SimCity 2000 Full Original Soundtrack

[@ParallelSyntax]

YOU CAN’T CUT OUR FUNDING. YOU WILL REGRET THIS!!

[@avae5343]

Even if the funding was cut by 1%.

[@JoshuaMemers]

You should lower the taxes to encourage growth

[@AremStefaniaK]

In Soviet Russia, Funding cuts you!

[@ScootyPuffSr7]

Lol.

[@LoveCandyLive]

Hospital services are trim and effective

[@benjaminharmon6541]

These songs are embedded so deeply in my brain that they essentially function as elevator music when my brain is idle. I got it in 2001 when it was already old, and I thought it was new from the title lol. But even today I think it's aged supremely well!

[@MIleHighCoD970]

Lol i catch my self when im bored doing the last song on the list... in my head...... over and over lol

[@StatickyCat]

0:00 Harbor Hymn 1:57 Downtown Dance 2:55 Traffic Trouble 4:37 Disaster Decision 6:18 Repetition Rendition 6:33 Mayor Mombo 6:52 Serious Sims 9:17 Subway Song 12:26 Bluesy Berg 12:47 Virtual Village (Short Version) 13:04 Virtual Village (Long Version) 14:05 Railroad Rap 15:13 City Shimmy 16:59 Chinatown Concerto 17:40 City Shimmy (Short Version) 18:14 Repetition Rendition 18:30 Unknown 21:11 SimCity Segue

[@AremStefaniaK]

did you pull these outta your ass or are these according to lore

[@anubusx]

We are all in Sim City.

[@AremStefaniaK]

I was asking nicely, is this the real names of the tracks or are you making false lore here, tryinna be disinformant

[@StatickyCat]

@@AremStefaniaK According to another certain KZbin video showcasing the SimCity 2000 OST, these are the official names.

[@AlexandreBraga-nq8pe]

how the f do you know all the names?!!!!!!1

[@obnoxiousoboe]

For some reason, the Subway Song (9:17) has always been very catchy and has remained in my head from time to time.

[@HaydenPloszay]

They are all catchy lol - I first played this in 2001 as a grade 3 student and I remember all of these songs.

[@ToruKurosawa]

Legendary... the memories,..... so nostalgic.... these were when times were better

[@tilasole3252]

Can not even get it to work on modern PCs, nor SC3000. Sims 1 and 2 neither. 😢

[@timkeyes8870]

That's what places like Good Old Games are for.@@tilasole3252

[@konstantinzhukov4025]

​@@tilasole3252you can easily play it online, on any dos game website.

[@gabyu]

before 2001

[@forestforthetrees7173]

I remember every single one of these songs, but in retrospect, they are all incredibly bizarre.

[@spextrekid9410]

That's when you had programmers be composers. It was basically whoever in the office had a little experience with MIDI was in charge of the music. That's how you wound up with what sounded like basically 'demos'. But damn, this is a time bottle.

[@armystuntman8601]

:X This music set is actually glitched. It's playing a piano with the "percussion" instrument channel, which is why it sounds bad. Apparently some versions of the midi soundtrack online have this glitch. If you hear a repetitive terrible-sounding piano - That wasn't part of the soundtrack, it's an export oversight. (I had this exact midi set years ago and I had to manually edit it to fix it.) For a more technical explanation, I think the original DOS soundtrack had two percussion channels, 10 and 16, essentially playing the same thing. (Maybe it was for echo?) Later sound cards don't use 16 as a percussion channel, so it plays as piano. Don't quote me though.

[@stevarino1989]

First got this game in 1999 in 5th grade, through a Scholastic Book Order 😂 along with SimCopter and the Urban Renewal Kit. I could never figure out how to keep my city from going abandoned or stopping the water shortages/no electricity. Oh how I miss that old Dell Desktop in my parents’ kitchen. And God I haven’t heard some of these music tracks in FOREVER lol. My childhood best friend had it on his computer too and he was really good at it.

[@damerabbit]

One if the first PC games I've owned along with Mech Commander and Worms Armageddon on my windows 98. Been playing this since the age of 9.

