it as a kid. And now I know why. This game is virtual candy. I'm losing sleep. Soon I'll be losing friends. Family reunion? Will there be Zoo Tycoon at Granma's? Job? I work as a local zoo administrator now. What is time? I only bend to the will of the little green and red animal emojis. I must... ZOO.
I could listen to you say "Much to my chagrin" everyday and I think I'd smile each time. And I think you completed the true challenge in our heart of hearts, having your customers watch as they were trampled helplessly by rampaging stampedes of glorious mother nature, much to their chagrin.
I remember loving this game as a kid, and my grandma had the expansions too for dinosaurs and marine mammals. I had a bunch of dolphins, orcas, raptors, t-rexs, and yetis. My favorite thing to do was let them escape and cause chaos.
we all did it, like we all set on fire our sims, threw in the void this baby penguin from Mario 64 and lock Lara Croft's butler in the fridge... Maybe humans are truly evil.
I love the style of a lot of the older 2D games like this. These series always seemed like they made the shift to 3D really awkwardly. Like when I saw Zoo Tycoon 2 and RCT 3 I was just in horror at how they looked compared to their predecessors. Mainly how the NPCs looked like shambling disfigured monstrosities.
I sunk so many hours into the complete edition as a kid and almost always ended up letting a bunch of dinos loose on the visitors lol. Such a great game.
All of your videos latey have hit me right in the nostalgia literally all my childhood games that no one remebers. keep up the unique and quality content. Ima hit that bell.
It really makes me happy that someone else enjoys these games as much as I do. Nearly all of the classic pc games you’ve played on your channel are ones I enjoyed as a kid growing up. I still have all of them on disc too. You’re the only TH-camr I consistently watch and yearn for the next video to come out. Keep up the good content my guy! -With love from Florida, Mouse.
Zoo Tycoon was one of my first video games ever and I think it's what really sparked my love of management games. I was never good at it. I'd just start with the max amount of money and play until I ran out and then I'd start a new zoo. But I always loved it and it remains one of my most nostalgic games. I even have it installed on my current PC and play it from time to time.
Same, it was one of the first videogames my parents got for me, back when I was a young child still in kinder, and I have played it from time to time ever since.
I believe this was the first sim games I ever played, maybe one of the first games in general. I remember I thought about the paths and benches and exhibits for days after I played it. It was nice to see it again, a superb video!
This game was a huge part of my childhood, I'm grateful that someone gave it some respect Unleashing the most violent animals on the guests will always be the most fun part
I loved this game. My favorite thing to do was to get a real homeostasis in the Sahara and combine all of the animals - giraffes, gazelles, zebras, warthogs... and then when everything was going great, introduce the lions and delete all the fences. RETURN TO THE WILD.
Dude, this game was my entire childhood. I remember sitting at the computer, struggling to read what the animals needed because I was barely in school at that point. So many good memories, so many um... CREATIVE zoos. This makes me want to play it again. I might have the disc somewhere still, from long ago. Great video, and nice battle royale at the end, lol. Would love to see more!
I was really enjoying this honest, amusing attempt at a successful zoo. Then things took a turn at 7:37 and got increasingly bizarre and hilarious until the end. Bravo.
Zoo Tycoon was my favorite game as a child , it taught me lots of new words, like "rubbish." When Dinosaurs were angry, they would trample their enclosure turning every object into "rubbish" and then that would in turn make them unhappy. The Zoo Keeper kept telling me they were unhappy, missing foliage or rocks, then those would be trampled into rubbish, then back around in the same circle of unhappiness until my Zoo was closed down from further animals until I succeeded in making those Dinosuars happy. Since I couldn't figure out what "rubbish" was, eventually I broke down crying to my parents how every Dino was unhappy. Ah memories !
This video truly boils Zoo Tycoon down to its purest essence. A story of triumph and joy as the greatest zoo ever built rises from nothing, only to become a tragic but beautifully poetic descent into madness as mankind is reminded it's not always at the top of the foodchain. A truly thought provoking video.
I haven’t thought about this game in years. I had it for my DS lite and it was so fun (trapping humans in benches and listening to one track on repeat). Thanks for the memories! Good video!
Zoo Tycoon was the game that got me into gaming. I would spend hours and hours making the perfect collection of animals, marine life, and dinosaurs. I miss those days, man.
I used to hear people talk about how this game was but I never got it. I've been a subscriber of yours for years now so when I saw this, even with as hard as you made me laugh, I'm currently searching for the game! Thank you for your time and talent!
