SimCity is a series that has an amazing legacy, but with no new installments for a while, it's a good thing that Good Old Games is releasing a special edition of SimCity 2000 to remind us about the simple joys of urban planning and disaster management.
SimCity 2000 (which was released in 1995, go figure) was the first game in the series to use the now ubiquitous isometric viewpoint as opposed to the top-down viewpoint from previous games. Also included were scenarios that reflected natural disasters from history as well as some completely mental ones, like Hollywood being attacked by a giant robot.
The title is available now for $5.99 and it'd be a shame to miss out on this great slice of city building nostalgia. Best of all, the special edition comes with a graphics editor that allows you to modify the in-game buildings to your own desires. Want to make a replica of your high-school and see it destroyed by a UFO invasion? Dream no more!
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7:00 PM on 10.04.2011
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Old? Check.
Game? Check.
Firing on all cylinders with this one!
i loved the game, and i guess i'm glad it's still available, but if you don't already own it i can't see why you'd pay $5.99 for it now.
My pant. They are wet.
Oy.
@Excel
As a kid I think I only spent like 20 minutes in that and scribbled all over the buildings so everything would look like crap ingame.
I still have it on my old laptop, and I sill have it for me GBA. One of my favorite games of all time.
I owned SC2000 for both Windows and Mac, too. Our old Macintosh IIsi was the machine I first played SimCity, Warcraft II, and Doom on. Its funny. As much as I loathe Macs today, it really was the platform that gave life to my love of PC gaming today.
Oh, and the SCURK was fun for making really stupid building sprites. I remember being a dumb 5th grader making crappy drawings of the kids from South Park as those "Wonders of the World" buildings.
No, it's not a baby game, which means it's not suited to someone like you.