LGR - Maxis Collection and History (Part 2 of 3) 1993-1996
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- 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 two of three.
SimCity 2000 Network Edition Review:
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I have a pretty in-depth entry on my blog about it, but the gist of it is that it is a preview version from late '93, like the one handed out to Congress members and journalists.
Man, Maxis had the Best Box-Arts EVER!
SimLife and SimIsle are my favorites.
I remember buying a copy of Simcity 2000 with my Christmas money for $60 at Costco, and I was really excited about it. Kept imagining playing it on the ride home, couldn't wait to play it... OH HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED... Now I can spend $20 on Steam and play a really good game within a few minutes, watching videos while I wait for the download to finish...
Looking forward to part 3!
I have the "SimCity 2000: Strategies and Secrets" by Sybex. Interestingly enough, there are 2 forewords, one by Fred Haslam and the other by Will Wright. In Haslam's foreword, he mentions that ,at first, Will Wright wasn't involved in SC2000. He was. He also talked about how the original game was like the first SimCity. He said that when A-Train came out, Maxis had him change the entire graphics engine to match it. It didn't work until Wright imported the graphics engine from project "Dollhouse"
@Gmanster64 Yeah, it sounds like it was quite an ambitious project! Connectivity throughout the "Sim" lineup would be rather spectacular indeed, and reason for excitement.
@Gmanster64 Just got in contact with Will Wright, and this was his response regarding SimWorld and if anything ever came of that idea: "Not really, we were thinking of connecting all our Sim games at some point (like we later did with SimCity&Simcopter)"
I bought my first Maxis game called SimCity 2000 Special Edition on my windows 98 PC and got it at christmas 99' with The Sims, SimCity 3000 and SimCity 2000 Special Edition.
I love Maxis games, I loved Sim Town when I was little !!
I totally remember those Interplay boxes with the big gold CDs on them. Still got my Star Trek 25th Anniversary one!
Oh, I remember installing Livin' Large and having to watch SimsVille's trailer. It was cancelled because of The Sims games. The reception of those was much more positive and Maxis decided to focus on The Sims with all they had. I can't say I blame them, since they eventually went on to create Hot Date, and took the series to a whole new level.
@dcfoley Awesomeness, thank you! Glad you're enjoying, not everyone seems to have liked these videos so far. Granted, it's not for everyone, but I try to keep it interesting no matter what kind of video it is.
13:40 I bought my copy of SimHealth (blue box) at a Babbage's store inside a shopping mall in Florida back in the summer of 1994. Still have the complete game. I've never encountered anything quite like it, before or since!
God I'm nerding out so hardcore on these videos. I can't wait for part 3.
Loved the Urban Renewal kit that you showed with Sim City 2000. It was so cool cause you could create custom buildings and basically mod your cities to be however you wanted them. This video makes me wanna play SC2000 again!
@ASSEMblerEX It does, it's a really cool port as are the others for the SNES! I just didn't show it, or any of the console games. This is only my collection of computer releases, as I feel the console ports fit into an entirely different category altogether for a few reasons.
I loved the heck out of Klik&Play; It was a brilliant way to quickly proto-type a game idea before jumping into building it in a real language.
I was brilliant with K&P back in the day and made a kick arse Robocop game where the bodies would literally pile up in the streets as you carved your way through the bad guys with some awesome upgradable weapons (took me about 3 days to throw together the one and only level :D)
I was also a massive fan of the Incredible machine, which needs a remake
When I started watching this review series, I thought we would watch some gameplay and such. But presented so well-done-y like this, is perfectly fine too!
@Audiomancer Yup, I have an Apple IIgs review planned. As for when it will happen is anyone's guess, but probably over the summer. Got two other system reviews before that!
Excellent collection !
@Shiqna1 No worries! I knew this wouldn't be for everyone, but after having many dozens of requests for such a video, I figured there were enough people who would enjoy it for it to be worth my time. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming soon :)
There was some arbitrary difficulty increase between the old SimCity for DOS and the SimCity Classic version for Windows. I dunno what changed but it's pretty profound and makes the Classic version less fun.