In the grim darkness of the far future, long after the Filet o' Fish has been removed from the McDonald's menu, people pay and queue for hours just to see a glimpse of tuna.
Your addition of increasing amounts of cartoon sound effects per episode is making them more whimsical and enjoyable to watch. I never played this one, but played a similar game, DinoPark Tycoon. I highly recommend old elementary school classics: DinoPark Tycoon, and SimPark. They're dumbed down for kids, but still have all the right elements. SimTown is also in the same category.
My man!!! This is one of my first PC games from when I was a kid. So great! Everyone is always on about Rollercoaster Tycoon (Sure it's a classic) but people really do sleep on Zoo Tycoon.
I just want to say, I actually really like warthogs. They are both very badass and very chill. You can easily befriend them, but they will also fight off lions. Warthogs are great animals.
This is my absolute favorite game of all time. The greatest game I have ever played, and in my opinion, was the peak of PC gaming. Some tips: Some African animals can go together in enclosures, like zebras and gazelle. There used to be a website that showed what animals could go with what and I think it's been archived, but I don't recall the name.
I used to love having a big exhibit full of orange and white tigers, or leopards and jaguars. But they’d always have one small difference in what they wanted in their habitat. With the leopards and jaguars it seriously came down to whether ONE tile of land was grass or rainforest floor.
I played zoo tycoon 2 when I was a kid, absolutely loved it. My favourite part was prolly to explore my zoo's in first person after finishing a part of it, there was this sence of satisfaction I'd get everytime
when i was younger i blocked off the entry gate and spawned a bunch of animals in... i liked seeing what would happen, and it often ended up in lions munching on their prey. i knew that this outcome would happen, i just liked watching it happen.
Loved this game, both the sequel and the first one. I found out in the sequel you could 'freeze' a guest permanently as a prisoner. trapped in their final moment of torment if you put the offending animal in a box, locking the guest permanently in your zoo and in the same position. I made Artistic exhibits with guests. Different animals had different animations, allowing for flexibility when positioning the guests. Oddly, it only worked on adult men which limited my creative freedom, but I had fun none the less, though exiting the game unfortunately returned them to a T pose.
I would always have one person that would wander off to a portion of the zoo that wasn’t developed yet and complain that there wasn’t any food or bathrooms over there.
It makes me really happy hearing about this game because, although i never played it, I understand the feeling. I have the same feelings for Thrillville OTR for 360. I love seeing what is basically its predecessor. This game still looks awesome 👌
Nothing but the greatest of memories with Zoo Tycoon, I tell you what. I remember playing this game pretty much all the time as a kid, and since I had the complete collection, I got pretty wild with the zoos I could create. I had dinosaurs and all sorts of animals, and even mermaids.
If you wanna do like a challenge or whatever for rimworld I suggest playing with vanilla genetics expanded and character editor so you can edit your colonists DNA in the health tab without even starting the game yet. It has a wide range of possibilities, also love your content.
When I was like 10 I somehow became active on a ZT modding forum, downloaded a program to make your own animal mods, saved and cropped sprite sheets from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, and proceeded to mod Pokemon into the game I even opened up the files after the initial modding and altered integers so they'd eat different foods, like different plants, etc. It was fun. Great game. Classic ZT is one of my favorites.
I feel this is exactly the development curve of whatever business ambiguousamphibian would take charge of irl. Good thing you have a youtube channel, instead of us hearing about it on the news. X)
If there's one thing I know about Zoo Tycoon, it's that if you haven't played the game and released your animals to maul and eat all your visitors, then you haven't really played the game at all.
Why is it the fact that I love these videos so much that I always come back? Well maybe it’s because your voice is easily recognized and when I watch you my brain rewards myself. So maybe that’s why I come back.
Finally a big channel covers this gem. I was afraid it had been forgotten to time. I have a copy with the box and everything but my PC just wont run it.
I used to play a city builder back in the day, i don't remember which one it was. But I was super awful at it, and eventually would get upset and frustrated that these people wouldnt keep growing the city. So i would delete all ways to leave the city, set it on super fast forward and just watch them die
I still play this game from time to time. Best part of any playthrough is trapping the guests and releasing the animals on them. BTW there are 3 secret animals you can unlock by giving your exhibits cerrain names. Such as the unicorn "Xanadu", triceratops "Cretaceous Coral" and the final animal Deinosuchus "super croc". PLUS if you put a mermaid statue in a marine tank it will turn into a mermaid giving you another one :)
I also was introduced to the word "foliage" by this game, but I always read it as "foil-age" and went 10 years never hearing it in the wild or saying it aloud until one day I said it to my boyfriend at the time and he absolutely roasted me for it. Still does eight years later.
