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05/06 ARCHIVE
Roller Coaster Tycoon Used to Illustrate Housing Market
Roller Coaster Tycoon Used to Illustrate Housing Market
June 4, 2007
The U.S. housing market is down - for now.
But a clever use of the build-your-own feature in Roller Coaster Tycoon by
The Speculative Bubble
shows what a wild ride real estate can be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUldGc06S3U
The data underlying the roller coaster design can be found
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Submitted by
cfulp
- June 4, 2007 at 5:04 am -0500
Very clever!
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Submitted by
Keaton2008
- June 4, 2007 at 5:19 am -0500
meh. filler.
I was hoping that the coaster car will fall off the track at the end.
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Submitted by
Brokenscope
- June 4, 2007 at 7:37 am -0500
I can't see the video, which version was used?
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Submitted by
x(wai)x
- June 4, 2007 at 8:51 am -0500
Hehe, clever. Who'd have thought tracking real estate prices could be so much fun? ;)
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Submitted by
A-wel Cruiz
- June 4, 2007 at 9:39 am -0500
This remind anyone else of the Simpsons episode "Special Edna" with the Enron Rollercoaster that ended in the poor house?
"Mmmmm, that's good satire!"
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Submitted by
Jabrwock
- June 4, 2007 at 9:53 am -0500
Pretty neat, although it would have been cooler had it included something that showed what time period of the graph you were currently on. Sort of like those birds-eye maps for racing games.
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Submitted by
Nekojin
- June 4, 2007 at 11:28 am -0500
I have to ask: If the house prices are nearly twice as high as they've ever been, why does everyone keep saying the housing market is
down?
Seems to me like it's due for a crash...
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Submitted by
finaleve
- June 4, 2007 at 11:36 am -0500
I believe that was Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, but then I'm just guessing. I haven't played RCT games since 2.
But that's pretty interesting. Prices are indeed high.
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Submitted by
GoodRobotUs
- June 4, 2007 at 2:20 pm -0500
It was Tycoon 3, very good game, but it doesn't like multi-processors much, and struggles doing graphics at night, even on Core2-6600 with an X1950 for some reason :( Still, certainly a good game, as can be expected from the guy who wrote Elite ;)
Interesting use of the data, not exactly as 'wild' as it must have been for the people with money involved, but still an interesting way of presenting data.
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Submitted by
hayabusa75
- June 4, 2007 at 3:48 pm -0500
Not to be deliberately negative, but that was one of the most useless things I've seen in recent memory. Without actual dollar amounts to reference, the only thing that video shows is relative ebb and flow. Not only that, but viewing it from POV instead of side view prevents you from gaining an accurate perspective on the differences in fluctuations. To me, the whole thing came off as someone trying something different only for the sake of being different, and it doesn't hold up particularly well.
@Nekojin:
I believe people may be referring to the actual rate of increasing prices, not the nominal level of the prices themselves. I know my home in CA has not increased in value nearly as much this year as it did in the first three that I've owned it.
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Submitted by
Matthew
- June 4, 2007 at 3:49 pm -0500
Ahh, RCT3, how I love you so. Even if your stupid light bloom makes the screen totally wash out in the daytime on the desert scenery.
I agree, some scenery (or even just captions) to mark out key moments would've made it a much more interesting piece. Or they could've coloured the tracks to highlight certain periods.
I hope their next project is history of the dotcom bubble as presented in The Movies.
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Submitted by
Neeneko
- June 4, 2007 at 3:58 pm -0500
@Nekojin
People are saying the housing market is 'down' because it has started to collapse. Prices are still nice and high, but foreclosures are going through the roof and that is causing a rapid drop in housing value.
So a slow pop.
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Submitted by
Father Time
- June 4, 2007 at 4:41 pm -0500
They need signs showing you what year you are in at the ride at that point or maybe the cash. Also I would've love to see the car crash.
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Submitted by
GoodRobotUs
- June 4, 2007 at 5:20 pm -0500
Heh, there's a great trick with an unfinished Coaster, and one long road from the entrance.
Jack Thompson wouldn't approve, even if no-one actually gets hurt ;)
They should use the British housing market, you'd have never got off the damn start hill :( Let's just say I hope I'm not on it when it reaches the top.....
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Nekojin
- June 4, 2007 at 9:31 pm -0500
@Neeneko: "People are saying the housing market is ‘down’ because it has started to collapse. Prices are still nice and high, but foreclosures are going through the roof and that is causing a rapid drop in housing value.
So a slow pop."
But that's not what people have been telling me. People have been telling me - for the last 5 years, mind you - that housing values are low, and I should buy while I can. But prices haven't been "low" for at least 8 years... even the prices from 5 years ago were much higher than previously.
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I was hoping that the coaster car will fall off the track at the end.
"Mmmmm, that's good satire!"
But that's pretty interesting. Prices are indeed high.
Interesting use of the data, not exactly as 'wild' as it must have been for the people with money involved, but still an interesting way of presenting data.
@Nekojin:
I believe people may be referring to the actual rate of increasing prices, not the nominal level of the prices themselves. I know my home in CA has not increased in value nearly as much this year as it did in the first three that I've owned it.
I agree, some scenery (or even just captions) to mark out key moments would've made it a much more interesting piece. Or they could've coloured the tracks to highlight certain periods.
I hope their next project is history of the dotcom bubble as presented in The Movies.
People are saying the housing market is 'down' because it has started to collapse. Prices are still nice and high, but foreclosures are going through the roof and that is causing a rapid drop in housing value.
So a slow pop.
Jack Thompson wouldn't approve, even if no-one actually gets hurt ;)
They should use the British housing market, you'd have never got off the damn start hill :( Let's just say I hope I'm not on it when it reaches the top.....
So a slow pop."
But that's not what people have been telling me. People have been telling me - for the last 5 years, mind you - that housing values are low, and I should buy while I can. But prices haven't been "low" for at least 8 years... even the prices from 5 years ago were much higher than previously.