Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective

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  • čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
  • It's been ages since I first covered this so it's high time for a revisit! Streets of SimCity was a flawed jankfest of a game, yet I've always had a fondness for it. Exploring your SimCity 2000 cities in 3D was fantastic in 1997 and even with all the bugs and crashing I played it a ton. So let's revisit it decades later, now with the excellent SimStreetsX patch!
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    ● LGR elsewhere:
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    ● Get Krimsky's SimStreetsX installer / patcher here:
    krimsky.net/patchers.html
    ● Most background music is from the Streets of SimCity OST:
    open.spotify.com/album/6M1xay...
    ● Other background music licensed from:
    www.epidemicsound.com
    #LGR #retro #gaming #racing #pc
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  • @101Volts
    @101Volts Před 18 dny +77

    In the Streets of SimCity manual, there's *one* quip I had quoted under your previous video for the game. *"Pedestrians:* It is not possible to harm Sims in any way. Ignore them and go on about finishing the episode. In any event, they will ignore you. *Unlike those who play computer games, Sims have fulfilling lives."* - Page 23, Paragraph 1.

    • @ThatGuyNamedRick
      @ThatGuyNamedRick Před 13 dny +6

      remember a quote from the manual that was something like "Pedestrians can NOT be injured in any way, this game is NOT CARMAGEDDON (t)"

    • @multitimmytiger2
      @multitimmytiger2 Před 11 dny +3

      And now, almost everyone play computer games...

    • @DustenRust
      @DustenRust Před 11 dny +3

      ​@@multitimmytiger2And have fulfilling lives...
      /s

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts Před 10 dny

      Somewhat related, there's a small community of people modding SOSC. There's now a tool around where you can replace cars in-game with other ones, and then "itchyboy" made car models for the game that were seen in cutscenes, but weren't available to play in the game. Video link:
      czcams.com/video/RCUnzGsCrlA/video.html
      Read the description of itchyboy's video to find more info.

  • @GreyWolfLeaderTW
    @GreyWolfLeaderTW Před 21 dnem +511

    "More time has past between now and that review in 2010 than between that review and the game's release."
    Thank you for making me feel like an old geezer. Time flies in the tech world.

    • @wijjit
      @wijjit Před 21 dnem +2

      Lol, sooo true.

    • @JPAK_92
      @JPAK_92 Před 21 dnem +11

      Oh man this makes me feel so old. And I'm 32.

    • @ketaminepoptarts
      @ketaminepoptarts Před 20 dny +4

      *passed

    • @wijjit
      @wijjit Před 20 dny +7

      @@JPAK_92 You young whipper snapper, may you have the all the good things.

    • @thomaspitcher129
      @thomaspitcher129 Před 20 dny +1

      Thanks now I know the next tech bust WILL due us in

  • @ggezlol-
    @ggezlol- Před 21 dnem +386

    Man feels great to hear "Practice Mode" again. Legend.

    • @4Wilko
      @4Wilko Před 21 dnem +9

      7:10

    • @touppi
      @touppi Před 21 dnem +4

      I could not like this comment, because it was at 69

    • @doalwa
      @doalwa Před 21 dnem

      Nice!

    • @mrmajikjr
      @mrmajikjr Před 21 dnem +4

      What game is that from?

    • @adammorrison9705
      @adammorrison9705 Před 21 dnem +24

      @@mrmajikjr Extreme Rock Climbing by Head Games. LGR reviewed it yeeeeeeeeaaaars ago. Very early LGR

  • @vinesauceobscurities
    @vinesauceobscurities Před 21 dnem +83

    It's a buggy, half-baked game, but it's my buggy, half-baked game. Lost hours playing the single episode campaigns as a kid.
    For the longest time I really wished I could play it again on modern OS's, and now I can. Bless the modders who make this possible.

  • @zentran2690
    @zentran2690 Před 21 dnem +418

    Has it really been that long that it's time for an updated review... Damn we're old..

    • @nadca2
      @nadca2 Před 21 dnem +5

      I didnt even know you could play your sim city maps until I saw his prior video.

    • @fallingwater
      @fallingwater Před 21 dnem +11

      We aren't old, we're aged, like a fine whiskey :D

    • @matthewjbauer1990
      @matthewjbauer1990 Před 21 dnem +5

      Yes. I. Feel ya. I was a kid when Streets came out. Now I'm old.

    • @oldschooldude8370
      @oldschooldude8370 Před 21 dnem +4

      Seasoned gentleman.

