I loved playing this growing up. It's crazy how I've never talked about this game to anyone outside of my family and I've never heard any else talk about it until now. So many Thrillville enjoyers here that we can make our own Thrillville.
Always had fun playing this growing up too. None of my friends ever brought up playing this though, so i kept it to myself. But sitting down for hours and making a theme park EXACTLY the way i wanted was great.
this game was so undeservedly unpopular and it had better graphics and a lot more going on than roller coaster tycoon and other amusement park games. not even star wars fanatics have heard of this game despite being made by Lucasarts too
Maaaaaaan I remember playing Off the Rails as a kid. Let's be real, most kids probably never even understood the "Park Management" part of the game. We just wanted to play Bandito Chinchilla for the 50th time in a row. But that's what I loved about it. You could still have a ridiculous amount of fun with the game, even if your park wasn't 100% perfect.
During my second or third playthrough of the game I discovered combos for each character in Bandito Chinchilla. The minigame rewarded discovery with unique animations for most playable characters
Played Off The Rails on the Wii, it was such a charming and rather specific kind of game, almost as it was specifically made for me. The variety was all over the place and yeah, the minigames were stuff you played before but they were still super addictive.
Playing on Wii was such a strange and fun experience. I remember going into the coaster builder and making the craziest looking coasters due to the nature of the wii remote 🤣
I'm 27 years old and I STILL play Off the Rails damn near every week. It was always my fun/chill comfort game that I could never go wrong with. And the fresh coat of paint that it had over the first really made it pop. Playing it on next gen right now is incredibly cool too. Also...THE SOUNDTRACK ON BOTH GAMES, THOOO
Thrillville was literally my childhood... it was **everything** to me, the minigames esp. and the mad scientist vs. GloboCorp are such vivid happy memories.
I remember playing this game religiously when I was a kid. Just the fact that I ran my own theme parks and was able to ride and play the games was amazing. I always loved playing all the shootzones
For me it was Off The Rails that took up all my time. One of my deepest memories is a weird moment when I heard music from another game that was my childhood, Secret Weapons over Normandy, in the plane mini games. It was surreal to say the least.
omg i LOVED Off the Rails as a kid. when i was really young, i wrote Thrillville fan fiction (which is hilarious) and that shows how immersed i was in this silly little game. it’s been 17 years and i still get the Bandito Chinchilla theme stuck in my head randomly sometimes. now i want to fire up Thrillville again after watching this video
I worked on the QA team on Thrillville: Off the rails. I suppressed that memory long ago. And you just had to dig it back up. Damn you Buns! DAMN YOU TO HEEEEEEELL!!!!! glad your back though, love your videos.
@@tmnt_and1445 As QA work goes it was pretty good. They rotated us on a few games, so got to see some games that were never released, or that were way better before release. The whole Lucas Arts campus was gorgeous with an amazing cafeteria. Though EAs was better in my opinion. Gave a nice discount on merch so I bought some of those beast ass lightsabers for a good price. And a few ghost stories on overtime hours. It was built over an old war hospital so it was basically obligatory.
One of the things I remember most about the OG Thrillville besides the mini-games, is they had that Honky Tonk Badonkadonk song in it on the soundtrack, a song about a guy talking about a woman's big butt, that was somehow approved to be put in a game aimed mostly for kids.
In Smackdown vs Raw 2007, a pro wrestling video game, there is a song on the soundtrack titled "Forgive Me" by the band "Versus the World" If you listen to the lyrics, you quickly realize the song is about a man preparing to hang himself and end his own life, begging those he'll leave behind to forgive him. Not just does a song like that not fit a sports game, but a pro wrestler by the name of Chris Benoit, who would make his final video game appearance here, would murder his wife and son only to than hang himself afterward just after the game released.....
I'm pretty sure Badonkadonk was also featured in Ms. Splosion Man, the game used it to make fun of you for skipping ahead to the next checkpoint, along with making the player character's butt super big and taking away all your points at the end and calling you a cheater. Man, writing this now reminded me how brutal that game is.
You just unlocked core memories for me. I almost exclusively just made coasters as deranged as possible and then would ride them in POV mode and then spend hours customizing the look and color. I remember playing a few of the mini games on Off the Rails, but I spent most of the time in the character creation menu or riding the rides I made. The music also slapped so hard, so I remember jamming to it a lot. I almost never left the “testing” mode.
I spent hours every day as a kid playing the cheerleader minigame on the original thrillville. I was obsessed, and it sparked a love of rhythm games for years to come. Oh and there were coasters. That was neat I guess.
Me definitely remember that Or if playing as a girl flirting with other girls boyfriends them saying "Will you please stop flirting with my boyfriend before I do something I'll regret later" 😂 @@Mexicangunner123
There’s a song from Off the Rails called My Gurlz and I, being absolutely deranged and disturbed, learned and memorized the entire song. I used to make my friends listen to me do it over and over again. This game will never die, I won’t allow it to.
I also feel like that Mitchel Musso commercial must have been real because for some reason I see him walking through a very obvious green-screen park in my mind's eye trying to remember anything about it. If Defunctland has taught me nothing else; it's oddly the most important thing that we record Ads because otherwise we lose so much important history of culture.
