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Grande Francisco, orgullo latinoamericano ✨🎸🤟

@marcelvos looks too intense for me.

There are some nuances to the popular narratives this talk references that I want to pedantically clarify. - Using assembly code wasn't unheard-of wizardry in the '90's - it was basically required for all performant games made on SNES or earlier, so loads of programmers were used to x86 ASM at the time. C and other high level languages wouldn't become popular in video game development until the mid '90's when compilers started matching the performance of handwritten ASM and the complexities of 3D game development made human-readable code a priority. But RCT didn't need that at the time (and in fact received immediate criticism for not being 3D, just like SimCity 3000). According to the OpenRCT2 devs I've talked to, had Chris been comfortable with C in 1999 (and not reused a lot of his isometric engine code from TTD), compilers of the era would have been capable of producing equally performant code as his handwritten ASM. He is definitely a talented programmer, but it's not *because* of ASM that Roller Coaster Tycoon is so performant - and I theorize the relative *poor* performance of contemporary 3D games (including the eventual Roller Coaster Tycoon 3) gave rise to the popular meme about Chris being an assembly savant in the late 00's. But that's an idea for further research. - The corporate hot potato publishing history is weird, but it all stems back to UK company MicroProse. Chris worked with them for TTD, but they were acquired by Hasbro Interactive in 1998 (hence why you see both names in RCT1), before Hasbro Interactive was acquired by Infogrames in 2001 (what you see in RCT2), before Infogrames rebranded itself as Atari in 2003 (what you see in RCT3 and beyond) after consolidating full rights to that corporate name following Hasbro's purchase of the "original" Atari's husk of a gaming division in 1998. It's always technically been the same publisher, and Chris seems to have stuck with them out of convenience (despite reportedly retaining full ownership of the brand and even suing Atari for unpaid royalties in 2005). Yada yada, more stuff happened after that, Atari filed for bankruptcy and even tried to auction off the rights to RCT in 2013 but found no buyers. In 2014 the company emerged from those proceedings as Atari SA, basically a holding company for the IP they couldn't sell off managed by Frédéric Chesnais and a skeleton crew of 10 employees. This company was $34 million in debt, so they started milking nostalgia for all they could. This was how we got RCT4M with microtransactions galore, and for how much we all hate this period it definitely saved the company - with (now crypto-shilling) Frédéric Chesnais directly crediting RCT as being their most profitable franchise in 2018. Thankfully Chesnais was bought out and replaced with Wade Rosen who quickly shelved the company's NFT plans and made well-received investments in Nightdive Studios and historical releases like Atari 50. We've likewise seen new official RCT merch and product collabs within the past year. - Frontier actually developed both RCT2 expansions (hence why they only contain reskins of existing rides and have a slightly different art style). After this they developed RCT3, its two expansions, then Thrillville and its sequel in back to back years. They'd produce a few small scale coaster games in the intervening years, but Planet Coaster in 2016 was a big revelation after a decade of no major theme park sims. I'm sure the author wanted to include all that minutia of history in there, but I applaud them for speeding through as much as possible to get to the community showcases. Awesome to see a greatest hits of NewElement featured - no press outlets ever cover that corner of user creations!

I was trying to find the cringe comp of this panel but I think it got deleted :c

Rct classic DID NOT have ALL the scenarios of the first two games.

great presentation!

I'm bad at being a silent Byleth

Mooi

God, seeing the funny and serious live moments make me wish SO badly for a Hope Rides Alone musical........

Great presentation and incredibly well-researched! The only nitpick I have is that you didn't mention my best video: "Drowning guests for 3 hours straight".

Does anyone even compare to this guy's talent with chiptune these days? I can't help but feel like the last several chipraves were missing talent on this guy's level. Please bring back Virt!

Easily my favorite British rapper, right along with Asa

I didn't expect to see the H2H8 trailer like this! Really cool. Enough tooting my own horn - you did a great job on the presentation as a whole.

G Force from New Element here, wonderful presentation! Honored have work be included!

Fantastic work! RCT is more than just my favorite video game - it's given me more joy than any other outlet. It's timeless and amazing, and you did such a good job covering the history of this gem, both the past and the present.

YEEEEES!!!! NEW ELEMENT REPRESEEEEENT!!! Amazing presentation. Most videos focusing on the game on RUclips zoom in on the history, and the new shitty sequels. Not many focus on the different communities and the actual legacy. Great to see it here!

What a wonderful and comprehensive look into the game! Nice job!

Thank you for all the love you gave the game and our community here. Having been a member of New Element for much over a decade now. Always amazing to see when we get noticed like that! I don't think many communities like this exist.

Loved this! Well researched and very fun style!

Very nice presentation!

DKMP crowd; let's take over the comments! 🙌🏻

Cant wait to see these guys at R2V2 2024 in October!

The surprise K.K. Crusin' was a real delight!

Goood goood !! 🎉

Noticed the mix/production is the best yet!! Drums sound very clear and properly compressed, guitars balanced and wide, bass sitting perfect yet present, the game sounds are a really nice touch, I’d like the audience louder, but that’s personal preference. Mastered loud yet dynamics are preserved well. Oh yeah, and you destroyed the tunes as usual, fantastic arrangements and performances! Great energy too! Kudos gentlemen, keep up the outstanding work!!!!!

Two lead guitarists, a lead bassist, and a lead drummer, with a lead gamer. Absolutely incredible. Much love from Toronto 😎

Two lead guitarists, a lead bassist, and a lead drummer, with a lead gamer. Much love from Toronto 😎

Unbelievable

wait, there's a convention center called "Gaylord"?

Really interesting video :-)

Those were good times!

Dude what happened to anthony? Havent seen him since after borderlanda 2 and it sucks cuz he was actually making gamea hilarioua

You guys rock

Shwabadi saying “booooo!” And rustage saying “fuck you” is absolutely hilarious

It's crazy that there was no indication that a cave was there. I remember watching my brother burn every bush and bomb every wall. This was a game for children... lol

36:10 this guy looks like Jude from 6teen

Game looks like it captures the 2D retro-action experience well. Excited to play it!

Hi, That was I speaking at the panel back in January. Update: some places are saving their animatronic and have displayed retro CEC merchandise. Sadly, the Elvis Lion animatronic at the Volo museum broke down, no telling what happened to King Kat. Volo museum has a working Rock-A Fire Explosion animatronic show.

Great game.

Not me getting emotional & misty-eyed during this performance of the Arthur Theme! 🖤🤍🖤🤍 🤍🖤🤍🖤

Are we finally gonna get act 3??

This is AWESOME

Been playing this game since I was 4 such a nostalgic adventure every time, would have loved to see this live!

8:19 dave's back, holy shit havent seen him in a while. nice beard. he looks like an entirely different dude

The camera person was really doing a bad job at the end

Shoutout to the guy who said he was there to hear kilroy give flowery speeches

Love this game when I was young. One of the few games I completed on all difficulties.

Thank god you guys added those pronouns to the video, otherwise I wouldn't have known that this man with a man voice and a man face was a man!

15:55 Knowing that something came very close to happening in 2020; according to John Davis, makes this kinda sad in hindsight. (But ya never know.)

Act III is my Roman Empire