I don't know if someone has already mentioned this, but in ZT2 when you're in the map selection page with the globe and the flag markers, if you spin the globe around really fast you'll hear people screaming. That was always my favorite little easter egg :pp

does anyone remember the caveman you can sometimes get frozen in the iceberg? Then you let it melt and he'll walk around and stuff??

I remember Zoo Tycoon 2 looking a lot graphically better than it really is lol

Gosh I remember gripping my seat I'd be so scared watching Stalker's spooky zoo tycoon videos. My game had a glitch where the zookeepers would walk around without a head sometimes and the first time I saw it I nearly had a heart attack thinking the monsters from his videos had made it into my game!

ZT2 was basically my childhood. Back before High School I was only allowed to have 2 hours of gaming time, except for "educational" games, which my parents counted Zoo Tycoon amongst. The Zoopedia taught me more about obscure animals then I could have ever hoped to learn. Want fun facts about the Gerenuk? I got you covered.

Zoo Tycoon was a massive part of my childhood; I kept pointing at the video going "Hey I remember this!" I especially loved all of Dannybob's series back in the day. I had no idea some things existed like the Asiatic Black Bear though. And I'm still puzzled as to where that marine show backdrop item went; it was visible in a promotional screenshot for Ultimate Collection but I don't recall ever seeing it in-game. Beautiful video, it was like a nostalgic recap of everything this series had to offer.

Yay! I’m glad you mentioned Magnet. Little kid me was amazed that you could download content online, including Magnet. I grew up in the Baltimore area, so it was really exciting seeing the same polar bear in my game that I had seen in real life.

17:40 Xanadu is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's dream-version of the Ancient Chinese city of Shangdu, as described in his poem "Kubla Khan", a foundational work in British romanticism. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

There is one thing that I don't think was even a passing mention but I KNOW I didn't hallucinate as a kid: Mermaids! I don't believe it was DLC, though maybe it was, but I distinctly remember being able to put the mermaid statue inside salt water and it would eventually crack open and turn into a mermaid :) It was my favorite thing to do!

I had Zookeeper collection! It was very fun and sometimes I would bring the customers inside the animal enclosures and the animals would attack them, it was fun but it made me lose all my stars lmao. I also had a version for the Nintendo DS (or Gameboy?) which was much less fun

I very much enjoy the aesthetic of zoo tycoon and similar ganes from the time

I still own my copy of the Zookeeper Collection. Full plastic box, instruction booklet, and both disks. Didn't realize it had such a short release! I begged my parents to buy me anything zoo tycoon related back then. The instruction booklets for the second games always stood out as a favorite of mine. I would read through them again and again. My Ultimate Collection guide still has my own pen notes scrawled throughout it. The stalker videos are SO ICONIC to me. A huge part of my childhood. To this day I haven't met anyone else in real life who watched them as a kid.

You should’ve included Aurora Designs as well as Radical Remake as they were some of the most popular mods of them all, as well as some of the more popular mod packs

24:51 I wonder who made that video... But still, overall it's nice to see an iceberg video over Zoo Tycoon content. And this video is very well-researched including some obscure points like the adoptable Yeti for everything or the Asiatic black bear players could get if they completed the Zoo Tycoon mobile game.

I loved the original Marine Mania and I am sad there hasn't been anything like it so far. Zoo Planet was okay, but I miss my massive fish tanks with Marine animals. Prehistoric Kingdom planned to include aquatic animals in the future, so I am looking forward to see what they planned.

This game was my childhood, id moslty play on sandbox mode making a ecosystem. Also this game does have its easter eggs such as spinning the globe that plays people screaming, and what ive heard of is if you place a coffe stand near the staff base building, the staff move faster to work. I would love to learn how to make mods for this game till this day.

Now this. THIS is the niche content I subscribe for.

The ghosts were definitely a glitch, I had them happen a lot in the past before I got into modding the game. Constantly had "ghost" animals and headless guests 😓

3:43 floppa jumpscare warning

I definitely encountered a glitch a few times where one animal was mysteriously translucent; not to the point of being invisible, but see-through. Namely, an American Bison. No idea what caused it.

