My father, who was born a little too early to have any interest in video games was absolutely obsessed with this game when it came out. He called off work, wouldn’t eat and would play until the wee hours of the morning. This is an absolute classic and I love it to this day. My dad however steers clear of it as to not fall victim to its allure again.
My dad was born in 1950, so def pre video game evolution. That said there were a few games I remember waking up for school and him still playing. Megan Man 2, GoldenEye. A few others.
Childhood friend played it religiously back in the days... he only used rail roads (to avoid pollution), built 3x3 blocks of buildings (even destroying the random buildings he did not wanted to get), only used power plants etc. (I don't remember all the stuff he used to build for every map) and he achieved to get that Mario statue... he was really crazy about this game
Something I always appreciate, is when the Nerd finds a way to insert another game he clearly wanted to talk about, but was one that just didn't give enough material for its own episode.
sorry bout your loss bro----now she is in the big Simcity in the sky i was just wondering, did she get the Mario statue by hacking the game like rolf, or did she get it playing straight?
The end game of the majority of 90s PC SIM games was the realization that the most effective way to run your city was to either turn it into a concrete dystopia or a police state.
See, I dont think James necessarily has to review bad games. I just like to see him speak and review on the games he has a connection to or grew up with. Like the Earthbound and Final fantasy 6 videos. Thats what I really want to see. Of couse I still want to hear him scream off the top of his lungs and drop multiple F bombs.
Same that’s why I love to see him review chrono trigger or something like super Mario 64 he could still make it funny while being positive about the games
Watching what feels like classic AVGN among all the current youtube videos I go through a day feels like a warm hug. A return to form. And the internet, ironically, feels a little less nasty just for a while.
grew up watching AVGN. Rewatching the entire series, going back to specific episodes, and watching supercuts. Now, I have grown up. Thank you so much, you definitely paved a part of the way to lead me towards my career.
The donut method was always the best for SimCity. You can use that with power too. Make a small hill, put water on every angle, put hydro dams. Saves on pollution. Parks in the inside of donut also decreased pollution.
So that's where he's from. I know the frog prince guy was from another game too. Hopefully with the new Zelda wisdom something we'll get new versions of the Oracle games. And minish cap too.
So many fond memories of SimCity. Making sure to activate the money code to fully help grow my city. Then enabling the natural disasters to ruin it all.
That really was one of my favorite classic Twilight Zone episodes - the twist that you were in just another simulation game yourself was unexpectedly clever!
Yes, the pain of the slow simulation speed of the game was real, masked by the awesome graphics and delightful music. Well captured in the video. Only thing the nerd missed was the "reload" bug where after loading a saved games, you city entered a power outage for about 20-30 seconds that can cause high valued buildings to be replaced with lower valued buildings. And they often would never go back to the higher value. Also, beating all of scenarios gives you a map with no water.
@@Hugsloth probably launch a couple of Bowser attacks until the populace links the attacks to those who dared ask for a seaport in a landlocked city. Ostracizing the few who actually survived the attacks into submission.
not really, the problem with the game is that hospitals and schools do nothing and residents couldn’t care less about them. this is the exact opposite of reality so i don’t see the comparison.
Sim City for the snes was my childhood. Mom calling me for dinner from upstairs and me leaving the controller on the carpet next my Nintendo magazine... thanks for this.
It was. Between this, F-Zero and once Starfox was in my hands, the early 90s felt crazy to me. It didn't help that my Grandpa worked with Skunkworks as an engineer and was on the design team for the F-22. He played flight Sims on his expensive PCs back in the day and introduced me to Wing Commander. So as a result, between playing this, Starfox and seeing him explain how cool the YF-22 prototype was, the 90s felt like a dream
Also 11 in 92... after having only Super Mario World for a while, the next game I got was Super R-Type. Seemed like a cool space shooter game, but I ended up returning it because I thought it was too hard.
I've tried describing to Australians the size of London, and even with Google maps open and I'm pointing out the ring road telling them it goes out further than that, it's hard for them to realise.
Loved the Twilight Zone reference. You did very well with all the lines and the laughter. Pretty clever to make the connection between Sim City and Little people.
