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[COA]

WINDOWS 7 WAS MY IDEA!

Was indeed!
Doesn't play rct as well as XP, but is better at everything else. (At least it still plays rct, that's good enough for me!)

[GCfanerDral]

Hey guys, Creator here. About to go to graduate school for physics or architecture. The architecture was because of RCT and RCT2, though I was never good at building parks.

[coastercrazy]

Hi there!

Thanks for stopping by. Nice to see the old folk dropping in.

/CC

[The Iron Dragon]

Hi guys, looks like this place has went almost dead which is sad to see since RCT is basically a thing of the past as well..

Didn't post once here in 2010 so I'm saying hello.

I had a lot of fun back in the days.

[Sambo]

Welcome back TID. Nice to see you are still around.

[coastercrazy]

Wow ... haven't seen you here in ages! Thanks for dropping in.

/CC

[**cjman**]

O hi guys. Just got out of a RCT2 slump, been building on a new park that I think I might actually finish (and I've also started playing LL again!)

Depresses me to see how sleepy this place has become, but you've still got the road rallies going I see! I pretty much post on ne now (which still isn't all that often), and just thought I'd stop by here to see how everyone's doing. The RCT2 CZ isn't looking as lively as it used to be, so I might post some pics of my current project there.

Supposedly there's an RCT4 in development, maybe that'll spice up the community again? I hope so. It's great to see you guys and be back at the place that injected steroids into my RCT veins.

EDIT: I just noticed that I apparently am most active in the DZ. This depresses me immensely.

Edited by **cjman**, 31 January 2011 - 03:50 AM.

[coastercrazy]

Hey, welcome back dude! Long time no see. If you want any topics reopened that are in the DZ: currently, shoot me a message.

Have fun!

/CC

[RNRMontuX]

welcome back good to see u again.

[danthesim]

The next site (very soon after) that I visited was RCTOA (RCT Over America). The front page of the site wasn't much to look at and the news postings/updates were rare, but RCTOA had the most dynamic, creative, active, [insert other superlatives here] message/bulletin boards I have ever experienced with any website ever [that is not hyperbole]. Some of these names will not be familiar any longer, but back then, these were the RCT Gods among us mere mortals - the forum moderators (some more active than others, some virtually in name only) were Henry Winkelstein, Doctor J, Josef Drexler, Luke Harless, Greg Wolking, VooDew5 (and I know I'm missing at least one other person - EDIT - oh yeah, I think Steve Franks also was a moderator there too). The site was created/maintained by Denny G (Greg Denny) and Sim5 (heck if I know his real name). Unfortunately, these two personalities rather calshed with each other and it spilled over in a very public and very ugly manner circa December 2000 - in the aftermath of the bizarre 2000 United States Presidential election. The result was an extremely abrupt and shocking closure of the RCTOA site (note obviously this was not the website run by Josh Vandenburg whom I remember from those days as a regular forum member - his site was started to capitalize on (and in tribute to) the RCTOA name)

This post is old but I was screwing around with Google and decided to randomly search for "RCTOA". I was also a moderator on there; first I moderated the chatroom, which became quite popular during RCTOA's heyday; and then I was upgraded to a moderator several months before the forum closed. I remember talking to Sim5 (Joe) late at night one time and while I forgot what exactly he said (It was 11 years ago) but he said some pretty badass stuff about Gregg. I think I remember he wanted to pull the plug on the community since they didn't get along. I then remember going on the forum one day and seeing the message stating they were closed. It was quite a shock. Gregg then had plans to sue Joe for something, I cannot quite remember. Whatever it was, it was a mess.

Wonder whatever happened to both Gregg and Joe and the rest of the gang that hung out there. It was a tight community.

ETA: Haha, funny. The picture under "Park Guest" under my name used to be my avatar on RCTOA.

Edited by danthesim, 26 March 2011 - 03:54 AM.