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SimCity Classic online - serious Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Sep 19th 2007 at 2:00PM
Unfortunately, it looks like this has been up for a really long time, as evidenced by the following error you are greeted with if you visit the site with a Firefox browser:
SimCity Classic Live requires Windows 95/98 or Windows NT with either
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher
or
Netscape Communcator/Navigator 4.0 or higher.
So your choices for popular modern browsers boil down to IE, and well, that's it. Oh, and the other big downside is that to play the game, you have to register giving a username, your first and last name, and a valid email address. And you have to consent to some legal mumbo-jumbo that we didn't read... you should probably read it and let us know if we owe Maxis our first born.
Game play is just as you remembered it - classic and bare-bones, but in full color glory. And it's still really hard.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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sodapop said 4:03AM on 9-26-2007
OK - I cant get the damn thing to play. I am so disappointed. WIN IE XP running on Parallels on Mac...
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carl said 4:17PM on 9-19-2007
10MinuteMail.com to the rescue for a quick disposable email address...
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SteveM said 5:20PM on 9-19-2007
You can also get the real thing here (appears to be legit; I don't think Maxis cares anymore). Unlike the online version, this one gives you reports that help decide policies.
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SteveM said 5:21PM on 9-19-2007
Er, here:
http://www.abandonia.com/games/393/SimCity_Classic.htm
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Sn3ipen said 12:56AM on 9-21-2007
It is working great in Opera 9. All you have to do is setup Opera to be identified as Internet Explorer. Three mouseclicks or so:)
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Jake said 2:25AM on 9-21-2007
http://lincity.sourceforge.net/
For Linux users. :D
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