“Hippo 23 does not like the single patch of sand in the far corner of the exhibit that he never visits.” *Guest dissatisfaction soars*
Or when the dinosaurs would ask for more trees then immediately destroy them then say they want more trees and for you to remove the rubble of the old ones
Well he never visits it for a reason.
@@dharmallars Thats when you make a small pond with land in the middle and stuff the trees over there :)
Yes this
This was EXACTLY how I played this game as a kid! Slave away for hours failing to acheive some goal, then inevitably get frustrated and feed all my guests to dinosaurs. What a trip down memory lane
the game has built in stress relief
This but with JP: Operation Genesis....except I waited until I 'Won" and then did that...much more violent option than the Zoo Tycoon equivalent
I remember as a kid I once made a "human zoo" where i captured a bunch of guests and made themed exhibits for them to live in while the animals roamed free... good times
I just fed people to my snow leopards. The maulings were part of the exhibit.
Human exhibits unfortunately used to be a real thing
I too used to do that. I also would fill these enclosures with water, and watch as the peds drown....kind of messed up now that I think of it
I did the same. And on the 2nd one, I put a peacock in there with them and they constantly panicked over it.
"You know, 'guest'... one day, I came to a realization... you see, us humans? We're just another kind of animal..."
-A "Mad" Zookeeper, probably
2:17 You don't get your first big paycheck by making a zoo, you get your first big paycheck by selling the entire perimeter fence you start with in the original zoo tycoon, any real fan knows this
THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE LMAO
You know the game is good when developers think about animals "accidently" escaping their enclosures.
in the beginning when playing the game my fences always broke down haha. ALWAYS PANIC
It was the monkeys climbing trees next to the fences that did it for me. Also, I ended every scenario with closing off the entrance and releasing the animals once the objectives were met. The tour guides always got eaten first for some reason.
@@EmptyZoo393 Sounds just like my experience with Jurassic Park Operation Genesis.....5 star park! The reward? Massive piles of cash to create dozens of dinos and to fence in the people with them
"Cheese? This rat gets the meat!"
- Catholic Corn-Corn, 1665
Do you think people just went around killing "natives" for fun...lol
Damn if only more exploiters followed his lead and remained explorers instead. Thanks for the neat anecdote!
Nice.
"He who goes gently, goes safely; he who goes safely, goes far."
*Dies of pneumonia at age 37*
Certified 1800s moment right there.
@@YakuiMeido even still pretty cool guy
Zoo Tycoon was the first video game I ever played, I spent hundreds of hours building the perfect little pixelated zoo for my pixelated animals. It filled my young elementary school mind with such joy. Thank you for bringing back those memories
My most memorable moment of this game is when I had a huge zoo, so big I couldn't monitor it well enough. After few hours I realized my penguins didn't exist anymore, and when I checked their exhibit I saw crocodiles in it, the crocodiles's exhibit next to it had a breach into the penguins's exhibit and they ate them all. I used the best walls to build those exhibits though but since both sides of the wall had water tiles the maintenance guys couldn't access it to repair it.
It's crazy for me to see it again. I remember the animals having much more details lol
Dude literally i had the exact same experience, it almost made me become a marine biologist
You should get into Planet Zoo. It’ll cause your inner elementary school child to explode with possibilities
Omg same. First game i ever played together with Empire Earth 2
As a kid I liked creating "gauntlets" of exhibits where guests would have to run from one dangerous animal after the other to get out of a long, fenced-in maze. As an adult I'm actually trying to beat all of the scenarios lol. Just successfully completed Save the Great Cats 🐯
was save the great cats timed? i remember having so much trouble completing that one as a kid.
doing this in jurassic park operation genesis and ZT2CC was where the darkness began for me too.
@@hanzohattori4078 jurassic park was amazing, hated the natural disasters though.
@@user-ln2go4xp6d it was like every 5 minutes a twister would come through and kill half your dinosaurs and fences
@@hanzohattori4078 right? and then they're like "you have GOT to stop letting people die in your park" as if you can control an act of god.
