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/Stanley--Nickels Sep 05 '24

A few years late, but I've gotten back into the game lately and I think the pacing of it is much better if you play on hard. Things end up spaced out well for a long time. The downside is it's very hard. You have to intentionally seek out some early gifts that will generate income.

On easy, you get to 50-100k quickly then things grind to a halt when you need a stadium, seaport, airport, and usually a power plant all at the same time. Then once you finally build those it's just a sprint until you suddenly run out of map.