[HN Gopher] Maxis' former "serious games" division (2020)
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Maxis' former "serious games" division (2020)
Author : Redoubts
Score : 79 points
Date : 2022-01-16 17:08 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| _1tan wrote:
| Anyone has more information on Simpower? I even tried getting in
| touch with ESRI to no avail.
| thrower123 wrote:
| One of my favorite Sim games, SimTower, started life as an
| elevator management and scheduling simulation and had a game
| bolted on afterwards.
| shalmanese wrote:
| This needs a [2020] in the title as significant new information
| has been unearthed as a consequence of this article as mentioned
| in other comments in this thread.
| dang wrote:
| Year added above. Thanks!
| proggy wrote:
| And, like clockwork, just a few weeks after this article's
| publication in mid-2020, a floppy diskette of SimRefinery was
| found and the game was provided to Ars Technica for further
| discussion [1].
|
| [1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/a-lost-maxis-sim-
| game...
| [deleted]
| trilinearnz wrote:
| Loving those double-res Sim City 2000 sprites from SimHealth :)
| Beautiful.
| rl3 wrote:
| Don Hopkins has written up a wealth of information about
| SimRefinery on HN before, and it's all terribly interesting:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23425368
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23425542
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24163430
| psahgal wrote:
| Should this link be replaced with the original source? Ars
| Technica linked to the original blog post in the first paragraph,
| and the rest of the article summarizes the original source.
| Here's the blog post in question:
| https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/
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