I learned a trick by accident. I was messing around and crashed a plane as soon as it took off. The entire airport was engulfed in flames and destroyed all but one little square. Still an airport, still counts and no pollution. ...I never made it to megalopolis either. I was always using the money trick so my stuff never filled in.
My least favorite part of the game is when everyone is like "Our mayor isn't doing anything!" And I'm like "What did you expect? You permanently set my money to 0."
I remember a trick where you stack the red zones, then when 3 houses were built along a side you trash just those 3 and plop another red zone on top of it, so you get nothing but houses that will never combine into anything bigger. I forget why this was great to do.
It helps you fill in those last little odd-shaped areas (near waterways for instance) that are too small for normal-sized square zones. It’s a late-game strategy for eeking out just a bit more housing.
10:31 The doughnut strategy is a false strategy. SimCity has a specification that prioritizes the development of residential areas connected within 31 squares of a special property. Special property that are not connected to roads or railroad are a loss to the development of the city. This inhibits growth if residential areas are connected to only one square of the line.
In Simcity 2000, you got the arcologies. Self contained cities, huge apartment blocks basically. They allow you to reach populations of millions. I think they are in SimCity original. Once you have access to them, the sky is the limit.
When residential zones are still just houses you can demolish part of the zone and stack extra blocks. This increases the population density significantly.
@@slightlyevolvedThis is where the pro gamer move comes in: Create disasters on purpose to demolish parts of a residential high-rise, then bulldoze and build on the newly created space. As long as you keep the central square intact, it counts as an entire residential building.
Fun fact: Will Wright got the idea for Sim City when creating Raid on Bungeling Bay because he found the map editor used to create the levels more interesting and fun to play with than the actual game itself.
Fun fact: Sim City was created because of the Commodore 64 game Raid on Bungeling Bay. The programmer had so much fun while making the living world map, that he figured other people might also enjoy it.
Lol you just direct translate the previous post (one day earlier) from German to English. Nice service, but the original post got no appreciation at all :p
This is one of the best modern episodes. I love the narrative at the end, very creative. And the nerd’s philosophical take on the city building in general is fun. For those who liked this city building pondering, I recommend AmbiguousAmphibian on youtube too.
The Nerd is back to top form! Awesome video, James & Co! Also I immediately knew you were going full Twilight Zone parody when you said "They built my statue overnight". THIS is why I have watched James for 2 decades now. He makes these super popular videos & still squeezes in the obscure stuff for us mega nerds. Long Live King Nerd!
I just watched the James and Mike episode of Sim City last week. They talk about almost everything mentioned in this video. This truly was a real James Rolfe episode. Glad these are still going strong.
I've never clicked an AVGN video faster. I LOVED Simcity on the snes growing up and never gave up trying to get to the megalopolis. Through the insane strats James showed, it's just barely possible.
I grew up playing SimCity (the PC & SNES versions), so this episode was a instant classic for me (also, thanks for reminding me of the existence of Populous)! And, it was cool to hear the return of the Twilight Nerd narrator.
17:24 lol. It's like the citizens are stood there next to the devil. "DO YOU LIKE MY CITY?!?!?!" > "YES LORD!" Because if they say no there's more destruction lol.
@@soanxious06that game was awful. It was painfully slow and water was always an issue. The Super Nintendo just couldn't handle all of the extra stuff that was Simcity 2000. I played the game multiple times and put together some nice towns.
@@jeee1074 it was unforgivingly slow. I liked it because it was simcity 2000 on a CRT tv. I don’t even remember if there was a speed aside from slow lol
My father and I got a megalopolis. He made it seem so easy. No cheats. He would do the donut way, and if the buildings didn't merge the right way, we would take it down and rebuild it.
Hearing that music instantly brought back a lot of memories. I had Sim City on PC, SNES and aspects, but the SNES one was my favourite because of the unique Nintendoness of it.
I actually checked all the 999 maps as a kid, and.. bonus points: if you load the same number twice, you actually get an alternative map. So yea, I checked all of them twice. Yay for ocd.