I love it when the tutorial teaches you how to release your animals from the exhibit and watch them maul your visitors
ah the days when game letting you hurt tiny pixels depicting people wasn't a newsworthy story
They are teaching you how to enjoy yourself. Because that last part is where the real fun begins.
@@abs_nobody It's still not a newsworthy story. The level of violence on display here is that of saturday morning cartoons. A far cry from the ultra realistic violence stirring controversy with today's games.
@@ridiculouslycoolguy you sound 40
@@ridiculouslycoolguy Yet those games have been proven to not make people violent. Get a different scape goat
I don’t think any video has ever given me a bigger dose of nostalgia than this one. I spent WEEKS of my life playing this gem of a game as a child
I remember playing this in English, which is not my native language, and making a mistake:
The tutorial had told me that each guest had meters depicting their needs, and one of those needs could be fulfilled with a restroom.
At the time I did not know what "restroom" meant, but I assumed it was a room where you get rest.
I then spent the campaigns going: "What? That meter is depleted again? Look, I've placed plenty of benches; just sit down and get some rest there!".
I had the exact same problem in British English until I figured it out haha
In my case it was RollerCoaster Tycoon, where my lack of English understanding led me to think that "hungry" meant "angry" (I wasn't too far phonetically), and "thirsty" meant "sad" (since "sad" is "triste" in French).
So I would send thirsty guests to an area where all rides were free to cheer them up, and I would drown all hungry guests.
I am English and I had a similar situation with GTA San Andreas cheat codes.
I entered the code for “commit suicide” because I thought it meant “commit succeed” and it would complete all the missions. Lmao
"Reatrooms? What are those!? Just go in your diapers, sheesh" - You probably :P
@@tylerboy612 You did succeed in doin somethin tho; so thats like a mission complete kinda :P
I feel like the destructive aspect of this game makes it full circle, you spend hours and hours playing god creating the perfect environment for these picky guests, only to smite them for not conforming to your rules. It’s perfection
whenever I went to our local zoo as a kid, they always let the peacocks roam around freely among the guests and exhibits. I’d never known anything else so when I built my zoo I just plopped them down in the guest areas. Did not understand what everyone was so upset about.
Edit: it's fascinating that this seems to be a universal phenomenon! For the record I was at the Detroit zoo, but it seems like a ton of places do this! All the more reason it should have been a real feature.
That sounds like that'd be such a neat thing!
in real zoos I mean- not that it wouldn't in the game
Must've been cool at the time to experience just seeing those big colorful birds just walking among crowds n whatnot
@@idi0tsanswich379 Oh totally, for a 5 year old it was just an overwhelming temptation to chase and catch them, but they were pretty wily! To this day I’m not sure why it was like that. They never seemed stressed, at least.
You can sort of do this in Planet Zoo, where some animals are absolutely fine with guests walking through their enclosure. Peafowl are one of them. They are pretty chill and tend to hang around a single area - there's a population of them at my university and they basically just hang around the arts faculty.
Really? They did that at the zoo by my house too lol
Peacocks often kinda just chill and stroll about in many Indian villages so
I love this channel as the inverse of “Let’s Game it Out”. Both are endlessly entertaining in their special ways.
This man is recreating my childhood, game by game.
I've never found a TH-camr whose gaming history aligned with mine so much. I missed a lot of the common ones. But Mr. Phibian is going like 8 for 8 on games I lost uncountable hours on.
I was born in the late 2000’s, so this isn’t my childhood, but I’m glad to see everyone happy!
I found his channel last weekend looking for Sim City videos for nostalgic purposes. And then I looked through his channel and saw Rollercoaster Tycoon, Spore, The Sims.. and even better, a goldmine of Rimworld content which is one of my favorite games these days. Who knew there was someone out there who makes quality content about every game I've loved and played.
Man, I couldn't say it better myself. It's just another classical one after another.
He just needs to talk about AoE2 and Deux Ex and he'll have got me perfectly.
@@ReindeerNavy Oh man, throw a little Half-life in there, maybe some Stronghold 1 and that's that.
Calling the Wild Hunt upon the guests of your Zoo was truly always the capstone and finisher move of Zoo Tycoon.
This Zoo Tycoon >>>>>>>> Every other Zoo Tycoon
Based
Lemonade Tycoon > Zoo Tycoon
@@derbyblade9572 School Tycoon > Lemonade Tycoon > Zoo Tycoon
Honestly though, we need a remake in the same vain as roller coaster tycoon classic.
