LGR - SimCity on the BBC Micro - First Impressions
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Date: 2022-04-14
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janmansde3dede
I personally find the SNES port disgusting, did Nintendo REALLY had to slap all kinds of Mario/SNES characters and logos in! (the snes printer, bowser, the mario statue, like it was owned by them, I've wouldn't found it much of a deal if it been made by maxis but it isn't, and the manga/anime style is (personally again) a very bad choice.
But on another subject! if you're crazy there is a Amiga 500 CD reader on ebay,
Buy that and wait for the CDTV version of sim city to appear: P
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I personally find the SNES port disgusting, did Nintendo REALLY had to slap all kinds of Mario/SNES characters and logos in! (the snes printer, bowser, the mario statue, like it was owned by them, I've wouldn't found it much of a deal if it been made by maxis but it isn't, and the manga/anime style is (personally again) a very bad choice.
But on another subject! if you're crazy there is a Amiga 500 CD reader on ebay,
Buy that and wait for the CDTV version of sim city to appear: P
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farcher3
-phreakindee I've searched your playlist. Its awesome but I wanted to make sure that you hadn't pulled a BBC computer vid you'd made down for space or something. I was surprised that you would do a vid about a game for the BBC and not a vid for the BBC itself 'cause that computer in working condition is a good get and I thought you make an awesome vid about it first. But that's cool I'll wait. Your vids are sooooo awesome and you're a great guide to computer history!
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-phreakindee I've searched your playlist. Its awesome but I wanted to make sure that you hadn't pulled a BBC computer vid you'd made down for space or something. I was surprised that you would do a vid about a game for the BBC and not a vid for the BBC itself 'cause that computer in working condition is a good get and I thought you make an awesome vid about it first. But that's cool I'll wait. Your vids are sooooo awesome and you're a great guide to computer history!
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Jennyverse
I remember getting this for my birthday when I was a kid - a friend of mine had SimCity on a black and white Mackintosh Classic and was less than impressed. But when you think about having to do something like this on a BBC Micro. seeing those sites develop. nothing being green. running out of money very, very quickly. you've really brought some memories back!
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I remember getting this for my birthday when I was a kid - a friend of mine had SimCity on a black and white Mackintosh Classic and was less than impressed. But when you think about having to do something like this on a BBC Micro. seeing those sites develop. nothing being green. running out of money very, very quickly. you've really brought some memories back!
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Dylan
I dont like the color red for grass very much know its a hardware limitation with what ever color pallet it has to use, but still, would be nice if that was at least green. or are you suppose to be a super advance marson civilization that just discovered nuclear power and do to there constant monster attacks and devastating earth quakes it killed them off?
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I dont like the color red for grass very much know its a hardware limitation with what ever color pallet it has to use, but still, would be nice if that was at least green. or are you suppose to be a super advance marson civilization that just discovered nuclear power and do to there constant monster attacks and devastating earth quakes it killed them off?
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Sevrin
This was the first version of SimCity I ever played, my father was a broadcast engineer for the BBC and he rescued and fixed several BBC computers that were thrown in the skip at work. We had this game and a bumper selection of arcade games, including pacman, frogger, space invaders and galactica.
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This was the first version of SimCity I ever played, my father was a broadcast engineer for the BBC and he rescued and fixed several BBC computers that were thrown in the skip at work. We had this game and a bumper selection of arcade games, including pacman, frogger, space invaders and galactica.
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TangoBunny
I really love these reviews of games on old somewhat-forgotten computers. Since consoles took the lead, it's rare to see people talking about BBC Micros, ZX Spectrums, Acorns, Amstrads, Tandys, and so on!
I'd love for you to do more reviews of games on these kinds of systems!
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I really love these reviews of games on old somewhat-forgotten computers. Since consoles took the lead, it's rare to see people talking about BBC Micros, ZX Spectrums, Acorns, Amstrads, Tandys, and so on!
I'd love for you to do more reviews of games on these kinds of systems!
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8BitPicklez
-andruha11234 Hehe, I Love SEGA and Nintendo as much as most the kids growing up in the 80's, but with nothing home computing just getting popular I must say these games were the awesome! Sim City looks boring but it grabs you in like an adictive MMORPG game. :3
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-andruha11234 Hehe, I Love SEGA and Nintendo as much as most the kids growing up in the 80's, but with nothing home computing just getting popular I must say these games were the awesome! Sim City looks boring but it grabs you in like an adictive MMORPG game. :3
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Singular8ty
Is SimNation on Mars in this version? Everything seems. red. Also, the map is not a monster, it's the British Isles.
So now you know, the British Isles are from Mars. (They are the real Martians! At least according to SimCity on the BBC Micro)
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Is SimNation on Mars in this version? Everything seems. red. Also, the map is not a monster, it's the British Isles.
So now you know, the British Isles are from Mars. (They are the real Martians! At least according to SimCity on the BBC Micro)
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lazygamereviews
Oh my gosh, I have just figured out that the BBC micro was what I used to love playing on in school! We had this awesome maze game on it that I was addicted to playing in Primary 1! Thank you LGR, for brining back that awesome memory.
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Oh my gosh, I have just figured out that the BBC micro was what I used to love playing on in school! We had this awesome maze game on it that I was addicted to playing in Primary 1! Thank you LGR, for brining back that awesome memory.
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LGR
-UKRetroGames Ah, got confused since the floppy disk is labeled as having a Side A and Side B (40 track and 80 track sides. I'll have to give it another go knowing this!
That TurboMMC has certainly been useful many, many times now!
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-UKRetroGames Ah, got confused since the floppy disk is labeled as having a Side A and Side B (40 track and 80 track sides. I'll have to give it another go knowing this!
That TurboMMC has certainly been useful many, many times now!
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