Brief Retrospective of Sim-ness (SimEarth and SimAnt)

[major_kerina]

Not gonna talk about the new PC game from Will Wright, rather I'm gonna take a video look back at the Sim games that really stuck in my thoughts as being amazing...




SimEarth

Shame there isn't a better video of the game itself. But you can see here, there a lot of graphs and things to track with making your biosphere hospitable to life. I loved how it managed to allow you (with the right work) to make squids into a sentient species. @_@ Hold that calamari! The technological effects of each process of development was incredible and engaging and most of my species wound up blasting the planet with their "see ya!" rocket launches or nuking each other to heck. Either way, the game consumed my childhood and imagination. You can control f-ing continental drift! How cool is that?!? It is the ultimate fun/geeky game. From a time where Software Etc. actually existed and they had more than some "SpongeBob Squarepants Teaches Typing" game so far as PC software. I could rant on about the downfall of the really awesome "learning" games and software but I'll leave it at that.



SimAnt

*memories coming back* Omg @_@. The sounds are even more disturbing than I remember. I loved how your ant gets reborn and I especially loved driving the humans out of the house. Seeing how far you could conquer and especially when you managed to get enough together to take down the spider. Ahhh...so satisfying. For the colony! *grins* Beating back the red ants, despite insurmountable odds...I actually imagined that the swarm was converting so it was kinda...proto-zappy feeling.

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[eirienlisandrie.livejournal.com]

Last versions they made were for Windows 95 and OS 8/9, so running it on a modern system, the Windows 95 one might be easier, especially given that I'm pretty sure WINE runs it splendidly. they're all the same underlying code, if I recall correcttly thoug.h.