LGR - Maxis Collection and History (Part 1 of 3) 1984-1993
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.พ. 2011
- A collection video. Showing every Maxis game released in America! From Raid on Bungeling Bay to The Sims, this covers it all and it's all from my personal collection. Boxes, overviews, history, trivia, random Maxis love. Part one of three.
Thanks to alanw3000 for the intro!
/ alanw3000 - บันเทิง
"It can be a boring game, but at the same time its very cool when you figure it out."
You... Just described the entirety of the "sim" games.
This has to be one of the best Sim-related videos in whole TH-cam!
Also, if you didn't know, Maxis stands for "Six AM". Will Wright said it in an interview ^^.
This was all from a collection perspective, so I really just wanted to show the boxes and such. I hope to do a more involved video someday showing the actual gameplay.
RoboSport was a phenomenal game when it came out, especially for two players. One player set up his robots while the other left the room, then the other would set up his robots and start the round. It is one of the few nostalgia games that I think about replaying again, even after all these years.
It was on Macintosh at one point, as that's how I played it.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I said in the video, yeah. Not as easy to find.
Help! I've fallen into a wormhole of Clint's old videos! The audio feedback has me trapped!
Holy crap, me too buddy
at least were not alone
Thank you, glad you're enjoying. New LGR review videos come every weekend, so stay tuned!
Thank you Maxis for providing something for me to read whilst taking a crap :)
@miniv7 It came from "The Need For Speed SE" game for MS-DOS/Windows 95. There was a driver named "Phreak". The "-indee" just evolved from that over the years.
You sir, are awesome. I just started watching your videos, and I love your stuff. I hope to see more LGR soon!
wow! your knowledge of all these games is amazing,I love your reviews and I can't wait for more.Your one review of The Sims 3 outdoor stuff made me laugh.
I never said they don't exist anymore, I said they're dead as far as I'm concerned. I went on to explain that since they're headed by an entirely different team and Will Wright is no longer with them, they're essentially not the same company at all anymore to me. Yes, they're still around and yes there is a new SimCity coming out, but with very, very little reminiscent of the Maxis I grew up with.
Holy crap. I just discovered your videos yesterday and am watching them at work which mean I have to pause every now and then to go take care of something. I got to 0:18 of this one then had to pause but I gotta say, that is a beautiful shot and I can't wait to get on and listen to the rest! Damn job getting in the way of my internettingz.
@joenook I actually did a full review on Streets of SimCity a while back, so you can see that for my thoughts on that one. SimCopter I hope to review in the next month or so! And of course, I'll be going over them in part three...
I used to be hooked on Sim city, on the SNES.. yes my dad hated me for buying "a game we already owned" but it was so much fun, i needed it on my SNES..
A great version BTW not just a cheap port.
Sim ant.. gotta love it.
really cool collection dude!
superbe review so far and your games boxes collection is really really impressive !
I really like the intro you used this time. Awesome.
I love the Sim Series, they where the first games I really got into, sim city 2000 to be exact started it all with me. I always loved making my own cities and micromanaging everything. Thankyou for posting this Clint!
Someone likes sim games;) Always happy to see a new LGRr vid in my subscription box.
wicked camera quality :) and amazing intro!!!
SimFarm was my first foray into Maxis titles. I love that game.
Awesome; looking forward to 2 more videos of Maxis goodness!
Awesome 3-part episode!! xD
SimAnt also came out on SNES. That's where I played it to death, haha
Still waiting on that Robosport review!
I love all the different box arts!
this is gonna be 23 minutes of awesome
fantastic channel and collection! nice to found that channel!
peace
@rockmusicmanic Will do, I'll try and have them up sometime over the weekend!
Never in my life have I heard of games being on cassettes. How does that even work? Awesome collection man, gotta love Maxis' stuff.
@anotherthing Yes, some versions of SimCity for the Amiga came with the Terrain Editor included.
Great great great great great video series. I never realised there were sooooo many of these dang games.
Guess the time between my C64 and my 486 and then to my windows 95 computer was a little too far in between and I missed out on all these "sims"
Spent hours playing the Speccy version back in the day. It takes a while to load if I remember correctly, but I think you can save your game (on cassette of course!) which was cool. I think it also came with a huge manual about city building/planning theory or something :).
great video!
@TheStylistGuru It's pretty straightforward once you figure out how data is written to magnetic media. A cassette tape is really just a long string of microscopic magnets. Computer data is binary (0's and 1's) so that's a perfect match for magnets (North and South). Orienting those into a pattern will store data, and that data can be read by a computer as files and programs. So long as you don't get another magnet or something to screw with that magnetic orientation, tapes will hold data!
Interesting factoid on SimFarm... the graphics data files were readily accessible after installation. Fans would post "other" crops on BBS's, including marijuana crops.
