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Sim City

Platform: Super NES Year: 1991 Developer: Intelligent Systems Buy: Amazon

In Sim City, you play the mayor of a newly formed village. Your objective is to skillfully plan the layout of your village to entice more people to dwell there. As your population increases, your quaint village becomes a town, then a city, and so on. There are many factors you'll have to juggle as mayor. For example, good transportation and a properly maintained police force will benefit your growth, while pollution and urban sprawl will have a negative impact. You get to zone areas as residential, commercial, or industrial, while also setting up police and fire coverage, erecting stadiums, building power plants, etc. The game also comes with several scenarios of cities, like Tokyo, Bern, and Detroit. The cities have major problems which you must rectify in order to unlock more scenarios. When you get bored, you can cause disasters like floods, tornadoes, and monster attacks in order to see how your citizens react.

Sim City for the SNES is a port from the original DOS game. While ported games tend to be poorly developed, Nintendo went to great lengths to ensure that this port would be a success. Improvements were made to the graphics, music, and overall enjoyment of the game. They even successfully converted the mouse interface to a game pad.

Screenshots

Music

The music of Sim City is a perfect example of how a game's mood is influenced by its music. As you increase the size of your city, the music keeps pace by becoming more mechanized and technological. The village tune is soothing and slow, while the town and city tunes increase in tempo and complexity. Once you reach the metropolis you can really feel the rapid pace of your bustling city.

Other tunes are wonderfully fitting as well. Bad news carries with it an urgent mood, while good news is uplifting, and the title music is very memorable to any fan of the game.

The whole of the game is pulled together with a uniform sound. Certain instruments, like the xylophone, appear in most of the tracks, allowing everything to come together.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Size	Listen
01	Opening	Soyo Oka	Unknown	0:56	867 KB
02	Selection	Soyo Oka	Unknown	0:51	632 KB
03	Village	Soyo Oka	Unknown	1:19	995 KB
04	Town	Soyo Oka	Unknown	1:42	1.2 MB
05	City	Soyo Oka	Unknown	1:47	1.6 MB
06	Capital	Soyo Oka	Unknown	2:03	1.8 MB
07	Metropolis	Soyo Oka	Unknown	1:52	1.3 MB
08	Megalopolis	Soyo Oka	Unknown	2:37	1.9 MB
09	Bad Evaluation	Soyo Oka	Unknown	0:51	629 KB
10	Good Evaluation	Soyo Oka	Unknown	0:40	513 KB
11	Information	Soyo Oka	Unknown	1:12	881 KB
12	Growth	Soyo Oka	Unknown	0:31	357 KB
13	Disaster	Soyo Oka	Unknown	0:48	588 KB
14	Budget	Soyo Oka	Unknown	1:15	971 KB
15	Congratulations	Soyo Oka	Unknown	0:10	104 KB
16	Congratulations On Megalopolis	Soyo Oka	Unknown	0:25	378 KB
17	You're Fired!	Soyo Oka	Unknown	0:10	99 KB
18	Ending	Soyo Oka	Unknown	1:06	630 KB

Credits

• Rippers: King Aleste, CaitSith2, Osaka, nensondubois, Datschge
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Soyo Oka

Albums

Game Rip

The SPC logs were recorded during actual game play. Some of the titles come from official albums, others correspond to what is happening in the game when they're played. There are a number of sound effects included in the rip.

There are a number of fanfares in the game that are play at the beginning of shared music. These fanfares have been removed so as to not repeat the same song several times in the recording. The fanfares should be isolated and recorded separately.

Releases

Japan Title: シムシティ (Sim City) Platform: Super Famicom Released: 1991-04-26 Publisher: Nintendo Co., Ltd.     USA Title: Sim City Platform: Super NES Released: 1991-08-01 Publisher: Nintendo of America, Inc.     France Title: Sim City Platform: Super NES Released: 1992-09-24 Publisher: Nintendo of Europe GmbH     Germany Title: Sim City Platform: Super NES Released: 1992-09-24 Publisher: Nintendo of Europe GmbH     Netherlands Title: Sim City Platform: Super NES Released: 1992-09-24 Publisher: Nintendo of Europe GmbH     Italy Title: Sim City Platform: Super NES Released: 1992-09-24 Publisher: Linea GIG, S.p.A.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/snes/simcity - Moby Games.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_City - Wikipedia.