Always loved the soundtrack of this game, Soyo Oka created magic with the SNES soundtrack. The song when you reach City / 10,000 citizens is just so comforting and creates a beautiful dreamscape to relax to.
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Fan from saudi arabia!
This is my favorite SNES game.
Could you please review UmJammerLammy next Mr. AVGN
It's always a great day when you upload a AVGN Review.
My father, who was born a little too early to have any interest in video games was absolutely obsessed with this game when it came out. He called off work, wouldn’t eat and would play until the wee hours of the morning. This is an absolute classic and I love it to this day. My dad however steers clear of it as to not fall victim to its allure again.
I wonder if he'd like City: Skylines.
@@SolidSonicTHNever let him find out about it
Have you seen this episode together with your father?
@@SolidSonicTHas a former sim city addict… yes. He would. I know I do.
My dad was born in 1950, so def pre video game evolution. That said there were a few games I remember waking up for school and him still playing. Megan Man 2, GoldenEye. A few others.
Destroying schools and hospitals all in the name of urban development so the city’s demonic mayor can build a Mario statue 😂
I think the schools and hospitals increased the population by around 80 people.
Just like the real world.
At least it's not a Mickey statue...
@@michaelpipkin9942 Or a Zeus statue :)
HCBailly didn't need em. He wanted efficiency.
Machinima died, GameTrailers died, Rooster Teeth died but The Video Game Nerds lives on
Does he really tho
@@japyoo2248 yea he does cope about it
More like the Angry Receding Hairline Nerd.
even Gaming Historian has called it quits. we should all be so grateful that James has a solid work ethic!
ScrewAttack died :(
Childhood friend played it religiously back in the days... he only used rail roads (to avoid pollution), built 3x3 blocks of buildings (even destroying the random buildings he did not wanted to get), only used power plants etc. (I don't remember all the stuff he used to build for every map) and he achieved to get that Mario statue... he was really crazy about this game
Bro built one big industrial park and called it a city
And the guy in the video's just crazy.
Did he fk some broads with that Mario statue status? Hope so!
It was possible to win this way on hardest difficulty but took ages
Something I always appreciate, is when the Nerd finds a way to insert another game he clearly wanted to talk about, but was one that just didn't give enough material for its own episode.
agreed
💯
Like getting a sudden 2 for 1 deal thrown in your face 😁
Feels like a classic AVGN episode.
My Late mother who passed away 3 weeks ago at 87, loved this game. She got the Mario statue numerous times.
sorry bout your loss bro----now she is in the big Simcity in the sky
i was just wondering, did she get the Mario statue by hacking the game like rolf, or did she get it playing straight?
@@jlk311 haha nah no hacking it was the only game she ever played. She bought a snes just to play simcity after trying mine.
That's awesome dude
@@mattyoz0 haha that's awesome, my dad had a nes just to play pebble beach golf. One game also. Lol
Rock on, mom! Thanks for sharing ❤
Glad to see AVGN still going strong.
With almost none of the passion left
@@blackjacka.5097Don't care, still entertaining
@@PoorStargazermeatrider spotted
After that horse prince episode, anything is up
Still gooning strong
Can't believe this guy is still going, he started TH-cam channels before they were even a thing
Still looks young asf to boot
@@jasonkh4 Started at 20yrs and now is 40yrs
edit: is
@@jasonkh4 40 year old is not that old nowadays, bro. I look almost the same I looked at 35
>send disasters to destroy the citizens lives
>approval rating went up
See? Now they respect you, Mayor. Because you're a threat.
Fly home,Billy 😂😂😂
Is that from The Incredibles
How do you think he got rich? He tamed tornadoes
@@Optimus97You sly dog! You had him monologuing!
This is how they get re elected, just look at California
To become a Megalopolis, heart is not required, having a soul is also questionable, only endless dystopian city planning.
Become Robert Moses
Citypunk shortly before Cyberpunk...
*Obey The Grid*
every major city be like
This is literally the plot of Francis Ford Coppola's new epic.
