- For sheer notoriety, that Mood Whiplash of a Game Over screen that you are presented with if your park becomes bankrupt - especially the non-animated version. You get to see your player avatar attempting suicide by jumping out of a window, because the theme park that they were so dedicated to running has crumbled before them. Calling it Darker and Edgier, especially considering that this is mainly a child-friendly game that is cheerful everywhere else, is a bit of an understatement.
- In the animated version, the suicide attempt fails (thankfully), but it's still wrong on multiple levels.
- Want to know what makes this even scarier? The god damn FUNERAL MARCH plays.
- If all that wasn't bad enough, is that a picture of the player avatar's family that we can see? Again, family-friendly...
- The manual drives this pretty hard:The park has to close, your life's work collapses around you, and there's only one honourable way out. It's a long way down.
- The scariest one has to be the non-animated version on the SNES and Sega Genesis, because due to the technical limitations of those consoles, it's toned down to just a still image of the said player avatar about to end it all. We can just about see that family picture as well, in an even more disturbing shade of grainy pixels. And don't get us started on how horrifying the funeral march sounds with those sound chips...
- Oh, it also comes right out of nowhere.
- The Haunted House cutscene
is pretty frightening in its own right. It features a Giant Spider, a Jump Scare with a Monster Clown, and an abrupt ending with a Guillotine falling on the viewer's neck. - A ride exploding — which happens when it's broken down to the point of churning out black smoke for too long — can certainly be this if you're not expecting it. It's punctuated by a VERY loud explosion sound, the guests on it being thrown a huge distance (followed by them suing the park for damages, resulting in a large loss of money), and an immovable rock formation being left where the exploded ride once stood; preventing you from ever building one on that space again. The sheer panic of trying to find what's just exploded is no fun, either.New Business Portfolio: Remember, there ain't no smoke without fire.
