SimCity 2000 - Soundtrack (Adlib)

[@JeromeIsTheMan]

YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!

[@VauxhaIIOpel]

why cant i

[@Superman20000]

If you ever touch the roads budget they Will never look good no matter if you Max the budget later

[@somemong989]

I remember ignoring this little buggers warning until roads started randomly exploding

[@smsteger89]

Lmao. Sounds familiar

[@raingaming8]

I remember as a kid putting 0% budget on roads then that guy comes out saying that. Roads started to degrade very quickly and i thought it was protesters or something deztroying the roads hahaha

[@anthonymenardmoquin9753]

Nowadays people doesn’t realize how cool it was back in the days to have a PC and being able to play SimCity 2000 with those graphics ! it was amazing even this little image right there with the logo SimCity 2000 that was so cool. Good old days !

[@arnvonsalzburg5033]

Back when 2000 sounded so far away and futuristic :)

[@catrionacolville2192]

To be fair, the sound on the pc was bad even for it's time, as it was competing with the custom sample chip from the Amiga.

[@audunskilbrei8279]

@@catrionacolville2192 Pc sound back in those days could range from the worst(PC-Speaker) to among the best(MT-32, Sound Canvas). Most people probably heard this Adlib/OPL-2 FM synthesis version.

[@gyppygirl2021]

Honestly, I still like the way the water looks in this game... then again, I do have a fondness for old graphics!

[@andywolan]

Not to mention the SVGA graphics.

[@gamrz8]

.. Reticulating Splines

[@throwaway9226]

NZZZT

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

Oh yeah baby, say it again

[@themissinfowar6629]

Pron “Cannt gett enuff!”

[@JuraIbis]

Taxes : 0% Newspaper : Taxes are too high

[@Fingolfin3423]

I used to play this game all of the time when I was younger in middle school mostly. I remember all of these tracks very well. During the final week of classes one year in high school, one of our teachers had us form small groups and have a Sim City 2000 competition. We had computers in that classroom. He graded based on all kinds of things, including the city budget. My two teammates just let me take over and we won the competition with ease. I think we got donuts as our reward. I was king for the day. That must have been back in the year 1999-2001 or something. I still listen to this music when I work at my computer sometimes.

[@seankendle8471]

Sounds like an amazing teacher!!

[@biboKralle]

BZZZT! BZZZT! BZZZT!!! (Placing powerlines here...) BZZZT....

[@jenpromojepoteseni2263]

biboKralle Lowering the taxes ,,YEEEEEEAAAY ! CLAP CLAP". Making the taxes higher: ,,BOOOOOOOOOOOO ! TOMATOES FLYING IN AIR" xD :D

[@stormdancer1910]

+Jen pro moje potěšení Thats real love.

[@Superman20000]

Bzzzzt... Bzzzzt...

[@rigel8755]

*stops placing power lines *"BZZZT" continues*

[@dennyfrontier]

Bless you lol

[@stormdancer1910]

I had to cry, when i heard the music. This was my first game, when I was 8 I played that all the day.

[@lgoisgois7335]

To me...simcity 2000 is still the best version of this game. A real classic.

[@DrewPan]

SimCity 4 was just so awesome for having different cities help each other though.

[@micolino83]

same here mate. keep on rockin

[@VeeTHis]

I'm sorry, but SimCity 4 is much better.

[@vindieu]

@@DrewPan I don't know, it puzzled me, I always collapsed and couldn't find prosperous success as I did in 2k and 3k. The auto street wiring was a bit messy. In terms of ambiance and soul it also didn't reach the godly status of 2000. I was younger and there is a first exposition bias, but 3000 was excellent and brought so much to the table. SC4 however lives me bitter; and worst still, the last version "sim city", I played 2 hours and that's it. It's not interesting and has lost many details and all engagement.