OMG BUNS! You Unlocked Core Childhood MEM for ME!! I very much remembered the mini game shown at 4:53 but could never find it again later because I lost my PSP. I would have never found it if not for this VIDEO. I put so many hours into Trojan Quest and the other mini games and am so happy I know where to find them again! THANKS YOUUU
4:27 reminds me when I went to my home park six flags st louis and someone was screaming on the ninja before it even left the station. He probably knew what was ahead of him on that ride. Probably got a headache for the rest of the day.
I was listening to a random playlist and "Suddenly I see" by KT Tunstall came on, I was electroshocked with nostalgia and after five minutes of replaying the song remembered the name of this game!! I was OBSESSED as a kid! I would play it for HOURSSS
The bun has graced us on this holy day with a brand new vid at last, buckle up you all Also Merry Christmas everyone! I hope your day is filled with jingles and bliss (unless you have sensitive hearing, then just a peaceful one) 🎉🎉🎉
That thumbnail brought back some good memories. I owned the PSP version when I was a kid, and after playing the console versions later in life, I'm shocked how...close it is to those versions. Aside from the obviously downgraded graphics and lack of voice acting, it's pretty feature-complete. Thanks for the fun vid, Buns. Also, quick correction: Frontier only worked on RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and the original Xbox port of the first RCT. The first two games were made by Chris Sawyer.
Wow that unlocked a core memory. I loved Thrillville as a kid and making the coasters and playing the micro games was awesome. It is kind of sad that we never really got other games that had it so you could see things from the guest level with playing as the park manager. It helped give the player a personal connection to the guests with the social system, and also gave a valid way to have a story mode unlike most other theme park games where you either feel disconnected from it (Jurassic World) or they don't even bother (insert most theme park games). Hopefully someone catches on to this idea becuase I think under the right management it could do very well in this day and age.
I think I remember the Mitchel Musso commercial you mentioned. It either had Mitchel Musso interviewing other teens, or several Disney stars being interviewed, about what they like about the game. I distinctly remember one person talking about the dating system.
It is surreal to me how many of these do you remember videos I watch where I can say yes I do. Or in this game's case, I remember one song that would always play that went, "Suddenly I see(I see) This where I want to be." Happy Holidays everyone.
This song came on at my old job one day and I was losing my mind knowing I recognized it, and I finally found it on the soundtrack of the game! Brought so many memories back
I never really liked Thrillville as a kid despite having Off the rails for my PS2. But I was absolutely obsessed with Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, and why is it only now that I recognise the artstyle and graphics for the game to be nearly identical.
the other day i was walking my dog and my mind wandered into thinking about Thrillville. i still remember the money cheat (square circle triangle, square circle triangle, x!) and the sounds the menu would make when inputting them. i thought about how weird the game's romance system was, and how it probably ruined my perception of how dating worked (though not as much as club penguin). but it really made me think how a game like that could never exist nowadays the way it had then with its ridiculous marketing and absolutely crammed to the top amount of different things you could do. it's been a while since i've seen an ad for something that genuinely tried to be fun
I had the PC one. Whenever I googled it I just got rollercoaster tycoon, I genuinely just gave up and thought I must've confused the two. So this makes me very happy and seen.
I remember the Mitchell Muso commerical too. I don't know if it was for the original or Off the Rails, but I remember they made him into an avatar that ran around the park and talked about the game. It was weird. Couldn't find it though.
I'M UP! 🤩 I know nothing about thrillville and sims aren't my kind of game, but your delivery of well everything had me smiling throughout the whole video. Thank you for the long in depth videos this year. Analysis combined with your humor immaculate. Also for everything else you make from several long streams to the occasional sparky comment on social media. You make my life so much brighter with everything you make.
As a Thrillville fan, I definitely noticed you were using off the rails footage. It actually irritated me at first because I didn't realize you were going to eventually cover off the rails and thought you used the footage by mistake!
I had Thrillville: Off the Rails for my Wii back in the day and I remember loving it, but watching this video made me realize that I’m pretty sure I barely paid attention to the happiness of the guests and instead just built a couple minigame areas and played those.
I spent hours my ps2 with this. Loved how you could just make out w random guests lmao i also loved making the most nausea inducing coasters. I LOVED the theming of the lands! The music from each was so much fun!
I remember playing this game when I was only 3. I was too young to understand the coaster building mechanic, so I asked my mom for help. The end result was a completely flat coaster with no ups or downs, just a plain oval. I thought it was really funny how the ride ended up being super popular.
I still sometimes think back to this game. I played the heck out of it as a kid and my favorite minigames would have to be the first-person shooting games. What was cool is each type of shooting location changed your guns and enemies, which felt really cool.
That robot shooting arcade game was the game me and my brother's played the most. So much fun. Also that platformer where you collect animals and when you get them all the round ends and like an invincible thing comes in and makes you go to the exit
i never heard that line before! i believe i had this game for the PSP? i cant remember. but i believe they didnt have any voice acting..... edit. Thrillville Off The Rails is what i had. thx
I thought I was the only one who remembered these games but no one I knew heard of them, so for the longest time I thought I was hallucinating them as some sort of fever dream. XD Playing these with cousins was some of the most fun I've had since I absolutely loved playing the OG Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Wow, Buns, Thrillville used to be one of the games that me, my sister and cousins just loved playing through and experimenting on PS2. Honestly hope Disney might actually revive this game someday. Merry Christmas!
Literally thought I was the only one who knew this game. This video was SO WELL DONE. I was laughing and crying at the nostalgia the whole time. Thank you !!!!!