@@ambiguousamphibian and tunapilled
I remember learning that penguins, when starved, would eat anything including predatory animals and guests. Between this, RCT and Sims, things kind've got...weird from there. I guess that explains a lot
That was a bug and they referenced it in zoo tycoon 2
My absolute favorite thing to do in this game was to make mermaids. There is a mermaid statue that, if you put it in a marine exhibit, will "hatch" into a mermaid. I think you needed to research the statue to get it, but I'm a little fuzzy on the details, having not played this game for maybe twenty years. Also the ethics of housing a creature with human or near-human intelligence in a zoo is a little cringe... though so is feeding your guests to the wildlife. I also remember there being rumors of unicorns in the game, though I never figured out if they were real or not. Also, I loved this video, if that wasn't already obvious. This was my absolute favorite game to play when I was little. It was a real treat to see it again.
There are unicorns in the game! If you rename an exhibit Xanadu, then the unicorns will be unlocked in the animal purchasing list. I remember doing it all the time as a kid, I just had to google what the name of the exhibit had to be.
@@briannabribri1 omg omg omg no way!!! Thank you!! I have to find a way to play this on my computer now (mac unfortunately). Also... I have no explanation to why I didn't google it myself back then. Maybe I didn't know about google. I was rather young lol
YES the mermaids was my favourite thing too!! I remember accidentally finding this out when I was decorating some dolphin tank with the statue and out popped a real mermaid. I was so shocked and amazed, and as an 8-year old who was completely obsessed with mermaids, it was the best day of my little gamer life. I made so many mermaid only exhibits after that lol. Best things eveeer.
@@briannabribri1 WHAT NO WAY!??!! OMG!! I think the game manual mentioned unicorns but I never figured out how to find them. I already wanted to reinstall the game thanks to this video but you've convinced me. This is amaziiiing
@@DiamondLego you can likely run it on Mac not nativily but with another program
Ya know, you are really entertaining to watch but one thing needs to be said: it takes some serious skills to be able to play the games challenges you do and still be entertaining.
Like you are doing difficult scenarios and completing them with great success.
I guess what I’m saying is I’m impressed that not only are you a joy to listen to/ watch, you are also a talented gamer.
Old games like these bring back so many memories!
I doubt it
@@blindiris22 ????
@@raemoend the other commenter was lying and I called him out on it. Plain and simple.
this was my favorite game when i was little!! i used to have the boxes and cds for them but they’ve been long lost… it’s crazy seeing how much they go for now
You know, going wild in Tycoon games and murdering patrons in bizarre ways is fun, but I also enjoy the genuine gameplay from someone who knows the game well and likes playing it. There’s shockingly not enough of that. Good vid bro, and would you ever play Impossible Creatures?
Agreed!
Impossible Creatures.
Mix everything with sharks.
Shark-Tigers.
Shark-Hippos.
Shark-Giraffes.
Shark-Wolves for that pack-instinct boon.
@@Icarus-I37 Bro hecking Whale + Ant is the strongest combo I can remember, Giant ant with a sonic blast
YES, please do this.
Impossible Creatures is such an AA game!
And you can create ambigious amphibians of all kinds in it, too.
You just brought so much nostalgia and so many memories from my child self to my adult self. I spent so many hours playing the complete edition along with The Sims Deluxe edition (with Superstar, Pets, Vacation).
So wholesome. So…healing, in a weird way. Thank you so much.
There's no game that has as much nostalgia attached to it then Zoo Tycoon for me. I remember when I found out that you can make shows with the jellyfish, but the only "trick" they can is swimming up and swimming down and neither of them brought any positiv points...
I never knew that, that's amazing 😂
**OMG IM GOING TO PLAY IT NOW TO CHECK**
I would not give positive points from staring at jellyfishes too...
9:54 the polar bears smacking the hell out the guests, I'm dying I can't
My favorite part about the Zoo Tycoon series is that you can turn Zoo Tycoon 2 into a dinosaur hunting fps, good times.
I loved being able to walk around and enjoy the attractions.
@@squelchotron8259 Yes 1st person mode was a great feature
if you wanted that try Jurassic park operation genesis it has a mode where you fly around and shoot dinosaurs also you can drive a jeep around in 1st person or walk around the park in 1st person but beware it doesn't look good on a lcd monitor
This is the way I learned about foliage too! I remember being so proud of my self for using context clues to figure out what it meant (even tho I literally could have Googled it lmao) I wonder how many other kids were introduced to it this way.
