PLAY ROLLER COASTER GAMES

Welcome, thrill seekers! Here's where you can go to play roller coaster games at your favorite amusement parks. Below is a rundown of some of the best United States roller coasters. Proceed at your own risk.

The tallest roller coaster in the world is the Kingda Ka, built in 2005 at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey. It's 456 feet high, and is also the world's fastest roller coaster, reaching speeds of up to 128 miles per hour.

The world's next tallest (and also the next fastest) roller coaster is the Top Thrill Dragster, erected in 2003 at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It measures 420 feet in height and reaches speeds of up to 120 miles per hour.

Cedar Point also features the longest STEEL roller coaster in the United States (5th longest in the world). The Millenium Force, built in 2000, measures 6,595 feet in length.

The world's longest roller coaster of any kind is a wooden contraption, also in Ohio, at Paramount's King's Island in King's Mill. Constructed in 1979, the coaster known as The Beast is 7,400 feet long.

Finally, Leap the Dips at Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pennsylvania, is the world's oldest operating roller coaster. It opened in 1902, and after being closed for several years, was restored and re-opened in 1999. Leap the Dips (pictured above) is an old-style "side friction" roller coaster, the only one of its kind in North America.

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