First "MY RCT2" Video Complete

I have finally completed the first of many RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 projects, which I mentioned earlier. It’s called My RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Ghost Town and is divided into three parts because of its length:

My RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Ghost Town (Part 1/3)
My RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Ghost Town (Part 2/3)
My RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Ghost Town (Part 3/3)

Everything you need to know about these videos is in the video descriptions. I highly recommend watching them in high quality (red circles in the picture above), but unfortunately for some unknown reason the audio volume level sometimes changes rapidly. Since choosing between high and low quality is a rather new feature on YouTube, I certainly hope this is just a bug which will be fixed soon. In the meantime you can download the original video from FileFront in one continuous high quality presentation without any audio problems.

These RollerCoaster Tycoon videos are only for those who are at least somewhat interested in the game genre or subject, so if you aren’t interested at all, please refrain from giving the 1-3 stars I know some of you want to give, and instead for example watch my newest smash hit Star Wars Battlefront: Darth Vader Just Got Owned! (magenta outlines in the first picture), which has already gathered 13 thousand views and achieved the status of 8th most viewed and 5th most discussed of all my videos, FUCK YEAH =)!

Six Flags Great Adventure Rollercoaster Introduction: Part 11

The superhero theme continues with Batman: The Ride, an inverted steel rollercoaster opened in 1993 which resembles the Tornado rollercoaster at Särkänniemi, Finland. Besides the size and form the main difference between the two is that where in Tornado each car has two rows of two seats, Batman accommodates four rides in the only row of each car. Batman: The Ride climbs up 23 feet higher than Tornado up to 105 feet and picks up a top speed of 50 miles per hour being only 4.4 mph faster. Tornado is approximately 400 feet shorter and takes 25 seconds less to complete, but both of them have five inversions. In Batman’s case, two loops, two corkscrews and one zero-g roll.

But since everything is bigger in the US – including rollercoaster’s building budgets – Batman: The Ride’s surrounding and queue area are littered with scenery from the world of Batman and the Batman movie. Music from the film can also be heard in the queue are, so even queuing won’t be boring at all. But the queue area might become a bit too familiar, since Batman: The Ride will probably be one of my favorites because of it’s likeness with Tornado. On the other hand may time bigger rides, like Nitro seen in the background of picture above, will probably steal most of the focus since something like them can’t be experienced in Finland.

Six Flags Great Adventure Rollercoaster Introduction: Part 10

Next up is Skull Mountain, the only enclosed rollercoaster in the park at the moment. Because of it’s enclosed status, Skull Mountain very much resembles a rollercoaster called Linnunrata (Finnish for Milky Way), in the Linnanmäki amusement park. Both of them feature sound effects and strobe lights, but due to fear of epileptic seizures, the strobe lights were removed from Skull Mountain some time ago. Therefore the ride takes place in total darkness, so in order to see anything beforehand; I chose a video shot when the (normal) lights were on.

Opened in 1996, with the lights on Skull Mountain is one of the more mellow rollercoasters in Six Flags Great Adventure, but with the lights out the intensity is probably a lot higher, especially for first timers. Since Skull Mountain is enclosed, it is the park’s only rollercoaster which operates even during thunderstorms, when all the other coasters are closed and of course also during rainstorms, when the more than ten times taller Kingda Ka is closed. Skull Mountain rises only 41 feet, but manages to reach a top speed of 33 miles per hour. It has a length of 1337 feet and takes a bit over two minutes to complete.