[@youforget1000thingsaday]

Just watching my mom play this was awesome. I miss them days, lol.

[@oldbrokenhands]

I'm just now realizing this sounds a lot different than it did on my 1990s hardware with the different sound cards. The Turtle Beach Malibu one sounded the best, but not like this. The best memory I had of this game was I installed it on one of my high school's computers with my 3.5" floppies and played between classes. One day I came back and my coach was playing the game and wanted me to make him a copy, I obliged.

[@stilnoxVisions]

You might have had the same version I did. Try this link - kzbin.info/www/bejne/enW0imawfKqVh7c

[@oldbrokenhands]

@@stilnoxVisions Yup, that must've been it, thanks.

[@evanfinch4987]

IIRC win95 and dos versions had different music

[@MarkWhich]

They were MIDI files, all soundcards played them differently.

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

different synths. I went from a SB16 to a AWE32 to then an AWE64 and each one sounds different - the recorded instruments ("sound fonts") are unique to each chipset. And I can tell you now that this version playing on youtube is the windows virtual synth instruments (software based rather than hardware based).

[@fxl6560]

The game that taught me that constantly borrowing money to solve permanent debt issues is not a viable solution 😅

[@EXTREMEYouTubeGamingChannel]

I wanted to know how to do the stock market when i played this when i was ten, now i did its good. This music always reminds me of the American stock market when i hear it now though lol and business days.

[@CodeAsm]

hours upon hours I spend in this game. love the music

[@StatickyCat]

I downloaded this onto my PC a month ago, and I need to say - Even with the new City Builders out there, this old game ROCKS! Thanks for uploading this, as this specific edition is the one I have.

[@gilligan1350]

I did the same thing and bought physical copies of several different strategy guides for the full nostalgic experience. The first one that got here literally goes so deep that at the end it even has instructions on how to edit the hex files. I came here now to put the soundtrack on while I read so I remember more of this stuff when I'm playing when I get home later. It's like being 8 all over again. 😂😂

[@StatickyCat]

@@gilligan1350 No doubt! Sounds cool. I'm only a 2000s kid so I never grew up with SimCity 2000, but trying it out now is a great experience that not even new city builders can replicate.

[@StatickyCat]

@@gilligan1350 I like the show you're in! I subscribed.

[@tilasole3252]

Can not get this or 3000 or Sims 1 or 2 to work on modern PCs. Half the time they do not even realize I put something in the optical drive... 😢

[@jewel1234]

This full soundtrack is EPIC ! My brothers played this game a lot years ago. Kudos for putting this up! 👍🏻👍🎮😀

[@EXTREMEYouTubeGamingChannel]

All my favourite games are going up and lots more great vids to come in the future! :-)

[@mitchcoppo]

So 90s...I remember playing this for the first time in Sam's Club. They had rows of PC's with this, Descent, and Hover 3D you could play.

[@furrykef]

You need to mute MIDI channel 16. There isn't supposed to be a droning piano bass line for the theme tune, for instance. This channel exists only because some old MIDI systems put drums on channel 16 instead of channel 10, so both channels contain the same data. The game would mute one or the other depending on your system.

[@Husky1980]

9:16 my favorite!

[@LumbridgeTeleport]

You gotta love the older hand drawn artwork of the box arts on older games! Well done 🎉

[@rgerber]

all older movies had amazingly drawn posters also older games always had those incredible graphical box arts while the games itself are a few chunky pixels at best. Well modern games and movies usually look soooooooo absolutely boring and similar

[@mrlost117]

Whats sad about this for me is I had so much time in this, but didnt ever have a soundcard back then, so I never heard this. My SC OST memories belong to original simcity on snes and sc3k.

[@gulskjegglive]

Interesting how simple music can bring back a flood of memories, of better days, and simpler times.

[@sorrowinchrist3387]

so much simplier when we did not know anything the more you know seem the worst it becomes.

[@baldygrey2779]

Children only see the good and simple things. That innocence is something to be protected.

[@gulskjegglive]

@@baldygrey2779 Simcity 2000 came out shortly after I came home from Iraq. The game helped get me through some very dark days.

