What was your favorite non-SimCity Maxis Sim game? (Besides The Sims)

[simcityerr 2]

I'd say with me, perhaps Simlife, which was basically a lot like Simearth, except more complicated. Simant and Simtower would come next, and I still haven't made a 100 story tower, but got close. I guess they pretty much gave up on other Sim games after simcopter. I know most of these didn't do too well. I wish they made more though.

 

What would you think about a game called SimBody, where you control a human body, say. I've toyed with the idea, but I don't know what the variables would be, what you'd control and try to balance, most of your systems are autonomous, and it would easy for you to make your sim (unlike real life) resist vices in life, like fast food, tobacco and drugs, and make him/her exercise, etc.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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[Ocram's Razr 964]

Well, The Sims 2, 1, then 3 are my favorites followed by SimCity 4 with RH and mods, followed by SimCity 2013, followed by SimTower, followed by SimGolf, followed by SimEverything (spore) trailed by other SimCity games.

So I guess SimTower was my favorite but it was a product of Yoot Saito, not Will Wright.

--Ocram

[simcityerr 2]

I want to play simlife again actually. Think I will soon.

[simcityerr 2]

Would any of you like to see any remakes of any of the other simgames, like a Simearth 2, or a Simlife 2? I'm be all for a simearth remake.

[Terring 6,476]

I really want to play SimEarth, it looks great!

[Crazyforsimcity 23]

Well there is that game Spore, it was pretty fun, although I haven't played it in years.

I really want to play SimEarth, it looks great!

I really want that game also, it looks so interesting, I have been wanting to get it off E-bay or something for a while.

[simcityerr 2]

Well there is that game Spore, it was pretty fun, although I haven't played it in years.

I really want to play SimEarth, it looks great!

I really want that game also, it looks so interesting, I have been wanting to get it off E-bay or something for a while.

 

Hmm, not sure it will play on any windows version, it was designed for DOS.

[wgames77 5]

SimAnt

[Dashafrash. 34]

A-Train.

[migamin 38]

 

Well there is that game Spore, it was pretty fun, although I haven't played it in years.

I really want to play SimEarth, it looks great!

I really want that game also, it looks so interesting, I have been wanting to get it off E-bay or something for a while.

 

Hmm, not sure it will play on any windows version, it was designed for DOS.

 

You know dosbox and batchfiles?

 

#edit: I think i am too old

[SpookyZalost 39]

Sim Isle was fun, but it's kinda hard to beat driving around your SC2K cities in Streets of Simcity
 

 

 

 

 

Well there is that game Spore, it was pretty fun, although I haven't played it in years.

I really want to play SimEarth, it looks great!

I really want that game also, it looks so interesting, I have been wanting to get it off E-bay or something for a while.

 

Hmm, not sure it will play on any windows version, it was designed for DOS.

 

You know dosbox and batchfiles?

 

#edit: I think i am too old

 

why I use a 286 to play it lol.

[Terring 6,476]

I have recently downloaded SimEarth. It's an abandonware, so downloading it is legal. And it's an incredible game, with endless possibilities and so many stories to create.

Here is one of them. I was playing the Modern Earth scenario, started in 1990. The goal was to solve all the problems, such as wars and pollution, develop technology to the nanotech age, and trigger Exodus. So I did it. But just before all cities abandon Earth, I destroyed two of them with nuclear bombs. The result was to create a new kind of lifeforms, robots. After Exodus, and after a few thousands of years into the future, I placed a monolith to a robot to see if it will develop intelligence.

Guess what happened! :D

[CCTLG 55]

streets of simcity....using cheats....lol.....just to have fun............

[simcityerr 2]

Simlife is a lot like simearth, except more complicated, has a steeper learning curve than Simcity 4.

[InvisiChem 121]

For some very strange reason I really liked SimTower. Extremely simple game that was very fun to play. Plus, the corny cockroach graphics in the infected rooms was classic.

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

I really enjoyed SimTower, played a lot of that. Its been a while since I've played it. might play the second Yoot Tower. also liked SimCopter and Streets of SimCity. those were fun. 

 

ohhh I also enjoyed SimPark, that was a really fun one. 

[SherylinRM 3]

My first "favorite" one was TRAINZ

Then Roller coaster tycoon.

[Sim Trekker 41]

Simtower and SimAnt were a real treat to play.

Oh, Spore was fun too.

[catty-cb 4,412]

I think I still have most of the Sim games on CD's, but my favourite is SimGolf mainly because it was always funny when the golfers started hitting trees with their golf clubs when they were playing badly

[Fantozzi 4,068]

I remember having played SimFarm - many years ago. You had to use pesticide on the crop when they had the pest - but then prize went down.Would be interesting to play it today to see if all the hype about organic production has influenced how to judge the gameplay. But I don't know what happened to my copy.

[catty-cb 4,412]

If I don't include SC3, SC4 and Societies (never bought SC2013) I've still got copies of

SimCity Classic, SimCity 2000, SimAnt, SimAquarium, SimCopter, SimEarth, SimFarm, SimGolf, SimLife, SimSafari, SimTower, Streets of SimCity

An early version of the Sims and Spore and something called The Sims Carnival: Snap City which I've never played.

[jeffryfisher 2,176]

I especially liked SimTower, probably because I came up with an elevator strategy that could serve a 100-story building. It was also one of my earliest modding experiences.

I recall being frustrated by one oversight in the GUI that led to tedious play: All rental units defaulted to medium rent when built. They could only be pushed up to high rent one at a time, and each rent change took like five clicks. After poking around in the saved-game file to analyze its structure, I wrote a little C++ program that could change everything to high rents in a flash. That convenience kept me playing for at least a year.

I also played a lot of SC-2000 and some of the original SimCity.

[TekindusT 3,809]

I quite enjoyed Sid Meier's SimGolf very back in the days. I remember it came bundled to another game, that's how it fell on my hands (SC3K World Edition perhaps?).

We tend to be players who have more fun constructing and designing than actually playing with what we designed. Generally, the funniest part of The Sims was building the houses and furnishing them. The funniest part of SC4 is designing the city and tweaking it. We are probably the same kids who had more fun assembling Legos than playing with the assemblies. And although designing golf courses was fun in SimGolf, playing on your own golf courses was in this case big fun! (or it was for the 13-year-old me). It's one of the cases where I found big fun playing with the designs, and raising more money in order to make improvements on the courses.

[SimCoug 5,973]

I never played SimGolf - looks like fun though.  I remember trying to 'build' golf courses in SC3k using the Residential zones to look like fairways and industrial zones to look like sand traps.  

[Cool_Z 1,547]

On 12/06/2017 at 3:37 PM, TekindusT said:

 

I quite enjoyed Sid Meier's SimGolf very back in the days

 

I played it a bit, and yeah it was fun.

I googled it and it seems it's now abandonware...

[Leo_the_robot 67]

das boot!!!

I played a lot of sim games back in the day, but I'd have to say sim copter, streets of SimCity, sim tower, sim earth, and sid meier's sim golf were some of the ones I played the most of growing up.

as you can imagine, when SC4 came out with the rush hour expansion, I was hugely optimistic thinking that SC4 was somehow implementing Streets and copter into the gameplay... not what I was hoping for though.