SimCity SNES Metropolis Run

[@MYPSYAI]

Accessing all my forgotten childhood trauma with a single vod.

[@badxradxandy]

I'm 35. I played this on Windows 3.1 in high school during typing class. SNES. And a bit later on, they ported an online browser version with a chat room that you could flood and crash the chat for everyone.

[@Grianan66]

I'm 55, and I remember playing this on the PC. I had a monochrome monitor and had to run a graphics program (simCGA, I think it was) for the game to run. Oh the hours I played! The SNES version looks very much like I remember the PC version.

[@awakeandwatching953]

it has a couple difference but its essentially the same game.. was one of my faces as a kid until we got a pc in 93 i think

[@DanniPowell]

I was born in 89 and lived my life playing this on SNES. Such fond but angry memories.

[@mikerochburns9560]

I used to play this game so much as a kid. I would leave it running to allow my population to go up and my dad would sneak in and turn on all the disasters while i was doing other stuff.

[@kevinpomey6813]

Great dig into the past. Just dropping in to tell you I watch every video. Only found you about 3 months ago but your content has become my everyday casual listening. You should get into audio book reads.

[@andyscoolchannel]

I remember playing this as a kid and having no god damn clue what was going but on but just vibing the visuals. Still looks cosy.

[@Pozorrogo]

"DONUTS AND RAILS" - my family when I was a kid explaining our only strategy in Sim City for the SNES

[@adfaklsdjf]

yeah that's the strat.. i read it in nintendo power

[@supanerd3603]

I would like to mention that I just started my first lets play series on my channel because of this VOD. I really like your commentary style and it pushed me to use what I had to make something, so thanks.

[@groovyMysterioso]

Made megalopolis for the first time in my life last year, and as a 41 years old- it's one of my proudest achievements. LOVE your videos, however, you can totally stop time if you select the little dude in the bed.

[@mrflyingcow5423]

Man I use your videos to sleep. I find your directionless ramblings soothing for the soul.

[@madeline5138]

I was born in 2001, I never played the Sims, but I played on the DS Lite, had a 64, PS1, 2, and 3, and a Wii. I've played a lot of old games but like I said, I didn't grow up on the Sims, but I really understand the nostalgia. Not only that, but I feel that more critical thinking aspect of playing video games. I feel games like the Sims and city building games have a lot to unpack and it takes some smarts to appreciate them. Love the videos, man. I'd sub on twitch if I wasn't broke asf lol

[@NukularPower]

the super nintendo simcity was so good, subbed for this

[@AzureKaioshin]

This game is harder than dark souls if you take into account the goal is to get 600,000 people in your city on EASY difficulty. At times like this, I need to channel the spirit of Billy Mitchell. World famous donkey Kong player and self proclaimed gamer of the century. THATS RIGHT! WERE GONNA CHEAT!

[@sudzy2779]

So many people in their 30s claim they were never taught about debt, but I know most of us played this and other games that showed how scammy loans are. 😅

[@B0xlife1]

Yay 2 videos in one day as soon as I seen the short video I went and looked for the vod but didn’t see it I just had to wait :-)

[@yellowbeard9348]

You're voice is so soothing as I fall asleep especially when the backdrop is old school retro vibes

[@onomatopoeia7505]

Game: "Crime very high." Frogman: "I'll lower the funding for the police, my town isn't that big yet." Me: 🤣 I really enjoyed this playthrough. I've played this game so much and still return to it now and then. And yes, as a kid I always ran out of money, until one day I forgot to turn off the game for a few hours. I came back and saw I had made money somehow. The trick was simply to take it easy 🥳

[@shivamib]

AA was defunding the police before it was cool

[@onomatopoeia7505]

@@shivamib Hahahahaha 🤣 A bit too close to home, but still made my day 🥳

[@TheFractusman]

Hey, you give the music some respect, that shit slapped

[@pattmahiney]

Hey, I was born in 94, too. Rad. I get it; I have a heartfelt spot for the SNES, too. Played a lot of Mario and DK at afterschool camp back in the day lol. Anyway, thanks for sharing. Loved this one. Never got to play SimCity and this is rad!!

[@Slamt4stic]

When you were talking about the SNES controller and how the game doesn't require the shoulder buttons (around 40 minutes in) you sort of trailed off. Were you about to say "this could have been done on the NES" ? Because there really is an unreleased build of SimCity for the NES that was uncovered a little while ago. It's completely playable and It's easily found on the Internet Archive. Happy to see you playing this classic. I was part of the group of people on the Cities Skylines stream that suggested it.

[@endlesswanderer1753]

Also, funnily enough, he said there is no pause time function. If you press both L and R at the same time, it pauses time.

