Comment on Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective

Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• linkinkampf19@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While it was extremely limited due to the tech at the time, I truly enjoyed this and SimCopter for the ability to drive/fly around your created cities. Would love to have seen some semblance of physics included. I just recall any cars you drove up/down hills just conformed to the terrain. Was still extremely fun.

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  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anyone know the easiest way to play these lately? On Linux?

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Both can be played on modern Windows with Krimsky’s patches. They’d probably work in Wine, but I’ve never tested them.

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      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Holy shit thank you. I spent so much time setting up a windows 9…5 or 98 vm just to play streets and copter again.

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s was really cool. I would just drive around for hours. Did you play sim copter? Same thing, just helicopters.

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  • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did! I feel like they must have been sold in a bundle. I was so bad at sim copter. I kinda want to get them And see how bad they are now

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The game idea itself was pretty cool, flying around a city that you could create yourself. But the controls for the helicopters were very strange. And the gameplay itself was not all that good. Mostly, I just liked the Apache helicopter you could use to blow everything up

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      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I liked how SimCopter actually used the same systems as SimCity 2000, with cop cars coming from police stations and fire trucks from the firefighters. Well thought out SimCity maps actually made your live easier, rather than being window dressing.

        I wish someone would bring back the concept. There was a SimCopter mod for Cities: Skylines back when it first released, though I think it was abandoned. That would be the perfect game for it, since half of SimCopter was dealing with traffic and Skylines had an amazing traffic simulation.

        Mostly, I just liked the Apache helicopter you could use to blow everything up

        Until you hit a nuclear power plant and it wiped out half the city (and probably fried your copter too) once it burned down.

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• TheHotze@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This was probably my favorite game as a kid.

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