Customer Reviews

Electronic Arts Top Ten Family Fun Pack

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This box came with several games on seperate disks, so you choose if you want to install one or all of them. The games I liked were, Theme Hospital and Sim Safari. The rest of them you could take or leave. But for the price, it was worth it just for the two games alone. Sim Theme Park never did work, or I couldnt figure it out, but it didnt look good enough to worry about anyhow, especially after playing Roller Coaster Tycoon. Sim Life, Sim Earth, Pinball and Marbles just collect dust.

Theme Hospital is a great game with hours of enjoyment, great graphics, and humourous diseases like The Squits, which sends the patient to the bathroom alot, and Sim Safari is really cool where you set up a Wild Life Safari and a camp, by hiring locals from the village. As long as you do good, the village thrives. Its alot of fun. I rate this four stars only because the rest of the games sucked, but thats just IMHO.

My 13-year-old daughter LOVES the SIM City game. We had to get the older version which comes in this 10-pack, because her computer was not large enough (RAM) for the newer version. I caution against loading all the games at once, since they take a lot of space. However, in terms of fun, educational value and intellectual challenge, the games are fantastic.

She really has not gotten much past SIM city. She looked at the Ants game briefly and thought it was a little weak.

She's learned a bit about the economics and ecological balance needed to operate a city and has had fun destroying a city or two with the floods and other natural disasters you can create. It would probably really appeal to boys for that reason. It satisfies the need for bashing things up with out being violent. I enjoy watching her build things and listening to her explain how it all works together. It's surprisingly realistic.

I bought this pack mainly for Theme Hospital - which I have now played to death and figure I got my money's worth with just that one game.

SimCity 2K - an old classic. I haven't loaded this on my new machine because SC3K is so much superior. But if you have no Sim City games, you'll get a kick out of SC2K.

SimAnt - another one I had previously and enjoyed. Sort of a short game to play, but I thought it was fun.

SimLife - I was so excited about this one when it was new, but I couldn't ever seem to figure out how to play it properly. I tried again recently, and it's still greek to me.

SimEarth - ditto what I said for Sim Life. They look very similar to me, actually.

Theme Park - I didn't load this, I already have SimTheme Park which I think is nearly the same. Which isn't nearly as good as Hasbro's Roller Coaster Tycoon.

SimSafari - a new one to me, I've fiddled with it a little when I had time and it looks pretty promising.

Marble Drop - this one I couldn't load on my XP machine.

Extreme Pinball and Power Poker - I haven't even bothered to try loading these two...I have a bazillion pinball and card games already so I just tossed these aside.

This pack is neat. Some of the games such as Sim Earth and Sim Life take time to master. These games don't have great graphics but are fun. Theme Hospital is my favorite. It is hard to find unless you buy it in this pack or the other top pack. Theme Park is in this pack but it is hard to run since it is dos. All of the sim games are cool in here. There is also a marble game, a poker game and a pinball game. This pack is worth the money. Even if you just buy it for a few of the games.

The Top Ten Family Fun Pack is rather difficult when it comes to getting started. After installing some of the games, you may find it hard to learn how to play. Games like Theme Hospital and Sim Copter are easy to learn because of the tutorials that you can run. Other games like Sim Earth and Sim Life are more difficult because no tutorial is supplied and it can take quite a long time to search through the help file and find that certain section you are looking for. One note to consumers is that Theme Park will not work unless your computer's DOS version can recognize a mouse. Most of the newer computers are capable of playing Theme Park. Any computer manufactured before 1998 may not be capable of running Theme Park. Check with your computer manufacturer for more information and to find out if you are capable of running Theme Park.

Buyer beware. This product bundle is not as it appears. SIM Theme park runs on MS-DOS 5.o or higher not on Windows. Make sure this is what you want or that you are not buying this for Theme Park. We couldn't get past this as Theme Park was what our child asked for.

This game pack is so cool the games I liked were Marble Drop and Theme Hospital. Marble Drop is a game where you drop a marble down a rack and into a slot. If the marble is not the same color as the slot the marble explodes. Once my dad started playing Marble Drop you couldn't get him off the computer. Marble Drop is a very entertaining game. Theme hospital is a game where you build a hospital, buy extra land, keep track of the money and cure the people. The patients have diseases like bloaty head and other funny diseases you have to cure. Also, you have to build rooms and hire staff. Theme Hospital is a game you just have to have.

This is excellent! Theme Hospital by itself could sell for $20, and so could Marble Drop. And so could Sim City 2k. AND THERE ARE SEVEN OTHER GAMES BESIDES THOSE!!

If you are trying to run MS-DOS games on Win. XP, it probably won't work. Microsoft is just saying 'Out with th old and on with the new'. If you have Windows 3x, 95, 98, or ME you can run it. Here is how to do it w/ 95, 98, or ME: Right click on the program, hit properties, then hit th program tab. Check the box that says: Prevent DOS programs from detecting windows. Hit OK, then an MS-DOS icon will appear. Double click it and you got it!

I thought this entire pack was quite fun and very cheap compared to buying everything sepratley. (Sorry im not a good speller.) Sim life has so many variables, Theme park you can have a very funny time, Theme hospital is almost addicting,and the rest are fun as every now and then games. Plus buing all else is over 30$. Thanx for listinging to me ramble.