Earliest SimCity Series Memory...

[hey2abills 0]

In the supermarket, and there was Sim City (or was it classic?) Either way, it was cheap and looked cool. Picked it up for my Windows 95 machine, in 5th grade I think. Played it for HOURS on end, then found the function to make your own map. Not that it was very good. But the game was good. I remember exactly what you could build, and you could only build the one size. Always tried to keep the city square, with roads surrounding each property.

To those who have never played Sim City, play it. Im sure there is some free ware of it on the net. Gets you a good root for what we are playing now.

Sim City also led the way for Sim Tower, which I still think is one of these best games to come out for computer.

[edcase2k4-thugangel1983 1]

i really don't know what my earliest memory was for SimCity, but i do remember almost everything about the game. no specific earliest memory comes to mind though as i was younger than 10 when i first had and played the game (SNES version: released 1992) and i do not remember an exact age. back then my cities were rather random and that trend continued with SC2000 on the PC, up to a point.

towards the end of SC2000's life and before i got hold of SC3000 my cities started taking more of a "shape" although the realism wasn't there, i always tried to take ideas from reality. they just weren't always that well-implemented, or each of those ideas weren't always arranged with each other realistically.

there is one particular memory very common among SNES owners, which was that the console would be left on running costantly for hours on end while we were not playing and may have been doing other things, or had gone out, so our money would keep building up as time passes and when returning to play again at some point there would be a lot more funds to keep us building away...

[Jay Ess 15]

I remember I was 11 and I was shopping off of my christmas gift cards at Best Buy. I was looking for the Sims, no luck, but I did spot SimCity. Grabbed it immediately. I went home and tried to recreate Metro Detroit on a med-tile

[jim 546 43]

My first SC experience was when I was 10/11(?) I bought SC3000 and thought "how awesome this is" but then found out about SC4!

[Simaddict1000 1]

the only thing I remember about SC300 is that the computer was in my brothers room and he would always hide it from me when we were fighting and one day he broke it in half....i cried ....i no its pathetic.

[kellydale2003 2,276]

Aww haha - Earliest Sim City Memory?

Umm, I remember my first Simcity experience was Simcity Classic that I borrowed from the local library - and I played it on a Windows 95. haha. good times.

[MattShizzle 11]

I was 15 and played it on my Commodore 64 - the original 1989 Maxis version. Your buildings were black boxes. No police, fire, water, public transportation or anything. You had the RCI boxes to plant (no densities!) power plants(generic), airports and seaports. Roads were the only transportation. That was it.

[Lukfi 3]

SimCity 4 was my first SimCity. That was, I don't know, 2004? Didn't have the Rush Hour back then. I remember that I always had dilapidated/abandoned residential buildings, I couldn't keep the budget balanced and used neighboring cities to sell power and water to, and I was very annoyed by broccoli news items. 

[LearnedHand 0]

 My first sim city was SimCity 2000. I remember using the PORNTIPSGUZZARDO cheat to get huge amounts of money to build crazy cities (I was like 5.) I also remember those wacky SimCity 2000 advisors, including such characters as: Traffic Beard-Weenie:

[John Kirby 1]

Ah.... The Plains of Latium. That was my first city I ever built, I think I did quite well. I had over 30,000 citizens, horrible traffic and safety levels, and the city was bathing in pollution. It definitely was a work of art.

[Legosim 14]

i remember playing simcity, and my parents bought simcopter, streets of simcity, then the sims, great memorys. then years passed till i got my great pc, and remembered simcity, and got SC4 for $10 on ebay, and built lego ville, which is long gone, i was horrable, untill now.

[BattleshipAgincourt 1]

I had played the classic version for a while, but found Sim Farm much more enjoyable to play. Sim City 2000 and Sim Tower then become the games I spent more time on than I want to know. I remember SC2K most when I got a fresh instal on another computer and realized how little of the original eight cities had remained after I developed them all. Seeing Lakeland in its original condition just seemed so much nicer before I developed it across the map. It was my favorite city in that game.

That went on for a few years, but then I grew out of it. Then two years ago, I got an intel imac with windows and saw SC4 at a good price. 'Why not?' Well it was a LONG way from SC2K in my opinion. I had a lot of trouble dealing with transportation, monthly budgets, upkeep costs, and desirability factors. My original 10 or so 'successful' cities were horribly dysfunctional and eyesores.

[SomeRandomAmerican 5]

Sim City 4 was my first Sim City game. I remember starting my first city in the middle of nowhere, and the first thing I did was plop the John Hancock smack in the middle of the city. No roads, no utilities, nothing. Just that building. Within one game month I was out of money and couldn't undo it. All I could do was look at the big black monolith in the middle of a bunch of hills. And that was the end of my first city.

[Kusajika Yachiru 9]

Simcity3000 Unlimited

Windows 98, sucked at it... only got a little good right before Simcity4 was comming out.

[autumnsolace 0]

i have two very distinct memories:

1. sneaking sim city 2000 games in a 3rd grade portable. usually during recess. often pondering what "reticulating splines" meant.

2. playing sim city classic on a palm pilot. there was a bug in the game to make a buttload of money. raise the taxes to full right before years' end, and you get revenue as if you had taxes set to those #'s throughout the whole year. come january, put them back to normal. you had a lot of money and virtually no negative effects.

[GMT 389]

I got this SNES value pack (console, 1 controller, 3 games: Super Mario World (what else? we're talking classic Nintendo after all), A soccer game and the SNES port of Classic Simcity.