One of my favorite things to do was to make a massive extensively decorated exhibit that contained every dino egg and see what happened. Or to just make an absolutely gigantic wolf pack.
It’s been so long since I’ve played this game, but I distinctly remember the sounds of the happy and unhappy faces and the sequence of happies when placing trees, followed by one unhappy when placing that one too many, followed by one happy when removing that one tree. Repeat for rocks, terrain, etc.
I also remember something with elephant seals liking walruses but walruses not liking elephant seals, but it’s been a while so that might have been the other way around.
I remember the day I discovered that big rocks count for more than one small rock, so you can delete the big rock and make them happy but they’ll still be unhappy because they still want one small rock. And their happiness with the terrain comes down to individual squares. Seriously. And real animals really are like that….
Just got back into this game recently. Loved it as a kid. And now I know why. This game is virtual candy. I'm losing sleep. Soon I'll be losing friends. Family reunion? Will there be Zoo Tycoon at Granma's? Job? I work as a local zoo administrator now. What is time? I only bend to the will of the little green and red animal emojis. I must... ZOO.
I could listen to you say "Much to my chagrin" everyday and I think I'd smile each time. And I think you completed the true challenge in our heart of hearts, having your customers watch as they were trampled helplessly by rampaging stampedes of glorious mother nature, much to their chagrin.
I loved playing both this and Rollercoaster Tycoon as a kid. I also learned what “foliage” was from this game 😂
I remember loving this game as a kid, and my grandma had the expansions too for dinosaurs and marine mammals. I had a bunch of dolphins, orcas, raptors, t-rexs, and yetis. My favorite thing to do was let them escape and cause chaos.
we all did it, like we all set on fire our sims, threw in the void this baby penguin from Mario 64 and lock Lara Croft's butler in the fridge... Maybe humans are truly evil.
I love the style of a lot of the older 2D games like this. These series always seemed like they made the shift to 3D really awkwardly. Like when I saw Zoo Tycoon 2 and RCT 3 I was just in horror at how they looked compared to their predecessors. Mainly how the NPCs looked like shambling disfigured monstrosities.
I sunk so many hours into the complete edition as a kid and almost always ended up letting a bunch of dinos loose on the visitors lol. Such a great game.
All of your videos latey have hit me right in the nostalgia
literally all my childhood games that no one remebers.
keep up the unique and quality content.
Ima hit that bell.
You almost had me convinced that you weren't going to kill everyone for most of the video.
It really makes me happy that someone else enjoys these games as much as I do. Nearly all of the classic pc games you’ve played on your channel are ones I enjoyed as a kid growing up. I still have all of them on disc too. You’re the only TH-camr I consistently watch and yearn for the next video to come out. Keep up the good content my guy!
-With love from Florida, Mouse.
Zoo Tycoon was one of my first video games ever and I think it's what really sparked my love of management games. I was never good at it. I'd just start with the max amount of money and play until I ran out and then I'd start a new zoo. But I always loved it and it remains one of my most nostalgic games. I even have it installed on my current PC and play it from time to time.
Same, it was one of the first videogames my parents got for me, back when I was a young child still in kinder, and I have played it from time to time ever since.
Brought back so many memories. Even the desktop icon was nostalgic
Omg yes, you are so right!! Loved the desktop icon
I believe this was the first sim games I ever played, maybe one of the first games in general. I remember I thought about the paths and benches and exhibits for days after I played it. It was nice to see it again, a superb video!
This game was a huge part of my childhood, I'm grateful that someone gave it some respect
Unleashing the most violent animals on the guests will always be the most fun part
I loved this game. My favorite thing to do was to get a real homeostasis in the Sahara and combine all of the animals - giraffes, gazelles, zebras, warthogs... and then when everything was going great, introduce the lions and delete all the fences. RETURN TO THE WILD.
Dude, this game was my entire childhood. I remember sitting at the computer, struggling to read what the animals needed because I was barely in school at that point. So many good memories, so many um... CREATIVE zoos. This makes me want to play it again. I might have the disc somewhere still, from long ago. Great video, and nice battle royale at the end, lol. Would love to see more!
Born in 2002, these games were my first games I ever played. So much nostalgia.
I was really enjoying this honest, amusing attempt at a successful zoo. Then things took a turn at 7:37 and got increasingly bizarre and hilarious until the end. Bravo.
