Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 OST | Summer Air

[reecemccallum]

I miss being 10 years old with 0 responsibilities, spending hours on sandbox mode building a dream

[theotv]

Don't you just hate it when you want to make a hill but end up with spikes long enough to pierce the heavens

[colinr]

When you zoomed in the music slowly faded away and you could hear everyone one talking and yelling, will never forget this

[guillexdlol]

The year is 2009, Sunday morning. You wake up at 8, and go upstairs to the home computer while everyone else is still asleep. The summer sun shines in the room through the blinds. You boot up Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, it takes a while to load. You create a new park, and zoom out to listen to this.
Life is simple, life is good.

[Florian]

I still remember waking up at 8 in the morning in the summer to play RCT3

[FateMan]

Ah memories of putting the inspector into million mile long holes lmao

[WolfgangLunar]

I will NEVER forget seeing that Main Menu for the first time, seeing the pictures of the park, hearing the button clicking sounds and hearing this music all at once. It will never leave my memory.

[ridermaster]

2008: The future is gonna be great.


2019: I WANNA GO BACK TO THE PAST!

[BobThePineapple]

the nostalgia is flowing through my veins

[fsdjlkfoe]

Now, this ride takes you all the way up to the great guitar solo in the sky...

[ILKECOMMNT]

This series was the reason I had a "I wanna be a roller coaster designer!" phase in my childhood. That was a beautiful time :')

[imbezo]

I actually feel like I can smell the grass and the pretzel stand of this game just listening to this song, wow.

[JustinAdie]

The song that plays as I send the park inspector 200 mph off the track into a crowd full of people waiting in line.

[thanksmisfortune]

If this music isn't pure nostalgia then I don't know what is

[talis]

when you could get a short curve on 223 mph and still dont derail

[mangofoalix]

My favorite thing to do on YouTube is coming to old game soundtracks that are nostalgic to me and share the experience with other people.

[chrisfinch]

This song goes out to my Grandpa William, who watched me spend countless hours playing this game on his old computer (whenever he wasn't busy on it), whenever we visited him. He even laughed at how I was pretending to ride long roller coasters or build other unique rides, throughout the sandbox. I must've played this at least a few times, when he was around. Listening to this piece was one of my nostalgic memories with RCT3, and him, as well. Those were the days.

Grandpa William, I love you, and I still miss you.

[remmaps]

Nostalgia for hearing this song play louder and louder while zooming out in Sandbox mode. <3

[DiseasedMoss]

It's 2005 or 2006. My windowsill is to my left. The warm 5 PM glow permeates through the open blinds, lighting up the front room. I live right across from a school, and see parents picking up their children from aftercare. Their school days have just ended.

But I've been home awhile. I run home at 2:30, itchy-eyed from all the spring allergies. I throw off my itchy, stifling sweater uniform, and do all of my homework in record time, under the cool May A/C. I'm eating cheap cup noodles, enjoying the pockets of powdery, salty ramen broth that the water didn't fully soak. I'm devouring them as I boot up Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, which loads slowly on the family PC. The sun's glare makes it hard to see through the tiny, dusty monitor.

But that doesn't matter. I enter my sandbox world, fresh ideas in my head. I design a special rollercoaster, colored black and red, to put in the 'evil' part of my park. I'm adding nature on the main road, and hiring janitors to clean up the vomit from my crazy "Empire Expresso" ride, made to scare the hell out of parkgoers. I adjust all of my prices to keep my park economical, even though I never actually played with limited money. I am the king of creation, and this park is under my dominion.

But that was 18 years ago. I'm sitting in the same house, in the opposite side of the house, at midnight. I'm overwhelming my senses with random Youtube videos in an effort to distract myself from debt, from job searches, from maintaining unhealthy relationships, from the cruel cold dullness of life, from the misty veils of too many traumas. I'm playing games to tire myself out. I've not eaten since noon. I bought some cup noodles during a recent road trip, but never got around to eating them. I pour in the boiling water, wait, and then sit down to eat them.

These are the cheapest noodles I've had in years. The hot broth scalds my tongue. The noodles are barely cooked. The vegetables haven't softened.

And yet, it brought me right back here. The theme is still in my head, resonant and steady and true. I don't remember every part of it, but the guitar strums welcome me with all the warmth of a childhood friend.

I'm too numb to cry right now. But some part of me is happy to have listened to this just once more, with cup noodles in my hands. I consider myself lucky to live in a time where I'm able to rediscover some link to my childhood, to that one spring day I spent trying to set up firework displays. I remember zooming out of the map during ingame sunrise to hear this song play. The world felt so grand then.

[noahdavidson]

2006-2009. Bedroom window is open and I can smell the freshly cut grass. The sun is setting and it’s golden hour. Not a care in the world. It hurts, man.