Roller coaster engineer Korey Kiepert joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about roller coasters and the people who design them. How do roller coasters work? Who invented the first ...

The world of roller coasters is an exciting one. The towering steel (or sometimes wooden) tracks stand like giant beacons within their respective theme parks. They beckon for adventurous riders to ...

Back in the early 2000s, "RollerCoaster Tycoon 2" (2002) was a blast to play. One could design rides with just the right amount of corkscrews, helixes and inversions to get park-goers' adrenaline ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. It was April of 1990. A revolutionary roller ...