Sim City Classic

by Maxis

Product Features

• See and hear Hollywood actors play the roles of SimCity officials including the Newscaster, Police Chief, Fire Chief and more. Through full-screen "Video Pops", your officials will constantly update you on the city's health and will even warn you if things
• Drop in for a quick peek at the individual lives of your Sim Citizens...you'll get an up-close and personal view of the people who inhabit your evolving metropolis.
• Intense film footage of natural disasters brings real-life drama to your computer screen.
• Test your leadership abilities with 8 built-in city scenarios.
• Design unlimited cities from the ground up. Lay roads, build power plants, and factories, place zones and guide the development of an entire metropolis And Much More!!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B0006MXGX0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 24, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,780 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

First you simulated creating your dream city. Now, experience it. SimCity, the original city simulator, stretched the boundaries of entertainment software. Now one of the best-selling games in the world goes multimedia with Interplay's SimCity Enhanced CD-ROM. A multimedia showcase of video and audio technology. This SimCity lets you see, hear, and feel the action as you design and build the city of your dreams. With full-motion video, digitized speech, and a talented cast of actors, your cities and the SimCitizens that dwell in them come to life. Do well by your people and they'll give you their hearty thanks. Mess up, and you'll watch as natural disasters, crime and poor planning destroy your creation.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 2-D Gaming, June 12, 2005

A Kid's Review

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sim City Classic (3.5" disk)

The original game was released by Maxis® in 1989 for the PCs and Macs, and Brøderbund agreed to distrubite it. However, the game may have not been tested on ALL operating systems and is ONLY recommended on Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows 98 because it's a really old game. It was a 2-D overview of a city, but it has a disaster that's not in SimCity 3000 Unlimited. The Monster.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun game. Simple in good and bad ways, August 10, 2008

By 

Stuart|Anne (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sim City Classic (3.5" disk)

I recently dug this up so my four and six year olds could play it. The most recent Simcity games are way too complex for young kids, but the original classic one is actually simple enough for them.

They have enjoyed it a lot. The four year old didn't quite understand it well enough to be able to construct workable cities, but the six year old (who is into stuff like city infrastructure and building) understood it well enough to play it, enjoy it (a lot) and build cities that kind of work. He didn't understand the city tax and budget stuff, but didn't really need to.

The game installed and ran with no problem on both Windows XP and Vista, which I found a pleasing surprise given the age of the game. However, on modern, fast machines (i.e. any recent machine) you have to immediately click to slow down time when you start a city, otherwise the years tick by about once per second. The game developers back in the mid 90s didn't anticipate their games running on computers 100x faster.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It won't work., August 14, 2009

By 

Paggy Armstrong (Nevada City, CA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sim City Classic (3.5" disk)

This is a great game but there's just no way to make it work in a new I Mac.