As for the "ghost animals" I once had a Tapir become pale and white. It looked like a ghost. It never bred and it would just run around and act like a regular tapir. I tried so hard to find an answer to what it was, but never found one.

I remember playing Marine Park Tycoon to death when i was younger, i got it out of a cereal box and would spend entire afternoons building zoos. I distinctly remember the game expected perfection from you when it came to soil composition.

Hahaha I remember when I was little I managed to get the killer penguin by accident. It actually scared me because I had no idea what was going on and found the model scary as a kid.

just seeing videos of zoo tycoon brings back so much nstalgia to the point that it's painful

Jamás conocí a alguien que supiera tantos datos sobre zoo tycoon, definitivamente mereces bastante reconocimiento, estaré apoyándote cada que subas un vídeo; para mí ha sido muy difícil encontrar youtubers que hablen acerca de zoo tycoon. Sigue subiendo curiosidades acerca de zoo tycoon y a la vez algunos vídeos de construcción de hábitats, o "20 mods necesarios para zoo tycoon". Para finalizar, nuevamente, me encantó mucho tu vídeo, sigue así🤍

This doesn't even scratch the surface of the modding community that existed for this game... So much incredible custom content was created; I wonder how much has been lost.

Remember when icebergs were based entirely on theories and fan creations, not just.. listing the library? Christ.

I inherited Zoo tycoon 1 from my older cousins, and my parents got me Zoo Tycoon 2: Zookeeper collection years later. One of my earliest memories is being amazed by being able to place animals anywhere I wanted, not just in exhibits on a grid system

This was such an awesome video. So many aspects of ZT "lore" touched upon here. Growing up I played Complete Collection, Zookeeper Collection+MM and EA, and had both DS iterations. I also had so many mods (or "downloads" as they were referred to back then) on my computer that they would slow down the game's performance like crazy (Arabian Nights, Island Excursions, Jurassic Park, Paranoia, etc.) Would love to see a video going deep into Zoo Tycoon Friends. Literally, remember only seeing the initial announcement trailer, and then the game completely disappeared

I remember Zoo Tycoon 2 having a king cheetah variant which was commonly found by placing a bunch of cheetahs until you happened to come across one, the same with bengal tigers having a rare white variant. I don't remember if there were other variants for different species in ZT2 other than Zebras with different striping patterns or very small changes in some species that usually went unnoticed. I also remember a caveman frozen in an iceberg but I never saw that so I can't confirm if it is real or not. I loved downloading mods for ZT2, my favorite was probably one that gave you lots of different colors for horses. I was obsessed with various series' on youtube using ZT2 as a setting. I still have all my games but they unfortunately do not work on my current computer. I'm glad Zoo World exists as an alternative but I really miss the simplicity of ZT2.

you missed the caveman in the iceberg in zootycoon 2 :D are rare chance

Not something on the iceberg but opening ZT2 today I realized for the first time that the main menu buttons are the shape of a paw. So obvious, but it took over a decade for me to notice XD

I didn't know the yellow brick path had a name. On the cardboard case for Complete Collection, there's a picture of a sample zoo inside using the yellow brick road. I remember trying to replicate it on multiple saves but could never find the right type of path. Now I know why. It's also worth mentioning, as far as I remember, one of the starting maps on complete collection has the yellow brick road path near the zoo entrance. This is the only time I ever saw the yellow brick road path in game.

I'm pretty sure both the Xanadu hack, that 80's movie, and pretty much everything else named Xanadu come from the 1797 poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Xanadu was the name Coleridge used for Shangdu, which was the real life summer capital of Mongol emperor Kublai Khan.

idk if you play Planet Zoo but someone made a Iceberg of that game and it's really in depth, can you cover it? I can't find a good image of it but a somewhat blurry one exists on google

I thought for sure you'd mention the weird abusive zoos we had to revamp in the scenarios in ZT2, or how everyone's zoo tycoon experience eventually turned into animal mosh pit eventually. XD

This video popped up in my feed because I’ve been playing zoo tycoon. I decided to click and watch. I can say i was disappointed and you got another fan. Great content!

