| Publishers | Microsoft |
| Developers | Blue Fang Games |
| Release date | 2001 |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Game rating |
Game Description
Zoo Tycoon is a simulation computer game developed by Blue Fang Games, and published by Microsoft in 2001. It’s a single player game, initially released to be played on a Microsoft PC or Apple Macintosh. In Zoo Tycoon, the player gets to experience all the excitement of running a business by becoming the titular zoo tycoon: building, running and expanding their very own zoo.
The player can build everything from food stands to movie theatres – and of course, animal exhibits, for a wide choice of animals. While restaurants and shops help keep guests happy, you need both guest and animal happiness high to make money. To keep the animals happy you’ll need to carefully choose their habitat and terrain. If you put the lions in an arctic exhibit, they won’t be too pleased! Don’t forget to employ plenty of zookeepers, or else an animal might just get loose – and could kill a guest.
You can choose to play in either scenario or freeform mode. In scenario mode, the game sets objectives for the player to reach, often in a limited time. This could mean achieving a certain level of guest happiness, or breeding a particular animal in your zoo. Scenario mode provides structured game play and regular, measurable achievement. In freeform mode, the player has total freedom. They can set their own aims and pursue them at any pace they’d like. As the game progresses, you can invest in researching new items and new animals, unlocking them and making them playable.
Download Zoo Tycoon
We might have the game available for more than one platform. Zoo Tycoon is currently available on these platforms:
Windows (2001)
Zoo_Tycoon_Win_Preinstalled_EN.zip (972.4MB)
Zoo_Tycoon_Win_ROM_EN.zip (1.19GB)
Zoo_Tycoon_Win_ISO_EN.zip (483.9MB)
How to play in Windows
- Download Zoo_Tycoon_Win_ROM_EN.zip and extract the files to your desktop. You might need to use a software such as 7-zip or WinRar to extract.
- After that, you want to mount the 2 ROM files found inside the downloaded folder, to do this you will need to use a software such as Daemon Tools.
- When you have them mounted, run the setup found inside the mounted drive for the base game (not expansion) and finish installing the game. After, run the setup for the expansion and install it.
- Finally, you want to open the crack folder and copy-paste the files found inside into the game installation directory (right click on game desktop shortcut and select “open file location” to see installation directory). Confirm you want to overwrite those files. Now you can run the game.
- Enjoy!
Mac (2001)
Zoo_Tycoon_Mac_ROM_EN.zip (457.9MB)
Additional files, patches and fixes
Zoo Tycoon Screenshots
Windows
I used the preinstalled version. And I see that some others are having the same issue as I.
The maintenance workers wont clean up the trash. I thought I was going nuts, but somewhat relieved I am not the only one experience it. I am wondering if this is a glitch, or is it an anti piracy thing?
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I saw that someone posted a fix for this problem about two years ago. I have not been able to test this out yet because I have never installed or have tried daemon tools and am unfamiliar with it.
This is the comment I am referencing to: “So there is a glitch if you download the preinstalled version where you can’t assign tasks to maintenance workers (trash never gets cleaned). To fix you need to install with daemon tools, zoo tycoon then zoo tycoon complete.”
Very nice game
good
Playing this game…. any reason i cant get the maintenance staff to empty the bins?
having the same issue, is there any way to fix it?
doesnt work on my macbook pro. it says zoo tycoon.app does not exist. then closed.
i never have success with getting old games to work but this worked as instructions said. only problem is max guests is only 1000 and cant seem to change it. supposed to be an .ini file i need to edit???
thanks
koi tumi go
The Rom download isnt working 🙁 without it there are bugs such as the maintenance workers not having any tasks and ignoring broken fences and rubbish duties
It was working then the next day it told me that I need to enter the game in my CD Rom?? How do I fix this I tried to run it in compatibility
When I download this game, it is way too zoomed in to play. I have looked up all kinds of fixes (display resolution, dpi, window mode) to no avail. thanks
Hey, I am really having problems downloading the game. I cannot get it to actually work.
thanks