The Nerd going mad with power, and turning his city into a police state, building a massive statue of himself was hilarious.😆
such is politics
Typical Floridian city
THE TWILIGHT ZONE REFERENCE WORD FOR WORD! THAT WAS AMAZING! ONE OF MY FAVORITE EPISODES! THE LITTLE PEOPLE!
Yep, I could tell that's what he was going for once he started going mad with power.
The end game of the majority of 90s PC SIM games was the realization that the most effective way to run your city was to either turn it into a concrete dystopia or a police state.
So a true reality sim then.
Robocop was about the unaffordable housing for the low class citizen. Look like today's market
Our current politicians took this way too seriously 🤣🤣🤣
Judge Dredd approves of this
@@JohnnyLt😢
The Nerd has freed us!
The Nerd: Oh, I wouldn’t say “freed.” More like, “under new management.”
See, I dont think James necessarily has to review bad games. I just like to see him speak and review on the games he has a connection to or grew up with. Like the Earthbound and Final fantasy 6 videos. Thats what I really want to see. Of couse I still want to hear him scream off the top of his lungs and drop multiple F bombs.
Same that’s why I love to see him review chrono trigger or something like super Mario 64 he could still make it funny while being positive about the games
this video was strangely calming
The best videos are always the ones he has some sort of personal connection to.
@@thomasbatta3250I second a Chrono Trigger review.
I enjoy his positive reviews so much more than the negative ones.
Watching what feels like classic AVGN among all the current youtube videos I go through a day feels like a warm hug. A return to form. And the internet, ironically, feels a little less nasty just for a while.
You are so right
Velma season 2.
Fun fact: The SNES version of SimCity was developed by the Big N themselves (as opposed to Maxis), and was considered the best port of SimCity.
It added a lot of new stuff.
That Big N charm for sure!
They worked together on it. In return Maxis worked on ActRaiser.
@@MacUser2-il2cx SERIOUSLY!!?? The Enix's games!?
@@LayangSeto-lu1tcNo.
grew up watching AVGN. Rewatching the entire series, going back to specific episodes, and watching supercuts. Now, I have grown up. Thank you so much, you definitely paved a part of the way to lead me towards my career.
It’s been an interesting journey hasn’t it?
15:41 that was the perfect image for showing how you're a dictator in the game.
So you're telling me that Dr. Wright is... Nah that can't be!
C'mon, he even got the mustache
The donut method was always the best for SimCity. You can use that with power too. Make a small hill, put water on every angle, put hydro dams. Saves on pollution. Parks in the inside of donut also decreased pollution.
This takes me back.
I even use that method in cities skyline these days it's just called "superblocks" now
he started out making a city of dreams, but ended up making the state of South Carolina lol
It always goes South somewhere.
That Twilight Zone reference at the end is pure gold haha
@@johnjoe3386 Correct.
I love it
I was getting more of an Outer Limits Sandkings vibe
You’ve just entered… the Bimmyverse
@@johnjoe3386 One of my favorite episodes.
Fun fact: Mr Wright is a guest character in Link's Awakening where he is catfished by a hippo pretending to look like Princess Peach.
I appreciate the fact that you are both huge nerds ❤
and appears in smash
So that's where he's from. I know the frog prince guy was from another game too. Hopefully with the new Zelda wisdom something we'll get new versions of the Oracle games. And minish cap too.
Extra fact, he also appears in the switch remake (2019), Mr. Wright got a 3D model on a modern console
Now that's a sentence I wasn't expecting to read today.
SNES "Sim City might seem a bit antiquated, but I don't think its simple charm has ever been surpassed" - the truest words ever spoken on TH-cam.
The nuke scene from Terminator 2 was a nice touch Nerd.
It's a classic, much like Shakespeare
This really feels like one of the classic episodes where you're just kinda talking about a game for 20 mins. Love it
Definitely felt like a return to form
So many fond memories of SimCity.
Making sure to activate the money code to fully help grow my city.
Then enabling the natural disasters to ruin it all.
nothin but fond memories
We all probably did that.
"Take that, you puny sims!"
@@beauwalker9820”The fussy plebs…” - Zero Punctuation
Sim City - Natural Disaster Simulator.
