Zoo Tycoon Complete™ 

“Hippo 23 does not like the single patch of sand in the far corner of the exhibit that he never visits.” *Guest dissatisfaction soars*

I remember playing this in English, which is not my native language, and making a mistake: The tutorial had told me that each guest had meters depicting their needs, and one of those needs could be fulfilled with a restroom. At the time I did not know what "restroom" meant, but I assumed it was a room where you get rest. I then spent the campaigns going: "What? That meter is depleted again? Look, I've placed plenty of benches; just sit down and get some rest there!".

This was EXACTLY how I played this game as a kid! Slave away for hours failing to acheive some goal, then inevitably get frustrated and feed all my guests to dinosaurs. What a trip down memory lane

2:17 You don't get your first big paycheck by making a zoo, you get your first big paycheck by selling the entire perimeter fence you start with in the original zoo tycoon, any real fan knows this

I remember as a kid I once made a "human zoo" where i captured a bunch of guests and made themed exhibits for them to live in while the animals roamed free... good times

You know the game is good when developers think about animals "accidently" escaping their enclosures.

"Cheese? This rat gets the meat!" - Catholic Corn-Corn, 1665

As a kid I liked creating "gauntlets" of exhibits where guests would have to run from one dangerous animal after the other to get out of a long, fenced-in maze. As an adult I'm actually trying to beat all of the scenarios lol. Just successfully completed Save the Great Cats 🐯

I love it when the tutorial teaches you how to release your animals from the exhibit and watch them maul your visitors

This Zoo Tycoon >>>>>>>> Every other Zoo Tycoon

I feel like the destructive aspect of this game makes it full circle, you spend hours and hours playing god creating the perfect environment for these picky guests, only to smite them for not conforming to your rules. It’s perfection

I don’t think any video has ever given me a bigger dose of nostalgia than this one. I spent WEEKS of my life playing this gem of a game as a child

Zoo Tycoon was the first video game I ever played, I spent hundreds of hours building the perfect little pixelated zoo for my pixelated animals. It filled my young elementary school mind with such joy. Thank you for bringing back those memories

whenever I went to our local zoo as a kid, they always let the peacocks roam around freely among the guests and exhibits. I’d never known anything else so when I built my zoo I just plopped them down in the guest areas. Did not understand what everyone was so upset about. Edit: it's fascinating that this seems to be a universal phenomenon! For the record I was at the Detroit zoo, but it seems like a ton of places do this! All the more reason it should have been a real feature.

The low res sprites and textures of the grounds are so charming to see. I'm so fond of this.

I love this channel as the inverse of “Let’s Game it Out”. Both are endlessly entertaining in their special ways.

This man is recreating my childhood, game by game. I've never found a RU-vidr whose gaming history aligned with mine so much. I missed a lot of the common ones. But Mr. Phibian is going like 8 for 8 on games I lost uncountable hours on.

My absolute favorite thing to do in this game was to make mermaids. There is a mermaid statue that, if you put it in a marine exhibit, will "hatch" into a mermaid. I think you needed to research the statue to get it, but I'm a little fuzzy on the details, having not played this game for maybe twenty years. Also the ethics of housing a creature with human or near-human intelligence in a zoo is a little cringe... though so is feeding your guests to the wildlife. I also remember there being rumors of unicorns in the game, though I never figured out if they were real or not. Also, I loved this video, if that wasn't already obvious. This was my absolute favorite game to play when I was little. It was a real treat to see it again.

I remember learning that penguins, when starved, would eat anything including predatory animals and guests. Between this, RCT and Sims, things kind've got...weird from there. I guess that explains a lot

Calling the Wild Hunt upon the guests of your Zoo was truly always the capstone and finisher move of Zoo Tycoon.

There's no game that has as much nostalgia attached to it then Zoo Tycoon for me. I remember when I found out that you can make shows with the jellyfish, but the only "trick" they can is swimming up and swimming down and neither of them brought any positiv points...

My favorite part about the Zoo Tycoon series is that you can turn Zoo Tycoon 2 into a dinosaur hunting fps, good times.

