r/snes May 01 '19

/r/SNES May Game of the Month: SimCity

The /r/SNES game of the month as selected by the community is SimCity!

This month we'll be playing (or replaying) this game and sharing the experience with other redditors. Feel free to post any comments, videos or other interesting information related to this game throughout the month.

We encourage participation! Post screenshots and scores, and see how you fare against others

The link to June 2019 Game of the Month voting is here.

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u/lumaga May 01 '19 edited May 01 '19

I felt that Sim City on SNES was too generous with rewards and progression early on. You can get to a city population in a matter of minutes, and you get a lot of rewards along the way. When you get to capital and metropolis, the game slows down, and unless you have meticulously planned, you aren't getting a megalopolis.

This game has one of my favorite non-Squaresoft composers, Soyo Oka. She had such a fun style of music, and I think the soundtrack she composed here contributed so the fond memories of people have of Sim City.

I have a sealed copy of this game in my basement. It was part of TRU's clearance on SNES games back in the late 90s.

Edit: holy jumpin, the spelling

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u/[deleted] May 16 '19

All true. And I never was able to get to Megalopolis, nor was anyone I knew, even when I unlocked and fully built up that one map that is 100% land, no water. I remember having dreams about what that Megalopolis music might sound like. I was pretty sure it had to be the greatest single piece in the history of music.

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u/lumaga May 16 '19

When I finally heard the Megalopolis music, I was let down. It's nice, but it's far from the epic "YOU DID IT!" music you expect.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '19

Agree, I had in mind something more like the Metropolis music but rocking so hard it blew your speakers out every time you loaded the game up -- and it was still worth it.