[@DrewPan]

@@vindieu I think the difference between 4 and it's predecessors is that 4 wasn't designed to build single cities. You had to juggle a nation of cities that help each other. A lot of cities don't have the land available to be totally self sufficient, so you'll have people going to find jobs in neighboring cities, or buying additional water or electricity from another town. I doubt I'm the only person who had a garbage city, whose sole purpose was to burn and recycle rubbish. All its income comes from being paid by other cities.

[@NishantGogna]

This was the soundtrack to my childhood

[@lulabecker]

I hear it as background sound to work from home

[@wysoft]

all these years later, a lot of these songs pop into my head for no reason. will be doing the dishes or changing a tire, etc. I remember them all in pretty good detail. the game got pretty tedious sometimes, the music & humor made up for it.

[@yourex-wife4259]

Duke Nukem 3Ds music does that to me

[@DS_IndustrieZ]

Dude

[@somniferum4603]

Maxis is one of the best bands of the 90s

[@StatickyCat]

I get it lol

[@ps3master72]

Especially once they scored Jerry Martin!

[@unmoldedOC]

absolutely based

[@nthgth]

@@ps3master72 THIS all day

[@Zombiepull]

the early work is fine but lacks Polish. but the 3th Album is FIRE

[@korpz2k3]

Sim copter 1, reporting heavy traffic.

[@lilacaggression8956]

I’m hit!

[@jmal]

@@lilacaggression8956 Mayday! Mayday!

[@skytg7739]

"Mayor, we've reached 120k, we can start to build Archologies!" "Wait, we need more power first!" "We're ok on power" "You never know. Build a Nuclear Power Plant!" "mh Mayor, the only space avaible is close to a School.." "Let's do it!"

[@RS250Squid]

4:45 !! Ahhh!!! So much happiness in one little tune!!! The budget's cleared, the treatment plant is working great, the people are happy, YAY!

[@noor-rx1ij]

This was always my favorite as well. :D

[@oldbrokenhands]

Thank you for re-reticulating my splines.

[@aleksanderbudzynowski3625]

If you listen carefully, you may spot that absolutely *every* song has a pentatonic-based melody. This basically means it can be played using only the black keys on a piano. If you have no piano skills, try these! This makes all the tracks feel like they "fit" together-but I imagine also made them much easier to compose! (Sometimes an extra note is added to the scale, there is an obvious one in Serious Sims.)

[@tackyman2011]

"I'M PROUD TO REPORT CRIME IS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW."

[@gasparmc]

Having a sound card back then was incredibly rare, having such a fine game with sound and midi music was the top of the line

[@MadameSomnambule]

Plus, most dos games in the early 90s, from what I’ve seen, tended to run on 320x200 in 256 colors as opposed to this game that ran in 640x480 in the same color depth. Can’t imagine that was too common outside of Windows 3.0 apps. And even in Windows, I’m not sure how common 256 color capable machines were up until the mid 90s.

[@gasparmc]

@@MadameSomnambule Many games had EGA graphics (16 color) but 256 VGA was available already, though it was pretty heavy for most home computers, at least the ones we had. after a taste of VGA, we never wanted EGA again

[@MoreisMor]

Thanks guys. I missed being without the DOS version music. This took me back. High five!

[@jfun_1955]

As a kid in the 90’s I was homeschooled and convinced my mom to let me play this game for social studies class.

[@StatickyCat]

Lol

[@themissinfowar6629]

Did you do social studies in one room, then get up and goto maths class in a different room of the house?

[@Supersquigi]

@@themissinfowar6629 wow you are hilarious... idiot ...

[@felipecesar2653]

3:52 man this is beautiful😢

[@Superman20000]

6:54 My city sucks and there is no water

[@DxDeksor]

+Superman21986 At least you still have electricity, I forgot to keep my money to build a new power plant and I have 3 years to recover 1500$ (I earn something like 300 a year) to buy a new one ... Or else it explodes

[@Superman20000]

hmmm bad place... octobot is needed.

