Simulation games

[Anonymous No.6276814]

What are your favorite retro simulation games? And generally, what type of simulation games do you like? Business simulation? General life simulation? Vehicle sims?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_simulation_video_games

[Anonymous No.6277405]

>>6276814
i love business and trade simulation and i go out of my way to find ways to make a profit in games that are not strictly business simulators. making money is a lot of fun

i don't have any recommendations though, sorry

[Anonymous No.6277529]

>>6276814
SIM ANT

[Anonymous No.6277536]

>>6277529
based

[Anonymous No.6277664]

>>6277405
>>business and trade sims
I am actually very interested in finding one but most are in Japanese. Aside from straight up paper trading I haven’t found any good trading sims in english. As for recs it depends what you want to simulate, I played some railroad and farming sims in the past that have been cozy

[Anonymous No.6277708]

My favourite is both extremely dope and a genre that fucking vanished.
I'm not going to tell you which game it is because I want to make a game like it one day and I'm still butthurt about Stardew Valley straight-up cloning Harvest Moon.

[Anonymous No.6277726]

>>6277664
Pizza Tycoon is pretty out there as far as business sims go, if you want something off the beaten path. Has a different name for yuros.
>>6277708
No one gives a fuck and no one here is gonna make a game. I still want the perfect brothel/porn company sim, but no one worth a shit is gonna make one and I ain't gonna either because I got other shit to do.

[Anonymous No.6277728]

>>6277726
>no one here is gonna make a game.
I dunno man, I don't see how you could possibly be speaking for anybody but yourself.
Kinda sad to extrapolate your own shortcomings to the entire universe, but does it make you feel better?

[Anonymous No.6277729]

monster ranch

[Anonymous No.6277774]

>>6277729
which is your favorite and best monster

[Anonymous No.6277793]

>>6277728
Post games anon has made besides KS.

[Anonymous No.6278031]

>>6277529
Truly patrician

[Anonymous No.6278097]

>>6277774
>tiger/dino
no idea how it was called

[Anonymous No.6278101]

>>6276814
Aerobiz Supersonic is excellent. Probably one of the best airline simulators out there.
It's also a lot of fun to see how their future predictions played out - in-game, Russia joins the EU in the 90s and Supersonic transports make a comeback in the 2000s.

[Anonymous No.6278112]

I'm a fan of the Fire Pro Wrestling games. I've yet to find another game that just allows me to autistically tweak percentages and numbers for hours and then watch the results play out. There is a new one on Steam and PS4 but it comes with like 200$ worth of DLC baggage and the old ones run much smoother anyways.

[Anonymous No.6278126]

Dating simulations

[Anonymous No.6278204]

>>6276814

[Anonymous No.6278236]

>>6278097
>>6277774

Found a Naga variation on one of my CDs that had a starting STR and AGI of almost 800. Was crazy broken.

[Anonymous No.6278242]

dinopark tycoon
simtower/ [not] simtower
dungeon keepee
theme hospital
settlers 2
children of the nile
drug wars

[Anonymous No.6278265]

>>6276814
There are plenty of german ones. Games like Patrician, 1869, Hanse, Kaiser, Transworld, Black Gold, Winzer (vintner), Inve$t, Oil Imperium, Steigenberger Hotelmanager, Zeppelin: Giants of the Sky, etc. There are Sims/Business sims for all kinds of obvious and not so obvious businesses (Hint: there also was banned KZ Manager around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZ_Manager ).
Or other games like Spacward Ho!, Detroit.
Back then the market was overflowing with all kinds of economic simulators. Even ones dealing with the unification of germany or the aftermath of it (Aufschwung Ost/Boom east).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygqyE_ZvcY

But I guess my favorite is Mad TV (I hardly played the sequel Mad News).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K73xfSZOhUE

I never got far with those and usually was bored quickly. Maybe the game of that genre that I played the most was "Biing!: Sex, Intrigue and Scalpels" an adult (business centered) hospital simulation, which I played on my Amiga 1200 (fucking 19 Disks(!) with a mandatory HDD install of course).

And the intro of the game was hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cMElEFRD0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7qcNY69_g

[Anonymous No.6278273]

>>6278112
it's just extra crap you don't even really need or it actually feels like they removed it from the game just to sell separate?

[Anonymous No.6278285]

>>6278101
this

[Anonymous No.6278292]

Uncharted Waters: New Horizons. It's a trade and commerce simulator with RPG elements. Pretty good shit, let me tell you.

I just picked up another New Horizons game today but it doesn't have -anything- to do with maritime trading and sailing, though... kind of disappointed.

