SimCity 30 Years Later: A Retrospective

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LGR's Clint Basinger looks back at SimCity on its 30th anniversary, covering the game, its history and its legacy. It is a long-form retrospective in the style of the Lazy Game Reviews channel.

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@DonHopkins2022 · in “Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds”
Clint Basinger's Lazy Game Reviews always has excellent reviews of Maxis games. LGR - SimCopter - PC Game Review link LGR - Streets of SimCity - PC Game Review link The SimCity 2000 Retail Demo Disk for DOS link LGR - SimCity 2000 Network Edition - PC Game Review link LGR - SimCity Educational Version Unboxing & Overview link SimCity 30 Years Later: A Retrospective ▶ this video The Sims 1: An LGR Retrospective Review link
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@tosh2022 · in “SimCity 30 Years Later: A Retrospective”
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@myinnerbanjo2019 · in “SimCity 30 Years Later: A Retrospective [video]”
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@DonHopkins2019 · in “OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)”
Here's an unboxing video of the SimCity Classic "School Edition" Lab Pack, which includes the teacher's guide by Doreen Nelson and Michael Bremer: LGR - SimCity Educational Version Unboxing & Overview An overview of the "School Edition" Lab Pack of SimCity Classic by Maxis. Unboxing, first impressions of the package and testing of the radically rad software ensues. link LGR has done many other extensive reviews of SimCity, and here's his most recent retrospective: SimCity 30 Years Later: A Retrospective (Feb 1, 2019) ▶ this video
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@acoye2019 · in “Model Metropolis”
LGR just released a video retrospective on the subject, 30 years later. You can find it here : ▶ this video
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