SimRefinery EXISTS! Let's play it!

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LGR Blerbs

LGR Blerbs

Күн бұрын

Playing the long lost Maxis game Sim Refinery for the first time! On a retro MS-DOS PC, of course. This obscure SimCity spinoff thing is a prototype developed for Chevron in 1992, with the goal of helping employees learn how the business works.
Here's that awesome Phil Salvador article:
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Play it in your browser or download it here:
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@LGRBlerbs
@LGRBlerbs 4 жыл бұрын
The SimRefinery Tour Book/instruction manual has also now been found and archived! Check out a scan of it here, it explains a ton about the simulation: archive.org/details/sim-refinery-tour-book_202006/mode/2up
@Nightowl_IT
@Nightowl_IT 4 жыл бұрын
Can you get him to finish the game or publish the code? Do you know games with a realistic and complex chemistry and physics implemented that do not suck?
@silentnode946
@silentnode946 4 жыл бұрын
...and LGR is the PERFECT channel to review/tour this game!
@ninjaturtlethug7
@ninjaturtlethug7 4 жыл бұрын
Jan Girke “kerbal space program”
@sspotter1978
@sspotter1978 4 жыл бұрын
I love your Roland speakers. Seriously. If you get tired of them, I'll send you my address.
@Christopher-N
@Christopher-N 4 жыл бұрын
*Clint:* Do you suppose any of the cheat codes that this variant of _SimCity_ was built from work, or are there any cheat/developer codes at all?
@bradlauk1419
@bradlauk1419 4 жыл бұрын
"Volume name of A: is FARTDICK" Never change Clint, you absolute diamond.
@hackmasterjay3085
@hackmasterjay3085 4 жыл бұрын
First thing I noticed too! Laughed my ass off!
@phatcyclist
@phatcyclist 4 жыл бұрын
@@hackmasterjay3085 Same.
@philtkaswahl2124
@philtkaswahl2124 4 жыл бұрын
Clint does not have an Inner Child because he never grew up. He just pretends to be an adult when he needs to.
@nickwallette6201
@nickwallette6201 4 жыл бұрын
That does not sound like a comfortable sensation.
@soraver
@soraver 4 жыл бұрын
@@hackmasterjay3085 me too, and I run to th comments ;p
@jasepoag8930
@jasepoag8930 4 жыл бұрын
Oh no, Premium octane got set to 47. My SimCorvette is going to run like ASS.
@martijn86
@martijn86 4 жыл бұрын
Is that 98 or 102 in RON? Or does a Corvette run fine on 95?
@HappyBeezerStudios
@HappyBeezerStudios 4 жыл бұрын
The one before (91) was already around 95 RON, going down to 47? That's like driving with isoheptane.
@yuricorrea2491
@yuricorrea2491 4 жыл бұрын
*SimASS
@Rutherford_Inchworm_III
@Rutherford_Inchworm_III 4 жыл бұрын
47 octane would destroy a Diesel engine from pinging and would still be too inert to be ignited in a two-stroke engine. A more useless fuel you'd be hard pressed to find. You'd probably want to make lubricants or solvents out of it.
@dregenius
@dregenius 3 жыл бұрын
@@Rutherford_Inchworm_III diesel engines cannot "ping" (preignite) as fuel is not injected during the intake stroke, but rather right at TDC of compression stroke. Gasoline engines, in contrast, are much more sensitive to their fuel as it must resist combustion until the spark event. This is one reason diesel engines are superior, as they shift the precision and consistency requirements from the recurring consumable (fuel) to the engine.
@dwagner6
@dwagner6 4 жыл бұрын
I grew up as the son of a chemical engineer at Chevron in a refinery town in CA. I fully remember this when I was a kid, playing it on my dads office computer. I think I had just discovered sim city for Mac at the time. What a blast from the past. Also, I never realized until now how much I picked up on how a refinery works, just being a kid in a refinery town where we could visit for community days once per year. I had an internship there before college, after graduating high school, where I worked in IT and had to put on a Nomex suit and traipse out to different corners of the refinery to track down PCs that hadn’t auto-updated on the network. Just an 18 year old finding my way through some processing plants to various control rooms, looking for neglected computers to run an update on...I never realized how fun and cool it was, at the time.