Please do more zoo tycoon. This video alone brought back so many memories.
Zoo Tycoon was my favorite game as a child , it taught me lots of new words, like "rubbish." When Dinosaurs were angry, they would trample their enclosure turning every object into "rubbish" and then that would in turn make them unhappy. The Zoo Keeper kept telling me they were unhappy, missing foliage or rocks, then those would be trampled into rubbish, then back around in the same circle of unhappiness until my Zoo was closed down from further animals until I succeeded in making those Dinosuars happy. Since I couldn't figure out what "rubbish" was, eventually I broke down crying to my parents how every Dino was unhappy. Ah memories !
This video truly boils Zoo Tycoon down to its purest essence. A story of triumph and joy as the greatest zoo ever built rises from nothing, only to become a tragic but beautifully poetic descent into madness as mankind is reminded it's not always at the top of the foodchain. A truly thought provoking video.
I haven’t thought about this game in years. I had it for my DS lite and it was so fun (trapping humans in benches and listening to one track on repeat). Thanks for the memories! Good video!
Zoo Tycoon was the game that got me into gaming. I would spend hours and hours making the perfect collection of animals, marine life, and dinosaurs. I miss those days, man.
I used to hear people talk about how this game was but I never got it. I've been a subscriber of yours for years now so when I saw this, even with as hard as you made me laugh, I'm currently searching for the game! Thank you for your time and talent!
I love the subtle dystopian things some games slip in
In the grim darkness of the far future, long after the Filet o' Fish has been removed from the McDonald's menu, people pay and queue for hours just to see a glimpse of tuna.
What was dystopian about his zoo made in Boston, little man?
Your addition of increasing amounts of cartoon sound effects per episode is making them more whimsical and enjoyable to watch. I never played this one, but played a similar game, DinoPark Tycoon. I highly recommend old elementary school classics: DinoPark Tycoon, and SimPark. They're dumbed down for kids, but still have all the right elements. SimTown is also in the same category.
This video was so good... I'm loving this nostalgic 2000s series you're making. Keep it up!
My man!!! This is one of my first PC games from when I was a kid. So great! Everyone is always on about Rollercoaster Tycoon (Sure it's a classic) but people really do sleep on Zoo Tycoon.
I just want to say, I actually really like warthogs. They are both very badass and very chill. You can easily befriend them, but they will also fight off lions. Warthogs are great animals.
Dude your videos were always good but this takes it to a whole new level. You’re getting 💯
Damn this unlocked a memory, I really want to play it again now. Thanks for shining light on this game :]
On GOG's community wishlist, I've put in my vote for ZT:Complete edition. Hopefully enough of us can get them to pursue that.
I found some guy on Reddit who uploaded the whole thing to google drive. Took like maybe a half hour to install.
@@dharmallars Thank you, back at home I think I have it on CD somewhere, if not I'll be sure to check it out
My whole park was 1 big area for a million penguins 🐧.
Played this game so much as a child!
This is my absolute favorite game of all time. The greatest game I have ever played, and in my opinion, was the peak of PC gaming.
Some tips: Some African animals can go together in enclosures, like zebras and gazelle. There used to be a website that showed what animals could go with what and I think it's been archived, but I don't recall the name.
I used to love having a big exhibit full of orange and white tigers, or leopards and jaguars. But they’d always have one small difference in what they wanted in their habitat. With the leopards and jaguars it seriously came down to whether ONE tile of land was grass or rainforest floor.
I played zoo tycoon 2 when I was a kid, absolutely loved it. My favourite part was prolly to explore my zoo's in first person after finishing a part of it, there was this sence of satisfaction I'd get everytime
This game was such a big part of my childhood. So glad I still have the discs.
So many memories with my older sister when we were little. Thanks for uploading this!!!
My favorite game of all time, timeless. Your video is perfect!!!!!🙌
Blast from the past. I remember it took my computer around 15-20min to get past the loading screen. Was worth the wait every-time.
9:18 I don't remember this scene from Ice Age...
Seeing this game being played in 2021 makes me so happy. This game was literally my childhood and I'm so glad I can see this.
pretty sure you lost track of a year there lol
I freaking love these videos especially about old games as such 😂😂😂
"yo, they actually revived a stegosaurus here! Let's go see it!"
"Meh. Let's see the bluefin tuna."
