July-August 2024 - Sim City 2000

[NinjaKat]

AGA Game of the Month for July-August 2024, is Sim City 2000![/b]

SimCity 2000 is the city building game subsequent to SimCity, developed and published by Maxis Software and released in 1993. It made its way onto many platforms following its initial release. It expanded upon many of the concepts that were present in the original and features new gameplay elements.

In this new version you now have the ability to build land with different elevations before you even start with structures. Once you have your terrain to your liking, you can start with your city. Available structures include the old tried and true from the original, but add many additional options like prisons, museums, hospitals, seaports, and much more. You also have access to building underground pipes and subways as well as building roads that lead to other cities with which you can trade. You also have your choice of ways to produce power for your city, but they have a finite existence and must be rebuilt periodically. You can now set individual taxes for the different city zones (residential, industrial, commercial) and enact ordinances. One of the most helpful additions is the query tool, which allows you to see information about anything in your city. The list of new features is too long to go into fully, you will just have to see for yourself. Apart from just free building, you can also play through challenges dealing with different scenarios.

Information:

• Amiga Hardware: AGA
  
• Release Year: 1994
• Disks: 3
• WHDLoad: No
• Players: 1 only
• Publisher: Maxis
• Developer: Maxis
• A500 Mini: Not as standard

Links to game information:

• Lemon Amiga
• Hall of Light and Manual

Please refer to the 'Game of the Month Rules and Participation' post for information on how to participate!  Good Luck!

* To qualify: Play SCENARIO: Flint, Michigan. You can turn off disasters as this option may randomly affect progress (pause and select No Disasters from the Disasters menu).  Take a screenshot once you have completed the scenario (5 years) and the winner will be the one who qualifies with the shortest amount of time to reach the goal of 21,000 Industry Population.  If there are two entries with the same month/year, the winner will be the one with the highest income.  Please ensure your screenshot shows the scenario ending screen including the month/year and income (shows at the top of screen). Play on an AGA real Amiga or equivalent emulator. As per the GOTHEM rules, please confirm the machine/emulator you used, your score, screenshot/photo with score shown.  If the game does not keep score, please let us know where you got up to (without spoilers) with a brief review of your time with the game. Also state any additional qualification rules stated above, such as playing on a certain mode with certain rules, just so we have a better feeling that you are playing fairly!

Do not use keys, passwords or cheats, including the WHDLoad option to skip levels with the Help key![/b]

[NinjaKat]

Updated rules, sorry to be so late.  To give us all a chance to play this, I will extend through August.

I also had to install the patch to get this running.  Here is the patch:

https://aminet.net/package/game/patch/SimCity2000pch

[joey]

I had never played this game before.

I spent quite sometime building my own cities and learning how it worked.

The Hi-Res Laced mode it runs in can be a bit tough.

Thankfully my machine has an indivision scandoubler/flickerfixer, which made it a lot better to play.

Very much enjoyed playing this, even though I had seen some people bagging it.

My finish Month/Year: FEB 1976
Cash: $10,824

Played on my A1200 TF1260, no keys , passwords or cheats were used.

[NinjaKat]

Note: SimCity 2000 will be extended through August.  I did play a little this month, but my only screenshot was unreadable due to the interlacing!  Looking forward to trying again in August!

[intangybles]

I got it running on the V4sa.. but its not very stable on that platform, its crashing out more than playing!

I'll keep trying!

[NinjaKat]

Very well done joey!  I did have another few tries last night but just couldn't get close enough to your result!  I was either spending too much money or not reaching your winning date.  Well done!!  I did enjoy playing though, although it was super slow and hung up a couple of times on my A1200.

Winner: joey with a finish of Feb 1976