@drgribb
@drgribb 4 жыл бұрын
Richmond, CA?
@dwagner6
@dwagner6 4 жыл бұрын
drgribb El Segundo, CA
@ArrowRaider
@ArrowRaider 4 жыл бұрын
Did it let you do anything or was it this same version shown here?
@transfo47
@transfo47 4 жыл бұрын
Crazy to think oil refineries will be a thing of the past in the not too distant future.
@medicusofthedamned
@medicusofthedamned 4 жыл бұрын
I came to the comments to hear a story like this. Awesome.
@mephustowest1876
@mephustowest1876 4 жыл бұрын
OK I could be wrong, but having worked at a similar type of chemical plant, it looks like it was being developed as a training tool for new employees. The training where i was took weeks before you were even able to go to the production areas to start your on the job training, even for people with degrees in the field. I would love to see this finished tho and I am so glad to see a video on it done by you.
@LGRBlerbs
@LGRBlerbs 4 жыл бұрын
That's what it was! The full story is here: obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/#pt2
@thejay8963
@thejay8963 4 жыл бұрын
mike silva Girl whaaaat?
@YellowScope
@YellowScope 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, this is correct. My father worked at the Chevron Richmond Refinery where they were basing it on and beta tested it. Apparently Chevron thought it was too expensive, and had a very limited market. Chevron was paying for all of the R&D costs and eventually decided they were no longer interested.
@czarkusa2018
@czarkusa2018 4 жыл бұрын
They just don't train 'em like they used to
@mephustowest1876
@mephustowest1876 4 жыл бұрын
@@LGRBlerbs thank you I am going to read this!
@ZiggyTheHamster
@ZiggyTheHamster 4 жыл бұрын
I live in Richmond, CA, where Chevron's refinery is. The intro map looks like a pretty close approximation to how their Richmond refinery looks, and that's really cool!
@tsarstepan
@tsarstepan 4 жыл бұрын
I suspect you could not print out maps of these refineries for security's sake. Wondering that perhaps that these maps were based on actual real-world sited refineries.
@aturchomicz821
@aturchomicz821 4 жыл бұрын
@@tsarstepan Google Maps walks into the room...
@BBC600
@BBC600 4 жыл бұрын
@@tsarstepan Clint should try to hook up a printer and see if the option becomes available
@peterg.8245
@peterg.8245 4 жыл бұрын
The secret sauce is inside the tanks, like minimum temperatures and catalyst formulas. Having low/zero NOx burners in your crackers will reduce fuel usage and the amount of “scrubbing” you need for your exhaust.
@TheMichigami
@TheMichigami 4 жыл бұрын
@@aturchomicz821 google itself didn't exist yet back in 1992, neither did the ability to just hop online and look at glorious satellite images of everything and everywhere anytime you want like we have today. widespread home internet was still in its baby steps.
@JohnSmith-xq1pz
@JohnSmith-xq1pz 4 жыл бұрын
It seems like this game could use some refinement I'll see myself out
@adventureoflinkmk2
@adventureoflinkmk2 4 жыл бұрын
Ta dum tiss
@Dark.Shingo
@Dark.Shingo 4 жыл бұрын
That was slick.
@JohnSmith-xq1pz
@JohnSmith-xq1pz 4 жыл бұрын
@@adventureoflinkmk2 👍
@JohnSmith-xq1pz
@JohnSmith-xq1pz 4 жыл бұрын
@@Dark.Shingo 🤣🤣🤣
@eddiehimself
@eddiehimself 4 жыл бұрын
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I mean, seriously.
@NoshAbroad
@NoshAbroad 4 жыл бұрын
Dude, I worked at Maxis (in the 90s) AND Chevron Corp. and this is the first time i'm seeing this. This may have been just a model of the Richmond Refinery.
@StigDesign
@StigDesign 4 жыл бұрын
What work did you do SimCity 2000 or 3000? :D
@NoshAbroad
@NoshAbroad 4 жыл бұрын
StigDesign1 I was there for all the stuff no one wants to play or totally forgot. Sim Golf, Streets of Sim City, Sim Copter and Marble Drip. There was also an unreleased Diablo clone another studio was working on (Crucible) and at the time internally The Sims was still refereed to as Dollhouse. Everyone was focused on SC 3K but it was terrible. I forget if it was DX 4 or DX 5 but it was in a bad state. All that code was scrapped when EA took over. There was also the fact that installing one of those early 3D games from Maxis had about a 5% chance of tanking your computer.