Ill be the first to say it. RIP.
why?
@TheLoadingScreenz Sweet, I'm glad you enjoyed!
troubl is an awesome dude :D
@dapoospot But it at least plays after it buffers? I was hearing there was no video whatsoever after 9 or 10 minutes. It plays just fine on my end, on my PC and phone.
@AngelTheTigress I still play them from time to time, and have various old PCs to do so. You can also play many of them on emulators such as DOSBox if you have a modern machine.
@MoreDakka101 There's a crapton more to come, too :D
Epic mate,lloking forward to hear what you have to say about Sim Mars
That UK box of Sim City 1 is kind of awesome.
@superthe1st Hehe, thank you kindly. Glad to be found, I was tired of being lost!
@Rockythefishman All I have to say about it is I wish it came out but I'm glad some of its ideas made it into Spore! I could make an entire video about canceled Maxis games... Crucible, SimsVille, SimMars, SimCity 3000 (the original 3D version), Mindwarp, etc.
Robo Sport was a turn-based game played over a modem or on a shared PC ("leave the room while I do my turns").
The play field was a small obstacle course, with your 4 robots on one side and opponents 4 on the other side.
It worked kinda like Battleship: Four phases per turn. You would program your robot to move, look, duck or shoot at each phase. Your opponent would do the same. Then the PC would parse the 4 phases and produce the results. Each would view results and strategize their next moves.
@Ajanek Heh, every computer game Maxis released in America, and then some. I'd be curious to hear what I could add to qualify for the upgrade from "awsome" to "epic" ;)
@RJTamm93 Thank you! It was created for me by alanw3000, I thought it was friggin' awesome and simply had to put it to use.
@kennethjohnson I certainly plan on doing so. I probably was just expecting something else when I played it (and this was many, many years ago now).
@PivotCommando I'm quite looking forward to seeing what those really consist of! If indeed they are for reals.
@TheAntiCritic Oh yeah, there's a ton of Maxis-related goodies I don't have outside of the Macintosh and PC realm. Japanese, European, UK and Australian stuff mainly.
I was a huge Maxis fan. I have the original Simcity (With Godzilla) and the very first version. The copy protection would come up everytime you started a new city. Later revisions only had it come up when you first loaded the game. I also have the original Terrain Editor the one you had to order from Maxis. There is no retail packaging it was just a couple of 5.25 disks. Which did come before the cities add on packs. I can also tell you SimFarm came out before SimCity classic. I worked for Electronics Boutique (Now GameStop) at the time and I remember when it came in. I realize this video is as of this post 11 years old so you may have already known this but incase you didn't :-)
Is the video playing all the way through fine for everyone? I had somebody saying it only played up until about 9 minutes...
Great Collection, I would have been all over that Populous Sim City Combopack if i saw it in the store!
I had a copy of Robosport on the Amiga, although I never knew how to play it. I understood that you were supposed to program your robots and then send them out to battle the enemy robots, I just didn't know exactly how to do that.
I was always intrigued by the idea, while every other Amiga owner I know thought that it was crap.
So jealous, as well as intrigued. I completely forgot about a few of these games. Curious in the next videos on your thoughts about Streets of Sim City and Sim Copter; two games I could never get into at all...
I noticed somewhere in your videos that you have a read/write device allowing you to write diskette images from modern computer to a 5.25 8 bit diskettes. Can you tell me how its called, or even better, where to order it from. I have Pravetz 8 (8-bit Bulgarian version of Apple IIE) It was originally manufactured in mid '80, then the 16-bits version came around early 90's.
@alozzzy1213 Ah yes, I think you're right in that regard though! I think I also read an inspiration for The Sims 1 (originally "Dollhouse") was to re-create his house that burned in 1991.
First Maxis Games:
Raid On Bungeling Bay from 1984 (Broderbund game only)
SkyChase from 1988 (first maxis official game)
Simcity from 1989
SimEarth from 1990
RoboSport from 1990
SimAnt from 1991
@WalrusRockGod Why should I have? This is a collection video, not a review or gameplay compilation.
@nath453 Wait for Part Three :D
I also wish they released SimsVille, I was so looking forward to that! And SimMars! I still have some promotional material for SimMars... at least they used some of the ideas from that one in Spore.
Maxis is sooooo classic :)
@senorverde09 I second that motion! I've been reading Maxis manuals on the crapper since 1993 at least ;)
old lgr
For me, the golden age of the Sim series is highlighted in this video. I personally think it began in 1991 with the release of SimAnt and ended in 2000 with the release of The Sims.
