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This reminds me a lot of SimCopter (1996) where you could also import your SC2k city and fly around and do missions. Mostly about helping people in various form
by tedeh 4y ago
This reminds me a lot of SimCopter (1996) where you could also import your SC2k city and fly around and do missions. Mostly about helping people in various forms of distress by picking them up and flying to various destinations. Great flashback from 90's gaming, I remember tossing people out at random when flying which was always hilarious when you're a young kid. You could then pick them up and fly them to the hospital to get fixed up.
But I must say I think the original SimCopter looks slightly better graphically than this Minecraft version.
You can play SimCity 2000 online here, by the way:
https://playclassic.games/games/city-building-dos-games-online/play-simcity-2000-online/play/ https://playclassic.games/games/city-building-dos-games-onli...
- justusthane 4y agoSimCopter was awesome! I had forgotten all about it. I didn't realize you could import SimCity cities!
- Arrath 4y agoGod I love SimCopter. played it so much as a kid but I never got to the fanciest helicopters because every run hit a bug where I couldn't enter the hanger anymore, I was too young to know that patching a game was even a thing, if it ever got a patch to fix that.
- ascagnel_ 4y agoSimCopter wasn't the only game that allowed you to import from SC2k -- the city import is the only notable feature of the otherwise-unremarkable Streets of SimCity[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_SimCity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_SimCity
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- somat 4y agoThe music, the music was the other remarkable feature of streets of sim city.
- boole1854 4y ago"I'm just a splatter, splatter, splatter on the windshield of life." https://youtu.be/uqnU8wAyHdQ?t=3999 https://youtu.be/uqnU8wAyHdQ?t=3999
- ffmpegy 4y agothat game had so much potential, so many bugs...
- missblit 4y agoStreets of Sim City was great. I'd use a bug to create glitchy self-intersecting bridges I called "super springs" which launched cars straight up. The AI certainly didn't know what to make of that.
- ambicapter 4y agoStreets of SimCity was great for making an outrageous racket by using the increased gravity cheatcode. Every polygon intersection would trigger the "suspension crashing" sound effect. Fantastic fun.
- hackmiester 4y agoThis was endless comedy for sure. The jank of the game only added to its appeal.
- hawski 4y agoI liked to play the SimCopter demo and thanks to it Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries still remind me of the game. I suspected (or maybe just hoped) that you could somehow import SimCity 2000 cities (I had the original boxed release, the first game I owned), but either it was not possible to do in the demo or I just failed to find the way (I was barely a teenager without the Internet access).
- xattt 4y agoThis is kind of like being a fan of early Simpsons, where exposure to one thing leads you to find out more about the thing they’re drawing inspiration from. The association of Flight of the Valkyries and helicopters came from Stanley Kubrick’s Apocolypse Now.
- DonHopkins 4y agoAnd of course there's The Simpsons association of Apocalypse Now and Highway To Hell! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBcZvviml_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBcZvviml_w
- lostgame 4y ago>> ‘Stanley Kubrick’s’ ‘Apocalypse Now’ …in what possible world; lol. I want to see that world. I think you mean Francis Ford Coppola. :P Or ‘Full Metal Jacket’ - but your statement as it stands just makes me giggle.
- xattt 4y agoOh god, I am grown man who did not know the difference between these movies.
- lostgame 4y agolol, it’s okay; we all make mistakes. :) I only found it so funny because obviously, those are two of the most significant and important films / directors of all time; and the concept of ‘Stanley Kubrick’s Apocalypse Now’ is just both utterly fascinating and totally humorous. Not sure what your age has anything to do with your comment or mine; though? Except that I guess that obviously as a grown man you’d have a much easier time identifying these two films and their directors than, say; a 20-year-old? Is that what you’re saying? Sorry; I think it just went over my head.