@Shiqna1 See, *this* is why I didn't want to make these videos at all. People complain when I make them, people complain when I don't make them. This is a collection video, and it's not everyone's cup of tea. It's for hardcore collectors and those who enjoy packaging. If you want to see gameplay, you'll have to wait until the actual reviews of these games, if I ever make them :D
9 year old video but I use this to see if my big box copies are complete or missing any documentation. Thanks.
@PCGamer77 Ah, thanks for the info! I'd always heard that it never saw widespread retail release, but knowing that at least certain Babbage's stores got it is nice to know. Still wondering what the 1993 silver box is then.
@thatguyontheright1 That's the "Ultimate Sim" pack, and no I do not own that one yet. Most of those shovelware compilations I've ignored, as my focus is the original releases. I'll branch out to those someday.
I also have many of the home console ports... PS1, Saturn, NES, SNES, etc. They're kind of a completely different beast to me, so I don't have anywhere near a complete set of console games. Those are the next ones I'll be after once I finish off my computer originals!
As mentioned at one point in this series of videos, I wasn't showing my collection of console Maxis games :)
@slashtiger1 Not that I know of, no. There are wrappers and emulators you can use the PC and old Mac versions on OS X though, I've done that before.
@KGIPopsicicle They did. It's called The Sims 3 Create a World Tool.
This is cool, I really would like more collection videos.
This makes me wish I didn't throw out all my old video game boxes a few years ago. I kept them for a long time too.
I remember pouring endless hours into SimCity 2000 back when I was a child. It was an old game then, and it's even older now.
I was the only person I knew to own the GBA port of SimCity 2000. You should check that out. It's a nice portable experience, but it's basically the original SimCity with 2000's art.
@13GTC I hope to give the original Sims game(s) some attention, yes! The Sims 2 maybe not for a while, since they're kind of in that odd "dead zone" of gaming where they're not retro but they're not new either. What I would really like to do is a video or set of videos on The Sims Online, but since it can't be played anymore to my knowledge I can't really do that.
@brigcam I have looked for years now! I found one that is labeled "SimHealth Preview Version" or something like that, and it does have slightly different graphics and unfinished features, so maybe that's it? Don't know why a preview version would have such elaborate packaging though.
you have a EPIC maxis collection dude :P
@Sloppyjoemess I do, actually! I mean, not every day sure, but some of them I come back to rather often. SimCity 2000, SimTower, Streets of SimCity, SimCity 3000, occasionally SimAnt... just great stuff.
@Lupni3rd Cool, thanks. All those shown are the original US versions, unless otherwise noted. I've barely scratched the surface of Maxis stuff outside the US!
@Gmanster64 I just re-read that forward again (I have the book on my desk, ha). It says that Will wanted nothing to do with SC2K, until he got involved with it due to the graphical redesign inspired by A-Train, taking the engine from Dollhouse. So, I don't know what you mean by "at first, Will Wright wasn't involved in SC2000. He was." Because right there, it says Will didn't get involved until a bit later into the development process.
@Segadude3000 I had a couple different HP iPaq pocket PCs. This was around 2004-2006.
05:46 1993, the year I somehow got my father to upgrade to 8 MB (we just said MB for MiB back then!) of RAM so I could play SC2K. He was aware it was such a big deal back then that I don't remember struggling that hard to convince him even if he was rather... Graham Stephens would call it fiscally conservative (and it cost like 200$ back then for 2 x 2 MB SIMMs).
Did you ever find out what that sim health game was all about?
he did do a vid on it
@BrianPicchi Little bit, yeah!
@MisterMorris101 No idea. But you can try and get in touch with him on Twitter, as I have (@StupidFunWill)
Sim City 3000 blew my mind
@LordKarnov42 I also wanted to give my high recommendation to BBS: The Documentary! It is incredibly well done and entertaining, if you remember the BBS scene or not.