@chasenthehype
@chasenthehype 4 жыл бұрын
StigDesign1 I remember loving SimCopter...but man it truly was a mess of crashes and terrible performance. Honestly though I really enjoyed it!
@Yusuke_Denton
@Yusuke_Denton 4 жыл бұрын
@@NoshAbroad It was awesome loading up my SimCity 2000 cities into SimCopter and flying around seeing what I'd built.
@Heyitsthathairyguy
@Heyitsthathairyguy 4 жыл бұрын
@@NoshAbroad every game you mentioned is a fond memory for me. Nicely done, friend.
@ElyseExplosion
@ElyseExplosion 4 жыл бұрын
I worked as an environmental consultant for Chevron at one of their former refinery sites up until fairly recently and I am getting so many flashbacks to actually being on site. This is surprisingly accurate, but that shouldn't really be that much of a surprise given that it's Maxis.
@SpoikeTube
@SpoikeTube 4 жыл бұрын
So the refinery isn’t doing anything initially. You need to click on a valve, in the crude unit window, for the raw oil to start flowing to the refinery. At that point it starts resembling a bit like factorio and you can set cut off points and see the numbers go up or down between the different parts of the refinery.
@jasonblalock4429
@jasonblalock4429 4 жыл бұрын
You know, on one hand, I'm so genuinely happy this was found and that SimGeeks will be able to play with it. On the other hand, just looking at it is making me go crosseyed.
@swytchblayd
@swytchblayd 4 жыл бұрын
It is quite complex and yet incomplete :L
@slickstretch6391
@slickstretch6391 4 жыл бұрын
I asked Chevron for this, and they told me "Chevron’s training materials are considered proprietary information and company confidential, and are not distributed outside the company." I'm excited to try it out. Thanks for the vid, Clint!
@AssaulteedOne
@AssaulteedOne 4 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling that's why SimRefinery can no longer be found on the Internet Archive anymore...
@armorgeddon
@armorgeddon 4 жыл бұрын
@@AssaulteedOne As if oil companies don't need to polish their public image.
@ZImpresive
@ZImpresive 4 жыл бұрын
Plot wist: Game Actually connects to a real refinery
@RikoJAmado
@RikoJAmado 4 жыл бұрын
“ Ender’s Oil Refinery Game”
@terencehill2320
@terencehill2320 3 жыл бұрын
Slow clap
@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi
@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi 3 жыл бұрын
may as well, would explain why the prices go up and down like an idiot is in control of the refinery.
@MrRandomposter
@MrRandomposter 3 жыл бұрын
War games
@CassieT
@CassieT 4 жыл бұрын
There's something oddly eerie about an unfinished 90s-era game. You never quite know what it's going to do.
@K12machinima
@K12machinima 10 күн бұрын
4 years later, but part of me expected random, atrocious FMVs. Also, random CD audio that took up like 80% of the disc.
@ElectromasterTech
@ElectromasterTech 4 жыл бұрын
According to the article they started with the codebase of SimFarms to make this, so that would explain why it seems so similar
@Christopher-N
@Christopher-N 4 жыл бұрын
Try out the SimFarm cheat/developer codes, see if any of them work if at all.
@Raptoria
@Raptoria 4 жыл бұрын
Ah, this is exciting! Awesome!
@badgerlordpatrick6493
@badgerlordpatrick6493 4 жыл бұрын
Ah, Raptor himself!
@GameEnding
@GameEnding 4 жыл бұрын
Now we just need to find Sim Mars
@LGRBlerbs
@LGRBlerbs 4 жыл бұрын
That'd be great. And The Mindwarp! www.gamesthatwerent.com/2010/09/the-mindwarp-a-lost-maxis-game/
@Honeybearsphone
@Honeybearsphone 4 жыл бұрын
Sim earth let's you terraform Mars that's as close as I've ever seen
@KappaJoe
@KappaJoe 4 жыл бұрын
And Simsville.