- DonHopkins 4y agoClint Basinger's Lazy Game Reviews always has excellent reviews of Maxis games. LGR - SimCopter - PC Game Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mh7Pc5MSI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mh7Pc5MSI LGR - Streets of SimCity - PC Game Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi60A2-PcpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi60A2-PcpM The SimCity 2000 Retail Demo Disk for DOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2b5HRRTH70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2b5HRRTH70 LGR - SimCity 2000 Network Edition - PC Game Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9e3WlJChro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9e3WlJChro LGR - SimCity Educational Version Unboxing & Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edXRNtuAGTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edXRNtuAGTg SimCity 30 Years Later: A Retrospective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrScy1icWjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrScy1icWjI The Sims 1: An LGR Retrospective Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsob06m9p_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsob06m9p_4
- lazyfanatic 4y agoClint is great!
- theandrewbailey 4y agoI can't help but think your username was inspired by LGR. Put another coin in the 'HN usernames are on topic' jar.
- charlieyu1 4y agoIf only they make more games of this type
- sillysaurusx 4y agoBut where can we play simcopter? I need the ability to dangle my passengers out of the helicopter in a threatening way. It’s been awhile.
- coldacid 4y agoSomeone actually went and created patches and installers to work with modern Windows for both SimCopter and Streets of SimCity. http://krimsky.net/patchers.html http://krimsky.net/patchers.html
- Sakos 4y agoThis will always be my absolute favorite thing about PC gaming. The lengths gamers will go to ensure their favorite games still work or even improve them, even when the original studio doesn't exist anymore.
- jgosar 4y agoSimCopter was actually the inspiration behind this project, but what annoyed me was that the buildings mostly looked nothing like in SimCity 2000.
- jtokoph 4y agoMy biggest disappointment was the lack of Arcologies in SimCopter. If I remember correctly, the land they were originally on was just empty once imported.
- jl6 4y ago> Playclassic.games does not intend to violate any copyright or violate any license of a game. I thought there was a chance this site might have arranged licenses from the original publishers, funded by revenue from the (many) ads, but no, it appears to be good old fashioned piracy. Edit: I tried Settlers, which has one of those copy-protection systems that involves entering information that can be found in the printed manual. Either I got very lucky, or this game has been cracked. Or, as the site euphemises it, “unblocked”. Now, I’m sympathetic to the cause of video game preservation and use of abandonware, but the second you put ads around it and make money off it for yourself, you cross a line.
- jagged-chisel 4y agoPlus, intent isn’t relevant. If the copyright holder doesn’t pursue, you’re fine. If they base their decision on “intent,” then fine. Infringement is infringement, intentional or not.
- troad 4y agoThere's been a trend of putting 'no copyright infringement intended' on top of blatant copyright infringement and thinking they're fine. This is nuts. Legally, it's about as sound a defence as chasing down a crossing guard in your car while shouting "no injury intended!"* Copyright laws are nuts too, and I'm very empathetic to game preservation efforts, but this kind of boilerplate is legally nonsense. Don't make the mistake of thinking this in any way protects you, folks. It does nothing. If anything, you're indicating that you knew that the content was under copyright protection at the time you posted it and that you knew you didn't have permission to use it. (* Not saying they're equivalent offences, just equally nonsensical defences!)
- jrm4 4y agoYeah, lawyer here. I suppose (and this is absolutely not advice) another thing to consider is "likelihood that someone is going to take time out of their day to sue you." Do with that what you will.
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- dontbenebby 4y agoThanks for this, I usually hate to say sequels are bad (since Simcity 2000 was itself a sequel and much better than the original SimCity) but that series really went off the rails around when Simcity 3000 came out. (It’s a shame we didn’t get a higher resolution version of Simcopter and Streets of Simcity instead of a long string of “The Sims” plus… well I quit gaming before they took GTA online, but I got the impression the GTA community is more into murdering sex workers for cash rather than equipping your car with an airfoil and a hopper so you can jump high in the air then glide down into areas of the map your opponent cannot reach.) Ps I’ve never seen that domain you can also play Simcity 2000 at https://archive.org/details/SimCity2000 https://archive.org/details/SimCity2000
- partiallypro 4y agoI remember being able to do this in SimCopter, but at least as a kid I could never get it to import right.
- forbiddenvoid 4y agoI spent a lot of time in SimCopter as a teenager. It was always fun to get to explore the cities I had spent so much time curating in SC2k.
- nimajneb 4y agoI never had SimCopter, but I did have the vehicle based one. I remember having fun playing in it in cities I made. Is it called Streets of Sim City?