FYI, I belive Click and Play was actually made by Click Team and only published by europress. Also Click Team is still around and they are still making new products. These days I use Multimedia Fusion. It's a pretty awsome program. Also I belive they were 2 French guys.
SIM TOWN SIM TOWN!!!!!!! I loved that game as a kid and I couldn’t remember what it was called 🥺😭♥️
my first sim city experience was with 2000, i bought it at pc world, in something called a total collections pack (or something similar), which included settlers 2 and civilization 2. sufficed to say, the remainder of my youthful teenage years were spent very well indeed :)
Just a heads up on another package variation. I have a UK copy of SC2K which is the IBM version, gold shadowing around the title text and the gold SIM box. Has no signatures but does contain a manual with a colour cover, dated on the box 1993. What I just noticed though is that it also has the original sales receipt from when it was bought brand new dated 25th Feb 95 for £19.99 from Dixons at Scarborough, my neighbouring town, where I bought it from in a charity shop about a year ago.
I think its so funny just to see the boxes that the game came in! :D was born in 1995 I have only really experienced those we have today :D
I've seen Sim Health at Staples in Canada, at the time I bought SimClassic 1. So it have been in store somehow. Also I do remember having all 3 separate original booklet for each game in simclassic 1. (had a lot of reading of the black simant one). Instead of a big ass book. another verison to collect :)
Another comment on an 11 year old video for 22 year old games. My kids were right around 6-8 when SimTown came out they really loved it. I wrote a few games with Click and Play I found a site on the internet (back in the days of Lynx and Gopher) that had games others wrote they were actually pretty good.
@skylar15123 Yes, that's what it turned into eventually!
@Irockman1 Sweet, that's the idea!
I guess we had the interplay one, but the graphics were different and it must've been dos, but def had the cheesey video with the scenario videos, loved loved loved them :)
I just got my old SC2000 Collection disk (at least I think its the collection, it has Win3.1 and Win95 versions and some demos, I couldn't find any interviews on it and I don't have the original box or manual...) working on my modern machine running Win8. I had to rig up a VM running WinXP (the only older version of Windows other than 7 I had on hand) and it's working perfectly. I grew up with SC2000 and SCURK, it is definitely one of my favorite games of all time.
No SimCity for SNES? I have that one and it's awesome, music especially as it changes depending on your city’s size. It has unique feel to it, I recommend you to try ;)
It seems like my dad used to be a fanatic about sim games. I see some sim games that are older then me in the house!
correction: total heaven. at the same time i saw winblows and for a long time until i saw your videos, i thought i imagined it lmao
2:25 I have a hunch that this "re-releasing old graphics sets" would not set now in today's DLC micro-transaction set world.
@Disthron Frick, you're right! I was just remembering the tutorial video from back in the day, so I assumed otherwise :( watch?v=DkUf_mBF72w
Sweet, part 2:) Hey, while I'm here, have you thought about reviewing the apple IIgs computer? I would love to hear your take on it. I searched your vids and didn't see a review of it, so if you have already reviewed said computer, I apologize.
@garry12gg Dude, nice! I look forward to seeing it!
I LOVE your reviews :)... D'you know if a version of SimTower exists for Mac OS X?
7:50 - I bought scenarios and great disasters AND the SCURK!
I love your PC reviews. I also know, however, that you have a Dreamcast. You should review some more obscure Dreamcast games. (I'm also curious to know what you think of Armada if you've played it)
Awww I love Widget Workshop and Sim Town! Along with sim safari and zoo!
hey do you think you could do a vid series where you create a city in [one of the sim city games] and let us come along for the ride and see how it turns out? sounds interesting to me :D
@phreakindee That was a pretty interesting video, did it come with Click & Play? Anyway, I started out with the Games Factory, witch I recently found again in an old box. It was quite a bit more advanced than C&P in that you could have scrolling games and there were all kinds of extensions that 3rd party developers had made. I re-installed it and was pretty impressed that the 32bit version actually worked on Vista, the disc even comes with a 16bit version for Win3.xx. That's pretty awsome.
White box are so nostalgic. And i've never had a boxxed game :D.
