Or construct a rollercoaster that launches your guests out of the park and into a lake. But while Age of Empires and Caesar III have certain strengths, there are some things they just can’t let you do. While city-building games have been around for almost as long as video games have, they’re usually focussed on… well, cities, hence the term ‘city-building’. It’s seems strange to me that an idea so obviously brilliant and with such wide mass appeal hasn’t been done to death, but maybe that’s just because anyone who wants to make a video game about creating a theme park has had to play RollerCoaster Tycoon and Theme Park World at some point, and they’ve realised that they really can’t improve much on either of them, or make an original creation that wouldn’t be ripping one of them off. RollerCoaster Tycoon, and Theme Park World.

It’s rare to combine these things, but in regards to funfairs and video games, the world has been graced with two wonderful products. Speaking as someone who centuries ago, used to be a child, I can safely say that amongst the things that children love are sweets, funfairs, video games, and using Google Images on an unattended computer.