[@JeromeIsTheMan]

well you know what they say, take another loan >:D

[@TerrorJesus]

Did you build Las Vegas? xD

[@DBPCINC]

No wonder it always played...

[@bmortloff]

Glad to hear people stressing over memories of Traffic Trouble.

[@noor-rx1ij]

I was always hoping for Harbor Hymn to come after that one, to smooth things out again.

[@SysLocal]

The neat thing about it being a midi soundtrack is that it sounds different on different soundcards! This version sounds alot simpler than what played in my game ;)

[@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520]

I need this soundtrack for when I study and do my assignments. I study Urban Planning essentially real life Sim City.

[@racer927]

I'm entered to Computer Hardware, Software and Game design, eligible for College Credit in my Adult Life Program but if I keep playing Cities: Skylines obsessively, I might just switch to Urban Planning classes.

[@nthgth]

Roll up your sleeves, mayor!

[@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520]

@@nthgth rolling up sleeves right now, working on a mini city in the real world.

[@nthgth]

@@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520 that's awesome. From what you said 6 years ago evolving into now -- that's really cool to see.

[@CaptainViral84]

been a SimCity fan since 1994 and will be for ever

[@TheKyleAye]

I always went fucking bankrupt within the first 10 minutes into the game lol

[@Fingolfin3423]

The game taught some practical lessons.

[@user-mz5wc4ch9o]

The soundtrack that just keeps giving

[@Variusak]

I miss this game and the hours I spent making cities and then loading them into SimCopter.

[@jenpromojepoteseni2263]

Variusak Why wont you download it again ? Did it fall to a black hole ? :D

[@Variusak]

Jen pro moje potěšení I actually did reinstall it for awhile. But I didn't go download it. I grabbed my original CD and loaded it into DOS box for the best nostalgia I could muster. It used to take so long to install, haha. It only took five minutes this time.

[@jenpromojepoteseni2263]

Variusak Actually as I propagated before, the Win 95 version is better :D. It has a resolution compatibility so you are without the black borders.

[@Variusak]

Oh, no problem at all. I love SC2000 in all forms both DOS and Win95. DOS is just what I grew up with. If I remember correctly, I had a 4x CD drive so it took forever and occasionally things would lag when it would switch audio tracks in game. I sort of wish I hadn't gotten rid of that PC. It would have been great for the other DOS games I had that have issues with the faster CPUs of today (like SimCopter).

[@jenpromojepoteseni2263]

Variusak Interesting :D. I know that nostalgia. I wasnt playing dosgames when I was a child. Just online games :D (I am the new generation :D). But about 3 years before I discovered the dosgames. I played them the most when I had a flash internet with a small capacity (about 10gb) so it was slow and I had to download only small things. I already discovered Dosbox and played DOS games at that time, but I with that slow internet I realized that there is a TON of fun in few MBs. That was awesome. I think i just remembered the Space commander now :D. And RED BARON for sure that was pure awesomnes. But thats not nostalgia. Thats present for me :D because I am still playing that as you can see. BUT I wanted to say that I have that nostalgia feeling when I am watching VHS cassetes. I dont know. Its crappy. The movies are awfully cut to 4:3. But its still so great to watch that crappy quality :D. That really reminds me my childhood.

[@kevincruz290]

3:00, this music definitely makes you think of nostalgia.

[@deonlemarks2126]

I just imagine the simcity rioters coming out of their buildings and dancing to the subway song.

[@Samsen_]

This brings back a lot of memories of watching my brother play this game for hours. I would take over occasionally.

[@jenpromojepoteseni2263]

***** Actually the game was G-R-E-A-T. But the newspapers were bad. You could do everything perfect...make a lots of bus depots, subway and rail stations, but the people will always say that the traffic and polluton suck and you suck :D. Depressive newspaper :D.

[@LizyNwobodo]

Probably kinda realistic ^^

[@maxeisenhardt8800]

3:01 The nostalgic one 4:45 Your city rocks 13:54 Budget adjustment time

[@seankendle8471]

You forgot: 8:08 - The funky one

[@conraad10]

How can you forget 2:03?!?!

