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Atari wants your help to make 'RollerCoaster Tycoon' for Switch

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How badly do you want a version of RollerCoaster Tycoon for the Nintendo Switch? Bad enough that you'd be willing to claim a direct stake in the game's success? If so, Atari has a sales pitch for you. The company's Game Partners division (tasked with making money from classic franchises) has launched a crowd investment campaign to raise money for a Switch port of the theme park construction title. Pour at least $250 into the project and you get a pro rata (proportionate) share of 50 percent of profits until you recoup 120 percent of your investment, and then a pro rata 25 percent share of profits for the 18 months following the game's worldwide launch. Ideally, you'd actually make money from backing the game's release. If all goes according to plan, the game would ship sometime in 2018. Atari is shooting for $2 million in overall funding. The question is whether or not the game will fare well enough. Kotaku points out that the Switch port would come fro...