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I 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

by hawski 4y ago

I 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 ago
This 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 ago
  And 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 ago
    Oh god, I am grown man who did not know the difference between these movies.
    - lostgame 4y ago
      lol, 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.
      - tialaramex 4y ago
        They may well just mean that making these sorts of mistakes feels worse when you're an adult. When children don't know the difference between a goose and a duck, or between N Sync and the Beatles, we don't think much of it, whereas suddenly as an adult this seems like a big deal. I used to get Al Pacino and Robert De Niro muddled up, like badly enough that it made it difficult to follow Heat (which features both actors in major roles)! No, they don't look alike, I don't know why I couldn't keep that straight. Whereas I had no problem distinguishing the real Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) in the Phantom Menace while apparently that plot point caught out other people I watched it with the first time - shrug.
      - xattt 4y ago
        My embarrassment comes from speaking with a cocky degree of self-confidence on a topic with only loose familiarity, in spite of life experience.
        smcl 4y ago
        We have all been there
NexRebular 4y ago
I remember it was possible to import your own maps in the demo... by just copying your own city over the demo one.
efreak 4y ago
I preferred the flying toasters. I'm upset there's no classic flying toasters screensaver that uses the original graphics/style (the original had bagels, jumping toasters, and other animations), but not enough to make one myself.

by hawski 4y ago

xattt 4y ago

This 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 ago
And 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 ago
  Oh god, I am grown man who did not know the difference between these movies.
  - lostgame 4y ago
    lol, 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.
    - tialaramex 4y ago
      They may well just mean that making these sorts of mistakes feels worse when you're an adult. When children don't know the difference between a goose and a duck, or between N Sync and the Beatles, we don't think much of it, whereas suddenly as an adult this seems like a big deal. I used to get Al Pacino and Robert De Niro muddled up, like badly enough that it made it difficult to follow Heat (which features both actors in major roles)! No, they don't look alike, I don't know why I couldn't keep that straight. Whereas I had no problem distinguishing the real Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) in the Phantom Menace while apparently that plot point caught out other people I watched it with the first time - shrug.
    - xattt 4y ago
      My embarrassment comes from speaking with a cocky degree of self-confidence on a topic with only loose familiarity, in spite of life experience.
      - smcl 4y ago
        We have all been there

NexRebular 4y ago

I remember it was possible to import your own maps in the demo... by just copying your own city over the demo one.

efreak 4y ago

I preferred the flying toasters. I'm upset there's no classic flying toasters screensaver that uses the original graphics/style (the original had bagels, jumping toasters, and other animations), but not enough to make one myself.