Latter got me hooked. I played it day in and day out. But it was not until a couple months ago that I ever created a city beyond 500000 inhabitants.

or, to put it the other way around: YES I'm still playing it. partly with emulator on PC, partly the real one. And I can tell you one thing: It's SOOO much fun playing these old consoles on a big HD-TV

[Kusajika Yachiru 9]

If anyone played Simcity 3000 Unlimted, remember the freeways? How they would just end... there was no way to make them connect to anything when you wanted them to stop (like SC4). And how if you made an avenue, a row of trees appeared in the middle and it did look nice but it was really nothing more than just two roads side by side. Oh and remember how rail lines ended with a little shed? You could have a really... really long train pop out/go into this tiny little shed

Bad times, bad... times...

[Sambucy85 1]

I discovered SC Classic back in 1990. It belonged to a friend, we would play for hours with those square B&W buildings, filthy factories, not enough parks, churches popping up on every street. I got my first Mac in 93, played SC 2000... in colour ! I wasted hundreds of §§ leveling out territory so my cities were always rather flat. Citizens rioted on me a couple of times, then I learned the trick of raising taxes to 20% for two months before going back to normal, the rioting stopped  I liked SimLife too though species died out far too quickly.

SC3000, Civilisation 1 and 2, The Sims with Vacation Pack and still haven't gotten over the trauma of deliberately killing off one of my characters. Now SC4. Complete addict 

[lyo1984 0]

Wow...great response people.My first memory is when I saw it at my buddy Steves house on SNES his dad played it alot.I rented from my neighborhood rental store Aurora Home Video yeah Blockbuster was still some time away from shutting these Mom-n Pops outta business.then I would set up city to make maximum cash and would turn off TV while I slept.The next morning before school I would turn TV on and whala! 50 millon or whatever I would then Destroy whole city with Bulldozer and rebuild with max MONEY.The only problem was sometimes you;d wake up and see nothing but ASHES ouch especially if you forgot to save your game the night Before.Also I remember running outta room and having to maximize every single inch of land then youd get that great Landfill Add-on back then this was actually considered a bonus.Id be like WOW 10 or so more blocks to use.

[autumnsolace 0]

Originally posted by: Kusajika YachiruOh and remember how rail lines ended with a little shed? You could have a really... really long train pop out/go into this tiny little shed

Bad times, bad... times...quote>

lol.. i always was fascinated by that. SECRET DOOR!

[Retep Molinari 68]

I feel old...

[Fee_Nicks 7]

I remember getting SimCity 4 way back in 5th grade (from some Scholastic mail-order catalog), back in '04 - '05. All my cities I made before I got RH died on me due to huge deficits, but not before I took out multiple loans (and thus adding to the problem). I think the primary problem was because I made far too much in the way of services for a town so small. Also, I didn't know about water pipes, so you can guess what I did to give water to my whole city; I put loads of water towers over it.

I doubt any of the cities got to 10000 before I got Rush Hour. The first real city I made in it got to 50k, but died as well.

[Jon010 0]

Ah...my earliest memory...SimCity 2000. I remember hijacking my older brother's wonderful map and just planting some random volcano downtown and watching the carnage unfold. Thankfully I didn't save it.

[MattShizzle 11]

I'm feeling old too. I was 15 when the original Sim City came out (just called Sim City at the time.)

[Sambucy85 1]

Originally posted by: MattShizzle

I'm feeling old too. I was 15 when the original Sim City came out (just called Sim City at the time.)quote>

You feel old ? If you were 15 back then, that means I'm old enough to be your father... how old is that !

[MattShizzle 11]

That was in 1989.

[OoaHelaNatten 0]

I was 4 or 5 and playing SC2K on my dad's incredibly slow laptop. I used to build it up and then destroy it until it was a pathetic, smoldering hump of carbon. (I'm only 13, it wasn't "that" long ago.)

[Kusajika Yachiru 9]

Originally posted by: autumnsolace

Originally posted by: Kusajika YachiruOh and remember how rail lines ended with a little shed? You could have a really... really long train pop out/go into this tiny little shed

 

Bad times, bad... times...quote>

lol.. i always was fascinated by that. SECRET DOOR!

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I always told myself it was a subway change lol!

[tek-69 0]

 Let's rewind back to the late 80's. Simcity just came out and a boy named tim had no computer. Ahhh but his friends did and they had B&W simcity. Instantly I was hooked like a crack addict taking his first hit. I would play for hours at friends houses. Now here's where it gets weird. Since I had no computer how could I play when I wasn't at someone elses house? I grabbed my graph paper and made my cities the old fashioned way. I would draw out cities at home or in school(i wasn't a good student) for hours and hours, just daydreaming my cities to life. Eventually I got a snes and that was the first actual simcity game I personally owned. Since then I've played every version made, except for societies, I will not even give it a chance. Of course to this day, I still play sc4.

[chrissc94 1]

My dad bought me Sim City 3000 around the year 2000, I was 5, about to turn 6. I would build cities in my basement from blocks and hot wheels, so he thought it would be a productive computer game, I guess. We played it together and the cities were never that great, but not bad for a 6 year old. I got Sim City 4 when it came out, and Rush Hour for Christmas 2004. I played it when it first came out, but didn't really touch it again until Summer 2008. I joined Simtropolis in October and play it almost every day now. My earliest memories were playing 3000 on a gigantic Compaq from 1993, with about 64 MBs of RAM, and it froze all the time.