My best friend and I LOVED the hell out of Thrillville, we would create these insane roller coaster rides and when we were done making them, we would turn on the first person camera and pretend like we were on them. I might have to get this game again just for the nostalgia alone. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
Woah woah woah. Chris Sawyer made roller coaster 1&2 frontier came in during 2s post launch to develop the dlc packs for the game. Then went on to fully develop rct3. Im only passionate about that fact cause Chris Sawyer made almost all of rct1&2 himself in Assembly code which is one of the hardest and barebones way to code.
I loved playing the shooting games and the one where you have to play medieval/olympian themed soldiers fighting monsters. The UFO and RC demo derby games were fun too. Definitely a classic.
I do remember that theme song that I could never get out of my head as a kid. Plus the Whoa Coasters. Those were definitely pieces that would never be allowed in any coaster design.
That commercial is confirmed to be lost media, I don't know how big the search is for it. But I know that there was a discord looking for thrillville and other older simulator game commercials that were lost
Thanks for this nostalgic and hilarious trip down memory lane Buns. I used to play the shit out of Thrillvile Off the Rails as a young lad. It definitely holds a special place in my heart. And thanks for reminding me about it kickass soundtrack, I'm going to go listen to it right now. Also I'm with ya on hoping this series can come back or get a legit spiritual successor, I'm so down for that and would playit in an instant.
Gosh, Off The Rails really ate up most of my childhood and I agree, that fast food mini game with the Madagascar soundtrack playing in the background was addictive.
Everytime Buns comes out with a 'Do you remember X' vid it hits me like a slice of cheese being tossed at a cat. Its a weird feeling but I did miss it, love ya work buns
0:25 ngl, had you posted this last night when I was feeling really silly on some red wine, then you would’ve caught me tweaking at the sight of that alone.
The only amusement park sim of my childhood was the 1994 OG Theme Park, but this looks like a very charming game for a younger generation with a very fun addition in walking around it yourself. Though hearing the franchise is now in the hands of Disney makes me wonder if they'd ever ressurrect it without turning it into a Disney-themed theme park game, and I wonder if it'd be the same then...
This was back when game devs actually cared about their games Nowadays, it's all about money Release a half functioning game, update it a few times, abandon ship
I'm pretty sure I played a rented a copy of Thrillville from the video store and made coasters that threw the guests across the park at high speed, and I can't say of it was intentional or if I was just bad at making coasters.
I played Off the Rails on the Wii many years back. Honestly, I dont know how I managed to get to Park 5, but I did. Also, Sparkle Island and Quest...fascinated me as a kid. Like "Ooh, shoot the blobs and collect the birdies and make it to the exit, this is nice and charmi-OH GREAT GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?! WHY IS IT MAKING THESE NOISES?! WHY IS IT KILLING THE BIRDIES?! DID IT JUST SPAWN ON TOP OF ME AND KILL ME INSTANTLY THATS NOT FAIR!" and other such expletives.
Heck yeah I still remember this. My first LucasArts and Frontier game. Had a lot of fun with these games. I even scoured the internet to find an old commercial for the game and upload it here because it wasn't on UA-cam. Also, most mid 2000s soundtrack I've ever heard that wasn't a Tony Hawk game. Just... perfection.
this huge essay is basically a guide to using cheat codes on the PC version of the game, which runs just fine on my very cheap non-gaming laptop for anyone who was wondering. i'm not a big gamer and this was my first experience with cheat codes and remapping game controls. info on the PC version was kinda hard to find so i figured it out myself for the sake of childhood nostalgia. i downloaded thrillville off the rails from steam last year for nostalgia's sake, because my sister and i were never able to get past the 2nd park (i think i was about 8 and she was 6 or 7), so for anyone else who shelled out $11 to live out your childhood dreams, i'm presenting you with all the work i did to figure out how to reroute the game for cheat codes. if you go into control options where you can re-map the buttons to do certain things, and here is how you map them to enable cheats (such as extra money and mission completion, which i'll show you how to do later) action button 1 = set to 2 action button 2 = set to 8 action button 3 = set to 4 action button 4 = set to 6 now when you hit some buttons in a particular order, the game does special little magic tricks for you. the code "4684682" should give you $50,000 (or euros, because for some reason my game was set to euros when i bought it and i can't change it). the mission completion code (cough cough, the one that lets you unlock more parks) is a bit more complicated. you have to hit "4684686", then open your missions, and then hit 4 over whatever mission you're trying to complete. the good news about that slightly more complex cheat code is that you only have to use it once per park, because you can binge-complete the missions by hitting 4 overtop all of them. those are the only two codes i use, but there are other ones (for unclocking certain rides, getting 500 thrill points, stuff like that) on the internet. because i did tons of research to figure out how to remap the game, i'll spare you the trouble and show you how to translate the cheat codes from xbox360 and the playstation. for any xbox360 codes translated to PC (the buttons there are x, b, y, and a): x=4 b=6 y=8 a=2 so if you say a cheat code that was XBYXBYA, that now becomes 4684682 for any playstation codes translated to PC (the buttons are sqaure, circle, triangle, and x) square=4 circle=6 triangle=8 x=2 so a code that was square circle triangle square circle triangle x, that becomes 4684682 this is extremely niche and mostly for the people that liked this game but kinda suck at videogames and couldn't possible beat the game to a completionist route, but want to unlock everything and get the chance to play all the minigames and visit all the parks to their heart's content. i don't really think there's any viable place to pirate the game, and it's only $11 for tons of content, but since it's essentially obsolete, anyone who does find something viable feel free to respond to this comment with a site.