[Anonymous No.6278295]

>>6278292
The series is called Daikoukaijidai. The sequels to 2 are Costa del Sol and Porto Estado.

[Anonymous No.6278372]

>>6278292
Thanks for this

[Anonymous No.6278382]

>>6278292
I always meant to try this game, maybe now is a good time.

It's not very graphical but I used to play the heck out of a game called China Sea Trader where you're just running trade routs.

[Anonymous No.6278732]

>>6276814
Harvest Moon for SNES was more fun that it should have been. Rent it with my friend because we didn't see anything else that looked good. We are both kind of skeptical about it. He plays the first day and instantly we are both hooked. Maybe we were autistic as kids but we cleaned out all the shrubs and rocks and had a double sleep over that weekend and kept our file going. We were both crushed when we found out the game ended at a certain point.

[Anonymous No.6278782]

>>6278292
This could be a good template for a roguelike game,

[Anonymous No.6278985]

I wasn't even aware of this game, until recently.

[Anonymous No.6279015]

>>6278732
How did you guys react upon learning later HM games let you play forever?

[Anonymous No.6279272]

>>6278204
Holy fuck, I started this last week after hearing of it for the first time and I'm hooked. I'm on day 55 or so and just found the ship tethered by gem stones and it blew my freaking mind. This game is delightfully strange, I am determined to beat it!

[Anonymous No.6279276]

>>6276814
Harvest Moon 64 is still the best

[Anonymous No.6279287]

>>6279272
I just played it for the first time a couple months ago and really enjoyed it. the sequel is awesome too, and has an english patch

[Anonymous No.6279297]

>>6279015
Harvest Moon’s ability to play forever is quite a mixed blessing. I’ve had saves of 64 that were decades in, and the game comes to a serious halt. Eventually you’ve gotten every line of dialogue and then it’s a very spooky feeling.

[Anonymous No.6279565]

>>6279287
Thanks! I will obtain the sequel/patch and look forward to playing it when I finish this. I don't know how far I am, but I've uncovered another revelation and I'm having a good time.

[Anonymous No.6279924]

>>6279276
Does this emulate well?

[Anonymous No.6280443]

Sim City 4

[Anonymous No.6280460]

>>6279924

It emulates fine on P64 2.2. Sheer dose sheeps, fren.

[Anonymous No.6280593]

>>6278985
Love the Gameboy games, Are there translations available for the SNES and PS1 versions?

[Anonymous No.6280594]

>>6280593
No. And not for the PCE-CD or N64 either.

[Anonymous No.6280617]

>>6280594
That sucks. Kawa no Nushi Tsuri on the PS1 looks particularly good.

[Anonymous No.6280618]

>>6280617
For you.

[Anonymous No.6280620]

I fuckin love Simfarm.

[Anonymous No.6280645]

>>6280618
Yes.

[Anonymous No.6280648]

>>6277529
how do i get into this game? playing on snes

[Anonymous No.6280816]

>>6277529
Should I get this on pc or snes

[Anonymous No.6280821]

>>6277529
Unbelievably based. Played the shit out of this on my dads imac back in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.6280826]

>>6280816
PC mouse control is far better for top down sims imo

[Anonymous No.6281157]

>>6277793
risk of rain, along with a couple others, it's still such a ridicilously small percentage that i'd be willing to bet other anon will never develop anything noteworthy

[Anonymous No.6281245]

>>6276814
Simcity 2000
Simcity 3000
Harvest Moon

[Anonymous No.6281404]

>>6278273
The reason it's so expensive is because it's licensed, it's just wrestlers. People have already made all that shit with the in-game editor, on PC at least. You just need Fire Pro Wrestling World and just download shit other people have already made. The only stuff that's "required" is the entrance editor and the Fire Promoter shit. It goes on sale every now and then if you're a buyfag, otherwise just pirate.

[Anonymous No.6281462]

>>6279015
>>6279297
Honestly I was really happy to have an endless game but looking back on it now I feel like having that limit gives you a feeling of an end game and stops you from just getting bored and never going back to it. I was recently thinking about this with the release of the new Animal Crossing game because I still have my GC save file that I could boot up and play but it's an endless game and there isn't much of a point to it.

I think the only reason we were mad is because we didn't know ahead of time that the game had a set limit so it took us by surprise. We would spend days just cleaning up the farm and making everything perfect when we should have been maximizing profit and getting married lol.

>>6279276
>HM64
I was so hyped to play this game like 5 years ago because I loved all the other entries so much. But I was hugely disappointed because of those short days. I would run into town and come back to do some farming and the day would be over. Or I would do some farming and try to go to town but everything is closed down. I didn't make it beyond 2 months I think.