Talk:Roller Coaster (video game)

"Jet Set Willy" comparisons
There seems to be an awful lot of stuff in this article regarding some sort of "link" to the Jet Set Willy games which I find a bit questionable. The protagonist in Roller Coaster doesn't really resemble Miner Willy, the game-engine feels completely different and the gameplay is only similar in that it's a flick-screen platform game (Technician Ted, for example, is far more similar to Jet Set Willy in feel). Unless some solid proof can be found for the links being claimed having been made before (and I've never seen them in any games journalism) then I'm going to have to remove them. -- Zagrebo 10:29, 12 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I've decided to remove them. If anyone can supply references to all the speculation claims then the information can go back in -- Zagrebo 20:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I think there should be a "Trivia" section
One interesting trivium is that the amusement park seems to be partly based on Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Lancashire, UK); in particular, there is a giant Gulliver statue holding up part of the Log Flume, just as there is at BPB (except that theirs holds up part of their Monorail). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.122.47.170 (talk) 22:25, 26 January 2007 (UTC).

"Fairground" != "Amusement Park" != "Theme Park"
The terms "funfair" (aka "fairground"), "Amusement Park" and "Theme Park" are often used (as they were on this page) as if they meant the same thing, but in fact they don't; according to the UK leisure trade newspaper, World's Fair:


 * A funfair (or just a fair) travels from one place to another. A fairground is of course a place set aside (usually temporarily) for the planned arrival of a fair. Since most roller coasters are large and hence not easily transportable (transportable rides need to be able to be set up and taken down in hours rather than days or weeks), they (except for specially designed small models which can't match their larger brethren for thrill level) aren't found at funfairs.


 * An amusement park is a permanent and stationary collection of rides, which can thus include very large rides.


 * A theme park is an amusement park with an overall theme, or with several individually-themed sections (and possibly one or more non-themed sections). Many amusement parks (e.g. Blackpool Pleasure Beach) are not theme parks.

The park in Roller Coaster is an amusement park. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.122.47.170 (talk) 14:52, 25 February 2007 (UTC).

Fair use rationale for Image:RollerCoasterTitle.jpg
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 * Sorted. :-)

Fair use rationale for Image:RollerCoasterTitle.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:42, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Rollercoasterscreen.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:48, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:DragonsLairTheLegendScreen.png
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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Images needed
This page used to have images, but they were deleted for some reason.

I think they (or at least the screenshots) should be put back, because yesterday I found that someone had wrongly (albeit probably in good faith) deleted the section on the Game Boy Dragon's Lair: The Legend as having been "placed in the wrong article"; in fact, the deleted screenshots showed quite clearly that DL:TL is a port of RC.

Someone should reinstate the images. -- Korax1214 (talk) 13:55, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I removed the "cover=yes" parameter from the infobox, as the box art has in fact been restored. However, the image undeletion request discussion seems to indicate that Wikipedia's fair-use rules are such that we're only allowed to have the box art or the screenshot(s) — not both; which seems a bit weird to me, especially in an article such as this, about an old game where the publisher (if the publisher even still exists) isn't likely to be harmed even if infinite quantities of pirate copies are handed out on street corners. — Korax1214 (talk) 16:27, 2 July 2008 (UTC)