Something I so vividly remember about these two games were the very creative maps and all the stuff going on in the background. Made it so cool to unlock new parks!
Oh yeah, I vividly remember trying to make sure my coasters went near or highlighted the giant animatronics in the area, which was... admittedly a lot harder in the original than the second lol
Do I remember Thrillville? I still play both of them. I even got a Usagi tattoo. Literally what is on the right of the screen at 10:29 is on my body. I hope they do another game myself
I found the first game in a thrift store while looking for games to get for my, at the time, newly acquired PS2. Genuinely thought it was one of those "shovelware" type games because I never grew up with PlayStation and was never in the loop about news; surprised to know it was actually quite popular.
This game was my life from like kindergarten to second grade. I would spend most of my time playing the western bot shooter game and the biker one. In the first grade i had a crush on the student teacher, so I pulled out a line from the thrillville flirt feature “girl you couldn’t go to Antarctica, you’re so hot you’d melt all the ice!”😂
I’m so glad you mentioned the soundtrack having a Lily Allen song in it. This game actually introduced younger me to her music, and now she’s my most listened to artist on Spotify.
OKAY BUT BOTH THE FIRST AND SECOND GAME WAS MY CHILDHOOD I’M SO GLAD SOMEONE ELSE FINALLY REMEMBERS THRILLVILLE Also cancel Jake Martinez man’s into naked babies
Replayed Thrillville 1 and 2 this year. Loved throughly and even got to show some friends it for the first time. Always enjoyed how everything was a mini game instead of pure simulator.
It's hilarious that I was JUST looking up videos of this game just recently! I miss this series dearly. It's one of those games that if it would have came out today with some modern functionality like online, it would have been even more successful.
this was incredible thank you so much for this gift buns i loved thrillville off the rails and having you do this vid was awesome as always your vids are hilarious and had incredible editing bless up and merry christmas/happy holidays to you and yours
This game was awesome, I used to rent it out from the local library to play when I was younger! I remember my brother was also obsessed with this game, and we rarely liked the same type of games! So this game holds a fond place in my memory because of that 🙂
Oh the memories with this game. Playing this on my dad's xbox 360. God it was fun making rollercoasters that clearly made people sick but i fucking loved it
Still playing off the rail on my psvita, my game to go whenever i got admitted to hospital. Already 100% completion. My favourite themeparks right now is planet coaster
![Thrillville Off The Rails - Government Mandated Fun [Bumbles McFumbles]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KxQC8LdXNIM/mqdefault.jpg)
I loved playing this growing up. It's crazy how I've never talked about this game to anyone outside of my family and I've never heard any else talk about it until now. So many Thrillville enjoyers here that we can make our own Thrillville.
Always had fun playing this growing up too. None of my friends ever brought up playing this though, so i kept it to myself. But sitting down for hours and making a theme park EXACTLY the way i wanted was great.
Same, i get so much nostalgia
on god Jerma brought it back
this game was so undeservedly unpopular and it had better graphics and a lot more going on than roller coaster tycoon and other amusement park games. not even star wars fanatics have heard of this game despite being made by Lucasarts too
Lets goooo
Maaaaaaan I remember playing Off the Rails as a kid.
Let's be real, most kids probably never even understood the "Park Management" part of the game. We just wanted to play Bandito Chinchilla for the 50th time in a row. But that's what I loved about it. You could still have a ridiculous amount of fun with the game, even if your park wasn't 100% perfect.
Aww, I loved Bandito Chinchilla! He even had a cool theme song.
Best game I’ve spent an UNGOLDLY amount of time playing it
@@Phanthief95 Bandito Chinchilla deserves its own standalone game tbh.
During my second or third playthrough of the game I discovered combos for each character in Bandito Chinchilla.
The minigame rewarded discovery with unique animations for most playable characters
I remember playing that and the bike game and the bike game was always blasting a Hannah Montana song lmao
Played Off The Rails on the Wii, it was such a charming and rather specific kind of game, almost as it was specifically made for me. The variety was all over the place and yeah, the minigames were stuff you played before but they were still super addictive.
Playing on Wii was such a strange and fun experience. I remember going into the coaster builder and making the craziest looking coasters due to the nature of the wii remote 🤣
Yoooooo, me too! I played it a few months back, had a pretty good time all these years later.
I had it on psp but YEAAAHJH
I had it in the DS, I just remember cleaning up so much vomit 😂😂
YES. I got the game on PC just to relive it
9:08 I love the random insertion of the run bts dance practice for no reason. Your mind tricks worked on me. I’m subscribing immediately.
I'm 27 years old and I STILL play Off the Rails damn near every week. It was always my fun/chill comfort game that I could never go wrong with. And the fresh coat of paint that it had over the first really made it pop. Playing it on next gen right now is incredibly cool too.
Also...THE SOUNDTRACK ON BOTH GAMES, THOOO
Thrillville was literally my childhood... it was **everything** to me, the minigames esp. and the mad scientist vs. GloboCorp are such vivid happy memories.