@nslouka90
@nslouka90 4 жыл бұрын
*Elon Musk beams into the chat*
@cerisem7727
@cerisem7727 4 жыл бұрын
We need to talk to Will Wright about releasing his unreleased Sim games!
@beauslim
@beauslim 4 жыл бұрын
Very neat. I can kind of see why this didn't take off in a big way for Maxis, though, especially if the target market was real-world training. I worked on an industrial training simulator project years ago. Our customers wanted accuracy so much that our simulator solution ran connected to real control-room HMI units as the front end. Sim Refinery definitely looks much more like a game. Basically the difference between MS Flight Simulator vs a real 747 simulator that pilots train on.
@BrandonNedwek
@BrandonNedwek 4 жыл бұрын
When you were just aimlessly clicking around I had a flashback to when you blew up an airplane sitting still on a taxiway and kept waiting for another explosion.
@tjhebblethwaite
@tjhebblethwaite 4 жыл бұрын
So it looks like someone needs to decompile this and complete.
@JaysMissingKidney
@JaysMissingKidney 4 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile Maxis is too cucked and too woke via EA to put out anything as interesting as this... 😒
@SkigBiggler
@SkigBiggler 4 жыл бұрын
@@JaysMissingKidney pretty sure maxis is dead at this point
@greenmountainbrownie6473
@greenmountainbrownie6473 4 жыл бұрын
@hi there Imagine not starting a sentence with a capital letter, despite editing your comment at least once already. You sad, sad loser.
@coolguy-xd1bg
@coolguy-xd1bg 4 жыл бұрын
@hi there bet you had to suppress a "yikes" lol
@bitterlemonboy
@bitterlemonboy 4 жыл бұрын
You can't just decompile and complete. How the hell do you "decompile" a program? It would be easier to build our own new game called SimRefinery 2.
@NintenloupWolfFR
@NintenloupWolfFR 4 жыл бұрын
I've never seen a KAO floppy going bad. So I'm not surprised it still worked.
@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365
@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 4 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly... When he said "these things often go bad" I was thinking "But it's a KAO!, of course it works!"
@0mongo0
@0mongo0 4 жыл бұрын
@@joshmbrown42 KAO is a Japanese cosmetics company that made floppy disks for some reason.
@nononono12345
@nononono12345 4 жыл бұрын
Nintenloup Wolf (FR) KAO 4 L1FE!!1111
@leandrotami
@leandrotami 4 жыл бұрын
It says “argentina heavy”... old kids will remember when this country used to export crude
@armorgeddon
@armorgeddon 4 жыл бұрын
Why did it stop to do that?
@HappyBeezerStudios
@HappyBeezerStudios 4 жыл бұрын
Guess they ran out of it
@luzroja29AKApeyo
@luzroja29AKApeyo 3 ай бұрын
@@armorgeddon porque se nos acabó la plata
@Asquaredgamereviews
@Asquaredgamereviews 4 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite kind of stuff lost media is so interesting.
@Honeybearsphone
@Honeybearsphone 4 жыл бұрын
Mine too I love anything lost or obscure
@powerfulshammy
@powerfulshammy 4 жыл бұрын
Not lost have a copy from 90s floppy disk full version. Already forgot where my dad got it in the 90s I can do all build something and bulldoze it too might release it on internet for ev1 to enjoy and send the might be only surviving copy to LGR
@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo
@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo 4 жыл бұрын
Love it when its video games like Sega Saturn. Hopefully one day we get a dump of Sonic 3D for Saturn
@MrPacMan36
@MrPacMan36 4 жыл бұрын
@@Honeybearsphone It's mind blowing that this little bit of data sitting on a dead format for over 2 decades was finally able to reach the current internet, so it can duplicated and worked on forever now.
@kandigloss6438
@kandigloss6438 4 жыл бұрын
@@powerfulshammy yeah, now you don't, nice try though.
@peterg.8245
@peterg.8245 4 жыл бұрын
8:20 those candle looking objects are flares and I used to design control systems for them!!! Back in the old days before Honeywell purchased the company. Also John Zink and Zeeco all based in the Tulsa, OK area.
@mzflighter6905
@mzflighter6905 4 жыл бұрын
Woah! What is their purpose?
