Theme Park
Theme Park — frequently asked questions
- Is Theme Park on Steam?
- No. Theme Park is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
- What platforms is Theme Park on?
- Theme Park is available on Amiga CD32, PlayStation 3, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, PC (Microsoft Windows), 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Sega CD, Super Famicom, 3DO, CD32, Classic Mac OS, FM Towns, Genesis/Mega Drive, Jaguar, Mega CD, MS-DOS, PC-98, PC-88, Saturn, Super NES, X68000, Nintendo DS, iOS, Windows.
- When did Theme Park release?
- Theme Park was first released on January 2, 1994.
About Theme Park
You have inherited a fortune from an eccentric aunt and her will states the money can be spend building the world largest and most profitable theme park. Create a wonderful theme part full of thrilling rides and greasy - but delicious - food and start to make the loads of money. You are a lucky one who can create the best theme park ever made plus make a fortune. Your park will be compared to 40 rivals all over the world every year. Your goal is to become the best park in all categories.
Summary via IGDB.
Theme Park on Wikipedia
Theme Park is a construction and management simulation video game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1994. The game is the first installment in Bullfrog's Theme series and their Designer Series. The player designs and operates an amusement park, with the goal of making money and creating theme parks worldwide. Development took about a year and a half, with the team aiming for as much realism as possible. Certain features, including multiplayer, were dropped.
Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).
Game details
- Platforms
- Amiga CD32, PlayStation 3, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, PC (Microsoft Windows), 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Sega CD, Super Famicom, 3DO, CD32, Classic Mac OS, FM Towns, Genesis/Mega Drive, Jaguar, Mega CD, MS-DOS, PC-98, PC-88, Saturn, Super NES, X68000, Nintendo DS, iOS, Windows
- Developer
- Bullfrog Productions
- Publisher
- Ocean
- Game modes
- Single player
- Themes
- Comedy, Business
Details via IGDB.
Reception
Every version compared
Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release
| Platform | Year | Loose | Complete | Sealed | Period reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atari Jaguar | 1995 | $31 | $33 | $59 | 4 reviews |
Also released on: Amiga CD32 · PlayStation 3 · Super Nintendo Entertainment System · Sega Mega Drive/Genesis · PC (Microsoft Windows) · 3DO Interactive Multiplayer · Mac · DOS · Amiga · Sega Saturn · PlayStation · PlayStation Portable · Sega CD · Super Famicom · 3DO · CD32 · Classic Mac OS · FM Towns · Genesis/Mega Drive · Jaguar · Mega CD · MS-DOS · PC-98 · PC-88 · Saturn · Super NES · X68000 · Nintendo DS · iOS · Windows. We haven’t priced or authenticated those versions yet.
Collector value & authenticity
Atari Jaguar · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-07-24
- Region
- NA+EU
- Released
- 1995
- Authenticity
- Low
Cheerful presentation over genuinely cynical systems design — an unusual thing to find on a polygon-throughput console.
Build and run an amusement park: lay paths, place rides, set prices, and adjust the salt content of the fries so visitors buy more drinks — that last detail is the whole game in miniature. Built for mouse and keyboard, workable on a console pad, and best approached by someone who already knows the game.
How it was made
The Jaguar conversion's studio is not separately credited in the sources checked. Bullfrog Productions is credited for the original version, but on this era's ports the Jaguar conversion was frequently done by a different team — see the per-platform credits below before attributing it. Credited: programmed by Peter Molyneux, Demis Hassabis; music by Russell Shaw.
What the press said at the time
| Electronic Gaming Monthly | #69, April 1995 | 6.5/10 |
| Next Generation | #4, April 1995 | 2/5 |
| Atari Inside | April 1995 | 85% |
| ST Computer | May 1995 | 82% |
Cartridge & preservation record
Cartridge ROM capacity 16 megabit (2 MB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.
Catalogue part number 08001-TPKJAG
Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).
How the Atari Jaguar version differs
The Jaguar conversion cannot save a game in progress — Mega Fun's central criticism, and the difference most likely to matter in play.
Electronic Gaming Monthly found the menus confusing and the dithered text excessively hard to read; GamePro reported frustrating slowdown.
A Next Generation reviewer took the opposite line, calling the conversion 'seamless' and the underlying game mediocre.
Also on other platforms
3DO · Amiga · CD32 · Classic Mac OS · FM Towns · Genesis/Mega Drive · Mega CD · MS-DOS · PlayStation · PC-98 · PC-88 · Saturn · Super NES · X68000 · Nintendo DS · iOS · Windows
| PlayStation, Saturn | Krisalis Software |
| Nintendo DS | EA Japan |
How the other versions reviewed
| PC | CVG | 92% |
| PC | Edge | 8/10 |
| Mega Drive / Genesis | Hyper | 87% |
| PC | JXV | 17/20 |
| PC | JS | 85% |
| SNES | MF | 85% |
| PC | PCGUK | 95% |
| PS1 | Maximum | 3/5 |
| Saturn | Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) | 90% |
| Saturn | Sega Saturn Magazine (Japan) | 7.66/10 |
These are the other versions’ scores, not this one’s. Ports of this era were frequently built by different studios, so they do not transfer.
Worth knowing
- Its chief programmer went on to found DeepMind. Peter Molyneux's co-designer and chief programmer on Theme Park was Demis Hassabis, who later founded DeepMind and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The two spent roughly eighteen months on it. Molyneux has said he wanted a business simulation that was actually fun to play, correcting what he saw as the mistake of his earlier game The Entrepreneur.
- Two hundred bytes of personality per visitor. Molyneux has said each person in the park occupies about 200 bytes of memory — enough to give every one of them their own personality. The team travelled to real theme parks around the world taking notes, and sampled the sound effects on site. Two features did not survive: a microphone you could attach to a visitor to eavesdrop on them, and multiplayer, which was cut two weeks before release to make the deadline.
- Its code became Theme Hospital. Much of Theme Park's code was carried directly into Theme Hospital, and its animation editor was improved by Theme Hospital's designer and producer Mark Webley, who named the result The Complex Engine. The original story had you playing a nephew who had inherited a fortune from his aunt, spendable only on building the world's largest and most profitable theme park.
Before you buy
Common, cheap, low demand. Buy it as the curiosity it is: a business sim on the Jaguar.
Authenticity & condition — Atari Jaguar
Specific to the format this title shipped in
Buying a Jaguar cartridge
Cartridges are the durable half of this library — the risk is provenance, not decay. The platform has an active post-commercial scene, so the question is usually which era a cartridge is from rather than whether it still works.
- Ask for a photo of the label edge and the cartridge back. Reproductions are usually printed on adhesive photo stock and sit proud of the label recess.
- Donor shells are the common trick: sanding marks on the back, or adhesive ghosting where an older label was lifted, are the strongest signals.
- Cartridges are region-free on this platform, so a cheaper PAL copy plays on a North American console — a price difference is not evidence of a fake.
Theme Park screenshots
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