Earliest SimCity Series Memory...

[Twooller 0]

Great story about the fire and the flood. My first Simcity memory involves Simcity 2000 and I was touring a school and there was a kid playing Simcity 2000. Build a firesation and a tunnel. From that moment I was entralled. Anyway what the hell a school that lets you play Simcity. Hope y'all enjoy.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Needing to get my brother to start the program, since I didn't understand how to work DOS.

[Randomtaskk 1]

I remember leaving SC2000 Unlimited(?) running for hours at a time when I was out in the garden playing so I could get enough money to COVER the entire map with those big white ARCO things you got near the 'end' of the game..

[eboli 0]

I remember playing it in middle school in the early 1990's on these black & white Apple machines. I got hooked pretty quick. Once I got a computer, it was the first game I bought (an old Tandy computer that didn't have a hard drive). I remember having to use the "red sheets" to enter the information about the cities as their early form of copy protection. I also used to print the large maps of the city out. I think I still have some of those...

[Keegan V50 15]

My memory was that my city (SC3000) was destroyed after my younger brother spawned a UFO on it lol...

[Darth Apple 54]

I remember , a while back when I got simcity 3000 , I quickly got addicted , and got really good at it! started building scenarios , etc... , that's one thing I really miss in sc4.

I loved sc3 , despite how much better sc4 is , sc3 was still just as fun , as well as , the music was better.

I have also tried sc2 , but never got my city going , ever...

[Retep Molinari 68]

Gosh... my friend had a super Nintendo... I must have been like 9 or 10 years old. Anyway, after school one day he took me to his house to play this new game he had... Sim City.

I had no clue! I think I plopped like 7 stadiums right next to each other! (i was kinda slow then.)

I also made these huge swaths of land covered by adjoining roads... they looked like parking lots!

[Tysons4 68]

i remember playing sim city on the computer at school and loving it

i asked for it for christmas but instead got sim city 2000

changed my life

[Retep Molinari 68]

Originally posted by: Twooller

Great story about the fire and the flood. My first Simcity memory involves Simcity 2000 and I was touring a school and there was a kid playing Simcity 2000. Build a firesation and a tunnel. From that moment I was entralled. Anyway what the hell a school that lets you play Simcity. Hope y'all enjoy.quote>

I learned more per hour playing Sim City than doign anything at school!

[Jumpthefence 74]

I remember when my Simcity games were on floppy disks! Simcity has ALWAYS and will ALWAYS be a great franchise... excluding Societies.

[Dark_Jedi06 13]

Simcity 2000...I could never get the military zones to build. >.>

[earwax_man 18]

I remember I was 7(?), and my sister got SC4 for her 14th birthday; I just remember not having a clue on how to work the thing. LoL

I thought the roads were some kind of forcefield XD

[ldvger 19]

In April of 1993 I decided to quit my job and take some time off, maybe start a new career in the music business after 20+ years in architecture.  I was 37 years old.  In August of that same year I recieved a $1300 profit sharing check from my ex-employer and, against the advice of my then significant other, I decided to buy my first computer.  I ended up with a Tandy 486 PC, 124 MB hard drive, 8 MB of RAM (2 "sticks" of 4 MB each).  It came with a 13" color CRT monitor and I also bought a dot-matrix color printer, total sale was about $12 less than my entire profit sharing check.  My SO thought I was nuts, that being as how I was unemployed at the time, I should stash the money in the bank.  The computer came loaded with Windows, Microsoft Works, and some card games.  I named the computer HAL (what else?). 

After playing card games for a couple of weeks, I got bored and decided to find a store that could sell me a new and different set of card games to play.  Little did I know.  I spent an hour or more in the store and instead of buying a new set of card games, I bought SimCity, the version now known as "Classic".  When the clerk rang up my sale he said to me "I hope you have a lot of time on your hands" and when I told him I was unemployed, he replied "Perfect".  I went home, installed the game, and played for almost 16 hours straight, much to the disgust of my SO (he never did like my late night habits).  The very next afternoon I went back to the software store and bought the third party game manual.  And the rest, as they say, is history.  I've bought each new version as it was released and it's by far my favorite game.

But one of my best memories of my very early simming days include my younger sister, Char.  In the aftermath of recovering from a very serious, near fatal, burst appendix, she came to live with me and my SO.  My computer was set up in her bedroom and I used to play late at night with all the lights off, while she slept or read in bed.  We'd often chat softly back and forth while I was playing and I'd tell her about the things I was building and the silly things I named objects I built.  She was never all that interested in computers or gaming, but she's always been good with thinking up crazy names for things and I remember one night building a marina and asking her what I should name it.  She was almost asleep and I heard her sleepy voice mumbling at me through the glowing blue dark of the room "Hellina Marina".  I stifled a chuckle and then heard her do the same and in seconds we were both trying really hard to keep our hilarity quiet, so as not to wake Donald in the next room. 

Good times. 