@DaveF.
@DaveF. 4 жыл бұрын
5:23 "Trajectory headings for multiple-impact re-entry vehicles" - What does that mean? I don't know. But it's GREAT!
@Ninjetika
@Ninjetika 4 жыл бұрын
When anything is recovered like this, it makes me smile with absolute joy! Sometimes it takes a lot of hard work and dedication to recover something and I am eternally thankful to the people that do these kinds of things!!!
@CotyTernes
@CotyTernes 4 жыл бұрын
I knew after reading an article this morning that I could count on you to put something out ASAP. Thanks!
@spookylemon4947
@spookylemon4947 4 жыл бұрын
Literally just read the article and popped on KZbin to search if anyone had uploaded anything. Checked my sub box first and here it is!
@exxor9108
@exxor9108 4 жыл бұрын
Anyone notice that the backdrop for the title screen is roughly similar to the one used for the SNES version of SimCity?
@Cooe.
@Cooe. 4 жыл бұрын
5:52 "External Events" is likely the analog of "Disasters" from Sim City. Aka random "bad" stuff will happen, likely ala oil shortages/embargoes, oil spills, changes to legislation, etc...
@geekhype
@geekhype 4 жыл бұрын
Watched Phil's livestream last night and it was amazing to see the game in action and hear more behind the research that went into the article and finally the discovery of the floppy. Glad to see you playing it on your channel!
@KombatGod
@KombatGod 4 жыл бұрын
"SimRefinery EXISTS" that got me chills down my spine
@invghost
@invghost 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for LGR Blerbs, this is the type of thing I originally subscribed to LGR for and I'm glad to see these types of videos come out where it's just random interesting stuff that you get excited to talk about.
@IIIJFRIII
@IIIJFRIII 4 жыл бұрын
This is so good LGR, thanks for the video. I'm still waiting for Sim City 2000 windows 95 special edition to come out. It had the extra zoom and special and extra buildings.
@everythingpony
@everythingpony 4 жыл бұрын
It already is out
@armorgeddon
@armorgeddon 4 жыл бұрын
@@everythingpony Prove?
@IIIJFRIII
@IIIJFRIII 4 жыл бұрын
@@everythingpony where?? I can't find it anywhere.
@BradLancaster86
@BradLancaster86 4 жыл бұрын
dabbing my oils to this vid, thank you for your golden voice BTW always soothing retro/vintage PC content thank you Clint
@SorryforMinecraftin
@SorryforMinecraftin 4 жыл бұрын
I’m a Pipefitter, and I did a Turnaround on Small Refinery in Mississippi. This is really neat, I never knew that this existed, and the Unit Names are real to those in a Refinery. The Crude Unit is where I worked installing new piping around old equipment, I talked to a Operator about how it worked a little once. Light, Medium, Heavy Diesel, or Crude. He said that light was closest to what ends up in your Car if I can recall. Anyways Operators are always out in Each unit taking Samples to check Chemical Makeup for Flaws or Possible Hazards. Some Units used Sulfuric Acid, not mention H2S Gas that may be present. Just this is really awesome, need to try it out
@TatharNuar
@TatharNuar 4 жыл бұрын
This isn't a prototype for SimFarm. It's a prototype for Factorio.
@hhectorlector
@hhectorlector 4 жыл бұрын
I worked on a big construction project at a chevron refinery around 2015. Workers there seemed genuinely happy and seemed like Chevron treated everyone relatively well. This was probably a very cool way for people to learn about their new job!
@MegaManNeo
@MegaManNeo 4 жыл бұрын
This is freaking awesome, I need to try it myself. The lack of the catchy SimCity SNES theme song on the title screen made me sad though 😞
@KuraIthys
@KuraIthys 4 жыл бұрын
Lol, yeah, that music... Meanwhile you've just reminded me of the awful SNES port of Sim City 2000... (well, Super Famicom) It's... Terrible. XD And it was released in 1995... Yet it doesn't even support the mouse released in 1993... ... Even though you play it by manipulating a cursor with the d-pad... >__
@wexenhex
@wexenhex 4 жыл бұрын
@@KuraIthys I remember really enjoying it, altho that may just be because it was the first place i played 2000
@rikprince8414
@rikprince8414 4 жыл бұрын
Very cool vid! Glad to see ya so happy. I was never a fan of any SIMS type games. But, Still stoked that you enjoyed it. All the best!
