Earliest SimCity Series Memory...

[enemyone 1]

What was your earliest memory of Sim City?
First game I played was Sim City 2000, back on a computer the size of a car, back when taking ten minutes to start up was high-speed, and Windows 95 was the height of technological advancement...

Loaded the game up, clicked a random map, and ended up with an island about 20 by 3 wide. But I was thrilled, my grandmother was helping me play, we were going along. A little town, a church popped up, then those orange condos, and a brown apartment. I was thrilled. And then a fire happened. And we had no idea what to do. I panicked (I hadn't even started kindegarten back then) and started getting upset. My grandmother scrolling though the menu saw something great. Something to make the fire go away. She clicked the flood button. And then the waters rose up and consumed the tiny island, which made me cry even more. She ended up going though all the disasters using one to get rid of the other, earthquake for the flood, monster for the earthquake... until all that was left of my first city ever was a pile of rubble. We still laugh about it today. How bout everyone else? Definately the best games ever though. 

[jon7985 3]

I remeber Godzilla destroying my city in slow motion as he inched across the minimap. I was sad.

[katamariguy 6]

I remember when I was too little to understand how to play Simcity 4 properly and I would just build landmarks one after another and maybe destroy them all with a disaster until I went bankrupt.

[Raxter 1]

The starter city in SC3K, Suburbia. After I finally figured out the game mechanics(by reading the super dooper manual! Man, I miss that thing), I started Twyconville. It was the first city I ever got high-rises in...first city I did alot of things...including burning down the whole industrial zone accidentally. I wish data preservation was better in older computers. That city was erased by the frequent issues of Windows 98...I sometimes think I'd prefer to play SC3K...but then I remember what the traffic and transit tools were like.

[Joetropian1 1]

my first couple of cities i made never passed 30,000. all taht changed when i built new redwood city. it got 32,000... and then the game crashed... then i moved on to joetropolis (hence my user name ), which exceeded 30,000, then 50,000, and continued until it bottomed out at about 400,000. and it was on a medium tile! after over a year on my own, i found simtropolis, and the population went up even further to about 750,000. and that was the start of simcity for me

JT1

[mmiinnttyy 0]

playing the origonal at 7 yrs old and not understanding the game. this was the the super nes GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

Wow, this is going to go wayyyy back. I was about 6 or 7 years old and my dad had just bought the original simcity. I accidentally broke the box and he got kinda mad. A few years later I found this game called simcity 4) and me and my cousin pretty much played it for hours each day. We were amazed when we got our city population to 20,000 or more. It was then that I ended up getting kinda bored with it and a few years later I started playing it agian and I had a new thrill for it. I then discovered Simtropolis and then soon became overwhelmed that I was playing in an unlimited world. That's pretty much my life story

[ewd76 2]

Would have been late 1994 or early 1995. I had never heard of Sim City, but I saw a copy of SC2000 in the store and bought it.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

The first time was at a friend's house back when I was at school. He had a PC XT with a Hercules Graphics Card (resolution: 720 x 348 pixels on a monochrome monitor), and we played SimCity Classic there.

About 1991, I got SimCity for my Amiga 500 and saw the game in colour for the first time ever.

Later I played SimCity Classic on my first PC (a 486 DX/33), and lateron SC2K as well - from DOS with that DOS/4GW memory extension thingy so I could take full advantage of the whopping 4 megabytes I used to have.

SC2K continued on my next PC, a 100 MHz Pentium. I also played the network edition with a friend, it was fun. Even before the network edition came out, we used to divide city maps into halves and took turns in building. We exchanged cities on 3,5" disks... that was always very exciting - to see what the other guy had done, to compete about the best city. By the way, the SCURK that was later released for SC2K marked my first contact with custom game content ever, and that was even more fun.

SC3000, of course, was bound to follow - I think I first played it on my Pentium 233 MMX. I liked the Unlimited Edition even more, because it enabled the use of custom content and brought a European and an Asian tileset into the game, both of which I liked very much.