Still my favorite game ever, playing on my phone right now. Use map number 061 to get your megalopolis
That really was one of my favorite classic Twilight Zone episodes - the twist that you were in just another simulation game yourself was unexpectedly clever!
*takes a long draw on a cigarette*
"We live in a Simciety"
Why must we put up with Bowser attacks weekly?!
Correction - "Shitcity"
Ever have one of those days where you feel like a sim?
*claps*
Correction: *chugs a bottle of rolling rock*
Yes, the pain of the slow simulation speed of the game was real, masked by the awesome graphics and delightful music. Well captured in the video.
Only thing the nerd missed was the "reload" bug where after loading a saved games, you city entered a power outage for about 20-30 seconds that can cause high valued buildings to be replaced with lower valued buildings. And they often would never go back to the higher value.
Also, beating all of scenarios gives you a map with no water.
I hated that bug, it ruined my game so many times, I never ever got house values back up after that.
I was kinda disappointed he didn't get the Statue at the end.
There was also a cheatcode to get that area without water
@@MrXavierMoktar What do you do when people demand a Seaport?
@@Hugsloth probably launch a couple of Bowser attacks until the populace links the attacks to those who dared ask for a seaport in a landlocked city. Ostracizing the few who actually survived the attacks into submission.
'Yo, I heard you like AVGN reviews, so we put an AVGN review in your AVGN review!' -Xzibit...probably
Epic 😂
I got the 69th like 🎉
AVGN-ception
"Wow thanks Xzibit!!"
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a dog's age.
I still own my cartridge of SNES Sim City that I bought from blockbuster in 1996. The music is second to none imo
Bought from Blockbuster? Does that translate into rented and never return? Lol
This is the game that started my love for city builders. I use to play this all night and watch Monster Vision with Joe Bob Briggs in the back ground.
Monster Vision was awesome!
I think I speak for my entire generation(I am 38) when I say, “Thank you man. Thanks for being a part of our lives”.
Simfarm was better
Agreed
Word.
45 and agree
Destroying the schools and hospitals to make more room and cram as many people into as small a space as possible is so dystopian I love it.
not really, the problem with the game is that hospitals and schools do nothing and residents couldn’t care less about them. this is the exact opposite of reality so i don’t see the comparison.
Souds like Gaza
Sounds like New York rn
Agenda 2030 anyone?
actually, you get gifts for them - Libraries
after you got all gifts from them, then can you demolish them to make more room
"Detroit crime" being one of the scenarios really hits home as someone from Michigan.. Especially since it's set in 1972.. Oof.
Turning the end of the episode into a twilight zone reference was wonderful
Sim City for the snes was my childhood. Mom calling me for dinner from upstairs and me leaving the controller on the carpet next my Nintendo magazine... thanks for this.
Kinda crazy to think this was a launch title. Imagine you're 11 years old in 1992 and just got your SNES. This would've seemed ultra futuristic.
Lol I was 11 in 1992.
@@johnnythewalrus Ditto
It was.
Between this, F-Zero and once Starfox was in my hands, the early 90s felt crazy to me.
It didn't help that my Grandpa worked with Skunkworks as an engineer and was on the design team for the F-22. He played flight Sims on his expensive PCs back in the day and introduced me to Wing Commander.
So as a result, between playing this, Starfox and seeing him explain how cool the YF-22 prototype was, the 90s felt like a dream
I was 9 and dad got this with the SNES. SimCity, 7th Saga, Final Fantasy 2 and 3, and Mario Kart were my childhood.
Also 11 in 92... after having only Super Mario World for a while, the next game I got was Super R-Type. Seemed like a cool space shooter game, but I ended up returning it because I thought it was too hard.
I love that you can destroy a city and still have an approval rating of 52%.
As a British person, I think our government is trying to reach megalopolis
15 minute city, more like. Theyd create their own Kowloon over there if they could.
Yep just check out what they did to Glasgow for dystopian. Check out the Red Road towers Glasgow
Except you won't get a Mario statue. Yours will probably be a giant Dalek or something. Maybe a Godzilla sized statue of Mr Bean.