I loved playing both this and Rollercoaster Tycoon as a kid. I also learned what “foliage” was from this game 😂

this was my favorite game when i was little!! i used to have the boxes and cds for them but they’ve been long lost… it’s crazy seeing how much they go for now

Old games like these bring back so many memories!

You know, going wild in Tycoon games and murdering patrons in bizarre ways is fun, but I also enjoy the genuine gameplay from someone who knows the game well and likes playing it. There’s shockingly not enough of that. Good vid bro, and would you ever play Impossible Creatures?

Brought back so many memories. Even the desktop icon was nostalgic

I love the style of a lot of the older 2D games like this. These series always seemed like they made the shift to 3D really awkwardly. Like when I saw Zoo Tycoon 2 and RCT 3 I was just in horror at how they looked compared to their predecessors. Mainly how the NPCs looked like shambling disfigured monstrosities.

It’s been so long since I’ve played this game, but I distinctly remember the sounds of the happy and unhappy faces and the sequence of happies when placing trees, followed by one unhappy when placing that one too many, followed by one happy when removing that one tree. Repeat for rocks, terrain, etc. I also remember something with elephant seals liking walruses but walruses not liking elephant seals, but it’s been a while so that might have been the other way around.

You almost had me convinced that you weren't going to kill everyone for most of the video.

This is the way I learned about foliage too! I remember being so proud of my self for using context clues to figure out what it meant (even tho I literally could have Googled it lmao) I wonder how many other kids were introduced to it this way. One of my favorite things to do was to make a massive extensively decorated exhibit that contained every dino egg and see what happened. Or to just make an absolutely gigantic wolf pack.

Ya know, you are really entertaining to watch but one thing needs to be said: it takes some serious skills to be able to play the games challenges you do and still be entertaining. Like you are doing difficult scenarios and completing them with great success. I guess what I’m saying is I’m impressed that not only are you a joy to listen to/ watch, you are also a talented gamer.

I remember loving this game as a kid, and my grandma had the expansions too for dinosaurs and marine mammals. I had a bunch of dolphins, orcas, raptors, t-rexs, and yetis. My favorite thing to do was let them escape and cause chaos.

I could listen to you say "Much to my chagrin" everyday and I think I'd smile each time. And I think you completed the true challenge in our heart of hearts, having your customers watch as they were trampled helplessly by rampaging stampedes of glorious mother nature, much to their chagrin.

You just brought so much nostalgia and so many memories from my child self to my adult self. I spent so many hours playing the complete edition along with The Sims Deluxe edition (with Superstar, Pets, Vacation). So wholesome. So…healing, in a weird way. Thank you so much.

This game was a huge part of my childhood, I'm grateful that someone gave it some respect Unleashing the most violent animals on the guests will always be the most fun part

Zoo Tycoon was one of my first video games ever and I think it's what really sparked my love of management games. I was never good at it. I'd just start with the max amount of money and play until I ran out and then I'd start a new zoo. But I always loved it and it remains one of my most nostalgic games. I even have it installed on my current PC and play it from time to time.

I sunk so many hours into the complete edition as a kid and almost always ended up letting a bunch of dinos loose on the visitors lol. Such a great game.

9:54 the polar bears smacking the hell out the guests, I'm dying I can't

Born in 2002, these games were my first games I ever played. So much nostalgia.

I love the subtle dystopian things some games slip in

I loved this game. My favorite thing to do was to get a real homeostasis in the Sahara and combine all of the animals - giraffes, gazelles, zebras, warthogs... and then when everything was going great, introduce the lions and delete all the fences. RETURN TO THE WILD.

I just want to say, I actually really like warthogs. They are both very badass and very chill. You can easily befriend them, but they will also fight off lions. Warthogs are great animals.

Please do more zoo tycoon. This video alone brought back so many memories.

My favourite pass time as a kid was turning a zoo into the saharan desert, where human sacrifices were made to the Lions. Zoo Tycoon 2 is also very good

I believe this was the first sim games I ever played, maybe one of the first games in general. I remember I thought about the paths and benches and exhibits for days after I played it. It was nice to see it again, a superb video!

Dude, this game was my entire childhood. I remember sitting at the computer, struggling to read what the animals needed because I was barely in school at that point. So many good memories, so many um... CREATIVE zoos. This makes me want to play it again. I might have the disc somewhere still, from long ago. Great video, and nice battle royale at the end, lol. Would love to see more!