Imagine a zoo tycoon and fallout crossover, imagine how sick it would be to see a deathclaw roaming about its habitat
That doesn't sounds that great...
when i was younger i blocked off the entry gate and spawned a bunch of animals in... i liked seeing what would happen, and it often ended up in lions munching on their prey. i knew that this outcome would happen, i just liked watching it happen.
Loved this game, both the sequel and the first one. I found out in the sequel you could 'freeze' a guest permanently as a prisoner. trapped in their final moment of torment if you put the offending animal in a box, locking the guest permanently in your zoo and in the same position. I made Artistic exhibits with guests. Different animals had different animations, allowing for flexibility when positioning the guests. Oddly, it only worked on adult men which limited my creative freedom, but I had fun none the less, though exiting the game unfortunately returned them to a T pose.
I would always have one person that would wander off to a portion of the zoo that wasn’t developed yet and complain that there wasn’t any food or bathrooms over there.
It makes me really happy hearing about this game because, although i never played it, I understand the feeling. I have the same feelings for Thrillville OTR for 360. I love seeing what is basically its predecessor. This game still looks awesome 👌
Nothing but the greatest of memories with Zoo Tycoon, I tell you what. I remember playing this game pretty much all the time as a kid, and since I had the complete collection, I got pretty wild with the zoos I could create. I had dinosaurs and all sorts of animals, and even mermaids.
its been that long huh this was my childhood game
I've really been enjoying the new flashy editing style you've had for your recent videos, keep it up!
If you wanna do like a challenge or whatever for rimworld I suggest playing with vanilla genetics expanded and character editor so you can edit your colonists DNA in the health tab without even starting the game yet. It has a wide range of possibilities, also love your content.
When I was like 10 I somehow became active on a ZT modding forum, downloaded a program to make your own animal mods, saved and cropped sprite sheets from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, and proceeded to mod Pokemon into the game
I even opened up the files after the initial modding and altered integers so they'd eat different foods, like different plants, etc.
It was fun. Great game. Classic ZT is one of my favorites.
First half the video- Beta trying to please everyone
Last half of the video- Chad giving things back to the nature
I feel this is exactly the development curve of whatever business ambiguousamphibian would take charge of irl.
Good thing you have a youtube channel, instead of us hearing about it on the news. X)
Another triumph!!
I should have known you were a zookeeper too
Sadly I never played Zoo Tycon but I spent hundreds of hours in Zoo Tycon 2, some of the best memories of my childhood :)
Damn, I love going to the zoo to see the tuna.
oughhh one of my favorite games of all time. i also learned what foliage ment from this game!! great video as always
Is it possible to cut off the entrance to the park? After all, people can’t leave bad reviews, if they can’t leave the zoo at all ;)
If there's one thing I know about Zoo Tycoon, it's that if you haven't played the game and released your animals to maul and eat all your visitors, then you haven't really played the game at all.
Don't forget to fence off the entrance
My childhood game! With Age of Empires and Legion! Thank you AmbiguousAmphibian
Why is it the fact that I love these videos so much that I always come back? Well maybe it’s because your voice is easily recognized and when I watch you my brain rewards myself. So maybe that’s why I come back.
Youre videos and narration bring me so much joy. I cant even explain it
Finally a big channel covers this gem. I was afraid it had been forgotten to time. I have a copy with the box and everything but my PC just wont run it.
I actually should revisit this game. When I played this in my really young years I could not read English. yet I had a absolute blast. haha
I used to play a city builder back in the day, i don't remember which one it was. But I was super awful at it, and eventually would get upset and frustrated that these people wouldnt keep growing the city. So i would delete all ways to leave the city, set it on super fast forward and just watch them die
This is very nostalgic lol. I remember I used love to let the animals out and they would attack the people 😅 It’s crazy how fast time flies.
I am so glad you made a video on this game, it's such a gem.
I still play this game from time to time. Best part of any playthrough is trapping the guests and releasing the animals on them. BTW there are 3 secret animals you can unlock by giving your exhibits cerrain names. Such as the unicorn "Xanadu", triceratops "Cretaceous Coral" and the final animal Deinosuchus "super croc". PLUS if you put a mermaid statue in a marine tank it will turn into a mermaid giving you another one :)
I also was introduced to the word "foliage" by this game, but I always read it as "foil-age" and went 10 years never hearing it in the wild or saying it aloud until one day I said it to my boyfriend at the time and he absolutely roasted me for it. Still does eight years later.
I played this game so much when I was younger, lol.
That was the most glorious video yet! The twist was hilarious!