[@Hashupa]

Used to watch my best friend play this all the time when we were young. I’m not sure if we ever “beat” it, but I do remember his cities being absolutely huge, and one way he got around several issues was by using 0 roadways, 100% rails all over the place lol

[@bitcrusherco]

almost reported this video for calling one of the greatest OSTs of all time "grating"

[@Yzekial]

This constantly shows up in my suggested queue so i figure i should comment. AA BE STRAIGHT BALLIN LOVE YOUR CONTENT

[@temporalquarter9866]

"nothing says sim city like injustice" yup sounds right

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

I remember when I found out that you could just build nothing but rails, so good.

[@opsecmedic]

I played Sim Ant a whole bunch on the SNES. My grandmother played tetris attack and Vegas stakes but she loved watching me take over the yard and house with a colony of ants lol

[@ZebraChanda]

I miss Sim ant I tried talking to my mom about it and she tried to convince me that it didn't exist but I remember it too vividly for that lol.

[@mozzqueen96]

Agree with you about brutalmoose, he's got some incredibly cozy videos and extremely entertaining editing!

[@Maldroth]

For a future challenge play the Practice island and see how much population you can pack in that tiny build space. Could get really creative how much you can cram in there.

[@chainsawplayin]

with or without zone stacking?

[@onomatopoeia7505]

Hear hear! I second this!

[@Maldroth]

@@chainsawplayin Zone stack may as well use all the tricks you can

[@cloe1831]

I love these vods so much

[@EviLiu]

No way to pause time? Industrial zone block? This is going to be rough.

[@BlameCo]

Never played these kinds of games but Its always great hearing your voice! The slow and descriptive narration with the interesting gameplay is just. Nice. I like it, cherry on top. A+ or might I say AA+ ? Haha thanks again

[@tacticalwookiee7476]

What a nostalgia trip. I was a weird kid and I definitely played this until I filled the map with my city

[@Josh_da_Ghosh]

Awesome vod btw ambiguous

[@S20Mike]

I remember pretty much bullying my older brother into asking for this for his birthday rather than pretty much any other game he might have preferred, because I really wanted to play it. For some reason, every play I started, I bulldozed all the coastlines / rivers to make the edges nice and square. Hated the natural rough looking ones.

[@RaechelMaelstrom]

I love this game so much. There's actually a pause button it's in the speed menu, the bed icon is pause.

[@biometalHX]

Gods this hit me right in my childhood

[@txikitofandango]

I had this for SNES too. Could never go above 300,000 population. Also, was constantly in debt, but since there's no negative money I always kept the game on until I could get another loan. Great lessons!

[@SpencerBurkett]

As a zoomer (24, technically a zoomer...) I watch you religiously for the witty commentary and getting to watch you relive your childhood nostalgia

[@tyguy104]

If you want a megalopolis, they'll get it for you. No they can do that, they have it on their menu. I know what you mean, sometimes a city or metropolitan just isn't enough. I'm really hungry today, I need the megalopolis order! Order up!

[@Gatorboy-rs8fu]

My mom doesn’t know I’m awake last my bed time watching an amphibian playing sims snes

[@johnbaker517]

I pause time right off the bat to buid

[@endlesswanderer1753]

So I love SNES Sim City. Compared to the PC version, it's subjectively a flawed, buggy version. For instance, roads are completely worthless and actively harmful. Instead, replace them entirely with rails. Schools and hospitals add NOTHING. They don't even add to the population. Bulldoze them on sight when they form. There's also the money trick, but I'll skip that and go onto the real good shit. There are some dirty, mean tricks you can do in it to really abuse the SNES port. For instance, you can partially destroy zones to layer more inside each other. Rather than the normal 9x9 Residential block, you can 'trim' it to be a 1x3 and have a commercial zone embedded within it. You can do this with almost any zone, even making mini-airports with this method. Also, remember when I said use rails? They don't need to be an actually connected railway spider-webbing across the map. No, just put tiny strips between each building. A single track only needs to be touching a building. The game doesn't care and the train just teleports around. Yeah, this isn't really in the nature of playing the game, but for some reason, I enjoy going back every once in a while to min-max the heck out of SNES Sim City. I've gotten well over 600K population a few times. If you want to see these tricks for yourself, search "advanced Sim City strategies Incise" on your preferred search platform. It's incredible stuff and that dude's biggest city is a marvel to view.

[@MalO.ver1.0.x]

I remember starting a new game, always with the intention to make it a good, functioning city,... but then got frustrated and unleashed all calamities at once.

[@Gorbz]

I think this is one of the very first games i owned on the snes. I remember staring at the tiny picture in the manual in an attempt to make the biggest city

[@WittyUsername816]

I do love me some AmphibiousAmbiguan content.

