Beta "Timbuktu"

[barryborder22 0]

Post pictures of the game from before 2002. In 2000, not long after SC3 Unlimited was released, they began work on Timbuktu, the game that would become SC4. Post game pictures from back at that time!

[barryborder22 0]

How did SimCity 4 get started?

One day in 2000, a few days after SC3000UL was released, an email from EA expressed Maxis into making a fourth SimCity. In the next four years, Maxis worked hard to make the game which became SimCity 4. Work was slowed down due to RL and making The Sims and the first three expansion packs. Once SimCity 4 was complete, it hit store shelfs on January 14, 2003. Soon, they started work on Rush Hour, which would add so much to transportation. Once completed and released, players could now build ground highways, and even drive in their cities through UDI or U Drive It! In late 2003, both SC4 and Rush Hour were combined into a single game called SimCity 4 Deluxe. The following year, the NAM was born. Today, it adds more to transportation options including GLR, as well as the RHW, SAM, HSRP and coming soon, NWM.

[Defecto 44]

Originally posted by: barryborder22...including GLR, as well as the RHW, SAM, HSRP and coming soon, NWM.quote>

Nice story! Though I might be the only one, but I barely managed to relate RHW to rural highway but got lost at SAM, HSRP and NWM...

[xV.I.N.C.E.N.T.x 0]

Actually. SC4 has been around since 2003 like you stated, however, what's with this 4 year gap between 2000 and 2003 ( See my point ) ?

Might wanna change that to

"Over the next two years."

[barryborder22 0]

Originally posted by: Defecto

Originally posted by: barryborder22...including GLR, as well as the RHW, SAM, HSRP and coming soon, NWM.quote>

Nice story! Though I might be the only one, but I barely managed to relate RHW to rural highway but got lost at SAM, HSRP and NWM...quote>

 

This is what you may be talking about:

SAM - Street Addon Mod

HSRP - High Speed Rail Project

NWM - Network Widening Mod