[@nthgth]

@@conraad10 that one always reminded me of Huey Lewis!

[@TylerLarew]

I remember playing this as kid on the old Dell we had. Good times.

[@dinnertimemishap]

Dude you're getting a Dell

[@purpleheart3000]

Ahh... memories. I remember playing this on my grandpa's Mac and getting mad when I realized how hard it was to make a city successful :)

[@JimS6025]

hell i still dig my SC2k disk out from time to time...its the special edition and love it still, I got hooked back in 4th grade after finding it by accident with our "new" win 8 machine....

[@StatickyCat]

I love how vicious the beginning of SimCity Segue sounds, and then it gets all friendly lol

[@creepycomputer]

It was in the year 1997 that I discovered SimCity 2000. It was installed on our Windows 95 PC probably with diskettes. I had built lots of cities and learned much English words the game contained. Later our computer crashed and we lost this magnific game. But in 2002 I rediscovered Simcity 2000 and its successors 3000 and 4. All SimCity games till 4 are splendid. This Soundblaster 16 music is nostalgic. The isometric view of the SimCity games is also cool. I still have the original cd rom discs. Virtual Village is my favourite song. If the player is placing a park in his/her city this song is playing. Man, Maxis SimCity is monumental and nostalgic. I will never forget these games.

[@NotNotOminous]

Thanks for uploading this.

[@rigel8755]

I'm glad i played this... 20 years later...

[@effanineffable]

I still think this is the best version of SimCity 2000 music!! :) :) :)

[@B4rberblacksheep]

This was the first computer game my dad ever gave me :3

[@piccolo113]

Listening to this soundtrack and looking at that title screen.....Suddenly I'm in 6th Grade again. Waking up super early on the weekends to have extra time to play SimCity 2000 or Riven when my parents went to work.....Man, memories suck. Good or bad, you can never have those times back.

[@Usernameztaken]

I remember playing this on Nintendo as a kid. Loved this game so much.

[@StatickyCat]

Nintendo 64?

[@nthgth]

@@StatickyCat this wasn't on N64. He must have meant SNES.

[@DBPCINC]

Honestly, the most memorable thing in this game was the UFO and other disasters!

[@Smiae]

***** Did they take it out after 9/11. That'd be my first guess.

[@jenpromojepoteseni2263]

***** Well said. Anyway there were two games where you could drive in your city. I played only one Simdriver, Sim... I dont remember the name. But that game was bad. The only good thing was that you were in YOUR CITY ! WHOOO HOOO ! But the buildings were monotonic and in some cases a bit depressive :D. But still good fun for 15 minutes... to see your city in 3D :D. And in my honest opinion. The best disaster was a fire. Its a real challenge :D. How did you put out the fire ? I played SC2 yesterday when I had only 2 firemen. Well my city is really big but I had to cut out the half of the it by small water squares (as often... its the best option to put out the fire. Block it by water squares :D). So how do you do it ? :D

[@jenpromojepoteseni2263]

***** So do you like ticker or newspaper more ? :D Sorry I didnt understand that :D. Anyway as I wrote before as other reply, for me the news in SC 2000 are bad. You can do everything perfect, have low taxes, build lots of bus, rail and subway depots, build water treatments, but people will allways say that something (for example traffic) is bad. They are really rude :D. So to not get "sad" I turned it off :D. Anyway I am just going continue with playing SC2 WIN 95 version (with that great resolution) on a Mac using Win emulator :D. I am too lazy to find a link so find it yourself. "SIMCITY WIN 95 VERSION SPECIAL" or something like that. Its really worth it to play again :D.

[@DBPCINC]

That was my favorite thing in this game, along with the futuristic buldings

[@dubsy1026]

'tis streets of simcity and simcopter

[@Suralin0]

2:03 Takin' it to the street *bops head*

[@gavinsimmonsmccullum4219]

THIS is what I came here for. Thank you.

