SimCity 2000

[Graedius]

SimCity 2000:



Ah, what a classic this gem truly is -- came upon it again recently when I was reminded of it by an event a few weeks ago, and again my insatiable addiction to it has re-emerged.
(As some people I've been talking to recently know, heh.) I just can't stop playing this game, something about it just keeps me drawn in infdefinitely. :3

The whole point of this thread was that since I went to the effort to find it, perhaps other people may care to have it as well, possibly to rekindle old memories, or to play one of the most highly-ranked games ever designed I have the full install .exe file right here.

Now, to my knowledge, being as old as it is, SimCity 2000 is abandonware, or free -- in any case, I'm sure no one really gives. I mean, I found the .exe easy enough... if it wasn't free at this point, then I wouldn't thnk it would be that easy to attain... but if anyone has a real hernia over it, I guess this thread can be removed. Just wanted to share a valuable find of mine, is all. :3








Live a deprived life and never heard of it?

SimCity 2000 is just as it sounds -- a Simulator in which one can design and manage their own city from scratch. I suppose the premise doesn't sound that interesting on it's own, but once you get into the intricacies of the game, it becomes ever-so involving and interesting.

Everything you do in the game will affect a different outcome -- zoning certain types of zones nearby each other may impact how they develop, applying certain city ordinances may change the way the city functions, increasing/decreasing taxes to different sectors of the city can make you gain or lose in capital -- It's all so very intriguing.


The way you tax the different sectors of the city can afect a variety of things. You can tax separate industries as well.

Place Police departments to wipe out crime, fire departments to help prevent fires, hospitals to keep the livelyhood of your citizens up, schools to reduce crime and increase industrial profit in the electronics sections, as well as many other things... you have to appeal to the needs of the people to succeed.

You have to watch out for hazards, and realistic aspects -- don't put residential districts near a prison or power plant, place in public transit to control pollution, and make important decisions like to use a more costly but more pollutant-efficient power plant over a cheaper (but more) pollutive one.

Unlike most games, it's unique in a special way -- instead of a game based on destruction, it's based upon construction -- and it's however you see fit. There's no real goal to the game, moreover ones you make yourself. Beat your neighbors? Have a crime-free city? Fill the map? Get the best population you can? The highest populatiry rating amongst your citizens? Or try and do them all in the shortest time possible?

Conveninently for you, you're always in office and you live forever, so the city goes on for as long as you'd like to play it.

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Well, in any case -- maybe I'm the only one who finds watching cities develop, creating a place with almost a life of it's own, taxing and obtaining profits, and testing my leadership skills out abhorrently entertaining -- but I do. ^^ And I give anyone the opportunity to do the same if they'd like.


If you'd like me to send you the .exe installer, please PM me -- I'm foolish and don't have it uploaded anywhere, so I'll have to e-mail it or send it over an Instant Messenger or something.

I'm done talking now. ^^

[boomiester]

WOW SimCity 2000, that used to be my favorite game. this thread brings back my memories of windows 95 on my compaq 586... anyway I actually have an original coppied disk of SimCity 2000se, but I don't know why it was special except for the fact that it comes with a building editor called SCURK. BTW I don't know if you can answer this but, a few years ago someone told me about a code to launch nuclear missles on a city if you have the military base. By any chance do you know it?

[Kara Yoshi]

I was soo happy wghen simn city 2k came out untill I played it, then I hated it. ti mutch micro managing, I miss the original sim city and imo the best ever. I never figured out sc2 and sim earth, I stuill have them and never foiund anyonethat wanted them =}

[yro Pedward]

I played that game before, it does bring back the memories of it. But I couldn't keep up with these people's demands in the city creating. All it ended up is riots. XD But I decided to have alil fun and create disasters. Bring in the alien! Forest goes on fire, airplane crash, flashflood, earthquake, hurricane, and tornado. Woot! Destruction! But trully, I miss playing that game.

[Darkmark]

*Holds up the CD* I've still got mine, AND SimCity 3000, AND SimCity classic.

I like blowing up churches >D 'cause then, 'someone' sends down a tornado to rip through your city.

[Kara Yoshi]

cd? heheh when I go t my sc2k there where no cd's. and my sim earth still has it's 5 1/2 dissk and well as 3 1/4 hehe

[sui]

SimCity 2K, yay! I have that game on PlayStation... uh... really difficult to coordinate that evil cursor with a joypad XD;;

[red.yoshi]

ahh yes, the simcity 2000. i loved that game. sim ant was also fun. what a dissapointment simcity3000 was. yea, i still have it, i just cant find time to play it. i liked watching the buildings grow, then abandened, and then being remade. the sound to it was pretty good too.

[Graedius]

Hehe, I also have SimEarth and SimCity Classic if anyone'd want them, as well. SimEarth was a gooder, heh...

I had the CD for SimCity 2000 and SKURK somewhere, but it got lost, I guess. I got the SNES Cart of SimCity CLassic for Christmas from a friend -- an ever classic game. ^^

[red.yoshi]

i had the first sim city on my palm pilot

[Soul]

I remember when SimCity was new for the SNES, back in the early 90's.

I know what you're thinking... 'sure grandpa'

[Kara Yoshi]

Yoshi said:

I remember when SimCity was new for the SNES, back in the early 90's.

I know what you're thinking... 'sure grandpa'

I remember when it was new for DOS so there hehe =}

[Daxxe]

w00t, suprise thread for me! ~rollzzisroundround'~ . Ahh, that's great memories.
I was really obsessed with the simcity games from the middle of the 90's to the turn of the century. I jus loved to be a ruler over a metropol and controlled over the architectures and population that I jus' want'ed myself. Oh, riots...hehe, drown em' with a hurricane..tss, oh no superman helps, darrnit!.
And when I played SimCity 2000 for the first time I really relished it so mush that it was a must!!..to buy the first computer somehow ^^. And I liked it so mush. But after a while minds camed to the offer of this game which wasn't quite attractive though. Like..what should I do next? Re-build everything again? o.o. 3000 next waiting, hehe, and so on. "constructionfreek I was, thinkin of all the themeparkin' game 2"! But I didn't like Simcity 4 though that I got weary of almost directly.

Coolie topic gradius! *DIG*

[Teo]

I remember that game very well...the demands...the evil demands!! And plus when they wanted a seaport for the industry, I had already whipped out most of the water and then when I built a seaport it would only produce these warehouse like things! And what did they mean if you build enough Sim Earth Acro's you discover the secret of simearth? I built fifteen and the cops couldn't handle it!

[boomiester]

Oh, I remember on simcity 2000 I buit like 300 arcos and gave them only power. Then I put the time on fastest and a window popped up on the screen. It said "An exodus has begun" then all the arcos exploded and another window said "your launch arcos have traveled into space to colonize new worlds."

[Graedius]

Yeah, you need an absurd about of Launch Arcos, more than any game would really have -- they "launch off" (are destroyed) to colonize new worlds after some time, and then you get compensated for their cost, so like, 280,000 x 180 Arcologies, heh.

on SimEarth, when your sentient life left the planet to seek other worlds, they'dlaunch off in structures that looked very similar to Launch Arcologies.