[@cristoferchanimak]

I remember how moody this music was for me haha.

[@anubusx]

Our world is Sim City.

[@mentalcelstefan7086]

13:04 My five-years-old niece said it was the best song she has ever listened to xD

[@emilyg2451]

I'm in my late 30s and that song still makes me do a little wiggle dance while I'm listening to it!

[@sarsgarrs]

Its like jimmy buffet or something!

[@nthgth]

It's still one of my go-tos on a piano I've never played, and sometimes just noodling around on a familiar one!

[@alexbaker4596]

“Citycopter 1 reporting heavy traffic.”

[@EXTREMEYouTubeGamingChannel]

I Do love this game, i actually got it up and running on my pc a few weeks ago and built a city in profit. Is good fun, I play it now again again now :-D, love the music also so peaceful!

[@SticksTheFox]

"ZZZT"

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

@@SticksTheFox That power line sound is etched into my mind, and still makes me chuckle.

[@AznOmega]

*clicks the copter* Mayday! *crashes*

[@stylesrj]

@@AznOmega Hey you had to use the Crosshair Tool first. Couldn't just be any click :P

[@ChaseJaycoxAFC]

Waiiiiit… There was music to this game? I am shattered. Did we really always play in silence or with other music? I played hours and hours of this game as a kid and I have never heard this music. Far out.

[@heatherb5671]

6:17 - end of year financial summary?

[@ps3master72]

@Hawksendoom Well, this city is completely screwed... *Pulls out disaster menu* 😈

[@nthgth]

Hahaha yupp I still think of it sometimes

[@HarleyMace]

To me, Downtown Dance is and will always be THE SimCity theme song.

[@Zobooda]

SAME!!!!!!!! I just bought this game again but they don’t have this song on there! It’s a sin!

[@than217]

Llamas are becoming a pest roaming our streets! We need more zoos.

[@justinw7323]

Wish they'd make a portable android version of this. I'd definitely pay for it.

[@AckzaTV]

Or a web based nft version

[@crashengy6117]

you can play it through Origin. or if you're like me and still have a working copy

[@justinw7323]

I mean a touch based version like Pocket City where it's just easier to navigate.

[@danhuby]

@@AckzaTV How would adding crappy NFT improve anything?

[@mmd0815]

Very nicely good. Whenever I hear this.. I fall asleep soundly.

[@Stovokor41]

I used to play this at my friend Richard's house when I was little. Good times.

[@얌냠치킨-y2m]

Oh my god.. feeling like 1997

[@anubusx]

Let's go and go see Men In Black!!!

[@stylesrj]

Subway Song and Disaster Decision are some of my favourites. Actually they all are but those two tend to stand out a lot.

[@stylesrj]

Oh and SimCity Segue! It's like a different mix of Disaster Decision?

[@sindobrandnew]

Glad to know that it was not just me.

[@equiinferno]

I always felt it but I just learned from the LGR channels revisiting of SC2k 30 years later that Maxis liked Bladerunner and had it in mind when creating this superb soundtrack!

[@rgerber]

what a JAM!! Pure fun

[@theANGRYjap]

Every time I hear the opening of Eric Claptons bad love or Robert plants little by little my mind goes to this games soundtrack

[@jurassicparkboom2426]

Best PC game of all time!

[@davidioanid1370]

Yeah this reminds me of that scene from fear in loathing where the guy is in the bathtub and wants the other guy to throw the radio into the bathtub while jefferson airplane is playing.

[@chrisharris1521]

I don't know how it reminds you of that. So let me get this straight, you...want me to..uh.. throw this thing into the tub when White Rabbit peaks, is that it?

[@nthgth]

Lol I forgot 20 years ago that you have to modify some of the MIDIs to eliminate the weird notes like in the 2nd tune (title theme) and many of these. Low C and D on piano. Sometimes a C#. Weird and stupid.

[@ninja9number9nine]

4:40 is that 🔥🔥🔥

[@Kastrenzo74]

People who played this game are parents and grandparents now.

