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easy/addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

very, very addictive, kind of reminds me of jezzball and fishy from ebaumsworld. i would say that a twenty dollar game that you can easy spend several hours playing is a good investment.

farmer at heart

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: December 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Patience and more patience is what it takes to see the success of crop rotation, growth, production, harvesting, marketing, and selling, but on Sim Farm you can accelerate your crops and make a boom market or a C grade wash out. This interactive game lets you design, build, and produce marketable goods in a rustic acre. Not only are there over 20 crops to select, but also quite a number of livestock. The fun is that you learn what you need to grow a bumper crop- weather, chemicals, land, machinery, and labor. If you make the right combinations then you can pay your bills, loans, and buy more acres to design a bigger farm. The fun is in how hard you work to create a dream farm. Though I have never lived in the country or on a farm, this is exactly the hard work that must be done in real life to make things happen. Its fun for children in that it helps them learn about plants, earth, livestock, capital gains, loans, and machinery. For older folks its just fun to make a fortune building and amassing a nice farm and organizing it. Like all the other Sims games the reward or prize is just making up different scenarios and increasing your knowledge of how to make thing work. It can be extremely addicting but its incredibly fun.

Good Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Good game, nice way to kill an evening. Tip: plant oranges, they only need to be planted once, and after a couple years they don't normaly need sprayed. If you use the cropduster, the end key makes it land.

Kiwi perspective

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: June 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yes sheep really ARE that stupid! not a bad game in its day, Having grown up on a farm i can relate to it better as well, very addictive game like the other sims & dont give up on the crop duster it is easy when you know how to land it! (with a bit of trial & error I might add!)

I reckon this here game's only for hillbillies

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 75
Date: February 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

phh, what an insult to PC gaming.... the only people who would enjoy something like THIS are hicks out in the sticks of Montana or South Dakota

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE graphics(I know the game was made in the early 90s,, but there were games out then that had better graphics than THIS!), and well, the animals claim that they "cant reach the food" when it's right next to them! and then eventually they break out of their pen and eat your crops, or just wander off till they die...

also, the spray plane is 6 thousand bucks,,, and you can't even land it.... and it keeps saying that your crops need to be sprayed cause of bugs and then when you spray them they get toxicated... yep.... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ....

like I said, only buy this game if you live in the following states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Alabamba, or West Virginia

A little confusing and somewhat silly

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My friend lent me this game knowing that I have an interest in--but almost no practical knowledge of--farming, and I was totally overjoyed that such a game exists. But I'm the type of person who prefers to sit down and just start playing the game. For some reason, however, I just can't figure it out. Besides that, the game is obviously intended to be "simple fun" kind of entertainment. I'd prefer something more technical where a person can try their luck at really managing a farm. I'm not a big computer game person, so if such a game exists, I really don't know; but my guess is that I'm one of very few people who would like to play such a game, and therefore doesn't.

Same old same old

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: April 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game in the beginning is extremely fun and addicting. After a few days, however, you realize that you spend all of your time spraying the fields. Buying livestock is pretty fun, but the animals are stupid (the food is right in front of them and they "can't reach" it) and break out of their fences and destroy your crops. Everytime I buy livestock I regret it (except sheep are good; they don't eat a lot and they reproduce very often). You can plant a lot of different crops, which is neat, but they all go through basically the same thing: plant, spray, spray, spray, spray, spray, harvest. The cycle repeats continuously until you get sick of it.

In other words, it's fun, but it's a once every few months type game.

Hints: Don't ever bet on your cousin to win the rodeo, he ALWAYS loses. Your cow wins at the state fair more often than not. Crop dusters are a major waste of money (they would appear to make the constant cycle of spraying the fields easier, but there's no way to land, so it's a wasted $6,000). Always buy barns for your animals and sheds for your machinery; it extends the life and saves you money in the long run. Invest in futures when the markets are high; don't settle for a lower price for your crops than you can get. Buy seed... it's cheaper to buy your own seed and store it in the shed than to let the program "auto-buy" it.

Lots of fun but a bit boring at times.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: August 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When you are harvesting, fighting insects or disease, or going to the fair, this game is fun. The graphics are good and I'm glad its all in aeral view. You aren't trapped on the farm either, you can vote in the nearby city, attend the fair and earn or lose prizes, and buy more land. The only real complaint is that the animals can be amazingly stupid -- refusing to eat when the food is right in front of them for example (growing up a block from a farm I know that animals are not this foolish).

A Classic Sim game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Sim Farm is a great simulation for people who love to buy, sell, manage, and predict outcomes. In this game, you are in charge of a agricultural plantation, growing crops, raising livestock, playing the market, and developing the land. You have to watch the weather carefully. And, like all the famous sim games, it has the exciting disasters. For this game's day, the graphics are good. Right now, though, they aren't top of the line.
I definetly recommend SimFarm for everyone who enjoys a good, classic game.

Ehhh...Okay

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: August 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Right after SimFarm came out, my brother and I loved it. It's probably better for younger kids. It takes a few days to figure out, but then it's okay, except for the crop duster. Don't get one of those. Sure it can be exciting at times, (i.e. when your sheep all break out of the pen and are sitting in the middle of whatever they can find, or when all your crops go bad at once) but I would recommend starting a new farm whenever it gets boring, or putting in new plants, speeding it up a little, or using a disaster scenario.

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