@josephcharles2917
@josephcharles2917 4 жыл бұрын
I've been binge watching your stuff, not in any order and not that it pertains to any of my daily life but I love your content. Keep it up.
@hairymannnn
@hairymannnn 4 жыл бұрын
This entire video is very analogous to how I felt when Pokémon Gold's 1997 beta was discovered, dumped, and showcased to the public and how I got to try the ROM myself. I totally understand your awe and excitement here Clint, I love it.
@cvbabc
@cvbabc 4 жыл бұрын
I'm now convinced your Blerb idea was a good one. Some things are not enough to justify putting the time and effort of script, in depth ressearch and multi-camera production, but are still worth sharing.
@mccobsta
@mccobsta 4 жыл бұрын
There's some discussion on reddit about how there might be a finished version of this on a floppy disk some where
@thcollegestudent
@thcollegestudent 4 жыл бұрын
I'm really enjoying the Blurb channel LGR, its nice to get the extra content, really appreciate it!
@Tustin2121
@Tustin2121 4 жыл бұрын
Being corrected by your future self has the same vibes as those narrator memes. “Aw, it doesn’t look like it has fire animations...” Narrator: “It actually did.”
@sonixthatsme
@sonixthatsme 4 жыл бұрын
I love how these old games and programs still pop-up.
@NightpireVideos
@NightpireVideos 4 жыл бұрын
The first thing I thought when I saw these news that was you gonna love it! Thanks for making the quick video about the game!
@FyberOptic
@FyberOptic 4 жыл бұрын
Sometimes you can find fun or interesting things in these old programs, either on purpose or for debugging, but taking this one apart for a quick glance didn't seem to show much other than what it's supposed to be. I'm betting the developers didn't have a lot of fun making it.
@urmie
@urmie 4 жыл бұрын
I had no idea this channel existed. LGR should advertise this on his main channel. I saw this from an Engadget article.
@JcGross93
@JcGross93 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Blerbs has become the channel that carried forward the mentality of the early LGR videos. There are games, there are review, and they are lazy. It's great.
@Christopher-N
@Christopher-N 4 жыл бұрын
*urmie:* You also know about the *LGR Foods* channel, right?
@urmie
@urmie 4 жыл бұрын
@@Christopher-N That I do good sir.
@jonathaningram8157
@jonathaningram8157 4 жыл бұрын
@@JcGross93 I like more researched video but those one are really chill and I'm enjoying too.
@DanielLopez-up6os
@DanielLopez-up6os 4 жыл бұрын
Heck yeah, as soon as i saw the announcement i was giddy to see you feature it :D
@isaackracoff1021
@isaackracoff1021 4 жыл бұрын
0:23 You almost turned into the Christmas Clone there!
@kraizyace2612
@kraizyace2612 4 жыл бұрын
Having grown up in Wilmington, CA during a portion of my childhood something like this would have struck all of my curiosity buttons, especially since Wilmington and parts of Long Beach are just brimming with refineries and oil stuffs...
@godofdeath58
@godofdeath58 4 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to try it out. Sim City and and Sim Ant are two of my favorite PC games from that time.
@jbizzle8491
@jbizzle8491 4 жыл бұрын
Playing a mythical oil game on a wooden PC The irony is strong with this one...👌
@FrankVannier
@FrankVannier 4 жыл бұрын
Wow, I've been waiting for like forever for someone to unearth this treasure!
@TexRobNC
@TexRobNC 4 жыл бұрын
Maxis, Bullfrog, Nova Logic, Microprose from the 80s and 90s, I'd love to hear about all these companies
@AkosJaccik
@AkosJaccik 4 жыл бұрын
At roughly 13:14 that "barn" at the top right corner definitely gives off the SimFarm vibes. Even the foliage feels similar.
@AbrahamLure
@AbrahamLure 4 жыл бұрын
I worked for engineering at a biopharma production facility for a while. The similarities in overseeing and management in this game are pretty close!! Looking forwards to playing it myself. Really love the balancing in this, super exciting.