This video truly boils Zoo Tycoon down to its purest essence. A story of triumph and joy as the greatest zoo ever built rises from nothing, only to become a tragic but beautifully poetic descent into madness as mankind is reminded it's not always at the top of the foodchain. A truly thought provoking video.

Zoo Tycoon was the game that got me into gaming. I would spend hours and hours making the perfect collection of animals, marine life, and dinosaurs. I miss those days, man.

This is my absolute favorite game of all time. The greatest game I have ever played, and in my opinion, was the peak of PC gaming. Some tips: Some African animals can go together in enclosures, like zebras and gazelle. There used to be a website that showed what animals could go with what and I think it's been archived, but I don't recall the name.

My man!!! This is one of my first PC games from when I was a kid. So great! Everyone is always on about Rollercoaster Tycoon (Sure it's a classic) but people really do sleep on Zoo Tycoon.

Just got back into this game recently. Loved it as a kid. And now I know why. This game is virtual candy. I'm losing sleep. Soon I'll be losing friends. Family reunion? Will there be Zoo Tycoon at Granma's? Job? I work as a local zoo administrator now. What is time? I only bend to the will of the little green and red animal emojis. I must... ZOO.

Imagine a zoo tycoon and fallout crossover, imagine how sick it would be to see a deathclaw roaming about its habitat

its been that long huh this was my childhood game

Blast from the past. I remember it took my computer around 15-20min to get past the loading screen. Was worth the wait every-time.

I was really enjoying this honest, amusing attempt at a successful zoo. Then things took a turn at 7:37 and got increasingly bizarre and hilarious until the end. Bravo.

This game was such a big part of my childhood. So glad I still have the discs.

Loved this game, both the sequel and the first one. I found out in the sequel you could 'freeze' a guest permanently as a prisoner. trapped in their final moment of torment if you put the offending animal in a box, locking the guest permanently in your zoo and in the same position. I made Artistic exhibits with guests. Different animals had different animations, allowing for flexibility when positioning the guests. Oddly, it only worked on adult men which limited my creative freedom, but I had fun none the less, though exiting the game unfortunately returned them to a T pose.

All of your videos latey have hit me right in the nostalgia literally all my childhood games that no one remebers. keep up the unique and quality content. Ima hit that bell.

I played zoo tycoon 2 when I was a kid, absolutely loved it. My favourite part was prolly to explore my zoo's in first person after finishing a part of it, there was this sence of satisfaction I'd get everytime

I freaking love these videos especially about old games as such 😂😂😂

Damn, I love going to the zoo to see the tuna.

When I was like 10 I somehow became active on a ZT modding forum, downloaded a program to make your own animal mods, saved and cropped sprite sheets from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, and proceeded to mod Pokemon into the game I even opened up the files after the initial modding and altered integers so they'd eat different foods, like different plants, etc. It was fun. Great game. Classic ZT is one of my favorites.

"yo, they actually revived a stegosaurus here! Let's go see it!" "Meh. Let's see the bluefin tuna."

I really appreciate the classic game bender you've been on these last few months AA

It makes me really happy hearing about this game because, although i never played it, I understand the feeling. I have the same feelings for Thrillville OTR for 360. I love seeing what is basically its predecessor. This game still looks awesome 👌

My whole park was 1 big area for a million penguins 🐧. Played this game so much as a child!

This is very nostalgic lol. I remember I used love to let the animals out and they would attack the people 😅 It’s crazy how fast time flies.

My favorite game of all time, timeless. Your video is perfect!!!!!🙌

Damn this unlocked a memory, I really want to play it again now. Thanks for shining light on this game :]

This also was my first video game I played. I never really did the scenarios and mostly just played the sandbox map. I would either be messing around with easter eggs and get the unicorns, mermaids, ect and make a nice exhibit for them, or I would be blocking off the entrance to the zoo while deleting the T-Rex fence and let him have a snack. There was no in between. I also spent a good amount of time reading the zoo keeper information on each animal, even the creatures like the Yeti and the Unicorns had them. I attribute me choosing to major in biology to this game. Really sparked my love for animals, guest eating and all.

