Theme Park (DOS)

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Theme Park (DOS).

A number of changes were made to Theme Park during its development, including the scrapping of multiplayer mode and 3D isometric view.

Changes#

A number of changes were made, as shown by magazine previews:

A very different interface, and items can be seen on pavements.

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This seems to show characters not seen in the final game.

The adviser's speech bubble is not present.

<div style="text-align:right;font-size:smaller;">''(Source: Edge issue 9 page 34)''</div>

Different wall, ride entrance, and a mass of rocks.

<div style="text-align:right;font-size:smaller;">''(Source: Edge issue 9 page 35)''</div>

<div style="text-align:right;font-size:smaller;">''(Source: PC Gamer issue 1 page 20)''</div>

A 3D isometric view. This was "too restrictive".

<div style="text-align:right;font-size:smaller;">''(Source: PC Gamer issue 1 page 21)''</div>

<div style="text-align:right;font-size:smaller;">''(Source: PC Gamer issue 1 page 22)''</div>

At one point, the player was supposed to be in the rôle of a nephew who had inherited a large sum of money from his aunt, to be used on "building the world's biggest and most profitable theme park".¹

Multiplayer mode was dropped shortly before release due to time constraints,² and thugs could have been deployed to other parks.³

References#

Theme Park. Prescreen. Edge. No. 9. Bath: Future plc. June 1994. pp. 34, 35. ISSN 1350-1593.↩︎
Geoff Keighley. The Final Hours of Black & White. GameSpot. p. 19. Retrieved 5 March 2018.↩︎
Theme Park. Computer and Video Games. No. 151. Peterborough: EMAP. June 1994. pp. 28–31. ISSN 0261-3697.↩︎