Customer Reviews

Sim City Classic

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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.

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.

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

Not as flexible as the later ones, but a good basic game that will run on almost any PC

simcity classic is soooooooo gooooood! its so much better than 2000.Its easy to start and you can build biiiig cities.i totally recommend buyin it!