Whenever I watch Ambiguous Amphibian's videos I can't help but think of Xavier: Renegade Angel from Adult Swim. And I love that.

here we go breaking the geneva convention again

If you wanna do like a challenge or whatever for rimworld I suggest playing with vanilla genetics expanded and character editor so you can edit your colonists DNA in the health tab without even starting the game yet. It has a wide range of possibilities, also love your content.

The only thing that Zoo Tycoon needs to satisfy the ambiguous amphibian is if the complete edition had amphibians.

Greetings from South Africa! No wonder the warthogs were popular. They are both highly charismatic and delicious

This video was so good... I'm loving this nostalgic 2000s series you're making. Keep it up!

First half the video- Beta trying to please everyone Last half of the video- Chad giving things back to the nature

It really makes me happy that someone else enjoys these games as much as I do. Nearly all of the classic pc games you’ve played on your channel are ones I enjoyed as a kid growing up. I still have all of them on disc too. You’re the only RU-vidr I consistently watch and yearn for the next video to come out. Keep up the good content my guy! -With love from Florida, Mouse.

This was the game I played the most as a kid. I had a method as soon as I was bored with a really popular zoo where I'd block paths/exits, fire all the staff, then release all the animals and watch the mammoths impale people.

Another triumph!!

Is it possible to cut off the entrance to the park? After all, people can’t leave bad reviews, if they can’t leave the zoo at all ;)

I feel this is exactly the development curve of whatever business ambiguousamphibian would take charge of irl. Good thing you have a youtube channel, instead of us hearing about it on the news. X)

Crazy to think this game's abandonware now. I remember installing this on my computer as a kid with my sisters.

Nothing but the greatest of memories with Zoo Tycoon, I tell you what. I remember playing this game pretty much all the time as a kid, and since I had the complete collection, I got pretty wild with the zoos I could create. I had dinosaurs and all sorts of animals, and even mermaids.

Why is it the fact that I love these videos so much that I always come back? Well maybe it’s because your voice is easily recognized and when I watch you my brain rewards myself. So maybe that’s why I come back.

I just stumbled across your channel with this video, and I'm subscribed not even halfway through. Your personality and editing come together for a hilarious watching experience

I haven’t thought about this game in years. I had it for my DS lite and it was so fun (trapping humans in benches and listening to one track on repeat). Thanks for the memories! Good video!

I actually should revisit this game. When I played this in my really young years I could not read English. yet I had a absolute blast. haha

I still play this game from time to time. Best part of any playthrough is trapping the guests and releasing the animals on them. BTW there are 3 secret animals you can unlock by giving your exhibits cerrain names. Such as the unicorn "Xanadu", triceratops "Cretaceous Coral" and the final animal Deinosuchus "super croc". PLUS if you put a mermaid statue in a marine tank it will turn into a mermaid giving you another one :)

Youre videos and narration bring me so much joy. I cant even explain it

Hearing that music transported me immediately back on time holy shit.

I'll never forget buying zoo tycoon at my schools scholastic book fair. I was addicted to that game. Still have the copy to this day

I would always have one person that would wander off to a portion of the zoo that wasn’t developed yet and complain that there wasn’t any food or bathrooms over there.

Your addition of increasing amounts of cartoon sound effects per episode is making them more whimsical and enjoyable to watch. I never played this one, but played a similar game, DinoPark Tycoon. I highly recommend old elementary school classics: DinoPark Tycoon, and SimPark. They're dumbed down for kids, but still have all the right elements. SimTown is also in the same category.

Dude your videos were always good but this takes it to a whole new level. You’re getting 💯

Hearing that intense music at the end paired with footage of a Zoo Tycoon polar bear sprint made my Friday night

Sadly I never played Zoo Tycon but I spent hundreds of hours in Zoo Tycon 2, some of the best memories of my childhood :)

My childhood game! With Age of Empires and Legion! Thank you AmbiguousAmphibian

Omg the way you start the park is exactly the same line of thinking I have back when I was 10. "Okay, one big path in the middle then separate them into different area of marine animals, dinosaurs, and good ol' land animals, first one upfront is a lion exhibit on the left side"