I've tried describing to Australians the size of London, and even with Google maps open and I'm pointing out the ring road telling them it goes out further than that, it's hard for them to realise.
@@UselessKnowbody lul
The best for AVGN is for James to talk about games he actually cares to speak on I really do love these kinds of videos you've done
At the start of the game: Hello fellow citizens!
At the end of the game: YOU SHALL FEAR ME!
It crazy that the avgn videos have been getting made for 20 years now
IKR
Fun fact: Dr. Wright is also an Assist Trophy summon in Super Smash Bros. (starting from Brawl).
He's very useful in Brawl.
He also makes an appearance in Link's Awakening.
I always wondered who that guy was
And a regular trophy in Melee
@@pjf674And Minish Cap
9:09 "That's right we're gonna cheat"
Lol it still didn’t work!
Drank the billy Mitchell hot sauce for real
Dr. Disrespect approves
Mike actually got to megalopolis. I thought they would have used his material.
Loved the Twilight Zone reference. You did very well with all the lines and the laughter. Pretty clever to make the connection between Sim City and Little people.
Kid wanted to have a big city with a Mario statue so SimCity made him build a police state instead
I learned a trick by accident. I was messing around and crashed a plane as soon as it took off. The entire airport was engulfed in flames and destroyed all but one little square. Still an airport, still counts and no pollution.
...I never made it to megalopolis either. I was always using the money trick so my stuff never filled in.
Interesting
my favorite move was to jack up the taxes for like 3 months, reap the rewards, then set them to zero while building nothing but railway
Called the "million dollar cheat" because it takes advantage of a bug if I recall correctly.
My least favorite part of the game is when everyone is like
"Our mayor isn't doing anything!"
And I'm like
"What did you expect? You permanently set my money to 0."
@ThyPandora Oh. So THATS what Gavin Newsom is doing.
reap the whirlwind!
Lol
Always love when James incorporates obscure Twilight Zone references.
I wouldn't say this one was obscure. This episode is one of the more memorable ones. Little People is classic Twilight Zone.
Original twilight zone references are always welcome
Its obscure for the uninitiated
As a city building fan I think this episode encapsulated the frustration perfectly.
A very well done episode
18:08 That was a beautiful Twilight Zone reference. I love when James's love of old movies finds its way into nerd episodes.
Shoe horned in
Sim city for snes was my childhood…got hit by a nostalgia bomb when I heard the music
no it was not you liar you never had a snes and you know it tough man
your child hood system was the pathetic hyper scan
and you actually enjoyed it
Soyo Oka
Sim City has one of the most beautiful soundtracks on SNES.
cough cough MOTHER 2!
excuse me i have a very bad cough
Me too. At dinertime: 'Oké, but can i please let the game running?!'
I remember a trick where you stack the red zones, then when 3 houses were built along a side you trash just those 3 and plop another red zone on top of it, so you get nothing but houses that will never combine into anything bigger. I forget why this was great to do.
It builds population
It helps you fill in those last little odd-shaped areas (near waterways for instance) that are too small for normal-sized square zones. It’s a late-game strategy for eeking out just a bit more housing.
10:31 The doughnut strategy is a false strategy. SimCity has a specification that prioritizes the development of residential areas connected within 31 squares of a special property. Special property that are not connected to roads or railroad are a loss to the development of the city. This inhibits growth if residential areas are connected to only one square of the line.
In Simcity 2000, you got the arcologies. Self contained cities, huge apartment blocks basically. They allow you to reach populations of millions. I think they are in SimCity original. Once you have access to them, the sky is the limit.
In the case of the launch arcologies, that’s very literally true.
I loved those huge, mysterious and futuristic buildings in SC2000!
When residential zones are still just houses you can demolish part of the zone and stack extra blocks. This increases the population density significantly.
However this DOES prevent those blocks from reaching the max density high rise building.
@@slightlyevolvedThis is where the pro gamer move comes in: Create disasters on purpose to demolish parts of a residential high-rise, then bulldoze and build on the newly created space. As long as you keep the central square intact, it counts as an entire residential building.
