{"id":34941,"date":"2025-11-15T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/34941\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:19:32","slug":"pittsburgh-area-man-recreates-kennywood-on-rollercoaster-tycoon-video-game-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/34941\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh-area man recreates Kennywood on Rollercoaster Tycoon video game \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">If you grew up in the 2000s, you may remember jumping on your desktop computer and creating your very own theme park on the game Rollercoaster Tycoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Well, one man from the Pittsburgh area recently decided to recreate Kennywood Park on the theme-park simulator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-pittsburgh\/7H5YJL22KZGBLOK4JFJMKKOXAA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-pittsburgh\/7H5YJL22KZGBLOK4JFJMKKOXAA\/\">Click here to see photos from the game of the recreation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve wanted to recreate Kennywood in Rollercoaster Tycoon ever since I was a kid. I decided now, at 32, to give it a full effort,\u201d Brandon Dunn told Channel 11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In the Facebook group \u201cRollerCoaster Tycoon Gamers,\u201d Dunn posted that he finally finished the project after 8 months, calling it a \u201cfun yet challenging journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">&#8220;The project began in March 2025, and I worked on small sections in my free time, using walkthrough videos, Google Maps and old park maps to get things as close to real life as possible,&#8221; Dunn said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The recreation includes a mash-up of new and old attractions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cOnly in this game will you see current attractions such as the Steel Curtain alongside classic favorites like the Gold Rusher and Turnpike,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Dunn added that he had to make some changes to the game\u2019s limitations, but believes most attractions turned out pretty accurately. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cThis recreation was fun and challenging at times, but also very satisfying and rewarding!\u201d Dunn said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">You can watch a walkthrough of Dunn\u2019s full recreation of Kennywood Park <a href=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\">here on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you grew up in the 2000s, you may remember jumping on your desktop computer and creating your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21853,9486,21855,21854,73,75,74,21852],"class_list":["post-34941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-brandon-dunn","tag-kennywood","tag-kennywood-on-rollercoaster-tycoon","tag-kennywood-recreation","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rollercoaster-tycoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}