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I have a craving to play the original Sim City on my PC. The original top down view square box version - basic, but I loved it. Was going to dig out my SNES one but thought the PC might edge it.

Is there a version that will work easily on a Windows 7 PC before i start a fruitless quest, or even an IOS one ( i have the 3d one - way too modern for me)? My computer abilities are close to non-exsistent, as my past threads attest, so i'm not sure i can work with a DOS box as a cat sitting on my keyboard usually flummoxes me for hours at a time...

DosBox is probably the best option. Unless there was a windows 95 version knocking around

There is this too...

http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php

"(SimCity Classic is not compatible with Netscape Navigator)" lulz

I nagged Dad to get Sim City when we got our Amiga, and wasted hours on it. I loved it. Although I enjoyed Sim City 2000, I got sick of laying water pipes and solving pumping issues.

Also:

Nice, is it any good? I can't be bothered to register!
Netscape Navigator! I half expect our inept IT dept to announce we're upgrading to that one day....

Amiga version might be the easiest as you can run it under an emulator.

You can't want to play it that much, then.

I may give it a go, just looked at the register form and wondered if anyone knew if it was decent first!
Not really sure I fancy a browser based version though.

It is, as far as I could tell, identical. I can't think of a better version than a browser-based one, personally.

Sim City is a game I never managed to get into. It's odd really, as I loved the 90s tycoon games like theme park and all sorts of manage-y strategy games. I just found it got dull very quickly, and I never really understood how to manage the taxes effectively.

As far as I remember, the DOS version was quite inferior to the Amiga one.

2000 or GTFO.

2000 was rubbish. 3000 is what it's all about.

In accordance with Will Wright's Reaganite beliefs, you're meant to set the taxes as low as possible in Sim City games. So, yes, the games are ideologically slanted.

Personally, I've only really ever liked the Super NES conversion of Sim City, to be honest. I found the Gift buildings, which act like proto-Achievements, gave an incentive to keep playing that other versions of the original game lacked.

Quite a few years ago I spent a fairly long time playing Sim City on a SNES emulator (I think it was Snes9x).

I enjoyed Sim City 3000, and even managed to make a couple of really big cities without cheating (I did start on 'easy' though). I did start many games that ended very quickly in failure too.

Did the snes version support the snes mouse?

Considering no-one's yet managed to work out the 'right way' to run an economy, any game where you have to manage an economy is going to be idealogically slanted in one way or another, because they game writers have to come up with an "are you doing it right or not" engine.

No, came out too early in the Super NES's live, before the mouse came along.


Guess so. Just repeating a bit of trivia/raising a common criticism of the assumptions behind the game more than anything else.

I have 'legally acquired' a disc image that is supposed to work, only to find that I don't have daemon tools on this PC! A project for if I get time at the weekend..

May have to get the SNES one on wii as I liked the statues if nintendo haven't robbed my points - also means I need to try to find the sensor bar which was missing the last time I set it up

Let me regale you with a story of how I destroyed my original* Amiga Sim City disk.

I was playing sim city, having FUN. My mother demanded I get in the bath, or something (I was young!). I couldn't be bothered finding a disk, so I just saved the game under my name, as I'd often do. But I couldn't be bothered to type out the full thing -- the bath was waiting, don't you know? So I just saved it as "L".

Anyway, it turns out that "L" was some kind of important system directory on that disk, and it never booted again I think it would have been quite easy to fix, but I was like 8 or something.


Thankfully SimCity 2000 came on a CD and PCs have hard disks.

Also: I printed out one of the cities I made once and had it on my wall. It was about 7 feet wide by 3 feet high or something.






*Well, it was a pirate copy, but I didn't really know that at the time.

Other than the obvious handicap of using a d-pad rather than a mouse, I always thought the SNES had was the best version of the original. Especially the "scenario" modes.

That reminds me... I printed a city off too once.

It took ages.