@Applecompuser
@Applecompuser 4 жыл бұрын
Literally just read this in the news. Glad you posted.
@EmilioNorrmann
@EmilioNorrmann 4 жыл бұрын
ohhhh that brings back old memories from when oil prices were above zero
@darknessblades
@darknessblades 4 жыл бұрын
Now the community that enjoy's Retro games needs to get this in 100% working form.
@nathanwoodruff9422
@nathanwoodruff9422 4 жыл бұрын
I purchased a copy of SimEarth when it was released. Just recently I got a virtual machine up and running on Windows 7 that is dos 6.2. The SimEarth disks from 30 years ago were readable and I made images of the disks and was playing simearth in the virtual machine. I have also original Doom diskettes that were readable too and was playing Doom in the virtual machine too. So, yea, diskettes can be read for a long time.
@ExMachinaEngineering
@ExMachinaEngineering 4 жыл бұрын
05:10 I really liked the part he set the octane value of premium to 47 RON... Epic...
@cpufreak101
@cpufreak101 4 жыл бұрын
That'd be AKI judging by the regular being 87 (91RON I believe), but that's still a damn low octane lol
@wannabeetiger
@wannabeetiger 4 жыл бұрын
Very cool! You can take a course right on your computer the fun way to learn about the refinery. I like it.:)
@AndRewUK24
@AndRewUK24 4 жыл бұрын
I have stopped the video and now opened Boxer on my MacBook Air. I have successfully run SimRefinery on my MacBook Air. Thank you very much Clint LGR.
@rorykurek643
@rorykurek643 4 жыл бұрын
Duuuuude, I have been hoping for this for so long!
@atflst6053
@atflst6053 4 жыл бұрын
Now somebody finish this game in cooperation with the original creators and their vision. This is amazing.
@toyfreaks
@toyfreaks 4 жыл бұрын
This is amazing! Makes me wonder what else got made for corporate contracts? Maybe there was a dungeon crawler RPG for Amway salespeople
@MrRandomposter
@MrRandomposter 4 жыл бұрын
I hope when I get older there’s a pill to make my floppy recoverable.
@leegraves8878
@leegraves8878 4 жыл бұрын
There is it is called bluechew.
@ChadDidNothingWrong
@ChadDidNothingWrong 4 жыл бұрын
"...Yeah I've been seeing a woman. She's an author; wrote the book on men's sexual dysfunction. You've probably read it."
@singeslayer8367
@singeslayer8367 4 жыл бұрын
so many uploads, you must be having fun! I love this channel.
@Honeybearsphone
@Honeybearsphone 4 жыл бұрын
Someone's isolation life isn't so boring lol
@someone_named
@someone_named 4 жыл бұрын
I love the content please keep it up you have a good channel here
@zomp
@zomp 4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful puristic graphic style, somehow this always creates this special atmosphere. The restrictions of that time created some of the most focused graphics. Feels totaly "on point".
@sohousama
@sohousama 4 жыл бұрын
You can hear the excitement! It's so awesome!
@astrotrance
@astrotrance 4 жыл бұрын
"Oh no! Congress is about to pass a bill giving a tax credit to companies who use solar energy! Send your lobbyists to Washington."
@RobCamp-rmc_0
@RobCamp-rmc_0 4 жыл бұрын
Nathan Bell “We need to fund a scientific study that concludes that solar energy causes cancer in children. And, uh, crude oil is the cure...? Yeah, that’s it.”
@witchywoman2008
@witchywoman2008 4 жыл бұрын
Clint's joy brings me joy.
@papapingas1797
@papapingas1797 4 жыл бұрын
Lgr blurbs is great and I think you should keep this channel going
@vetchb.s.c.1612
@vetchb.s.c.1612 4 жыл бұрын
That is really cool. I had never even heard of that game and I'm an inspector in the oil and gas industry.
@cpufreak101
@cpufreak101 4 жыл бұрын
Apparently Chevron still regards it as a proprietary secret, so they were never that open about it
@burnsy96
@burnsy96 9 ай бұрын
Interesting to think of that the map we're looking at is the actual floor plan of the refinery that this one build of the game was SPECIFICALLY designed for. 😮
@nomakewan
@nomakewan 4 жыл бұрын
The "FCC Unit" is the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit. It makes shoes for orphans.
