Random Encounter - SimCity 2000

lol, the fire destroyed his city.

I want more episodes of escape from mount stupid!!!!! make it happend

aaah so many memories... i remember writing a guide for this game i loved it so much

Heh danny is my age, thought he was older

Woe to the republic... :(

Major portion of my computer gaming childhood right here.

Those rioters don't **** around!

I totally lived in a village with a derelict mental hospital and an old watertower too

simcity this week can not be that random lol.

Very appropriate ';,,;'

Danny, you sure suck at SC2000, but it mostly made up to a funny video! =D

These have quickly become my favourite part of gamespot, keep the random encounters up!

wish i could get dosbox to work but my brain just explodes trying to figure it out...

To put out the fire you need to dispatch the fire truck manually by clicking on the red light on the top right corner of the menu and clicking next to the fire

Danny, I keep meaning to ask, what is the song you use as the intro for Random Encounter?

The bit where the city is burning, and you say the music didn't fit... I disagree.. and think the music was infact perfect in an artistic manner! We just needed "Foot Patrol" (jazz dancers) doing their "tang" to really make it the perfect scene! ;P

The REAL Simcity- Simcity 2000. Damn right it was. So many memories- and that music! how great was the timelapse midi loop in this video! I'd forgotten some of the little things. There's always a neigbouring city called Tent Pegs isn't there!

By the way, they totally did SimCity 2000 today just so they'd have footage for the upcoming Simcity Feedbackula... you all know it's true!

I don't know if we get older and today's game seems "dumb" or if the oldies were really much more fun to play.

Actually, the electricity sound _was_ made by a dude with his mouth. They recorded it during development and later recorded a real sound discharge, but the first version sounded cooler and they kept it in.

meh Caesar 3 is the best city builder game I ever played, and is still is.

I use to play this game when it first came out and love it. The music sure help bring back a few memories.

Sim city, from maxis and From bullfrog Sim Theme park, Theme hospital Populous such Great games by that time.

Haha I remember playing this in the computer lab in elementary school. Good times...

Transport Tycoon, o the fun i had with that game !

You need to do "Sim Tower", that game was amazingly fun in building sky scrappers. I remember being able to track and name an individual before even the days of Theme Park Tycoon. Maxis had a lot of good simulation games before they were bought out by EA (much like the fate of westwood studios). I even have a working copy of Sim Farm which runs under Windows 3.1, which laid the foundation for all those crappy Facebook farm simulators.

Maxis was initiative too, as Sim Copter allowed you to fly around in cities that you built in Sim City 2000.

Twisted Metal Black...... Once again a brilliant video please do Twisted metal Black you will have so much fun with it

This game formed the foundation of my childhood gaming back on my Windows 95 PC. I spent so many hours playing this and building cities of amazing complexity - no that's a lie. I actually would design the map to be completely flat and have a waterfall mountain along the edge so I could have enormous amounts of cheap and clean hydroelectric energy. I also would build a grid city spanning the whole map. It wasn't exactly aesthetically pleasing but damn it was efficient.

Back in 1996 I used to play Sim City and Pizza Tycoon. It's strange to look at it now because it reminds me of the old Microsoft Paint : /

Mr. O'Dwyer, first off great video, any game from gog would be a blast to see you tear through. But I would like to request Future Cop LAPD... This game occupied countless hours of my childhood, fantastic level design, soundtrack, and an arcade base assault mode that is hard to stop playing. Sky Captain is a scoundrel, you'll find out....

Loving all the videos. You should do Heart of Darkness on the PSone. Havent seen that game for years!!

Ah the good old days... where you dont need to be connected to the internet to play Sim City!!! Get it, EA!!! Anyways, it has been a long time since I have seen and played Sim City 2000. Thanks for the sweet reminder, Danny!!!

What's the difference between Sim City 2000 and EAs Sim City? Sim City 2000 actually works.

I remember I played this game back in the early 2000's. Never did play any of the other SimCity games.

Please do Blade of Darkness.

still have this game somewhere :D

Simcity saga ended in Simcity 4...

Sim City advanced from 1989 to 1993 more than 1993 to 2013. Oh jeez..

Now that the newest title got a 5.0.... which I was planning on buying, because it looked pretty cool; I'm pretty sad.
It looked cool in the interview shows and previews.. but, now I need to return to my childhood -_-

Anyway - Danny, thanks for the nostalgia!

nice choice - classic game

I always lose my patience when playing Sim City though. The game always seems to want you to fail.

Even the premade cities had failing economy. I mean sure they had it nice when you loaded the map but the economy was never sustainable.

It's fun building the city but that feeling that you'll never get it right so it can run almost autonomously.

I just never could get any city to prosper but maybe I didn't try hard enough. Usually I just played a couple of hours then quit.

Great game anyway. Nice and funny presentation as always.

&Don't go to Bob's house. There's been a shootout.

For your next game how about one of those 90's or 00's flight sims. There were dozens of them. Some more arcady and some a little more serious.

Gunship 2000

Red Baron

Aces of the Pacific

Their Finest Hour

B-17 Flying Fortress

Rise of Flight

Crimson Skies

IL-2 Sturmovik

CLIVE BARKERS UNDYING!!!!! DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did they change the music for the special edition? I don't recognize most of it...

Nice, I remember playing this game a little bit at my friends house (on his awesome PC!) when I was younger. Only other SimCity I've played is the original (or a remake of the original?) on SNES, ah that takes me back! Nothing better than constantly losing your saved data because the cartridge can't handle all the info! (except using the infinite money cheat so you can rebuild quickly!)

As I remember it you know you have done well once you start getting the bio-domes etc...

Classic game does any one remember MDK? -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDK_(video_game)

Weird looking alien-esk flying man thing and a dog sidekick named Max, what more do you need!

Danny, can you PLEASE do S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl? It's like one of the most atmospheric games ever made!

Nice I was just thinking about simcity 2000 last night

yay random encounter!