Seeing the Dannybobs videos on this list rushed do memories to my head. God Zoo tycoon series alongside rollercoaster tycoon and transport tycoon were some of the fondest tycoon game memories I had

Awesome video, so much nostalgia! And now let me be the bringer of good news to everybody: Treeceratops, a Swiss board game publisher, is developing an officially licenced Zoo Tycoon board game. It's coming to Kickstarter in October 2022 and promises to be a hit already.

I have no clue why would anyone make this, but I'm hella glad it exists.

What a fantastic video ! Zoo Tycoon was one of my favorite games throughout my childhood, and I never knew jellyfish could perform in shows :O I have some information to add, too, that I'm surprised wasn't on the iceberg. ZT1 also had a very vibrant modding scene; it was all over message boards and fan pages during the early 2000s! I remember a program fan-made specifically to help create your own animals and objects- the Animal Project Editor or APE. I thought it would at least be near the bottom of the iceberg, but no. I guess it has become extremely obscure!

I love this video! I played the original game collection a LOT as a very young kid but I had no knowledge of the online fanbase so anything more obscure than the holiday-specific flyovers were unknown to me till now. Tempted to dig out my old CD now

I definitely think you could have expanded on the mods more! No mention of Radical Remake, or the forums that existed that made new animals, additional animal variants, items, and so much more.

I know for a fact that the Killer Penguin is not accessible in the Ultimate Collection. I'm surprised that there wasn't a mention in how if you didn't install Extinct Animals or Marine Mania, you skated above the surface of deep water, but with an expansion pack, you could dive under the surface.

Hi there, I have the Zoo Tycoon 2 Zookeeper Collection in German. Don't know when I bought it as I was just a kid. It was from Toys R Us. Good old times :D

Ah a trip down memory lane for me, with some new easter eggs and surprises I wasn't aware of. I think there was a zoo tycoon 1 mod that added poke'mon, dragons, and mythical creatures with me also hoping someday they'd make a mod for zoo tycoon but with mythical beasts.

30 years old and i just found out BlueFang Studios was based in my state Massachusetts! Lost so many hours to that game in my youth, Damn i'm old...

I had zookeeper collection! We missed the announcement that zoo tycoon 2 had been released so when we saw the zookeeper collection for sale my dad bought it for me. It took another 5 or so years to get Marine Mania, and I only bought extinct animals two years ago, even tho I’ve been playing this game for over a decade. I love it so much. The amount of time I spent making dodos in the demo for extinct animals in incalculable, and the joy I got when I realised every animal added in extinct animals got the fun mini games was amazing. 10/10 best game ever

I can confirm the ghost animals have nothing to do with mods. I got them before i even knew how to mod this game

Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania also had a demo, unsure about any of the other expansion packs. The adoptable animals were the rockhopper penguin, green sea turtle, bottlenose dolphin, and orca. I had a disc as a kid that came with a pack of chicken nuggets lol, it was my introduction to ZT!

Couldnt have asked for a better iceberg! ^^ thanks for this

awesome video! id love to see more content like this.

Very similar story to yours. I watched the heck out of those weird Zoo Tycoon story videos and one of the tutorials was my first exposure to the hamsterdance song. Such a key part of my childhood and I hate that it doesn't work on anything past Windows 7

Totally got the ghost animals on several occasions, but if i remember correctly, they were alive and acted normally. They were just transluscent, and not always to the same degree. You could barely see some of them, while others were just a little see-through. No idea what caused it.

I did know most of the stuff here, but the Asiatic Black Bear was complete news to me.

Might be my memory being false, but I remember an Easter egg in ZT1 where if you put an Insect house inside a crocodile exhibit, killer bees would come flying out and start attacking guests.

glad Asiatic Black Bear got a mention, I helped test an old remaster years ago

Me, turning my head and looking at my PC games shelf: Wait I HAVE the zookeeper collection!