[@123darkbreeze]

Wow hearing Traffic Trouble brings back so many good memories.

[@Thegamingground]

Christ, I spent much of my teen years with this game. Lovely memories indeed =) I never grew tired of building cites really. But you know what, I never will ;)

[@Meekimotosyoutubechannel]

Thank you for making this!

[@forestkaat]

It was this version of the game that was a major breakthrough in graphics, music & those wacky scenarios.The landscaping options were amazing for back then. Then came SC 3000 & REALLY great music & options. SC4 became an addiction for so many it's many amazing features & the plug-ins, cheats & everything else sent in by creative game fans. Many missed the scenarios. With Societies, most of us went, "Huh - what's this supposed to be?" The new game? Changes are needed or this will fail, too.

[@ilmisteriosofranceseradene7548]

I used to be scared by the 14:10 music: FIRE!

[@shairuno]

haha me too!

[@tollboothjason]

Accompanied by KABOOM! KABOOM! KABOOM! "OH SHIT PAUSE PAUSE PAUSE!!"

[@jenpromojepoteseni2263]

***** As I said a bit higher. I was always putting out fires by cutting a part of my city by water squares :D because in the most of cases I had not enough of firemen. Actually it blocks the fire well :D. And then you just keep hearing KABOOM and watching how half of your city is isolated and doomed in turtle speed. And how did you put them out ? :D Did you use same way like me ? :D

[@maxeisenhardt8800]

"Bzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz..." The electric sound the spider-alien-monster made when it fired its heat beam.

[@van4195]

i just got here and ive never heard of this game before but i love this music

[@runonce]

Subway Song is THE song.

[@andresz1606]

Chinatown Concerto was a sort of "hidden" track, back in those days I could hear that track only once or twice, despite of endless hours playing this great game.

[@ChickenWrap]

I heard it all the time after newspapers.

[@DrewPan]

That was one of my favorite tracks! I always pause my playing for a bit to enjoy that track when it comes up.

[@mirkoweege]

When I played this game as a kid, I somehow found out that when I deactivate and then re-activate music, it usually starts playing a song, but when it stays silent and I open a newspaper afterwards it often starts playing one of the hidden songs (two other hidden tracks were Mayor Mombo and Bluesy Berg). I don't know if hiding the songs was a programming fault or actually intended by the programmers. Chinatown Concerto was one of my favourites also.

[@maxeisenhardt8800]

I don't remember hearing it . And I remember hearing Mayor Mombo only once.

[@Abbie534]

Traffic Trouble always made me feel like Sim City was telling me my town was depressing and shit and that I was about it have a monster destroy it :L

[@KurtisKain]

This is by far my favourite upload of the soundtrack - because it sounds exactly like how I remember it. Compaq Presario 2200 desktop which came with SimCity 2000 Network Edition pre-installed! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Presario_2200#Software

[@GiganticPyro]

I want to play SimCity 2000 again!

[@G00berella]

I feel this is the authetic way of listening to the soundtrack. The other soundblaster versions have some messed up instrument translations whereas the adlib sounds perfect.

[@mateoosorio113]

What is the audio you hear in this video?

[@nthgth]

16:01 "Serious Sims" is not my favorite, but the repeating 8th notes is a good exercise on the piano. Thanks so much for uploading this with THIS wavetable.

[@lotusfae]

SimCity Segue is such perfect chaos, I don't know how anything else can capture my soul.

[@ScomoKillers]

Hey guys the DOS version is free on Origin!

[@jenpromojepoteseni2263]

Scomos The Win 95 is better. It has better resolution and window interface but terrible music.

[@ScomoKillers]

Jen pro moje potěšení Is the gameplay the same? If so then DOS it is!

[@jenpromojepoteseni2263]

Scomos I dont get the last sentence. But yes. The gameplay is same... or better thanks to the resolution compatibility. You can make the windows as big as you want. It supports my 1280x800 monitor fullscreen unlike the DOS version. That Dos version is only about 480x600 or 800x600. So its 4:3 and its less entertaining with black borders.