@@slightlyevolved It's nice keeping some parts of your city into cozy mode. You shouldn't have to gentrify the whole block lol.
Are ya winning, son?
Same thing in Act Raiser. Hit the town with earthquake and some will die, yet they'll build back the city and population bigger.
At the end, I was expecting Mike Matei with a SNES controller saying "Ain't I a stinker?"
@@ajthefunkmonster4767 such a missed opportunity!! 🤣
@@Amanda-gg6kz Eh the Twilight Zone reference was great too
Sad that mikes not here ☹️
@@BuddyFellows-xd9yn He is... in the credits :P
@Amanda-gg6kz Nah, sounds like something a middle school freshman would come up with.
14:40 sounds like gaza 😢
Too soon?
Fun fact: Will Wright got the idea for Sim City when creating Raid on Bungeling Bay because he found the map editor used to create the levels more interesting and fun to play with than the actual game itself.
7:19 James, you could have just said "Detroit" minus the Robocop. lol
Fun fact: Sim City was created because of the Commodore 64 game Raid on Bungeling Bay.
The programmer had so much fun while making the living world map, that he figured other people might also enjoy it.
That got ported to the NES.
Lol you just direct translate the previous post (one day earlier) from German to English. Nice service, but the original post got no appreciation at all :p
8:28 Detroit Crime 😂
The "Robocop" scenario 😅
You get to play as the mayor? Mayor!?? I like the sound of that! Mayor Goldie Wilson
You can start by sweeping the floor
Better than that Red Thomas fella. Lol literally my favorite movie.
I like the sound of that!
There is actually a second set of 1000 additional maps you can unlock with a trick.
😨
So it’s something like the minus world trick then?
All on dat dang cartridge?
@cridlynch2135 the maps are generated and the numbers are just their seed values.
Dr hates it
The moral of this game: If you're gonna be mayor, be corrupt.
Jenny Durkin 🤝
This is one of the best modern episodes. I love the narrative at the end, very creative. And the nerd’s philosophical take on the city building in general is fun. For those who liked this city building pondering, I recommend AmbiguousAmphibian on youtube too.
The Nerd is back to top form! Awesome video, James & Co! Also I immediately knew you were going full Twilight Zone parody when you said "They built my statue overnight". THIS is why I have watched James for 2 decades now. He makes these super popular videos & still squeezes in the obscure stuff for us mega nerds. Long Live King Nerd!
I just watched the James and Mike episode of Sim City last week. They talk about almost everything mentioned in this video. This truly was a real James Rolfe episode. Glad these are still going strong.
Mike came back? I thought they split ways during the wu flu?
@@hisaceinthehole3426 No, Mike did not come back. The James and Mike episode of Sim City happened about 10 years ago.
@@boblangford5514 ohhhh. Cuz I saw another dude who said Mike is listed in the credits of this episode, so I got really confused and surprised.
Mike actually got to megalopolis recently on his stream. I thought they would have used his material when I saw him credited.
We’re growing up with you, AVGN. So cool you’re still making videos.
Love the Kung Food mini review. There wasn't enough to do an entire episode, so he just shoved into the middle of another episode. Brilliant!
Is this what Mike Haggar sees when not fighting?
I've never clicked an AVGN video faster. I LOVED Simcity on the snes growing up and never gave up trying to get to the megalopolis. Through the insane strats James showed, it's just barely possible.
I grew up playing SimCity (the PC & SNES versions), so this episode was a instant classic for me (also, thanks for reminding me of the existence of Populous)! And, it was cool to hear the return of the Twilight Nerd narrator.
Real ones left their SNES on overnight or during school to raise funds.
Its not like you ever had to worry about your console experiencing heat death, like now.
Its not like you had to worry about your console breaking, like you do now.
17:24 lol. It's like the citizens are stood there next to the devil. "DO YOU LIKE MY CITY?!?!?!" > "YES LORD!" Because if they say no there's more destruction lol.
Back to retro ehh?, that horse really messed him up
The horse really messed everyone up
What were they *thinking*?!
