Oh, one other thing… if you guys ever have kids and one of them when he’s eight years old, accidentally reshingles the studio roof with a blowtorch, go easy on him.

BBC News: Biscuits ‘key’ to clinching business deals.

Theme Park knew this 14 years ago:

I had to play through the game for about 15 minutes to get this screenshot, so here’s some more classic eye candy from a classic game:

The game devs had made some kind of deal with Midland (itself a piece of history; it’s now HSBC) which I’ve only just noticed. For the record, I was always aware of the dodgy arrangement between the Zool devs and Chupa Chups.

Remember when the United Kingdom had a population of 55 million and an inflation rate of only 4%? Those were the days. The terrain is still rock and forest though.

Every park starts with a bouncy castle.

Theme Park was brutally honest about the economics of running a tourist attraction. Raise the ticket prices up to whatever the market will bear, add extra salt to the chips to encourage drink sales, put more sugar in the ice cream to make the punters hyperactive and happy, and pay the chicken men just enough to avoid negotiating with their union over biscuits.