My first steps with SC4 were odd - soon after it was out, I borrowed it from a friend. I didn't quite manage to build decent cities, and I didn't impove much, either. (Well. it was the bug-ridden first version)

Then a long time passed by, the RH addon was released, and I was all without SimCity. Finally I decided to give it another spin, and I bought the Vanilla game plus the addon (which, at that time, was inexplicably hard -if not impossible- to buy on the biggest European PC game market, Germany. It cost three times as much as the Vanilla game, and I eventually got it via eBay really cheap - a guy had misspelled it, and I had searched for typos, har, har. )

The rest, I think, is history - learnt the game and enjoyed it, learnt about custom content, finally joined SimTrop, met a nice guy from Austria there, and he finally introduced me to the German SimCity fan community. Nowadays, I can say that I never felt as much at home in a game community as I do among my fellow SimCity nuts - probably even more than back when I used to make waypoints for a Counter-Strike bot.

[Former User 225 1]

earliest? playing SimCity2000 on our old Mac Performa 6400.

[antsel 841]

My earliest SimCity memory would be wayyyyy back in SimCity Classic. I don't remember how old I was... probably Grade 6 or 7. A friend of mine had it and he was obsessed with the game and got me hooked on it. I used to go over to his house a lot just to play the game. My most vivid memory of SimCity Classic is the token earthquake you get when using the FUND cheat.

I also played SC2000 for a little bit, but I was a really bad city planner in that game. When I discovered SimCity 4, the only thing that had be sold was the fact that you could play in adjacent tiles, because I always resented the fact that city building was limited to the area you had from the start.

[Elmas 0]

mmmm i was 10 but i remember very well that i started playing in on of the cities that came with simcity 3000 wolrd edition and putting all the landmarks

[Dukat 2]

Sim City, Commodore 64.

I used the money cheat pressing F1/F2 and plopped a complete city that didn't develope well. I kept the computer running over night and when I came back from school next noon it was all developed, trafffic jams included.

The small black dots around the "R" were actually the houses in a block that could grow up to 3 stages. (small dot, medium dot, large fat dot) Thus you had a system of 3x3 blocks with the block description (R,C,I) in the center.

[vershner 11]

SimCity on the ZX Spectrum, back in 1989, loaded from cassette tape. Looking back it seems so primitive now, but back then it was amazing.

[Airtime&Gravity 0]

The first Sim City game I played was the original way back in probably 1997. I didn't get that into it, and it wasn't until I purchased 3000 Unlimited that I began to play. I was never very good, and I think my city got up to around 50,000 residents before it collapsed into chaos. Pretty as Murphy's Law says, anything that can go wrong will. The police were oppressive, traffic was bad, bad pollution, and high unemployment. It was just the kind of town that if real, you wouldn't want to live in.

[ratsportrm 0]

I first played SimCity in 1990 when my friend at college got it for his computer. It was highly addictive. I can remember playing it later it in 1992 after I spent time looking at strategy guides and reading up on advice and getting a city that did very well in terms of profit, even at a 5 percent rate, and my friends thinking I used the embezzlement key to get that big cash reserve. Hehehe.

Also had a lot of fun with playing the SNES version and I remember how great it was to beat the scenarios, including Las Vegas (which, once you figure out what to do, isn't really that hard).

Between SimCity and the original Civilization, you can imagine what my spare time was occupied with back then.

[Follarch 326]

My earliest, sadly, was when I first got SimCity 4 one day cause it was a city builder and I LOVE cities. So I got it, started playing. Started my first city called New Tacoma, and after an hour or two, the sims kicked me out of office for using up all the money. lol

[sedimenjerry 1]

Back in Middle school (Thanks Crews!) in 6th grade we would play Sim City 3000 in Computer Science. It was so much fun and looking back at it, I can't beleive we survived by just making roads and awful zoning decisions. A few moths late, I got Sim City 4 and never looked back

[The Arrowz 3]

sedimen... you went to Crews Middle School?? If it's the one in Lawrenceville I went there too! Except we played simcity 2000, which I found to be really easy Maybe it's cause we used cheats, I dunno...