I remember playing this game religiously when I was a kid. Just the fact that I ran my own theme parks and was able to ride and play the games was amazing. I always loved playing all the shootzones
For me it was Off The Rails that took up all my time. One of my deepest memories is a weird moment when I heard music from another game that was my childhood, Secret Weapons over Normandy, in the plane mini games. It was surreal to say the least.
heh
omg i LOVED Off the Rails as a kid. when i was really young, i wrote Thrillville fan fiction (which is hilarious) and that shows how immersed i was in this silly little game. it’s been 17 years and i still get the Bandito Chinchilla theme stuck in my head randomly sometimes. now i want to fire up Thrillville again after watching this video
I worked on the QA team on Thrillville: Off the rails. I suppressed that memory long ago. And you just had to dig it back up. Damn you Buns! DAMN YOU TO HEEEEEEELL!!!!! glad your back though, love your videos.
Really?! how was it working with them?
@@tmnt_and1445 As QA work goes it was pretty good. They rotated us on a few games, so got to see some games that were never released, or that were way better before release. The whole Lucas Arts campus was gorgeous with an amazing cafeteria. Though EAs was better in my opinion. Gave a nice discount on merch so I bought some of those beast ass lightsabers for a good price. And a few ghost stories on overtime hours. It was built over an old war hospital so it was basically obligatory.
One of the things I remember most about the OG Thrillville besides the mini-games, is they had that Honky Tonk Badonkadonk song in it on the soundtrack, a song about a guy talking about a woman's big butt, that was somehow approved to be put in a game aimed mostly for kids.
And in Off the Rails, they put in a song about BDSM by Jessie McCarthy. (Right where you want me)
In Smackdown vs Raw 2007, a pro wrestling video game, there is a song on the soundtrack titled "Forgive Me" by the band "Versus the World"
If you listen to the lyrics, you quickly realize the song is about a man preparing to hang himself and end his own life, begging those he'll leave behind to forgive him.
Not just does a song like that not fit a sports game, but a pro wrestler by the name of Chris Benoit, who would make his final video game appearance here, would murder his wife and son only to than hang himself afterward just after the game released.....
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...This conversation isn't fun anymore. 😰
Haha. First thing I think of when I hear Thrillville.
I'm pretty sure Badonkadonk was also featured in Ms. Splosion Man, the game used it to make fun of you for skipping ahead to the next checkpoint, along with making the player character's butt super big and taking away all your points at the end and calling you a cheater. Man, writing this now reminded me how brutal that game is.
Cant believe it’s been 4 months! It’s been amazing to watch most of your videos and the creativity you put into them!
You just unlocked core memories for me. I almost exclusively just made coasters as deranged as possible and then would ride them in POV mode and then spend hours customizing the look and color. I remember playing a few of the mini games on Off the Rails, but I spent most of the time in the character creation menu or riding the rides I made. The music also slapped so hard, so I remember jamming to it a lot. I almost never left the “testing” mode.
My sister and I were obsessed with the mini games and would play them for hours. Bandito Chinchilla is still a prominent reference in our household
Like an unexpected habanero pepper popping up in the middle of your breakfast burrito, he is...
BANDITOOOOO CHINCHILLAAAAA!
*whip crack*
I spent hours every day as a kid playing the cheerleader minigame on the original thrillville. I was obsessed, and it sparked a love of rhythm games for years to come. Oh and there were coasters. That was neat I guess.
ok but who else remembers running their park and then flirting with the guy guests while they were literally holding hands with their gf 😭
Vice versa but yeah💀😭
Me definitely remember that
Or if playing as a girl flirting with other girls boyfriends them saying "Will you please stop flirting with my boyfriend before I do something I'll regret later" 😂 @@Mexicangunner123
There’s a song from Off the Rails called My Gurlz and I, being absolutely deranged and disturbed, learned and memorized the entire song. I used to make my friends listen to me do it over and over again. This game will never die, I won’t allow it to.
Me with Banjo Boy
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I never knew I needed the Thrillville theme song put over a BTS dance practice video. Thank you Buns ❤
I also feel like that Mitchel Musso commercial must have been real because for some reason I see him walking through a very obvious green-screen park in my mind's eye trying to remember anything about it.
If Defunctland has taught me nothing else; it's oddly the most important thing that we record Ads because otherwise we lose so much important history of culture.
OMG BUNS! You Unlocked Core Childhood MEM for ME!! I very much remembered the mini game shown at 4:53 but could never find it again later because I lost my PSP. I would have never found it if not for this VIDEO. I put so many hours into Trojan Quest and the other mini games and am so happy I know where to find them again! THANKS YOUUU
Happy holidays yall ❤
Happy holidays to you!! 💗
This is why you’re one of my favorite youtubers. No one covers these games from my childhood like you do
Happy holidays 🤘🏻🖤
Same to you!
Happy Holidays Ty ❤❤
4:27 reminds me when I went to my home park six flags st louis and someone was screaming on the ninja before it even left the station. He probably knew what was ahead of him on that ride. Probably got a headache for the rest of the day.
The fact I remembered this game due to the fact I listened obsessively on "Suddenly I See" that always plays in the background.
And for some reason when you go look on the soundtrack it isn't there
Facts I guess...
I was listening to a random playlist and "Suddenly I see" by KT Tunstall came on, I was electroshocked with nostalgia and after five minutes of replaying the song remembered the name of this game!! I was OBSESSED as a kid! I would play it for HOURSSS
The bun has graced us on this holy day with a brand new vid at last, buckle up you all
Also Merry Christmas everyone! I hope your day is filled with jingles and bliss (unless you have sensitive hearing, then just a peaceful one)
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Merry Christmas y'all
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Man I wish it was Christmas I miss sitting on my ass for two weeks work is too much
That thumbnail brought back some good memories. I owned the PSP version when I was a kid, and after playing the console versions later in life, I'm shocked how...close it is to those versions. Aside from the obviously downgraded graphics and lack of voice acting, it's pretty feature-complete. Thanks for the fun vid, Buns.