[@ScomoKillers]

pfft I think it's smaller than that when I play the Origin version, I just forget after a while that it's there

[@wysoft]

+Scomos (Scott Gilmour) one important thing, the Win95 version dropped the FUND cheat - at least every version I ever played didn't have it.

[@Alexg991]

This was the very first game of my childhood! I found myself singing and whistling to these songs after 20 years! My favourite was at 8:08!

[@ulfadolfgandalfalfelfmilf5652]

listen to this day and night at 0.5x speed while watching your hair grow longer

[@seankendle8471]

Man, I miss being young, playing this game in my parents' basement. It was nice and cool down there in the summer (we didn't have AC). I'd go in after a day playing outside and just zone out on some SimCity or Pizza Tycoon or Exile 2. Great times.

[@FeelingShred]

that's the thing I hate about people talking smack such as "videogames makes kids just stay inside".... horseshit... I had both videogame and computer, and I never EVER traded an afternoon of playing outside and riding my bike to stay trapped inside

[@Egobyte83]

08:10 is the most nostalgic tune for me :) remember it so well ^^ trying to sort out my isometric city to that oh so unforgettable MIDI beat :)

[@citiesxlpro1]

The first one reminds me when i first Downloaded the PS1 version from the PSN Store. Then when i first played i was like, THIS IS HISTORY! A GAME THAT HAS GONE DOWN IN HISTORY SINCE THE FIRST ONE!

[@imcringedout]

Childhood, back in the day when I could use the family computer for 1 hour on a Tuesday, and during the day on Saturdays. Good times.

[@LukeAvedon]

Reticulating Splines

[@dreamhollow]

This was such a memorable game.

[@Thegamingground]

Hahah! I actually remember that as well xD The llamas can be find In other Maxis games as well, The Sims for ex =)

[@Fingolfin3423]

I listen to this 18-minute track all too often while working on certain things at my computer.

[@K-o-R]

The lights on the logo are actually an example of how the game engine does "animation". There's no actual _animation_ in the sense that any tile has separate "frames". Rather, part of the colour palette is sets of colours that cycle, and these can be seen by opening the tileset editor. So, for example, there is a set of four colours that cycle through dark red, dark red, red and yellow, each one offset by one. (Colour 1 is DR, DR, R, Y, colour 2 is DR, R, Y, DR, 3 is R, Y, DR, DR, and 4 is Y, DR, DR, R) By setting each light to be one of these colours, you get the illusion of animation. This set is also used for the runway edge lights and the traffic signals, among other things. There are several sets of blue shades which are used for water pipes and the blades on the wind turbines, and a set which is six grey pixels and two dark blue pixels, which is used to animate traffic on road tiles. It's quite a clever method.

[@GS195]

*SimCopter 1 reporting heavy traffic*

[@ChrisHennick]

I wonder how many people actually know what "reticulating splines" means, or that none of the SimCity games actually do it (apparently the developers call their terrain-gen method a "fractal", but I don't think it's a fractal in the mathematical sense).

[@noor-rx1ij]

Yeah, there are multiple interviews where Will Wright admitted it just sounded cool.

[@RobBonavoglia]

This music is the definition of jarringly beautiful.

[@JobimSynthMusic]

I played it on adlib, so this is perfect

[@Daren_PNW]

I wish I remembered how to at least build an Arcology before 2100 or 2050. Nostalgia.

[@MadameSomnambule]

I think you need a population of 50,000 people to build one? But I never seem to get that many people in my city THAT quickly (and I usually start at 1900, and sometimes 1950)

[@ChinitHeng]

***** Peabody !!!!

[@mrnonsense1031]

You need to reach a population of 120,000 and the arcologies have to be invented.

[@formerlygrimagikoopa]

0:04 i'm shooketh to the core

[@Wisteso]

Yes, almost all modern processors still have MMX, but there's a lot more other features too now like SSE through SSE5.

