The original Sonic games took full advantage of the linear 2-D form to create a character that would dash through tunnels and over land in a mad rush, often becoming a rolling blue ball racing across a roller-coaster landscape.
It is not a roller coaster veering through simulated landscapes of the Depression or coursing over virtual World War II battlefields.
The trail wound among stands of tall pines that had escaped wind and fire, circled a picturesque basin called Ruby Lake, and roller-coastered over an open landscape of regenerating aspen and thickets of conifers, evidence of a dynamic growing forest.
In a telephone interview Wednesday, Emmert, 60, described not the past month but his tenure as "challenging" under the current, shifting landscape, "a roller coaster of successes and scandals that have crossed over college sports in pretty much every dimension".
In a 2005 article, Cridlin mostly praised the 90-degree drop and wrote that, "Despite its sheer size and dominance of the Busch Gardens landscape ... the coaster likely will still inspire debate among park visitors".
How do you insert a landscape-dominating roller coaster into that image?
Nearby, a "4-D" theater may have the least to do with the museum's subject and the most to do with sheer amusement: viewed through supplied glasses, the 3-D film races through a virtual roller-coaster ride in an otherworldly landscape as the plastic seats rock and jerk, your eyes tricking your body into queasiness.
Think of the gruesomely entitled ArcelorMittal Orbit, that roller coaster of a blot on the landscape of East London that eventually transmogrified, after a fierce and unseemly battle between aesthetics and mammon, into a spectacular viewing platform for the 2012 Olympics.
The picture's landscape is a roller-coaster patch of brown against dirty yellow sky.
A night that began in anticipation of a dead heat was a roller-coaster ride through a morphing British political landscape – climaxing in Tory triumph.
At the moment, I was committed to Lightning Racer, a gorgeous, spaghetti-framed dueling woodie (that's coaster-speak for a wooden coaster) that lifts you high above the lush landscape of Hersheypark, before sending you screaming down a banked drop and onto butter-smooth hills, switchback curves and lots of illusory near-collisions with the competing train.