[@lennystudios3.14]

I have an snes, and I was looking to buy one. I walked into a local game shop and found it for 70 dollars, and the online ones are cheaper but harder to find lmao. I remember playing it on an emulator with my dad too, so that’s really why I want it.

[@Karalexia]

Hardest simcity? Nope. No pause? Uh... Yeah... Yeah there is! Gotta click on the running man icon! Good times though. :D

[@Baleur]

Holy shit this looks soooo much nicer than the PC version did! Well worth playing the SNES version on emulator. But... By building those 3x3 blocks with another thing in the middle, dont you eliminate the possibility of 2x2 zones combining into a skyscraper?

[@ruffnarbobnar5960]

Wow man.... brought back memories

[@MrVietDonger-y9l]

Some tips in helping reach Mega . It is difficult for sure. Key is picking map with most land mass and that being 061. Keep industrial zones to the outside and away from residential zone because of pollution (Pollution will be a major complaint but there is not much you can do other than build industrial zone in edges of map space so when the pollution spreads it goes into no zone and that will help reduce the amount and percentage of complaints. Using the donut formation like u started is best method as u can add the many police stations to keep crime down. Dont use roads at all and only using rail road tracks(No roads = no traffic complaints and reduces pollution and crime by a lot) At some point when your city is growing just find an empty space to build roads as per mile/kilometer of road built you earn a casino or a amusement park that ads growth to residential zones and commercial (casinos make a bit of money to city and benefits commercial zones more but only negative is increases crime) and you can bulldoze the roads once u earn these bonuses . If you need to increase population if you are close to 500k people just demo the schools and hospitals in residential zones.

[@Wargasmo]

This is exactly how I used to build my cities, haha. Classic.

[@mobucks555]

A little kid. Barefoot, sitting indian style in front of the TV getting a snow day off from school. A bowl of fruity pebbles and this game. Ahh...

[@txikitofandango]

I wish I had caught this stream... I could've corrected so many errors haha!

[@DanniPowell]

I would love to watch you play Sid’s Pirates!!! I’ve played is sooooo much recently.

[@malcontender6319]

The realist pirate game there ever was.

[@AaronBayette]

He forgot to launch disasters.

[@missbizy]

I miss this game so much

[@jurakarok3343]

I played this game a lot as a kid, and I don't think I ever saw the smog warning in the first year. Congratulations?

[@haventstopped6641]

I thought the goal was just to survive. I literally had no idea that you were supposed to make a metropolis i just thought it was cool to generate cool maps and make new cities.

[@JakeKoenig]

I cracked up when he started with a coal plant and roads and then said the word "megalopolis." No serious Sim City player would ever use anything except rails and nuclear plants. This city was poorly planned in about 15 different ways. It was NEVER going to reach megalopolis no matter how long he played.

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

I forget the details now, but I used to know a cheat for this game. You had to do certain things, all while holding L+R, and it had to be completed before the first year ended. If you did it right, the game would give you a very hefty sum of money when year 2 started.

[@Ahrpigi]

I remember it being a "hot tip" to wait till late December and then jack up the tax rating to max, then dump it after getting paid. To this day I'm not sure how much that actually helped, hindered, or did basically nothing.

[@IOA21]

Megalopolis is a very difficult objective to achieve in this game as some map layouts dont have enough land space to sufficiently develop a city to such a size. Even still there;s one last cutscene you can get if you can some how achieve a population of 6 million, in which case you get a hearty congratulations for being such a great city builder, really the only "win" condition in standard play. As for tips, I hear some people tout the proper ratio of zones 2-1-1: Every 2 residential zones, there must be 1 commercial and industrial zone for efficient growth, though Im not sure such a method is the BEST method, but its been consistent enough for me when I play this game. Another tip: Schools and Hospitals, while they look neat, dont really do anything for your city in this game, as there's no education or healthcare value to keep track of for your citizens and the only thing they REALLY do is consume a valuable residential zone, bulldoze em as you see em, sure its a bit unhinged, but they're worthless! Some fun facts: Every city level theme is a remix of the Village level theme when you give them a hard listen, some are more obvious than others as they flux from more sophisticated sounding to more modern sounding, but they all contain similar chord progressions to the village themes, most notable is the megalopolis theme which contains a full call back to the village theme. In addition: reaching megalopolis stage grants you the Statue Gift, which in this game is a Liberty-esque effigy of Mario! What makes this a fun fact is that if you trigger the Monster disaster after placing it, Bowser makes a beeline to the statue, takes it, and peaces out just as fast!

[@Z64bit]

I thought PC SimCity would be Parential Consent SimCity

[@daltonking6956]

I don't know what compelled me to buy this game on the WII virtual console when I was a kid but, I spent so many hours building and failing.

[@metalagent47]

@2:02:30 i recently found this channel, and on this note, i thought you were ambivalentamphibian.

