Were you a good SimCity 2000 mayor?

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Very few games have fascinated me to the point of obsession while thoroughly kicking my ass at the same time — I sucked SPECTACULARLY at SimCity 2000, but I always kept coming back for more, to the point of it probably being my most played game there for a while.

There's nothing quite like turning a small patch of nowhere into a functioning society, and then watching that same society thrive on terms YOU have set, all while receiving feedback from both your own denizens and the 'fourth power'. It's like having an ant farm get challenged and rewarded on a daily basis.

There's a quiet beauty to it.

And once you unlock the mayor's house and actually get to live alongside your own population? Then it becomes an almost role-playing experience in the best possible way.

But, alas, I was never able to keep it up for long — monster attacks, riots, natural disasters and accidents always turned my fledging society into a ghost town before long.

What about you?

 

[x_lodx_lod's icon]

I've never played that game; I only played the "build your own city" game from the Disney Cars movie when I was a kid.It was a really good game where I bought items, raced, and created my own city on my phone.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

I owned a copy of SimCity 2000 for PS1 back in the day. It was a pretty clunky experience..

I didn't even remember the mayor's house; I had to look it up. But what I do remember was how cool it was to go into the "street view" when you had a decent sized city built-up..

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

But what I do remember was how cool it was to go into the "street view" when you had a decent sized city built-up..

I'm gonna be playing both SimCity 2000 and Command & Conquer on PS1 precisely because of what they added.

Damn fine ports, those.

 

[cornpops]

SM2K was, for me, building a tax-positive city town that was stable (with disasters disabled) and walking away for a few hours on cheetah. I'd come back to some seed capital and proceed to build whatever city I wanted.

By that point the tax curve was in my favor already, so keeping financially solvent was a non-issue. Arcologies arrive, then arcologies depart. The circle of life continues.

SM3K was a the sort of game that I actually paid attention to.

 

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I played it on the PS1, but the controls almost make you want to throw the game controller against the wall. But otherwise a nice pastime game.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I played it on the PS1, but the controls almost make you want to throw the game controller against the wall. But otherwise a nice pastime game.

Those are conflicting statements, but I appreciate the honesty ;D!

 

[Bakuma1997]

Only played SimCity SNES, but yes i was, until i got bored of my town and destroyed it all at the tune of Komm Susser Tod before starting another one

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

I suck at city building simulators in general

 

[random0nonsense]

Nope. My towns were always broke and eventually leveled.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Nope. My towns were always broke and eventually leveled.

Detroit vibes ;D!

 

[Dyne]

I only played Sim City on SNES

 

[Turd Curator]

I haven't gotten around to SimCity 2000 yet, but I was playing 3000 last night and for whatever reason, when I built a school, the land value around it decreased and places became abandoned. Then some asshole built a fucking motel directly across the street

Look at the state of it, you can't send your children there

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I haven't gotten around to SimCity 2000 yet, but I was playing 3000 last night and for whatever reason, when I built a school, the land value around it decreased and places became abandoned. Then some asshole built a fucking motel directly across the street

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Look at the state of it, you can't send your children there

Uncomfortably realistic there, Maxis XD