@elgigante2001
@elgigante2001 4 жыл бұрын
This looks very interesting, as well as a great piece of Maxis history. Although now I want a fully working version where I can build a oil refinery company from the ground up, and then promptly destroy it with all the available disasters at once.
@rolandexclusive6306
@rolandexclusive6306 4 жыл бұрын
NICE, DOWNLOADING NOW, WANTED TO PLAY THIS FOR A LONG TIME
@vinesauceobscurities
@vinesauceobscurities 4 жыл бұрын
The refinery fire disaster option must be wild.
@Christopher-N
@Christopher-N 4 жыл бұрын
We have _Oakflat Nuclear Power Plant Simulator,_ we now have _SimRefinery._ Now we need a _SimNuke_ to make radioactive space batteries so we can have _SimSpace: Voyages of the Starship Llama Drone._
@stevencarlson5422
@stevencarlson5422 4 жыл бұрын
This needs to be finished so it could be full playable disasters and all the goodness that goes with the sim games
@stinky1895
@stinky1895 4 жыл бұрын
Man I'm loving these Blerbs
@augustreubenrodil2502
@augustreubenrodil2502 4 жыл бұрын
Wow I just saw this on Reddit and was wondering when you were gonna make a video on this!
@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi
@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi 3 жыл бұрын
wow didnt know, i have a little netbook dedicated to maxis games, cant wait to add this,
@MiLi-on4wp
@MiLi-on4wp 4 жыл бұрын
Memory dump... I think I played this or something similar to as a kid. I remember going to the science museum Oklahoma (omniplex) or possibly to another place (venture 2000? or a name like that) and they had a PC that you could stand at that was placed at a desk coming off a column or something. But I remember playing the original SimCity (or possibly this) and then another game... I remember lots of blue or one color on the screen, and the word oil. Might of been oil barons but after looking at screens not so sure. Now I wish I could remember if it was at the omniplex or not... I remember a counter on the wall something to do with 'number of hotdogs eaten by Americans'. God my childhood memories are strange.
@StereoTyp0
@StereoTyp0 4 жыл бұрын
11:04 "lightening [sic] struck a gasoline product tank"
@SpiralPegasus
@SpiralPegasus 4 жыл бұрын
It was an extremely heavy metal lightening kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYnFqIuAatZ9i9U
@rschaumann512
@rschaumann512 4 жыл бұрын
Hi Clint, you should track down and review Sim Life (if you haven't already). It's a Sim about evolution and the piece of software that will bring any PC to it's knees... It simulates all the individual life-forms and since the amount of those grows exponentially, you can guess what happens. My 12 MB RAM in my machine was eaten up in less than 20 minutes and only a hard reset could bring that machine back to life. Anyway, you should try it!
@wellseeya
@wellseeya 4 жыл бұрын
Wait I didn't know this channel existed 🤩
@Antonio-fl3nr
@Antonio-fl3nr 4 жыл бұрын
Clint, I think this should go in your main channel. It's good enough.
@joshsamuelson1793
@joshsamuelson1793 4 жыл бұрын
That is an industrial simulator to the core. Lots of process related terms that are specifically niche.
@RagdyAndy
@RagdyAndy 4 жыл бұрын
Hope someone can finish this game! Id love to play it!
@Merylstreep1949
@Merylstreep1949 4 жыл бұрын
" Back to regularly scheduled whatever...." --LGR adeptly but inadvertently sums up the rest of 2020....hopefully 👍👍👍😸😸🤘❤❤☺️🤪
@BoloH.
@BoloH. 4 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, as someone who dabbles with oil & gas processes at work I'd love to see this finished.
@theshadowman1398
@theshadowman1398 4 жыл бұрын
Two fun LGR videos in one day. Epic
@AssaulteedOne
@AssaulteedOne 4 жыл бұрын
With the Internet Archive link taken down, does anyone have a back-up of SimRefinery that they might be able to share with people again?
@stamasd8500
@stamasd8500 4 жыл бұрын
Re-upload archive.org/details/sim-refinery
@johnboydojo
@johnboydojo 4 жыл бұрын
That's seriously fucking cool! Nice one Clint!
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