Also, quick correction: Frontier only worked on RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and the original Xbox port of the first RCT. The first two games were made by Chris Sawyer.
Wow that unlocked a core memory. I loved Thrillville as a kid and making the coasters and playing the micro games was awesome.
It is kind of sad that we never really got other games that had it so you could see things from the guest level with playing as the park manager. It helped give the player a personal connection to the guests with the social system, and also gave a valid way to have a story mode unlike most other theme park games where you either feel disconnected from it (Jurassic World) or they don't even bother (insert most theme park games).
Hopefully someone catches on to this idea becuase I think under the right management it could do very well in this day and age.
I think I remember the Mitchel Musso commercial you mentioned. It either had Mitchel Musso interviewing other teens, or several Disney stars being interviewed, about what they like about the game. I distinctly remember one person talking about the dating system.
It is surreal to me how many of these do you remember videos I watch where I can say yes I do. Or in this game's case, I remember one song that would always play that went, "Suddenly I see(I see) This where I want to be." Happy Holidays everyone.
Suddenly I See by KT Sunstall. I remember that song too.
This song came on at my old job one day and I was losing my mind knowing I recognized it, and I finally found it on the soundtrack of the game! Brought so many memories back
I never really liked Thrillville as a kid despite having Off the rails for my PS2. But I was absolutely obsessed with Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, and why is it only now that I recognise the artstyle and graphics for the game to be nearly identical.
the other day i was walking my dog and my mind wandered into thinking about Thrillville. i still remember the money cheat (square circle triangle, square circle triangle, x!) and the sounds the menu would make when inputting them. i thought about how weird the game's romance system was, and how it probably ruined my perception of how dating worked (though not as much as club penguin). but it really made me think how a game like that could never exist nowadays the way it had then with its ridiculous marketing and absolutely crammed to the top amount of different things you could do. it's been a while since i've seen an ad for something that genuinely tried to be fun
Dating was so silly in Thrillville. Say the right words and get a hug after talking to someone for two minutes lol.
I had the PC one. Whenever I googled it I just got rollercoaster tycoon, I genuinely just gave up and thought I must've confused the two. So this makes me very happy and seen.
The soundtrack to the original Thrillville still lives rent-free in my head. It's powerful stuff. Sorta.
I remember the Mitchell Muso commerical too. I don't know if it was for the original or Off the Rails, but I remember they made him into an avatar that ran around the park and talked about the game.
It was weird.
Couldn't find it though.
I'M UP! 🤩
I know nothing about thrillville and sims aren't my kind of game, but your delivery of well everything had me smiling throughout the whole video.
Thank you for the long in depth videos this year. Analysis combined with your humor immaculate. Also for everything else you make from several long streams to the occasional sparky comment on social media.
You make my life so much brighter with everything you make.
You can't just pop into my recommended and unlock a core memory like that....I remember loving the FPS games in these.
As a Thrillville fan, I definitely noticed you were using off the rails footage. It actually irritated me at first because I didn't realize you were going to eventually cover off the rails and thought you used the footage by mistake!
I had Thrillville: Off the Rails for my Wii back in the day and I remember loving it, but watching this video made me realize that I’m pretty sure I barely paid attention to the happiness of the guests and instead just built a couple minigame areas and played those.
I spent hours my ps2 with this. Loved how you could just make out w random guests lmao i also loved making the most nausea inducing coasters.
I LOVED the theming of the lands! The music from each was so much fun!
I remember playing this game when I was only 3. I was too young to understand the coaster building mechanic, so I asked my mom for help. The end result was a completely flat coaster with no ups or downs, just a plain oval. I thought it was really funny how the ride ended up being super popular.
No other theme park game has ever been like Thrillville and I whole heartedly miss the stupid silly fun of it
The vendor tendor minigame is actually a cheap Puzzle Bobble clone. There! Glad I got it out of my system.
I still sometimes think back to this game. I played the heck out of it as a kid and my favorite minigames would have to be the first-person shooting games. What was cool is each type of shooting location changed your guns and enemies, which felt really cool.
That robot shooting arcade game was the game me and my brother's played the most. So much fun. Also that platformer where you collect animals and when you get them all the round ends and like an invincible thing comes in and makes you go to the exit
I loved this game so much as a kid, but i was not prepared for 5:46 💀
i never heard that line before! i believe i had this game for the PSP? i cant remember. but i believe they didnt have any voice acting.....
edit. Thrillville Off The Rails is what i had. thx
The whole video cracked me up 💀
Commenting to add that I actually vaguely remember that commercial you're talking about, even though it has apparently disappeared into the ether.
I thought I was the only one who remembered these games but no one I knew heard of them, so for the longest time I thought I was hallucinating them as some sort of fever dream. XD
Playing these with cousins was some of the most fun I've had since I absolutely loved playing the OG Rollercoaster Tycoon.
buns' journey to becoming an army is truly hidden lore
Wow, Buns, Thrillville used to be one of the games that me, my sister and cousins just loved playing through and experimenting on PS2. Honestly hope Disney might actually revive this game someday.
