Can you beat RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 without Building Path?

For the many people wondering about whether you could do this without any path: No you cannot. Guests cannot enter a park if there's no path and they also cannot enter a ride if they're not on a path.

Marcel "We could drowned 10000 and still beat it. And we do indeed..." Brain autocomplete "drowned several hundred"

"I had some Ferris Wheels drowning guests but unfortunately they broke down in the second year" Never change Vos

seeing RCT1 is just so weird after some years only playing with OpenRCT2

Big woodchip and bigger woodchip is absolute comedy gold

Next we need the ultimate challenge for Marcel: RCT pacifist run, win every scenario with 0 drownings.

Me: “But Marcel. You could just advertise and get those guests.” Marcel: “I also beat it without advertising, so that’s an added bonus and from now on ads are off limits too.” Me “oh dear lord…”

I love Marcel skipping out on setting zones for handymen and just flooding a park with them. Sometimes it works out, other times it leads to a swarm of handymen just following eachother around in an unhelpful group XD

Marcel: ''Today I will do a very difficult challenge'' Also Marcel: ''Okay but it will be boring so let's make it even harder''

"Ah nice, a new Marcel video, I like how they are always short and a quick watch..." checks runtime

really puts into perspective the quality of life changes in RCT2 and open like staff being placed automatically or stalls opening automatically

19:32 As the great American philosopher Lawrence Peter Berra said: "It's too crowded, nobody goes there anymore."

That wooden coaster at the very beginning of the video is very nicely designed. Also, being Dutch myself, it's interesting you have other names for both the parks and some of the rides. Dinky Park = Pokey Park, Aqua Park = White Water Park, Mothball Mountain = Mystic Mountain. And the two rides in "Karts and Coasters" are called "Lumberjack" and "Timber Terror" in the (afaik) European version of RCT1, just to name a few. One final (small) note is that in RCT1, if you didn't have add-ons installed, there was no "No Entry"-sign available.

"Fanatical Frozen Food Fetishist" there's a phrase I never thought I'd hear.

"All the parks with a lot of paths already built will be a walk in the park" 😆

As someone who recently finished all of the RCT1 scenarios partly due to your videos, I was very surprised to hear you also had not done them all til now. Like you I didn't finish them all in childhood, but I would never have guessed that I'd complete them before you did 😃

I'm so happy to see you giving the original RCT a shot!

Accidentally deleting path and starting over is pure Dutch pedantry, and I gotta respect that lol

challenge suggestion: you can only use each attraction once. Either in a single park scenario, or - and I think this would be more interesting - playing loads of different scenarios: You could place e.g. as many ferris wheels as you want within the same scenario, but then you are not allowed to place ferris wheels again until you've used EVERY SINGLE ride & stall available in the game. I think this could be interesting in terms of strategizing since not every ride or stall is available in every scenario

I must admit that it is somewhat depressing to learn that despite struggling so much with the later scenarios in RCT1 as a kid (even some of the middle scenarios to be honest), pretty much the entire game can be beaten by just filling the entire screen with the same rides, even if they are unreachable. It's certainly an amusing dichotomy between the complex and often arcane design elements of RCT, and the numerous ways they can be broken.