Lora/LD

[sim-fan192 4]

I was just lookin' around the game section of the local Walmart, when something caught my eye. I was Sim City 4 Deluxe. It was $40(?) and that was alot for me then becuase I was around 8 years old (so I'm not 30 years old if you've been paying atention). I was a good little boy and did the tutorials, and then I went crazy. I built cities just to destroy them it seem. I couldn't play for 5 minutes without blowing something up (but then again my towns pretty much sucked). About 2 months after I got the game I had my first skyscraper, and my little bro decided to delete the city . NOOOOOOO. But then agian I had just tossed some meteors into downtown.

[LivingInThePast 364]

My brother playing SimCity 2000 on the family's Performa. That was it for me...

[TekindusT 3,809]

The same week I got SC3000 (limited), my mom bought my deodorant on the supermarket. With the deodorant, a can of a new energy drink came attached to it, so well, I drank it.

[IDS2 3,346]

I started in SimPark then SC2K right after that. I skipped SC3K entirely and moved straight to SC4 right when it came out, since I only started playing SC2K about 9 years ago, for SC4 6 years ago.

[PTrues6331 0]

In 1999, seeing simcity 2000 and 3000 in an office supply store. I wanted sc3k but it was like 50 bucks and my parents wouldn't buy it, so i got sc2k instead.

[earwax_man 18]

Wow, these are cool SC memories

[supermodelhk 0]

I believe it was simcity 3000 that my dad brought for me. Was a little kid back then and didn't know much about management. I just though as long as the zones were filled the game was played right. Back then I always had problems with building constantly being abandoned. haha now playing simcity 4, I've gained much knowledge on how to be more efficient and manageable.

[rjkrox 0]

My afterschool program had it on one of the computers. Absolutely feel in love with it. Then I discovered there was a Sim City 4 Deluxe... my goodness... life changing almost

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

Originally posted by: Randomtaskk

I remember leaving SC2000 Unlimited(?) running for hours at a time when I was out in the garden playing so I could get enough money to COVER the entire map with those big white ARCO things you got near the 'end' of the game..

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I remember those Archo things! Brings back so many memories! Also I just found my Streets Of SimCity game (for those of you who know what is. ) lots of dust on it but it brings back alot of memories. I remember I would use the money cheat all the time and make the best car, then I would try to destroy as many cars and buildings as I could. I had alot of fun out of that game. Mainly because I could create cities in SC2K and drive in them in "Streets Of Simcity".

[Guido78 0]

I went to a friend's house one day and he was playing SimCity 2000. After he explained it to me I was instantly hooked.

[mayorbk 66]

Originally posted by: Twooller

Great story about the fire and the flood. My first Simcity memory involves Simcity 2000 and I was touring a school and there was a kid playing Simcity 2000. Build a firesation and a tunnel. From that moment I was entralled. Anyway what the hell a school that lets you play Simcity. Hope y'all enjoy.quote>

Sometime around 1992-93 our schools got new computers with color screens and all the latest tech. In comp class we played educational games and sim city was my favorite. A couple years later we got a sim city and I've never stopped using the franchise (until societies, SC4 is still superior to that). 

I'm in college now and I started out as an architecture major but switched to communications and a few semesters later I found out that one of the Architecture classes plays SC4. I could have got an easy A!!

[futurama2506sim 7]

Streets of SimCity... They should do something like that in cities XL. I can't imagine why it couldn't be possible, thanks to those wonderful GEM's they got going.

[content_writer 0]

It was in high school and my friend got me into it. The internet hadn't really caught on yet and I think it was one of the first PC video games I played that had "real" sound effects instead of completely computer generated sounds. The "ZZZZZZ" sound (for those who haven't played classic, it was a male, slightly robotic voice) as each electrical line went up, still makes me laugh.

[Z3pla 0]

I got Sim City since the day it came out all i remember is putting 4 airports and a football stadium and lost the game cause i have -4,000$

[Bamafan 0]

My first Sim City memory was with SC2K, we had a 95 back then and, I never could figure out how to get big cities. All my cities became abandoned after 3 years. Never could figure it out. Had some nice houses boom, gone.

[mike3775 2]

I fist played Simcity on a PC,then I bought a SNES, beat all the scenarios fast, then I moved on SC2000 on the Sega Saturn, then i bought another new PC and bought 2000 for it, then bought 3000, then unlimited, then SC4 and then Rush hour.

What I miss the most though, but is fixed now because of mods and building creation, was in 2000 how all you had to do was zone an area for airport/seaport and the game developed it for you, and it made sure to fill every single nook and cranny of zoned space. I used to always put my airport in the middle of my city on a hill and have tunnels going under the airport

[Fraghawk444 3]

I was 10, and we had a pentium 233. I got the demo for 2000, and i hated it. Then i got 3000, and I was hooked! I remember my first city: Concavica. It was.... ok, but not as good as the things im making in sc4: rh