[Dizastrow 4]

The first thing I remember is playing Simcity Classic of SNES.  I used to block 6 residential blocks together, and stick a casino or park right in the middle which would cause huge hotels to grow.  I did pretty good at that old game.  

I played Simcity 2000 on Playstation 1 for years.  Then I sat on the CD one day.  I cried!!

[Cupcake Carly 12]

Oh yea, Japan, 1997?? my dad was playing simcity2k on our neighbors old cpu, and i saw a tornado in his city, i was like wow this looks nice, couples years after that never thought of the game, then i got SC2k for the PS1, i was like, hey, i remember this game

then i played for 2 years on that, finally stopped cuase of boredom, went to a store and discovered the electronics section(yeah, dont get out much ) i finally saw what looked like a SC4deluxe and i was like, NOWAY?, got it immeddiately looked at the back of the case, bought it, took it home, played, got cunfused, then learned, and now i love it all XD

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

For some reason, I only remember things that happened a few years ago I remembered when I was terraforming my little island for my first city of Govia, that was my favorite city until I found out about Simtropolis.

[Raysfan16 5]

My first SimCity memory was when I was little and got SC2k either for my birthday or for Christmas. My first city was probably some gibberish name, and my dad came in and I had no clue what to do and he went, "Take out a bond!" So I did that like 10 times. Then about five days later I jumped out of my chair when I built a school on accident(the first building i ever made)

[Patricius Maximus 236]

It was 1997 when I obtained a copy of Simcity 2000. My first city was a rather small place, with residential and commercial on one side of the river, and industrial on the other side. Early-onset city planning skills?

Anyway, I got SC3K when it was released, and had a lot of success with it: a lot of varied cities. I got Simcity 4 Rush Hour when released and I built regions with that, but my city building really took off when I first acquired mods and custom content at ST back in 2005 (of course, under a relatively inactive username). In 2007 I registered here as Patricius Maximus, and here I am today.

That is a brief history of my existence when it comes to Simcity.

[SounderBruce 173]

Got SC2000 in 2004, hooked ever since.

[Cryolemon 0]

I remember playing the original Sim City on my SNES (Which I still have!) when I was about 8 or 9, so about 13-14 years ago.

[dabadon5 295]

A long time ago, maybe in 2000. i played sc3000 unlimited for the first time. i remember how crappy my cities looked, but it was fun !

[DITRO 15]

I first got SC2000 Deluxe back in '97, i think. I liked all the different tile sets and the arcos and that you could blow up a train by demolishing the bridge it was on! I also liked messing with the crazy transportation advisor ("YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"). Then I got SC 3000 a few years later. I loved uploading my cities from SC2000 and playing them with the enhanced graphics. I couldn't wait to get SC4 because I could build on hills, and discovering this site was the icing on the cake.

[trojan_47 2]

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Originally posted by: Airtime&Gravity

The first SimCity game I played was the original way back in probably 1997. I didn't get that into it, and it wasn't until I purchased 3000 Unlimited that I began to play. I was never very good, and I think my city got up to around 50,000 residents before it collapsed into chaos. Pretty as Murphy's Law says, anything that can go wrong will. The police were oppressive, traffic was bad, bad pollution, and high unemployment. It was just the kind of town that if real, you wouldn't want to live in.

You've been to Detroit?

 

SimCity Classic for PC then eventually for Super Nintendo.

In SNES I figured out how to make megalopolis's.

The way to make a perfect city was make "donut blocks" of your different zones and have ONLY RAILROADS!!!  So you would have 8 tiles blocks with police/fire departments, parks and hosptials all that went in the middle of the donut. 

So your map would be a huge grid with sections of different zones and it would all be surrounded by railroad. Railroad produced no pollution and people could use it just like roads. hehe

[830point35 8]

I remember an article in the LA Times (1991?), something about how you sit down with this thing called Sim City, simple, black and white, square graphics, and the next thing you know it's 3 AM. It didn't take me long to figure out what they were talking about.