I had Sim Earth when I was really young on my amiga 500. I had zero idea what I was supposed to do but I had great fun on it anyway hahah
@Lacey1D Not really, believe it or not. Most of these cost maybe a dollar or three each. It's rare that I pay more for my vintage games. I know people that spend more a year on coffee! So grabbing a game here and there over the years for what is essentially disposable cash, it's added up!
back of skychase features airplanes like the "F-14 Eagle" and "F-15 Tomcat" - Sweet!
Anybody here got this video as recommended?
@janmansde3dede The boxes are identical, at least the ones I've seen. The 1MB version sometimes has a sticker posted on the box to that effect, although if it's been removed you'll just have to look inside.
Maxis Formed my childhood, I was born in 98' But Sim City And Sims Were my most played games. I love maxis :-)
@80085word69 First guesses are Witchaven and Heretic/Hexen.
@Sloppyjoemess Oddly enough I always thought El Fish should have been called SimAquarium! And then SimAquarium came out many years later and Maxis had nothing to do with it, but they could still use the "Sim-" prefix on a technicality.
"The Commodore Frick" A classic system
I had simcity on the amiga, we had an enormous printer that printed in a sepia colour, that we used to print off our city maps.
@Kataang102 I use Adobe Premiere CS4.
@megaboy1997 It's actually more like an hour of awesome once I get the other two parts uploaded :D
Unnatural Selection reminds me of Impossible Creatures, a game by the dudes who went on to make Warhmmer 40K Dawn of War. Quite an interesting RTS with insane customization.
Ahhh the good ol' days when manuals were actually informative and carefully-crafted as opposed to just giving you a phone number and a website to contact if you ran into any bugs and telling you the default hotkeys.
@mickeymouse12678 I actually have a video on my channel where I show the places I buy old DOS and Mac games. Basically, local thrift stores, pawn shops, random overstock websites, auction sites (eBay, shopgoodwill), Amazon, trading with collectors, etc. I rarely pay more than a couple bucks for each game, you just have to keep an eye out!
@6pixs No idea. On average I paid maybe $3 per item at thrift stores and such, so really not much at all!
Back to 1994,the only game i used to play from your collection was A TRAIN and it was OK even if it was boring after a certain time.
@peppermint23 Nope, not yet! Just a lot of reviews, hehe.
Hey I grew up in moraga never new maxis was ever there!
I used to play Sim Life with my brother. We'd both create a species, populate an area with both and just watch as the two species fought each other for food, etc until one destroyed the other.
Fun fact -- my mum liked Sim City when she played it at a friend's house, so she asked me whether I could get hold of a copy for our Amiga. Being a broke teenager, I enlisted my own friend's brother to, erm, circumvent the copy protection. I got the disk, told my mum it was loading, and was horrified when on the disk was some badly digitized 16-bit porn. Luckily my mum didn't see it and I didn't get grounded and the computer taken away like what had happened a year earlier after another poor decision on my part regarding computer usage.
I swear to God I've never pirated a game since. No sir.
I had RoboSport for the Amiga, so there was definitely an Amiga game as well.
Also, I had the original Radio Box Cover version of SimCity for the Amiga. I'm pretty sure it came with the terrain editor on the disk with the game.
@adrianjcc It should be online tonight!
@90Blakey All shown in the video, yes.
Are you still going to do a robosport review?
I'm intrigued
@G9King Thank you!
However, the "Six AM" story is a myth. It started around 1999 with SimCity 3000, where if you typed 'Maxis' the news ticker at the bottom of the screen stated "Did you know Maxis spelled backwards is Six AM?" It then got attributed to Wright, Jeff Braun, and others, but it was simply one of many fake news items in SC3k.
Maxis was the result of brain-storming with family of Jeff Braun. The idea was "computer game companies should have two-syllable names & should include an X"
5:30 I wonder if that is why they changed it to be bowser on the SNES version of Sim City.
Hey Clint Will you link part 2 or 3 in description? that be lifesaver.
You touched upon RoboSport about halfway through this video. You said that you'd end up reviewing it one day, and I thought maybe you had forgotten about it since the video was made over seven years ago. So I am reminding you! Since you didn't know much about the game at the time (maybe you do by now, I don't know), it'd be cool to see you play the game and do a review. :)
@mario4prez This is not a review at all: it's a collection video. As such, there's no gameplay. Reviews are for another day.
Robosport is awesome! Turn based. What will each of my robots do for the set amount of time each turn takes? You program each robot to move, or look, or aim. CTF, death-match, etc. Up to four players or CPU any way you want. You set how many robots and types and arena and turn lengths, game type... After all players have programmed all robots for the turn, action is calculated and the played back to each player separately so that fog of war is maintained...
thanks for doing this! you're amazing. have you written a book?
Minus Will Wright and with more EA influence than ever before. Whether or not that means they're properly "back" is up for debate in my eyes!
Classic LGR