I don't still have the retail box/manual, but I do still have the CD for my copy of Sim Classics volume 2.... it had SimEarth, SimFarm, and SimCity (the original).... :)
Furthermore, The Will Wright foreword keeps on mentioning something called "SimWorld". He, explicitly, stated that SimWorld was NOT SimEarth. I've been wondering what SimWorld is because there seems to be no data of it on the internet ANYWHERE!! I also like the quote in the foreword "I need to get something off my chest. I'm SICK of Simcity! I really, really, really am."
interplay that takes me back to the birth of fallout
@phreakindee Sweet, I shall look forward to the IIgs review, and of course, the two that will come in the mean time:)
94 must've been a big turning point
@potsy5656 Next video :)
I wish old Mac games where this popular here in the UK. :(
Hey Clint, every considered a Sim City 4 review?
Are you a fan of the game at all?
hey, could you plz reveiw the original sims and some of the expansions? Like Vacation, Unleshed, Makin' Magic or Superstar? Or even The Sims 2?
Sims city 2000, good memories :)
maybe with the Sim Health is one for Healthcare provider...and for general pubic?
@phreakindee By "at first" I meant, right when production began. He became involved shortly thereafter when Fred needed help with the graphics. That, or I misread the Foreword.
17:48 - SimIsle *really* isn't intuitive. The worst part of it is that, although there *are* tutorial islands, they're not selected from the start. They're also on the other side of the screen. And besides that, you need to go in the Word Doc file to read about what you're supposed to do. But even then, I'm not sure if Tutorial 4 can be won.
For Tutorial 4, I was trying. I was about to start the Oil Rig, then... "You need 4 Skilled Labor." Well, I needed a City to get Skilled Labor, which the Word Doc file *doesn't* say in the Tutorial section. And to get a City, I needed a Town *and* a power station to turn it into a City. But it feels like there might not be enough space on that *tiny* Tutorial 4 Island to get a City going.
The game's dated, but I've found a few of the scenarios playable when my iMac isn't freezing.
Also, "EMUs" in SimIsle are "Ecological Money Units," not the Emu bird. And there I was, confused, sending my Explorer out to find Birds to build a Nature Reserve. All while being like a little kid wondering what I'm supposed to be doing.
those games sound like fun
Hey there, just wanted to let you know that there's no clicky thing to get the the third part by the end of the video.
So how do you feel about Zynga's CityVille for Facebook?
@phreakindee how do you get third party stuff dont you fell dirty getting that I mean its illage
@phreakindee same here. Never been into sim games, but the videos were still interesting and entertaining to watch. Just can't go wrong with LGR! ;)
did maxis make any of the sims2 expansions or did it just make the base game, beacuse I think maxis wasnt dead then but im not sure
I think Marty and the trouble with cheese needs an HD Xbox Live re-release with Kinect-enabled voice command.
i dunno if its because its not on pc but there was a Sim city 2000 on ps1, i had it and it was loads of fun a good adaptation for a game system
Been told the silver Sim box was for an early release beta program.
@phreakindee You should do a nostalgic retrospective on sims online. Just talking about your memories of it. Look for some videos online that show clips from it. See I don't know anything about sims online and want to learn
@Gmanster64 It's been said you can load a city from SimCity 2000 and walk around it and buy a house it was never released I think it was supposed to be The Sims
virtual doll house is now the sims, they said that they wanted to call it that and then they changed it to the sims
I was always dissapointed they never made a Sim Copter for the following Sim City games
make up your mind on what you wana say! lmao
for some odd reason, im genuinely intrigued in this maxis collection you have...!
lol, some of the games you call boring, are actual sim games, simulation games of real stuff :P I guess they can be very very boring. Who wants to create a health care system?!
only the coolest people
I have sim town! I saw it a couple of weeks ago in my collection and could'nt figure out if it was simcity or not :P
@phreakindee Just wondered because he seemed so enthusiastic about it.
I actually normally would play this on my old Win98 (upgraded from Win95) machine, but I'm in college right now and only have my gaming rig.