Merry Christmas!
Being such a roller coaster tycoon fan as a kid but having no knowledge of PC I can say. This. Was. My. GAME
Literally thought I was the only one who knew this game. This video was SO WELL DONE. I was laughing and crying at the nostalgia the whole time. Thank you !!!!!
Was not expecting my UA-cam home page to unlock my core memories from childhood.
*scrolling, scrolli-* “YO, IS THAT THRILLVILLE?”
My best friend and I LOVED the hell out of Thrillville, we would create these insane roller coaster rides and when we were done making them, we would turn on the first person camera and pretend like we were on them. I might have to get this game again just for the nostalgia alone. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
Woah woah woah. Chris Sawyer made roller coaster 1&2 frontier came in during 2s post launch to develop the dlc packs for the game. Then went on to fully develop rct3. Im only passionate about that fact cause Chris Sawyer made almost all of rct1&2 himself in Assembly code which is one of the hardest and barebones way to code.
Yeaa, very surprised buns did not know that.
I loved playing the shooting games and the one where you have to play medieval/olympian themed soldiers fighting monsters. The UFO and RC demo derby games were fun too. Definitely a classic.
I do remember that theme song that I could never get out of my head as a kid. Plus the Whoa Coasters. Those were definitely pieces that would never be allowed in any coaster design.
I LOVED this game as a kid. I swear we grew up during the best era of gaming!
That commercial is confirmed to be lost media, I don't know how big the search is for it. But I know that there was a discord looking for thrillville and other older simulator game commercials that were lost
did they find it🤔
Thanks for this nostalgic and hilarious trip down memory lane Buns. I used to play the shit out of Thrillvile Off the Rails as a young lad. It definitely holds a special place in my heart. And thanks for reminding me about it kickass soundtrack, I'm going to go listen to it right now. Also I'm with ya on hoping this series can come back or get a legit spiritual successor, I'm so down for that and would playit in an instant.
Never heard of these games, but they just came to PS+! I really enjoyed the demos, so it’s awesome to see them get some kind of a comeback!
Gosh, Off The Rails really ate up most of my childhood and I agree, that fast food mini game with the Madagascar soundtrack playing in the background was addictive.
i think the core foundations of my soul were found somewhere within those sparklequest levels...
Everytime Buns comes out with a 'Do you remember X' vid it hits me like a slice of cheese being tossed at a cat.
Its a weird feeling but I did miss it, love ya work buns
0:25 ngl, had you posted this last night when I was feeling really silly on some red wine, then you would’ve caught me tweaking at the sight of that alone.
For me, I fondly remember playing thrillville on the PSP and just recently got back into it on ppsspp.
I only ever had off the rails, and I did nothing but play the damn moto bike game non stop. Didn't even know there where multiple parks.
The only amusement park sim of my childhood was the 1994 OG Theme Park, but this looks like a very charming game for a younger generation with a very fun addition in walking around it yourself. Though hearing the franchise is now in the hands of Disney makes me wonder if they'd ever ressurrect it without turning it into a Disney-themed theme park game, and I wonder if it'd be the same then...
This was back when game devs actually cared about their games
Nowadays, it's all about money
Release a half functioning game, update it a few times, abandon ship
I'm pretty sure I played a rented a copy of Thrillville from the video store and made coasters that threw the guests across the park at high speed, and I can't say of it was intentional or if I was just bad at making coasters.
I played Off the Rails on the Wii many years back. Honestly, I dont know how I managed to get to Park 5, but I did.
Also, Sparkle Island and Quest...fascinated me as a kid. Like "Ooh, shoot the blobs and collect the birdies and make it to the exit, this is nice and charmi-OH GREAT GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?! WHY IS IT MAKING THESE NOISES?! WHY IS IT KILLING THE BIRDIES?! DID IT JUST SPAWN ON TOP OF ME AND KILL ME INSTANTLY THATS NOT FAIR!" and other such expletives.
Heck yeah I still remember this.
My first LucasArts and Frontier game.
Had a lot of fun with these games. I even scoured the internet to find an old commercial for the game and upload it here because it wasn't on UA-cam.
Also, most mid 2000s soundtrack I've ever heard that wasn't a Tony Hawk game. Just... perfection.
this huge essay is basically a guide to using cheat codes on the PC version of the game, which runs just fine on my very cheap non-gaming laptop for anyone who was wondering. i'm not a big gamer and this was my first experience with cheat codes and remapping game controls. info on the PC version was kinda hard to find so i figured it out myself for the sake of childhood nostalgia.
i downloaded thrillville off the rails from steam last year for nostalgia's sake, because my sister and i were never able to get past the 2nd park (i think i was about 8 and she was 6 or 7), so for anyone else who shelled out $11 to live out your childhood dreams, i'm presenting you with all the work i did to figure out how to reroute the game for cheat codes.
if you go into control options where you can re-map the buttons to do certain things, and here is how you map them to enable cheats (such as extra money and mission completion, which i'll show you how to do later)
action button 1 = set to 2
action button 2 = set to 8
action button 3 = set to 4
action button 4 = set to 6
now when you hit some buttons in a particular order, the game does special little magic tricks for you. the code "4684682" should give you $50,000 (or euros, because for some reason my game was set to euros when i bought it and i can't change it).