[@adfaklsdjf]

fun fact: didja know "ambivalent" means you feel strongly both ways, not that you don't feel strongly either way?

[@michaelglover9214]

Little guy, running in the corner... pause/speed time button. Bro. Also, holding "B" scrolls the screen and stops time... Dude. Way to take the high road and not use the money cheat.

[@adfaklsdjf]

what's the money cheat?

[@bugpocket]

Amphibian, you can pause time in Sim City. Click on the running man.

[@Radnugget]

I played this when I was a kid and yeah my mom is good at it but its a hard game.

[@paul.koenig]

ah my first ever game. back then i had to have a cheat sheet to navigate DOS to start the game.

[@wittygore6198]

I'd love to see you play metropolismania someday! Talk about nolstalgia. Such a bizarre, but fun game.

[@CoreySkurray]

you can get emulators for the pc to play super nintendo and all the other console games, there is also a bundle collection of mega drive/genesis games on steam

[@QueenGreenGoddess]

Pineapple on pizza

[@superdepressif6047]

nothing wrong with that

[@WiseOwl_1408]

Game is Amazing

[@darkohgrubb17]

god this music is my childhood that and failing a t mariokart

[@sadiejay_]

1:22:52 I've never heard the phrase "out the bazoo" lololol I'm pretty sure whatever you're referring to was either a confused person posting a nonsensical "revelation" or some niche phrasing few people use. It's always been " up/out the wazoo" for me. As for bazoo I've heard "shut your big bazoo" but that's about it.

[@everythingphil9376]

I was so close. Probably 10,000 people short. I ran out of land.

[@ujlt7198]

guilty as charged, i am a zoomer with no nostaglia for these games. i watch because you are funny.

[@joshshearer141]

Pretty sure the select button sends the cursor straight to the building menu. I might be mistaken

[@AleksanderDrako]

Oh, I feel too young to be able to play games of such appeal without being introduced to them by someone passionately nerdy about it.

[@Pondy-Sama]

AA is cool

[@Locke9611]

No remember, because I still playing.

[@geehadarillo1]

SNES????? Were dinosaurs still walking around? Over 500,000 years ago this place used to be a parking lot

[@adfaklsdjf]

what

[@tyguy104]

yeah the square grids eh? Something 'got lost' there, I agree. And it seems that graphics heavy games like Cities Skylines are just going too fast for an old fossil like me you know? It's like, wait a minute, I wanted to see if you could master the old 16 bit grid AI systems first. I think you kind of went full out into the graphics, where ti takes 10 minutes to load a map. And that's fine too, but can we try and master the basics again though? Something got lost there and we should try and make an improved version of it I guess? I was experimenting with programming, and a computer or game engine, likes grids. They don't want to work with pixel by pixel resolution, by making it grid tiles... you make it easier for the game engine to understand what's going on here. Like how to find a destination, how to look for road tiles or power wires beside it in a grid-fashion. Tiles easier than just a bunch of raw x and y plots.

[@NarendraU23]

Strange, I remember this game being simplistic and easy. Like if there's traffic jam then I would expand the road, if there's polution I would make parks, etc. I go big from the start, building things and stuff, somehow it worked lol.

[@0hopscotch0]

I liked to use the money code for the snes

[@serialtimekillr5547]

wazoo. cause wazoo is a old time term for your butt.

[@cdubsoptional7849]

All roads lead back to Body Harvest

[@ashleighdennis3976]

Wonder how it would be affected with the police hq next to the casino.

[@ljts7587]

Oh I remember this game well I was around 14 and spent many a days and late nights on this game. The hours days years went by in a blink of an eye. Probably the reason why I didn’t date until 19. My youth my teen ages years all here in front of me to haunt me all over again. Come to think of it I have sim city 2000 for PS still. Oh and Earth worm Jim too. Damn thanks looks like I’m gonna be single again soon. But like they say nothing ventured nothing gained.

[@adfaklsdjf]

You talk about CDDA a lot, but no vods?

[@jasonjellie9342]

Top left corner u can pause time

[@HEYITSJOSIEYAZZIE]

Grew up playing superstar wars and ms.Pac-Man lol

[@benjaminressler7745]

Whats a good name for a frog? (Unrelated to the video I assume)

[@joeray8854]

Where does the word granular come from

[@Variance1337]

I thought “take it with a grain of salt” is to do with something being misleading.. or something you need to be skeptical about! Well I say I thought, but I know that is literally what it means.

[@ahzizM]

Original simcity, huh? I played it on commodore 64 :)

[@Oscuros]

This was way better on an Amiga or Atari, or anything other than a SNES.

[@whisper6534]

Up!

[@jjpemfr8882]

Another SimCity that is quite difficult (for me) is SimCity Deluxe for IOS and Android