#Simcity 2000 music series#
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With better storage space and quality of speakers (rather than the tinny internal speaker), composers are not embarrassed to have their music played as part of a game. With larger budgets, and the demands from consumers, game producers now go out and commission new and original music for their games. People want the entire experience of the game now - the graphics, and the music. Historically, the most consuming space was high quality sound - though with mp3s this has been drastically shrunk. With this added space the quality of the graphics has increased and often the game (though this is not always the case). Games are no longer confined to a single unit of media and often span several CDs or DVDs. 100 kilobytes is one tenth of a megabyte, which is about one five-hundredth of what fits on a CD, or even smaller fraction of a DVD. In today's day and age of computer games 144 kilobytes is nothing - or close to it. The graphics where simple, they had to be to fit on a 144k floppy disk. Even then, this went to programmers - the game was the most important thing. Games were produced on budgets that were maybe a thousand or two thousand dollars - sometimes more with the big name production houses. More often than not it was just a single simple tone or melody (I can still hear the 'da da da duh da da' of Lemon-aid for the Apple ][+ from the start of a new day). The Sims is of course far, far worse than all of the games mentioned here.īack in the day, music was at best four channel square waves sent through the internal speaker on the computer - at best. Transport Tycoon and (if you like) Rollercoaster Tycoon are better than both of them. In summary then, SimCity 2000 is better than SimCity 3000 in gameplay terms. Because there are no new gameplay elements added to what is essentially a decade-old and fairly novelty-based idea, it becomes a chore to play very quickly. Sadly, as with all post- SimCity 2000 Maxis games, SC3K suffers from an over-complicated, unintuitive and unresponsive interface and fairly mediocre production values. A few new features were added, including waste management and real-life landmark buildings. Instead, the 2D graphics were improved substantially from the previous version ( SimCity 2000). The game suffered an extremely protracted development period, where it was initially reported that the graphics were to be represented in polygonal 3D instead of isometric sprites.

#Simcity 2000 music series#

But for a “tinkering around” game, Sim City 2000 was a joy even if I was terrible at it.The last (as of this writing) installment in the SimCity series of construction sims by Maxis. This happened so often I kind of assumed I’d be that in real life when I grew up, too.

I go broke so quickly and end up being a slum lord. While I love sims, I’ve always been horrible at the Sim City games. Of course, we’d always end sessions by triggering disasters, but who didn’t? And the opportunity to shape and fashion your own city was equally fascinating. The colorful and detailed graphics - for the time - made this an irresistible bit of eye candy. I never really did much in the way of engaging with the original Sim City, but 2000? That was a phenomenon.

I think a whole lot of us were pretty wrapped up in it, and since it had marginal educational value, the school gave a blind eye to our obsession. Thus, I spent many short play sessions that year diving into Maxis’ latest metropolitan simulator.

#Simcity 2000 music free#

When I asked him if I could take a look, he gave me carte blanche to come in during my free period any time I wanted. I had a neighbor across the street that’d let me use his machine to play all of the flight sims, for example.ĭuring my sophomore year, I’d heard that our chemistry teacher had a computer with Sim City 2000 on it. A lot of my memories of high school were wrapped up in finding people with better computers than I had and playing games on them.