[@boredlinuxuser]

I really liked this game back in the day when i was 11. It seemed really realistic. though playing the game nowadays... it didnt age well.

[@WonderTracks]

When I hear this I hear the buzzing sound from building electric fences! Also: what's up with porntipsguzzardo!

[@raa9098]

I love the last one. It's a bit creepy, but fantastic :o

[@Sir_Joseph]

City chopper 1 reporting heavy traffic!

[@TheeSlickShady_Dave_K]

When i was playing this at 16 years old, (mid-1990's ?), my gf would refer to this as: "That stupid city game." I’ll admit it took me away from her and she was jealous of how much i played it and enjoyed it

[@Giftig--Daniel-P]

Needs timestamps or chapters

[@nthgth]

And need that low C and D piano notes removed

[@guidelli]

Nosssssstalgic!!! XD

[@amberheaton9419]

the song around 8 min is like an 80s thriller or horror

[@lindenstromberg6859]

Ugh… DO NOT listen to this while hungover.

[@LightningJR]

playing cities skylines II with music muted and this soundtracking playing. :)

[@whotookaegir]

Came here for 1:57

[@SpasmFingers]

Same

[@Ootddo111]

Same

[@atomicplayboy6680]

for Came 1:57 here

[@ChrisCa1601]

Reticulating splines.

[@AremStefaniaK]

Is Extreme gaming the sort that involves those tactical full body adult diapers with a quickdraw holster for turbo noncaffeinated high speed no drag energy drink shots? I remember doing in 26 hours sessions once or twice but can't do that anymore

[@tilasole3252]

21:23 my favorite of the bunch along with 16:59 as my second and 0:01 third 🥰

[@kalman_farkas]

reminds me of the first Age of Empires soundtrack

[@AlexRN]

Coming from the SIM CITY 3000 ost to hear this is giving me whiplash. For the time Sim City 2000 had good music but man does it pale in comparison with its sequel. Its not even close.

[@johndevor5498]

I still hum 3:38

[@damerabbit]

This was the good ole days before EA ruined it.

[@BlueBear0000]

Why do these sound so much higher quality than they do in-game? I have speakers from 2023 so it isn't that they're not as good as my phone audio.

[@tilasole3252]

Can not get this or 3000 or Sims 1 or 2 to work on modern PCs. Half the time they do not even realize I put something in the optical drive... 😢

[@kwick818]

City copter 1 reporting heavy traffic

[@stevarino1989]

Lol that has been stuck in my head for many years 😂

[@AckzaTV]

Slow down for vaporwave

[@filpov]

😏

[@yuu-chan9093]

21:10

[@kacknoobdeluxe]

1:57 when you play TRANSPORT TYCOON

[@stylesrj]

I tried listening to the soundtracks in OpenTTD... they're serviceable but after hearing them on repeat so many times, my mind kept humming the original soundtrack instead because yeah, that stuff's way more memorable.

[@SeanVito]

Welp, time to boot up the DOS emulator.

[@viiiccckkkiiii]

iconic

[@FordFalcon1962nBlue]

9:17

[@KingPikachu1989]

👍

[@danielgiusti2247]

😃👍👏

[@EXTREMEYouTubeGamingChannel]

:-)

[@Psike81]

Llama speed !

[@JustGoodGames.]

What sound card is this emulated by? Or is this the midi file idk?

[@filpov]

♥️

[@gustavike]

hows the autor

[@thedarkconservatarian6806]

I'm sorry. But Anno 1602's OST is far superior.

[@MsHojat]

This is a bad synthesizer version. When I played I had a much better synthesizer than this

[@armystuntman8601]

There is an extra percussion (beat) channel playing as a piano, for some reason.

[@jrigg3495]

Zzzzt. Zzzt. Zzzzt.

[@LloxieFox]

RETICULATING SPLINES

[@MoonwalkerWorshiper]

False notes here and there. Old game isn't it.

[@scottfarcus1667]

It's so nostalgic, but god damn, it's awful! It's basically intolerable. I'm honestly surprised, I had a positive memory of it.

[@PretentioFilms]

check out the PS1 version of the soundtrack. It's much more palatable.