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667203 No.667203 [Reply] [Original]

It's a young tower. She will grow.

>> No.667206
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667206

*ring ring ring ring ring ring*

Hellooooooooooooo?

>> No.667210
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667210

;_;

>> No.667254

Wait, all those little build-a-hotel flash games are just ripping this off? I gotta get my hands on this if it's a fullblown Maxis title

>> No.667265

>>667254
You never played SimTower?

>> No.667269

>>667265
no sirrah. We had a mac growing up so most of my gaming was strictly on console, save the occasional mac shareware/freeware title.

>> No.667270

>>667269
This game came out on a mac first, though. In fact, it ran better on one. Sadly, it doesn't work with Mac OSX.

>> No.667278

>>667269
I first played it in some shitty elective class in middle school.

>> No.667291

I was never able to get the permanent population requirement for 4-stars; it'd balloon in the day thanks to offices and commercial shops, and hotels at night, but they moved out of my condos way too fast, even when I made sure to create buffer zones.

>>667254

The file size like 7 MB uncompressed, someone could literally email the whole thing to you.

There's also a GBA port/remake as well.

>> No.667317

I always thought this game was cozy as fuck. I wanted to live and work in the tower, eat at the diverse number of restaurants, and have it rain all the time while I chill out in the lobby. That screenshot has all of it. It's perfect.

>> No.667320

>>667254
>I gotta get my hands on this if it's a fullblown Maxis title
It technically isn't.
Similar to how Will Wright created Simcity because he enjoyed making maps for a helicopter game, some guys made a game because they were programming an elevator simulator for training Japanese building managers and realized they had fun designing the tower and playing around with it's inhabitants.
They got Maxis to publish it because SimCity was huge at the time, and put it under the Sim brand to help market it. I'm not sure if any Maxis people actually developed it.
This is the reason why the elevator controls are so detailed, and why there's so much complexity in sims going between floors.

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668340

>>667206
FUCKING PHONEPEOPLE!

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668359

>>667203
eh!

>> No.668374

>>667320

What about SimIsle?

Or SimAnt?
Or SimLife?

I liked SimIsle

>> No.668375

>>667254
An even better part is that this was back when Maxis cared. You could make a tower in SimTower, port it to your SimCity2000 map, and then take your SimCity2000 city and goof around in it with SimCopter.

>> No.668429

Did anyone else play Sim Earth? I still have my floppy.

>> No.669161

>>668375
I knew SC2k maps could be explored in SimCopter, didnt know about the other thing. We need more stuff like that today, goddammit.

>> No.669365

>>668375
>>669161

Also kinda fun - taking your sc2k save, and having illegal races around it in "streets of sim city"

Shitty driving game, but fun to explore your city from a student perspective

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>>669365

Shame it looks like complete ass, as well as playing like ass

>> No.669665

>building condos

I hated those things. Uppity fuckers that moved out on a whim and I the sound effect they made was like a drill in my ear. I realize they're important to offset visitor drop off during rainy days, but fuck. Building them felt like taking out a loan in SC 2000.