@@BladedEdgeNo kidding, I couldn't even watch the horse episode.
Please, let us never speak of the horse again.
Horse
The Nerd never joined TH-cam. Yuotube simply was built around the Nerd
I discovered SimCity 2000 on the PC. I didn't know until years later there was a SimCity for Nintendo.
I couldn't imagine playing SimCity with a D-pad instead of a mouse.
And a SimCity 2000 on SNES
@@soanxious06that game was awful. It was painfully slow and water was always an issue. The Super Nintendo just couldn't handle all of the extra stuff that was Simcity 2000. I played the game multiple times and put together some nice towns.
@@jeee1074 it was unforgivingly slow. I liked it because it was simcity 2000 on a CRT tv. I don’t even remember if there was a speed aside from slow lol
@@FrothingFanboy Was actually quite comfortable thanks to a clever use of the buttons.
It's like James and express vpn are best friends
How can we be lovers if we can't be friends lol
money talks
@@chriscripplercruz1833 idk
@@SeanOkita talks louder than the teacher yelling
Express VPN has been funding this show for years. I'm surprised they still think they'll reach more people through AVGN at this point. 😂
Prediction before I watch the video: He's going to say SimShitty
Close enough, shitcity
Welcome to City Wok. Can I take your order?
Close. ShitCity
@@Eyevoubeat me to it.
It's been 5 months but can we talk about that AWESOME diegetic transition you did at 13:24?
Your craft is insane my man.
With every passing video, James looks more and more like Senator Armstrong.
Soyo Oka composed a great soundtrack for this game. She did Super Mario Kart too.
and it was a great soundtrack both times
She nailed that perfect combo of whimsical and relaxing that was a Hallmark of the Maxis games back then
Now it makes sense why Mike played this awhile back on Twitch.
was thinking the same thing
Exact-u-mundo
James never really plays any of these games, mike is the real avgn
@@Urgod420 for sure! That’s what I’ve been saying. Mike is the true AVGN!
This is one of my favorites episodes from the recent era. It's goos to see the nerd haven't lost his touch.
8:29 RIP to all those lost in the 2010 Boston nuclear meltdown.
With the ways things are going, odds are pretty high for global warming causing floods in 2047 though.
My father and I got a megalopolis. He made it seem so easy. No cheats. He would do the donut way, and if the buildings didn't merge the right way, we would take it down and rebuild it.
The missed potential for the snes mouse is crazy
The mouse didn't come out until the following year with Mario Paint.
I’m 30 now and I’ve been watching the nerd full episodes for the past 5 years. I don’t miss a beat 😂🔥
Hearing that music instantly brought back a lot of memories.
I had Sim City on PC, SNES and aspects, but the SNES one was my favourite because of the unique Nintendoness of it.
I actually checked all the 999 maps as a kid, and.. bonus points: if you load the same number twice, you actually get an alternative map.
So yea, I checked all of them twice. Yay for ocd.
He needs to do Sim Ant
Sim Ant and Sim Tower were the ones that i played most.
Simcopter and sim tower for sure
+1 for Sim Ants lol I can imagine Angry Video Game Nerd had a sandwich one day then later a group of ants invade his house
I remember spending hours playing sim ant in computer class when I was supposed to be studying lol
Sim Tower was rad!
If you remove the controller from snes, the sim city speeds up
Dang that’s awesome.
I don’t know James Rolfe. But that’s ok because AVGN is still enjoyable.
I don't know James Rolfe. 🫡
I'm certain the algorithm served me this video because of that one, but I still watched and enjoyed all the same.
He's actually James AVGN Rolfe :)
Always loved the soundtrack of this game, Soyo Oka created magic with the SNES soundtrack. The song when you reach City / 10,000 citizens is just so comforting and creates a beautiful dreamscape to relax to.
So, Nerd still didn't achieve the population of a half a million Megalopolis.
That's what I'm saying
out of all the impossible games he's crushed, i thought he had this in the bag
Without a speed button, we prolly wouldn't get another Nerd video until 2026.
17:46 It takes a genius to take something originally traumatizing and turn it into something funny.