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[IbizaPocholo]

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of SimCity 2000 with an LGR retrospective review! The sequel to the classic Maxis city builder was a true game changer in 1993, improving nearly every part of the game and adding so many things that would become staples of the genre. So let's take a look at the MS-DOS version, the many ports and releases, and its legacy decades later!

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Still a great game today.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Great game, I love the chill soundtrack too

 

[Paulxo87]

i saw this last night. a classic for sure - I even had the psone version. simcity 3000 is the goat tho

 

[Killer8]

Still something really appealing about the sprite work.

 

[Zathalus]

Amazing game. Can still sit down and have fun with it today

 

[Unknown?]

i saw this last night. a classic for sure - I even had the psone version. simcity 3000 is the goat tho

The PS1 version is the only version I had but when 3000 came out, I had to get it and by that time I had a good PC. I still like SimCity 4 the beat though but man had so many good games with 2000/3000.

 

[jonnyp]

Amazing game. This, the original X-Com games and Transport Tycoon took a lot of my time as a youngster.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

I remember it being unplayable on the standard Amiga 1200.

Needed lots of RAM and a FPU to get anything out of it.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Simcity 2000 ended up being the apex of that franchise.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I miss this IP and Lemmings

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Sad how Maxis died. Like seeing your favourite actor arrested for molestation.

 

[SGRU]

One of my favourite games, such great memories.

 

[6502]

Interesting vid on the Saturn version.

 

[DaGwaphics]

Now that one take you back. A bit more variety in the look of buildings would have been nice, but games were so tiny back then. It's unfortunate what happened to this series.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Stone cold classic. Such a shame what happened to this series.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of SimCity 3000! The third game in the classic Maxis city builder series had a false start in 3D form, but after EA took over and development restarted, the final 1999 game ended up being my favorite in the franchise. So let's revisit the Windows PC original, SC3K Unlimited, and the gameplay experience decades later in this LGR retrospective review!

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

I started on the original, which I have even more nostalgia towards.

But 2000 was amazing, no doubt. I remember seeing it at a friend's house long before I was able to get my own copy, absolutely marveling at things like the arcology pod.

 

[RJMacready73]

I started on the original, which I have even more nostalgia towards.

But 2000 was amazing, no doubt. I remember seeing it at a friend's house long before I was able to get my own copy, absolutely marveling at things like the arcology pod.

Lol fuck me that brings me back

 

[a multicultural team of v]

God what a special game. Introduced me to the concept of boot disks as well. My 386 only had 4 megs of ram, so I was absolutely gutted when it refused to run. That night before bed I read the manual pretty much front to back, and literally the last thing I looked at was the troubleshooting section. When I saw the part about boot disks it blew my mind and when I woke up the next morning the first thing I did was run to the computer to create a boot disk. Worked perfectly and from then on my computer had a 5.25" boot disk resting in the drive ready to be used at all times.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I remember building several Acropolis in a row on one of my cities. Still have these floppies!

 

[RJMacready73]

God what a special game. Introduced me to the concept of boot disks as well. My 386 only had 4 megs of ram, so I was absolutely gutted when it refused to run. That night before bed I read the manual pretty much front to back, and literally the last thing I looked at was the troubleshooting section. When I saw the part about boot disks it blew my mind and when I woke up the next morning the first thing I did was run to the computer to create a boot disk. Worked perfectly and from then on my computer had a 5.25" boot disk resting in the drive ready to be used at all times.

Lol fucking boot discs, the joys of playing games back on PC's back in the day, trying to free up as much ram as possible

 

[nbcjr]

This game was great, but the best Sim city IMHO is the snes one, with the special buildings.