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I liked this game when I was a kid but I remember being massively disappointed that there wasn't more building.

My two favorite games for some time were Lego Island and Lego Loco.

Lego Loco is a city builder and railroad builder game. Something like a more basic SimCity and Railroad Tycoon crossover maybe. I really liked Lego Loco because you can build a whole city out of Lego to your own liking.

So I had Lego building in Lego Loco and I had Lego Island with all the fun stories and things you could do there, like chasing Pepper the criminal with a helicopter and using donuts and pizzas to help the police on ground and the skateboarder.

Wow, I've seen anyone mention Lego Loco before! That was a great game. I was horrible at it, but the art style and atmosphere was great.

I loved Lego Loco. You could even set the game as a screensaver, and it would basically play whatever map you were on whenever your screensaver turned on!

I kind of miss screensavers actually

>I kind of miss screensavers actually

Same, I wish they'd update all the older ones to look good on newer screens. I want the crazy pipes and the flying toasters and such again.

Brickster's the criminal, Pepper chased him with a rebuilt police helicoptor lobbing pizzas and donuts to help Nick and Laura on the ground catch Brickster.

Also, second you on LEGO Loco. Of the original trilogy (Creator, Loco, and Chess), Loco by far was the most fun. Kudos to the Chess King though, saying the Knights are BMX bikeriders still hasn't been surpassed.

Lego Loco was cool in there was a network version that let you send your train to other people.

This was a favorite of mine as a kid as well - I remember revisiting it after seeing a YouTube video of someone doing a technical breakdown. I realized that this game had maybe less than half an hour of content! I remember losing hours to this game.

What we didn’t have in content we made up in replayability! So many “Great games” from that era had a sandbox mode or other replayability.

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