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3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Retro gamming is not for everyone. I like to play old games, well, because I just have a problem with nostalgia. If you your not worried about graphics and you want to explore the early years of the "SIMS" universe, then it would not hurt to drop a couple of bucks for this pack of games.

Be warned, I could not get all of the games to run on my system, which is still 6 months away from not being modern anymore. But since the price was reasonable I still felt it was worth the three games I was able to run.

The original Sim City is just stupid fun. It's so easy to build a quick city and it's still easy to fail. This is a no frills, time killing game.

Sim Copter was by far my favorite. Talk about a game that had so much potential, but it still turned out to be fun to play. Maxis should have gone out of house on this one, like to MICROPROSE (while they lasted). The people inhabiting the cities are like the original "Sims" and funny to hear where I think the simesse language came from considering what's it's evolved to today.

Sim Tower was a dirty little pleasure. Who thought that building and office tower with apartments, restaurants, movie theaters, etc. could be soo much fun?!

Sim Island, just throw it away when you open the box.

Like I said, the game only costs a few bucks so why not give it a try. Worst case is you loose a few dollars from what you paid when you sell to the pawn shop.

4/5 only because the others are not SO great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought simcity classic and simtower where to great games its actually kind of weird to get them for $20 plus 4 other games i have never played before. For Simtower Simcity i could of easly spent $30 on um' Simcity=the greatest game made where you have controll of eveything Simtower=simcity GREAT The others i have never played

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: May 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is for you is you have alot of time. You will get addicted to everyone of the games! Buy this game it is cool!

Don't even think about buying this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: October 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I saw the price for all those game I instantly bought it. Going home I went through each and every one of the games, only to find that they were as boring as watching a dead goldfish float.
I highly suggest you don't waste any of your money on any of these games. IF you've never played any other computer games and aren't expecting anything then I'm sure you'd find them all entertaining. . .maybe.
But after playing Fallout, Baldurs Gate, and Diablo seeing these measly, boring games that I had just spent my money on was not a pretty sight.
What I suggest to everyone is to go out and get Simcity 3000, because it's obvious that if you're checking these out you like Simulations and that one is one of the best out there.

This just proves time marches over the older classics

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this collection directly from the EA online store. Whle all of these might have been really great when they came out (although I know that even then many of them were judged overwhelmingly not to be), time and our resulting expectations, as game upgrading marches on, have ground these into the dust of gaming history. Where they might have been fun once, now they are tedious and disappointing. The exception, of course, is SimCity, which makes it through the limitations of its obviously archaic, extremely simplistic graphics with, nevertheless, still entertaining game-play.

However, overall, we must accept that some things we loved in the past aren't capable of matching our current game-play expectations. These Sim classics are some of those, and are best left back there in the past to be remembered fondly... unless you just want some antiques you'll never use around to give your PC software library "substance".

Better to buy them seprately

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: December 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'll give you a short rundown on the games:

Sim City- crap. It sucks and the music gets on your nerves. Get 3000 it's nuff. 0/5

Sim Tower- Good, one of my faves but really hard. 4/5

Sim Isle. Crap. It doesn't come with an instruction manual and you can't work it out yourself. 0/5

Sim Safari- Babyish spings to minds. 0.5/5

Streets of Sim City- Now this, is awesome, nuff, excellent, I can't say enough good words about it. Most Sim sequels to Sim City are unmercifully easy, but this one you need a working brain and good reflexes. You also need to- and this is important- USE YOUR EYES and READ WHAT EACH LEVEL TALKS ABOUT. You can be a lot of different people in this CD. You can be a car racer, You can be an advisor to a mad Granny and aliens, you can be a delivery person, and you can be a secret agent against enemy police. My sisters didn't know all this so they didn't understand it all, but I did. Trust me, read this, and you can't go wrong. 5/5. I'd give it a lot more if I could.

Sim Copter- Well, I couldn't play it by keyboard because I couldn't get into the helicopter, and I couldn't play it by joystick because the person kept moving in circles. 1.5/5. So, an average of

Consider alot before buying this item.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: November 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It says that it is a great product but it's not really. It's not as good as it seems. Most of the games are boring except for Sim Safari. You may just want to consider buying Sim Safari alone if that's what you want. None of the other games are fun at all! Beleive me I've played them!

Keep Sim Copter & trash the rest

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: March 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sim City- eh, an ok game,, pretty boring though, same thing happens every time.. you build your city, citizens demand that taxes should be lowered, a big fire, etc... zzz....

Sim Tower- this game is KINDA fun but again, just kind of monotnous. This is kind of the reason why I don't like a lot of "Sim" games

Sim Isle- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........

Sim Safari: a boring, stupid, corny, fruity, kiddie game

Streets of Sim City- zzzz,, I get bored with racing games very quickly

Sim Copter- Now THIS game is FUN!!!!! Look for my seperate review on this first.

Bottom line: dont waste the $, just buy Sim Copter seperate- it's the only fun Sim game (with the slight exception of Sim City 2000, and Sim Tower is midly allright)

SUCCERS!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The only good game in this is Sim Safari! The other games didn't work on my DELL Laptop, or I couldn't get the whole point. And even Sim Safari can sometimes get too challenging, for it's so hard to eliminate locusts, fires, and drought. Even playing this game at its least challenging is quite difficult. Unlike in Zoo Tycoon, everybody wants to see buffalo, elephants, leopards, lions, and rhinos. In the scenarios, you start with too little money, so as soon as you spend over half your budget on an amphitheatre your in trouble! No, just get the civ, galactic civ, alpha centauri, and tycoon series.

Booorrrring!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: February 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Aside from some short-lived fun with SimSafari, which would be great for kids, by the way, the rest is pointless. SimIsle is unplayable. I did not enjoy this pack at all and feel like I wasted good money that I could've spent on one single better, more challenging game.

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