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RollerCoaster Tycoon and More Games Now Available on Apple Arcade

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Apple Arcade gained six more games today as promised, including RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE, The Game of Life 2, Sesame Street Mecha Builders, Space Invaders Infinity Gene Evolve, and puffies.

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Notably, the Apple Arcade version of RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic is available on the Mac:
Combining features from two of the series' most successful and beloved games, RollerCoaster Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, this new game invites players to create and run amazing parks with the most outrageous rides imaginable. Enhanced for iPhone and iPad, RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic+ delivers the same depth of gameplay and unique graphical style of Chris Sawyer's original best-selling PC games. It also includes three expansion packs — Wacky Worlds, Time Twister, and Toolkit — and is playable across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
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The first original Katamari game in nearly eight years also arrived on Apple Arcade today, across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.

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Here is how Apple describes that game:
In this quirky action game — an Apple Arcade exclusive — players expand their Katamari by rolling up objects scattered across the earth. Featuring unique and whimsical gameplay, and a captivating soundtrack that blends different genres, the game invites players to energize the king's "live stream" by rolling their Katamari to create stars. As users advance, comments from in-game fans appear, and the longer they play, the larger their audience grows. By completing the king's challenges and boosting their subscriber count, players can unlock dynamic new stages.
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More details about all six games can be found in Apple's announcement from last month.

Accessible through the App Store, Apple Arcade is a subscription-based service that provides access to hundreds of games across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, all free of ads and in-app purchases. In the U.S., Apple Arcade costs $6.99 per month and is bundled with other Apple services in all Apple One plans.

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Apple Arcade had some interesting games and variety in the beginning, but it seems they have decided to focus on a younger crowd , and it's mostly HelloKitty and Tamagotchi stuff now..

Netflix has a similar offer for subscribers and the games offering seem to target an older crowd ( Civilization, GTA, Rise Of The Golden Idol, etc..)
 
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Is anyone else having a display issue with RCT on the Mac? When you open the app, it goes full screen, but then the game area is only a tiny box in the lower-left corner of my screen. The rest of the screen is black.
 
RCT was one of the original I played on my first PC. Later revisions just got too complicated (like SimCity, Civilization, etc). Hope this is a simplified incarnation.
 
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Böhme417 said:
Is anyone else having a display issue with RCT on the Mac? When you open the app, it goes full screen, but then the game area is only a tiny box in the lower-left corner of my screen. The rest of the screen is black.
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I have a Mac mini and studio display and it opens full screen normally. The text is so small it's unplayable anyway.
 
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Have to test it. Maybe I will not need to start my 20 years old laptop anymore for Roller Coaster. :-D
 
neuropsychguy said:
It's a great batch. There are quite a few excellent games on Apple Arcade now.

Balatro, Stardew Valley, Don't Starve, Vampire Survivors, Goat Simulator are some others.
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And even without those heavy hitters, I honestly really appreciate the "+" classics. They were great back in the day and I didn't play all of them at the time.... it's great that they are streamlined and ad-free.

I'm a fan of the service, but it still needs a course change IMO if they want it to break out. Nothing wrong with having a bunch of phone games, but the Mac and AppleTV are sorely underrepresented. Hell, I don't have an AVP, but a port of Beat Sabre or SuperHot would be a nice bone to throw.
 
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I would spend some late night hours playing this game on my PC. I managed to get a copy on my Macbook, still have it and works perfectly. who knew people didn't want to try out my custom roller coaster that would lead to death on the final turn?
 
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Forget about Railroad-Tycoon-Whatever-The-Fudge —> Katamari Damacy... KATAMARI frickin' DAMACY!

Thank you for your time ;¬)
 
I had the same issues this morning with RCT on Mac. The windows, buttons and fonts are way too small.

Shift + U and Control + U shortcuts help , but it seems the Mac default resolution is way off.
 
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Anyone who already owns RCT2 and is interested in playing on macOS should also check out OpenRCT2 in addition to RCT Classic.

OpenRCT2 is an open-source implementation of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 with a lot of enhancements and quality-of-life improvements for modern systems. You must provide it with files from your existing copy of RCT2 (and optionally RCT1) to load the art assets, scenarios, maps, etc.
 
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