While I didn't play Zoo Tycoon itself I played a very similar game in my childhood, Wildlife Park 2, which is very nostalgic for me. It had similar DLCs (back then they were called "Add-ons"), with a sea creature one called Marine World, and it also had a mermaid easter egg. I think it was in one of the last missions where you had to earn enough money to buy a mermaid for 30 million dollars (it had a story about how the mermaid was found by fishermen) at the end of the mission. The mermaid was quite weird since it was only an easter egg creature, it was its own species where you could choose male or female, but the males looked exactly like the females, it also somehow didn't need any food.

Maybe I am too late, but I am in possession of a physical copy of Tycoon 2: Zookeeper's Collection. Haha, I remember getting it, thinking it was the complete collection, including the dinosaurs and marine animals, but was thoroughly disappointed to find myself completely wrong.

I actually had the zookeeper collection as a kid when I played zoo tycoon 2 for the first time. Of course, I wanted the ultimate collection since I was OBSESSED with dinosaurs as a kid, still am lol. I remember going to best buy with my dad's mom to get it as a kid, good times. Though, I will agree with the selection of dinosaurs not being that great compared to zoo tycoon 1. Sure, the other extinct animals were cool, and the pack was called that. But more dinosaurs would be nice. It is what most kids got it for anyway lol. Also, quick correction, the jellyfish isn't needed at all to get the iceberg in zoo tycoon 1. The animals required are: Wooly mammoth, wooly rhino, polar bear, arctic wolf, walrus, narwhal, and beluga. Only those 7 are required to get it, I did it in game myself. Other than that, good iceberg video!

2022 and there is an iceberg of Zootycoon ? Gurl What a privilege

Love it! Still play it from time to time

Fucking loved Zoo Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon 2 was the best. The demos had some unique stuff you couldn't get in the base game too

Thank you for making this video!

YES!!! I had the original Zoo Tycoon (idky I say had. I still have the disc), and I used to be OBSESSED with it when I was a kid. Then when I was a teenager and had internet and stuff, I found out about the Easter eggs like the unicorns if you name a exhibit "Za--" something.... I haven't watched the video yet, but it's probably in there. Then I saw one about a dino Easter egg and my mind exploded man. One of my favorite games to this day (besides the fact that no matter what, after like year 3, I always go bankrupt)

My god...never heard again from tjis series after I bought the complete collection as a kid...never realized it had a sequel and a reboot (although it having tons of DLC priced at 10 dollars each just makes it look like a mtx hell). Thanks for the nostalgia trip, I spent dozens of hours with the first game, which had an unique aesthetic...and many of those were letting loose the dinos on the park visitors when I got bored 😂

Amazing work!

This video unlocked a room in my brain that I haven't been in for a long time.

I'm so glad you made this

i remember there was this one zoo tycoon-like phone game where you had to breed certain animals to get others (something like elephant plus something else equals mammoth or something like that).

I remember having the zoo tycoon 2 mobile game it was very forgettable but was just nice to have X'D Great video!

I love Zoo Tycoon so much as a kid! My favorite memories are the mermaid statues which would turn into real mermaids and using the Xanadu cheat to get a unicorn!

I haven't played in ages being a Jurassic World / Roller Coaster Tycoon kid but thank you for giving me closure on who 'Magnet' was and why the penguin would kill everything.

I absolutely love Zoo Tycoon! I still play it to this day! Currently on my channel I upload exhibit speed builds every Sunday! I love this video!

As a French speaking person who always played Zoo Tycoon 2 in French, i'll try to make it as clear as possible: I remember that when visitors used that panoramic tower (idk the english name for that thingy >

Ty for this! I've loved this game since i was 7 :)

I remember having a Zoo Tycoon game on my DS, but I can’t remember which one. I remember I used to like the minigame where you could clean the animals

Zoo tycoons my favorite game!! I wish more people played it, it's so good

Every time I remember playing zoo tycoon Complete Collection, I always remember my favourite animal that I’ll always place in my zoo. The Loch Ness Monster, which is apart of the endangered pack.