the mission completion code (cough cough, the one that lets you unlock more parks) is a bit more complicated. you have to hit "4684686", then open your missions, and then hit 4 over whatever mission you're trying to complete. the good news about that slightly more complex cheat code is that you only have to use it once per park, because you can binge-complete the missions by hitting 4 overtop all of them.
those are the only two codes i use, but there are other ones (for unclocking certain rides, getting 500 thrill points, stuff like that) on the internet. because i did tons of research to figure out how to remap the game, i'll spare you the trouble and show you how to translate the cheat codes from xbox360 and the playstation.
for any xbox360 codes translated to PC (the buttons there are x, b, y, and a):
x=4
b=6
y=8
a=2
so if you say a cheat code that was XBYXBYA, that now becomes 4684682
for any playstation codes translated to PC (the buttons are sqaure, circle, triangle, and x)
square=4
circle=6
triangle=8
x=2
so a code that was square circle triangle square circle triangle x, that becomes 4684682
this is extremely niche and mostly for the people that liked this game but kinda suck at videogames and couldn't possible beat the game to a completionist route, but want to unlock everything and get the chance to play all the minigames and visit all the parks to their heart's content. i don't really think there's any viable place to pirate the game, and it's only $11 for tons of content, but since it's essentially obsolete, anyone who does find something viable feel free to respond to this comment with a site.
Me and my little brothers would play the arcade game where it was like a 1v1 shooter inside of this game ! So much fun
I absolutely love the narration, energy and pure chaos you inject into these videos 😂❤️
Something I so vividly remember about these two games were the very creative maps and all the stuff going on in the background. Made it so cool to unlock new parks!
Oh yeah, I vividly remember trying to make sure my coasters went near or highlighted the giant animatronics in the area, which was... admittedly a lot harder in the original than the second lol
@@sleepythemis my favorite was the area with a huge cliff, I don't remember much else about it tho. I think there was a waterfall
@@HighTechCinnamon The first thing I always remember is the giant spider from the first game 😭
This is a wonderful thing to wake up to on Christmas! Nice video as always Buns and I hope that you have a Merry Christmas!
Oh my god i remember spending an entire summer just playing luftwaffe 109 minigame and the shootzones with my dad
Both games are now available on the Playstaion Store. She did it again. Truly amazing 👏
Do I remember Thrillville? I still play both of them. I even got a Usagi tattoo. Literally what is on the right of the screen at 10:29 is on my body. I hope they do another game myself
I found the first game in a thrift store while looking for games to get for my, at the time, newly acquired PS2. Genuinely thought it was one of those "shovelware" type games because I never grew up with PlayStation and was never in the loop about news; surprised to know it was actually quite popular.
From RCT to this and now Planet Coaster. There is a market for this... And I'm freaking guilty as heckle for giving them my money.
This game was my life from like kindergarten to second grade. I would spend most of my time playing the western bot shooter game and the biker one.
In the first grade i had a crush on the student teacher, so I pulled out a line from the thrillville flirt feature “girl you couldn’t go to Antarctica, you’re so hot you’d melt all the ice!”😂
Chad
I’m so glad you mentioned the soundtrack having a Lily Allen song in it. This game actually introduced younger me to her music, and now she’s my most listened to artist on Spotify.
OKAY BUT BOTH THE FIRST AND SECOND GAME WAS MY CHILDHOOD I’M SO GLAD SOMEONE ELSE FINALLY REMEMBERS THRILLVILLE
Also cancel Jake Martinez man’s into naked babies
Replayed Thrillville 1 and 2 this year. Loved throughly and even got to show some friends it for the first time. Always enjoyed how everything was a mini game instead of pure simulator.
It's hilarious that I was JUST looking up videos of this game just recently! I miss this series dearly. It's one of those games that if it would have came out today with some modern functionality like online, it would have been even more successful.
4:31
as some one that works as a janitor and needs to head to work today, I enve this man
Your jokes are super on point on this video. I hope you have a great holiday! My wife and I cracked up.
I Used To Play Thrillville Off The Rails As A Kid On My Nintendo Wii
this was incredible thank you so much for this gift buns i loved thrillville off the rails and having you do this vid was awesome as always your vids are hilarious and had incredible editing bless up and merry christmas/happy holidays to you and yours
fuck yeah this game was a huge chunk of my childhood. I played this game for so long with my older sibling it was so fun
HOLY SHIT I HAD THAT ON THE PSP
The only reason I got this game as a kid was because there was a trailer for it in Lego Star Wars 2.
This game was awesome, I used to rent it out from the local library to play when I was younger! I remember my brother was also obsessed with this game, and we rarely liked the same type of games! So this game holds a fond place in my memory because of that 🙂
Oh the memories with this game. Playing this on my dad's xbox 360. God it was fun making rollercoasters that clearly made people sick but i fucking loved it
OMG Yes I loved thrillville growwing up, this game has not been on my mind in years so glad to see it again!
This game for sure I sunk so many hours. I don't say it much for most games I played growing up but this for sure.
For some reason, my dad has Joe Rogan on our tv on Christmas morning so this is helping me get thru it. Thanks Buns 🎄
Rogan is funny/interesting asf. Your dad knows what's what
Still playing off the rail on my psvita, my game to go whenever i got admitted to hospital. Already 100% completion.
My favourite themeparks right now is planet coaster
What a pleasant Christmas surprise!
Happy Holidays everyone!
Buns will dissapear for 4 years and come back saying"do you remember thrilville" LIKE BRO WHERE DO YOU BE AT