I've waited a decade for this...and with Planet Coaster, I finally have the game to do the ride and story justice.
Here's a refresher...Ghost Mine is a heavily-themed Euro-fighter coaster/darkride. Original incarnations in RCT1, 2, and 3 culminated in 2007 with Ghost Mine: The Legend of Ghastly Gulch. The project was much-loved but it was never as realistic as I had hoped. With Planet Coaster...wow...I am thrilled to be working on this new project...and I hope you all will be too.
An excerpt from the original story is here (an old man named Amos is speaking to three mine explorers):
"Waaaay back in the mid-1800s,” he began, “there was this here mining town called Ghastly Gulch. The work was hard, and the miners were poor. But they worked regardless. They worked on and on and on. Creeepy things started to happen in the mine...people started hearing strange things and seeing lights and shadows in the darkness. At first, they thought it was merely the gases in the mine playing tricks with their minds but then stranger and stranger things began to happen. As it turned out, there was a shrewd old prospector by the name of McManus who had discovered the “mother lode” of gold deep down a tunnel that no one else knew about. And, being quite creative, he had begun to try to scare the other prospectors out of the mines by making ghostly noises in the tunnels and by hanging colored lanterns in strange places. He wanted that gold all to himself, you see. And for a time, his plan seemed to work. Folks said the mine was haunted and many otherwise brave men wouldn’t dare to venture inside the Ghost Mine of Ghastly Gulch.
“But when his antics were finally discovered in the winter of 1851, he disappeared. No one ever saw him again. But the scary thing was, the eerie shadows and sounds STILL haunted the mines. Was McManus still alive, lurking in the mines, trying to protect his gold? Some folks say he was. Greed took over the townsfolk like a fever, and they searched and searched for the gold but couldn’t find it.
“Shortly after McManus vanished, luck played a nasty hand with the townsfolk of Ghastly Gulch. In the spring of '52 there was a terrible earthquake which gave the town and the whole region such a jolt that the town was flooded by nearby Lucky Lode Lake and swallowed up by the earth! All that was left was the entrance to the mine...and the lake...with the town and the greedy townsfolk buried deep down below. Through the years, daring adventurers such as yourselves have gone into the mine in search of McManus' gold, never to be seen again.”
Onto some screenshots
The entrance:
The guests love it! Look at that line:
An overall shot of the area so far:
the queue line hangs precariously over the flooded chasm:
That feeling of anticipation when your ride is next!
More shots and videos soon!
Here's a refresher...Ghost Mine is a heavily-themed Euro-fighter coaster/darkride. Original incarnations in RCT1, 2, and 3 culminated in 2007 with Ghost Mine: The Legend of Ghastly Gulch. The project was much-loved but it was never as realistic as I had hoped. With Planet Coaster...wow...I am thrilled to be working on this new project...and I hope you all will be too.
An excerpt from the original story is here (an old man named Amos is speaking to three mine explorers):
"Waaaay back in the mid-1800s,” he began, “there was this here mining town called Ghastly Gulch. The work was hard, and the miners were poor. But they worked regardless. They worked on and on and on. Creeepy things started to happen in the mine...people started hearing strange things and seeing lights and shadows in the darkness. At first, they thought it was merely the gases in the mine playing tricks with their minds but then stranger and stranger things began to happen. As it turned out, there was a shrewd old prospector by the name of McManus who had discovered the “mother lode” of gold deep down a tunnel that no one else knew about. And, being quite creative, he had begun to try to scare the other prospectors out of the mines by making ghostly noises in the tunnels and by hanging colored lanterns in strange places. He wanted that gold all to himself, you see. And for a time, his plan seemed to work. Folks said the mine was haunted and many otherwise brave men wouldn’t dare to venture inside the Ghost Mine of Ghastly Gulch.
“But when his antics were finally discovered in the winter of 1851, he disappeared. No one ever saw him again. But the scary thing was, the eerie shadows and sounds STILL haunted the mines. Was McManus still alive, lurking in the mines, trying to protect his gold? Some folks say he was. Greed took over the townsfolk like a fever, and they searched and searched for the gold but couldn’t find it.
“Shortly after McManus vanished, luck played a nasty hand with the townsfolk of Ghastly Gulch. In the spring of '52 there was a terrible earthquake which gave the town and the whole region such a jolt that the town was flooded by nearby Lucky Lode Lake and swallowed up by the earth! All that was left was the entrance to the mine...and the lake...with the town and the greedy townsfolk buried deep down below. Through the years, daring adventurers such as yourselves have gone into the mine in search of McManus' gold, never to be seen again.”
Onto some screenshots
The entrance:
The guests love it! Look at that line:
An overall shot of the area so far:
the queue line hangs precariously over the flooded chasm:
That feeling of anticipation when your ride is next!
More shots and videos soon!
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