Oh my god the Kid's Map was all I played. I got the game when I was 6 and spent hundreds of hours on it in the computer room. I remember every time I started a new game I went through a routine of destroying all the pre-made exhibits on the kid's map, filling the entire area with grass, and levelling the terrain to give myself a custom playing field 😂

I'm somewhat interested in lost media that this boosted-up hidden, & surreal memories lol.

I think the Zookeeper Collection was my first edition of Zoo Tycoon 2! I got it from Walmart when I was in 4th or 5th grade. Now that you mention it, I don’t know how common it was. I’m one of the only few people to still have mine (I still pop it in every now and then)

Planet zoo has a new pack out now called the Twilight pack just in time for 🎃 that added a lot of animals the fans asked for such as the wombat and red fox as well as new uses for exhibits and exhibit population control. The developers are very responsive and take player input seriously, very nice folks

Zoo Tycoon is a game I never plan on playing but this was an enjoyable ice berg despite that, excellent narration

I actually did have the Zookeeper Collection growing up. Mostly because back then, if I heard about a Zoo Tycoon game, I would do everything in my power to get it! [Which just means begging my parents to get it]

I don't know how many people know this but after their contract with Microsoft ended in 2008 Blue Fang tried to make a zoo game for Facebook called Zoo Kingdom

I have Zookeeper Collection. Never did get Ultimate Collection. Also hold up, you can't just make a huge claim such as "Belle Delphine was in a Zoo Tycoon ad" and just leave it at that. Was that a joke or...

I had a ghost quagga happen once and I didn't have any mods installed at the time. I had two normal quaggas and got a notification that one of them had died. When I went to go check the quagga that had died had turned white and was somewhat see through. It wasn't super transparent like in the video, but it also definitely wasn't an albino because it only changed color after it died and not after it was placed originally. I took pictures with the in-game camera because the rumors at the time were that ghost animals were a rare occurance. The quagga disappeared entirely when I reopened my save the next time. This makes me want to dig up the jump drive that I backed up my old zoos on to see if I can get the pictures of the ghost quagga.

I remember playing both zoo tycoon and zoo tycoon 2 obsessively as a child/young teen, I really miss these games. There are so many things in this iceberg I remember so distinctly, really hit me with a huge wave of nostalgia. I even had the ds game but I remember it being so bad that I never touched it again after playing a couple of hours.

I played very few video games as a kid, but I LOVED Zoo Tycoon, I had the first one with all the expansions. I remember thinking I was an absolute genius for finding the mermaid thing online and then doing it.

Finally an Iceberg video I can get into.

Holy crap I remember watching Dannyb0b's videos in like 2010, I was 8 at that time and barely knew english so I barely understood the text but damn, I wasn't sure if those videos actually existed now because it felt like a fever dream to me whenever I thought about them.

I had the OG complete collection as a kid and spent HOURS playing it, and I'm so sad I never found out about the mermaid statue or unicorn cheat. I would have loved that

Holy dang those "the invasion" and other Zootycoon horror videos are sooo super nostaligic. Especially the bigfoot one.

haha as someone who has grandparents that live in Kelowna BC and near the real lake Okanagan I just wanted to let you know it is pronounced O-kuh-nog-in lol. Ive never heard anyone say it like you and it brought a smile to my face

You forgot that in Complete Collection, if a T-rex destroys a bathroom, it shows a man sitting inside it like in Jurassic Park

I just started playing the original Zoo Tycoon a few days ago and there was so much stuff in this video I never knew about. Crazy

I never realized how much I need this

Fun fact, the Quagga is technically not extinct. It is quite hotly debated weather they are real Quagga, but a project in South Africa bred them back into existence from Zebras, and even argues that Quagga are just a subspecies of Zebra and not a distinct species.