[@michaeljohnson7493]

I played the first SimCity in eighth grade at school and kinda liked it. One random night in 2000 (appropriately enough), right after finishing eighth grade, I found a copy of 2000 at Walmart and my 'rents bought it for me. Good find considering 3000 had already been released by then; picked that one up probably the next year, and got 4 not long after it was released. Still love these games.

[@Vanderedo]

14:00 still gives me anxiety

[@ShadowPuppet3001]

I remember playing this game I was 12 and now am old but this is a good game to play 😎

[@dranostyippo7277]

I played this with my uncle (well, I mostly watched him playing) but it was so nice...

[@KYBlueJedi]

2:03 My favorite. Wish it would loop for 10 hrs. FUSION POWER BAR NONE

[@joelbell6075]

To this day I've never discovered how to not create too many roads, lol.....

[@Aragubas]

4:45 best of all

[@Knockrhine]

Great! This is more or less exactly how I remember the music from all those shoulder-numbing 12- or 18-hour sessions. With a few exceptions, SC2000 being one of them, I usually find video game music annoying and turn it off. But this I still remember, note for note. Oh, those memories... I realize now that I haven't heard this for fifteen years. 1997 all over again...

[@kylehill146]

The opening for Sim City 2013! (hopefully)

[@SGADRM]

The hours me and friend spent playing this game on the sega Saturn was unreal. I had to buy a memory card because of this. The Saturn could either save game save files for a few dozen games or 1 sim City save file.

[@racer927]

I got into the SimCity games thanks to a Mac version of 2000 in my school's computer class (It was just one Mac, everything else was Windows XP SP3 at the time) and I wound up playing 3000: Unlimited, 4: Deluxe and now I'm binge playing the hell out of Cities: Skylines. I just *can't* help but play these soundtracks while playing that game and they've become ingrained in my head. Don't get me wrong, I do like the official CS soundtrack and the in-game radio is silly but I like the style of these soundtracks I experienced before CS.

[@FeelingShred]

Cities XL soundtrack is also nice... overlooked game... 2011

[@nicolasnicolas3218]

City Shimmy is a true back in the day for me ❤️. Especially at 4:32.

[@ianredman9741]

subway song , repetition rendition and serious sims were my favourite xd

[@MadameSomnambule]

I grew up at the tail end of the dos gaming era and right when Windows 2000 and XP were new, and I played this game so many times back in the day (though I royally sucked at it lol). The perks of having a Windows 98 pc in the early 2000s. 😄

[@EddieTheEmoji]

very refreshing and calm

[@StuffAboutSandwiches]

This music sounded a lot better in the windows version. At least on my soundcard growing up.

[@TheTechCguy]

The Windows soundtrack sounds like crap. This version is where it's at.

[@dubsy1026]

StuffAboutSandwiches you probably had a sound blaster. Look up the version for that

[@MrJeff832000]

soundblaster 16

[@noor-rx1ij]

Sound.Blaster 16 had OPL-3 emulation, which is AdLib (this version). Didn't they sound the same? I think OP is talking about the Windows builtin General MIDI soundfont.

[@noor-rx1ij]

This should be close: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2XKnHSZn5x6nrc Windows used GS softsynth, which emulated Roland SC-55 (Sound Canvas) except for the lack of reverb and some other quirks. This link is the SC-55 version, so it has some additional effects.

[@Jackson1611]

I got this game from scholastic books :D

[@smsteger89]

Hey me too! Scholastic book club provided my family with so many cool educational games. Great program...

[@aglo8371]

I don't remember downtown dance sounding this cheesy n 8bit...I guess it's just been ages

[@TheWoody1317]

the music starts off pretty scary, used to creep me out when i was a kid

[@patrik_x86]

1:45 always makes me smile

[@nyx1548]

SimCity 2000, and Streets of SimCity. Spent hours messing around on both games growing up.