Roller Coaster (video game)

The game takes place in and around an amusement park after closing time. The player takes control of the park's owner, Colonel G. Bogey. A disgruntled employee has scattered the takings all over the fairground in the form of money bags. The goal is to collect the money.^[3]

To complete the game, the player must collect every money bag strewn across the city-sized amusement park, including those that are placed on precarious perches and in the middle of rides. To do this, gambles and risks will have to be taken. The player can also be killed instantaneously by some dangers. This can be caused by numerous careless acts, such as jumping from a great height or getting skewered by an erratic turnstile. The player has ten lives. Once the protagonist has died ten times, the player loses, and the game is over.

A 1985 review in CRASH gave Roller Coaster a 94%.^[3]

Four years later, in a review of the budget re-release of Roller Coaster, CRASH magazine wrote: "The emphasis in Roller Coaster is to have vast amounts of fun, and, boy, do you! Each screen is deviously devised, but not difficult to master once you get to grips with the gameplay. And the gameplay—it's so addictive! Don't hesitate to buy Roller Coaster!"^[5]