Classic SIM Games

[Dirktator 2,320]

Originally posted by: TekindusT

I used to play SimGolf. The SC4 U-Drive-It missions remind me SimGolf because you could play and hold tournaments in your own courses...quote>

Oh, SimGolf, if it weren't for SimGolf, there may never have been a Simtropolis.  

[Chptrk 86]

Originally posted by: dirk

Originally posted by: TekindusT

I used to play SimGolf. The SC4 U-Drive-It missions remind me SimGolf because you could play and hold tournaments in your own courses...quote>

Oh, SimGolf, if it weren't for SimGolf, there may never have been a Simtropolis.  

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Really? How so? (Thank you creaters of SimGolf!!!!)

[bakercity 270]

I played SimFarm and loved it. Sometimes, I just work on the small town that goes with your farm. I don't have the game anymore, but want to get from ebay. Now I play Simcity4 rushhour, sims3, and spore. JKB

[Brady Baker 1]

I borrowed a CD from a friend when I was younger. It was for MAC and I had a Packard-Bell (Which my parents still use). The CD had SimCity Classic, SimAnt, and SimFarm on it. The only one that I could ever get to work was SimAnt and I had a blast. My older brother loved SimFarm and bought the game and still plays it. I just got SimCity for the iPhone and it reminds me of SC2000 by its graphics. I used to make my own buildings for SC2000 as well. I still haven't got the hang of the BAT and Lot Editor but working on it.

I also bought an old game I had from Amazon.com: Emergency from the early 90s. Try Amazon.com to find old games. Pretty cheap on there too.

[Msprintz 25]

I have many fond memories of playing SimCity back in my youth, actually faught with my brother over that game( it's probably the one game you'd want your kids fighting over hehe). 

Have also owned and played SimEarth, SimTower, SimFarm, SimCopter, Streets of SimCity, SimIsle, SimCity 2000, and SimCity 3000 Unlimited. 

Have to say SimTower and SimFarm have a nice rustic charm and feel to them, not to mention how they're totally different experiences from the city building that defined the series.  Probably spent an equal amount of time farming and building supertalls as I did building cities.  Which I suppose is why I sought out YootTower, the sequel to SimTower.  Thanks to these older games being abandonware it wasn't too hard to locate and download. 

SimIsle also presented an interesting concept with management of the Islands resources.  You had to also manage and interact with the civilization residing on the Island( providing labor).  However, it seemed to be more weighted towards building tourist destinations as industrial development was extremely destructive to the Islands ecosystem.  I suppose that's not too different from reality, but it made for a rather difficult gameplay experience.  

 

 

 

[MC6Ash 4]

Originally posted by: Chptrk

Originally posted by: dirk

Originally posted by: TekindusT

I used to play SimGolf. The SC4 U-Drive-It missions remind me SimGolf because you could play and hold tournaments in your own courses...quote>

Oh, SimGolf, if it weren't for SimGolf, there may never have been a Simtropolis.  

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Really? How so? (Thank you creaters of SimGolf!!!!)

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Simtropolis started as a simgolf fan site.

or so the bunnies say

[PTrues6331 0]

my favorite classic sim games were sc2000 (1st sim i never had), Sc 3000 (1st simcity i learned to bulid decent cities on), streets of simcity (because i liked the idea of buliding race tracks), and simtower (just cause i thought it was fun), plus i liked simgolf (even though i only had the demo) and i played simcopter,safari,isle but i it was a long time ago and i barely remember them.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: MC6Ash

Simtropolis started as a simgolf fan site.

or so the bunnies say quote>

It's my understanding that the "founding fathers" here - Dirk, Rybolton, Golfbunny, Simjez, and Hodges - met by way of SimGolf.

The idea may have begun as a Simgolf fansite but Simtropolis itself never was. It went live January 11th, 2003, as an SC4 fansite. For a few months prior to that, there was another site which was nothing more than a forum by the name of "Simcity 4 Discussion Zone". Simtropolis launched as "Simtropolis 2.0", and SC4DZ was retroactively christened ST 1.0. Everyone who was a member there automatically got an account created for them here (a join date of January 11th, 2003 is indicative of a member for whom this is the case), but the old site was not replaced. For a while, it was actually still there, albeit derelict. Long gone now, though.

