Bob Hooley's Saved Games

All of the saved games found on this section of the site have been contributed and created by Bob Hooley, a park and coaster enthusiast I found on the news groups.  You can visit Bob's personal site at http://members.aol.com/bobcoaster/index.html.  All descriptions are taken from the readme files accompanying the parks.  Also, all of these parks require the Loopy Landscapes expansion pack, the Drexler Patch, and I have nuked the peeps.  If you would like a "peep-filled" version, email Bob, and he'll send you a copy of it.

21. Ocean Park Pier
Description:  I created this after a friend's pier park inspired me to do so. Relying on my imagination, on my interpretation of San Diego's coaster and park, Santa Cruz's fabulous colors and architecture, and Jeffrey Stanton's book (Venice of America) which provides an incredible wealth of photographs of the fascinating piers once located in Venice, California, I set to work to use the building capabilities of RCT/CF, and installed rides and attractions in buildings, and made those buildings as colorful and fanciful as I could. I then located coaster stations in the buildings, included some approach (to the lift) tunnels, and put in lots of water. I liked the finished appearance. I had the most fun with the station for the inverted launch coaster - also home to the station for the runaway train, the chute the chutes, and a miniature golf course. Download | File Size: 167kb
22. Pine Grove Park
Description:  Pine Grove Park is essentially a planned contemporary amusement (not themed) park. However, three of its rides ARE themed, by way of names and station buildings. The park was certainly inspired by the lay of the land at Kennywood. I created the park in the Butterfly Dam scenario, which allowed for a very high entrance gate placement. Consequently, I could have a flat park with a sharp ravine at the back. While 5 of the coasters dip into the ravine, the hyper serves the park by residing as an out and back backdrop for one section of traditional rides. Download | File Size: 192kb
23. Playland
Description:  Playland is a traditional park focused on wooden coasters, but it's also a complete park in featuring steel coasters and flat rides. It was created after the release of Corkscrew Follies, but prior to my interest in creating covered stations. The coasters in this park were very loosely modeled after the Rye Airplane. The name of the park and the real home of the Airplane have nothing in common; this is NOT an effort to create Rye Playland. One thing you might find interesting is that 2 of the wooden coasters were originally in another park, and I moved them to this one. The racer in this park was originally going to be white, until I moved the other coasters here, and then all became "unpainted". Download | File Size: 197kb
24. Playland at the Lake
Description:  I recently received a photograph booklet on the history of Playland in Rye, NY. Shortly afterwards, I had to drive to Pennsylvania. While enroute, I found myself thinking about a way to try to create a park in Roller Coaster Tycoon that was similarly "planned". I decided I should begin once I arrived home. Download | File Size: 238kb
25. River Valley Park
Description:  River Valley Park is essentially a traditional park in a very contemporary way. It features all the high-tech coasters of a modern theme park, but has no theming. It certainly focuses on wooden coasters, too, with its signature ride's being a large wooden racing coaster. I did the racer first. I worked on this park on and off for a very long time - probably the longest spread of time I spent on any park. I started it when RCT was fairly new. When Corkscrew Follies came out, that add-on pack changed the way racing coasters operated in terms of the way we are able to set 2 trains to depart simultaneously from adjacent stations. Now the END of the station tracks must be side-by-side. In RCT alone, that was not necessary; all that was required was that some part of the station tracks touch. Download | File Size: 220kb
26. Riverview Park
Description:  This is my variation on Riverview Park. It is NOT meant to be a copy of the real park; rather, this traditional park was just inspired by that famous park, and mine features multiple coasters that share some of the characteristics and names of the the park's real coasters. My Bobs, for instance, just follows the approximate footprint for sections of the ride, including the two curves on either side of the station (but in mine, taken in opposite order) and the run to the lift. My Fireball goes under the station and is an out and back. Those are the only similarities. Download | File Size: 208kb
27. Sans Souci Park Bear Cat
Description:  This is as close as I can get to the "real" Sans Souci Park Bear Cat. For those of you who are not familiar with this coaster (discussed briefly in Roller Coaster Fever), I have two photos of it along with a description on my website's Hometown Coasters Page. It was an out and back Herb Schmeck creation, opened in the late 1920's. It may have been an out and back, but featured a banked curve at the bottom of the first drop, a swooping curve for the turn around, a surprising double dip (created by dropping into a small ravine), a wonderful approach (to the lift) tunnel, and a fabulous finale - a 180 degree downhill spiral, a 180 degree on-the-ground curve, a banked straight section into a final tunnel with an extraordinary curve into a sharp rise that ended in a twisting brake run. Download | File Size: 148kb
28. Seaside Bluffs
Description:  I believe I created Seaside Bluffs in the Butterfly Dam scenario, but the land is changed so radically, I can't even remember! Anyway, Seaside Bluffs is just that; a traditional amusement park on a bluff overlooking the sea. I imagined it to be in England. I also envisioned it as a park with many decades of history, and with some rides from that history. But it's a park that has changed with contemporary times to compete with theme parks. However, it is not themed, nor is it carefully planned. As the owners saw the need to add new rides, particularly new coasters, they just had them built wherever there was space, even over, under, and around other rides. In many cases, they're lined up next to each other. The park has 5 wooden coasters besides a wooden Wild Mouse. Download | File Size: 250kb
29. Seaside Boardwalk and Piers
Description:  Seaside Boardwalk and Piers features a series of rides and attractions along a boardwalk and on two piers extending out over the ocean. This was inspired by photographs I've seen of early California boardwalk racing coasters. So I started there, with a large racing coaster I named the Jackrabbit Racer. Next came a double-decker carousel, followed by rides and attractions alongside the Jackrabbit Racer. On the other side of the entrance to the boardwalk visitors find a large two-story dark ride, a Jumbo Jet roller coaster, and an enclosed suspended dark ride. The first pier features a Wildwood-like feeling. It has a coaster much based on the Great White. But this pier also has a Wild Mouse, dark ride, train, monorail, log flume, Ferris Wheel, Go-Karts, antique cars, and various thrill rides. The second pier, an older pier, features a wooden coaster built atop buildings, much like Coney Island's Tornado. Download | File Size: 208kb
30. Silver Glen Park
Description:  Silver Glen Park is a park created on a landscape I used twice before. It's a very flat piece of land except for a huge ravine at the back of the property. Several of the park's coasters utilize this ravine to enhance drops. In fact, Silver Glen has 4 coasters that drop into this ravine. One of them, like the Kennywood Jack Rabbit, has 2 drops prior to the lift hill. Silver Glen has 4 wooden coasters (including a twin racer - perhaps my first twin racer - with one backwards train), a large Arrow looper, a B&M inverted, B&M looping coaster, and an Arrow suspended coaster. The park also features a spinning Wild Mouse, a reflecting pool with fountains at the entrance (the carousel is behind the pool), the standard flat rides, and a train that encircles the park. Download | File Size: 248kb
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