[da_sim_dude 5]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Originally posted by: MC6Ash

Simtropolis started as a simgolf fan site.

or so the bunnies say quote>

It's my understanding that the "founding fathers" here - Dirk, Rybolton, Golfbunny, Simjez, and Hodges - met by way of SimGolf.

The idea may have begun as a Simgolf fansite but Simtropolis itself never was. It went live January 11th, 2003, as an SC4 fansite. For a few months prior to that, there was another site which was nothing more than a forum by the name of "Simcity 4 Discussion Zone". Simtropolis launched as "Simtropolis 2.0", and SC4DZ was retroactively christened ST 1.0. Everyone who was a member there automatically got an account created for them here (a join date of January 11th, 2003 is indicative of a member for whom this is the case), but the old site was not replaced. For a while, it was actually still there, albeit derelict. Long gone now, though.

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I got my simtrop history lesson of the day  

[Impala26 1]

I still to this day state the Spore was built upon the concepts in Sim Earth. You had evolution, creatures rising to sentience, and you had terraforming. I can still remember the "Terraform Mars" scenario, and my like 9 year-old brain couldn't comprehend how you could make a dead rock like Mars into what is essentially, Earth. The result was my imagination running wild.

That's what I love about the first-generation Sim games. They weren't for people with ADD, they were less games and more toys you could just tinker around with and let your imagination rule.

I have owned and played: All SimCity games, SimFarm, SimAnt, SimEarth, SimTower (another favorite), SimGolf, SimCopter, SimIsle, The Sims, and Spore. I pretty much refuse to play newer iterations of The Sims because I grew disenchanted with the series as a whole (So... it's a "game" where you do the same things as your real life?). Spore was a minor letdown for me, but still enjoyable (damn micromanaging space phase!).

[SC4BOY 20]

I started with the original SIMCITY game.. must have been about 1985?? It was on a Leading Edge (IBM copy) with 2 5-1/4 floppies, a whopping 64k of memory, a "4 color" (read shades of grey.. LOL.. except I had the "amber" rather than the green one) and a C Itoh dotmatrix wirepin printer.. I paid like 5000 for it.. and I added later a 10MEG (no not GIG) harddrive for 650 dollars or so.. The game (and the equipment) has come a long way.. waxing nostalgic I just got an all-in-1-printer last year that for about $70 will do what a $100000 xerox wouldn't do in 1985.. hehe

[Ocram's Razr 963]

My first real videogames were in the SIMMania Pack. My mother got it for me on the 8th or 9th birthday when it first came out. At first, SIMSAFARI was my favorite (because it was more in my age range) but SIMTOWER, STREETS of SIMCITY, and SimCity Classic soon became favorites. I am actually on a team that is making an open-source clone of SimTower, called OpenTower.

[citiesxlfan42 27]

I played SimGolf a lot and I still do. I try and make my home town's golf courses. It doesn't work with diagnols. Also, I played SimIsle when I was, like, five. Somehow I understood most of it. Freaky. Sim Safari, SimCopter, and SIM THEMEPARK! Anyone remember this?

[RSP16 0]

I played a lot of SimAnt, SimSafari, SimTower, SimCopter, and Streets of SimCity a while back. I also played the old Theme Park as a kid (before Bullfrog was bought out by EA), which was the basis for SimThemePark. Watching those sprites fall off the roller coaster and survive without injury was always fun to watch.

I still play SimAnt and SimTower on occasion, but I can't play SimCopter or Streets of SimCity due to computer problems (although there is a odd tool that can stabilize some of their erratic problems on newer computers). I also play ThemePark sometimes, but I have to choose between it and RCT3. I don't feel like playing SimSafari that much anymore.

[MattShizzle 11]

Only one I had was the Original SimCity for my commodore 64 back in the day (it was from 1989 - I still have the manual and that's the copyright date - Maxis wasn't part of EA at the time, either.) I did get SimEarth about 4 years ago for about $1 on ebay but never played it much.

[citiesxlfan42 27]

I never got SimEarth... Too mind-kunfuzing.

I had SimAnt... tech problems caused me to never play them.

Streets of Sim City... Never played

SimCopter... Fun but I got stuck at the same point everytime... can't find the stinkin' robber.

[rsd6000 8]

i do play sim tower but i bever had sim park

but i think OpenTower should be good one

[GlobexCo 33]

10 years before Tropico: SimIsle!

(I had SimCity 2000 and when I was a child i loved when an hurricane destroyed te city!!)