    • @agy234
      @agy234 Před 21 dnem +5

      My copy of streets of sim city, that I got in one of those multipacks is old enough to drink . I guess I’m old

  • @Arturiens
    @Arturiens Před 21 dnem +318

    Wish modern city builders would let you do this.

    • @lifespanofafry1534
      @lifespanofafry1534 Před 21 dnem +4

      One day…

    • @PutYourQuarterUpGaming
      @PutYourQuarterUpGaming Před 21 dnem +40

      I wish we had modern city builders 😂
      Last sim city was…yeah and that other franchise just seems like half baked dlc fest ala paradox.
      Like having sim streets again would be great, but I’d rather we just get a proper sim city 4000 or something first.

    • @xAciasx
      @xAciasx Před 21 dnem +20

      Console version of Cities Skylines did let you drive around your own city.

    • @celeron55
      @celeron55 Před 21 dnem +7

      It would be so easy to do this today, with a way better out of the box physics engine too.

    • @DeadHandtheSurvivor
      @DeadHandtheSurvivor Před 21 dnem +27

      ​@@PutYourQuarterUpGamingDLC aside Cities Skylines was the closest we ever got to a modern city builder that felt like what simcity 2013 should've been. It has a decent city sim, bigger maps, decent traffic systems, and really lets you get creative with the inner designs of the cities, sucks that the squeal which easily could of been the best city builder since simcity 4 dropped the ball hard.

  • @frtls
    @frtls Před 21 dnem +97

    Still love the idea of loading someplace I've built into another game. Also the fact that the game pops a windows dialog box to open the city is *chefs kiss*.

    • @MishraArtificer
      @MishraArtificer Před 20 dny +2

      I got that same feeling when I realized I could import my save from Dragon Age: Origins into its DLC, and my decisions from the base game would affect the world...and again from the DLC into Dragon Age II.

    • @alyxoj1361
      @alyxoj1361 Před 20 dny +4

      Yep, great concept. Like imagine today, a city builder like Skylines then another game where you load your city and its like GTA, then another where its like a noir detective game like LA Noire, or like a one focused on street racing, or even one where you create your own superhero or villain. Then you go back to building your city and you feel super connected to certain streets and locations.

    • @itsjustcavan
      @itsjustcavan Před 20 dny +2

      Any game that interacts with another game’s assets is something I love. Very Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles vibes

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts Před 18 dny

      It's kind of amazing how rare this is in gaming. Not that I have the best knowledge of games as a whole, but for such an enjoyable concept, you'd expect that companies would have done this a bit more often. Not that I can expect a person to make a Tony Hawk skate park automatically in Left 4 Dead or something just by having a city builder, but still, what a game (or interlocking series of them) it could be to have interlocking parts.

  • @fallingwater
    @fallingwater Před 21 dnem +179

    I never realised Streets feels so much like SimCopter on drugs. The smoke/fire particle effects, the janky angled hills, even the damage effect sound are the same. It almost looks like it runs on an alpha version of SimCopter's engine rather than an enhanced version...

    • @VinceVicari
      @VinceVicari Před 20 dny

      I can't imagine something more chaotic than Sim Copter!!! I gotta play this game.

    • @graey2
      @graey2 Před 20 dny +1

      Yeah it's probably way more janky because you're not flying so the collision problems are much much more noticable.

    • @fallingwater
      @fallingwater Před 20 dny +2

      @@VinceVicari actually less than you'd think, other than the slight absurdity of you being the only emergency service in the entire city. There's people about and they behave sensibly, traffic is somewhat simplistic but reasonable, and the flight model is arcadey - of course - but consistent. The jankiest thing in the game is when you have to walk around outside of the helicopter and get stuck on all the things, but you can avoid doing that almost completely if you want to.

    • @fallingwater
      @fallingwater Před 20 dny +2

      @@graey2 that's part of it - indeed when you're walking about in SimCopter getting stuck on everything gets irritating real fast - but it's not all of it. There's actual content in that game that isn't just haphazardly thrown at the wall in the hope something sticks. Streets was clearly an unfinished game, while SimCopter was 98% of the way there.

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts Před 18 dny

      @@fallingwater It still feels ridiculous that in SimCopter, *I'm* somehow the only guy in the whole city who can call an Ambulance / Fire Truck / Police Car. I loved the game when I was 9, and there's still some good in it, but that one detail has *got* to go if someone remakes it. It at least needs to be so that someone calls if you don't arrive quickly enough, but they're slower.

  • @tbthegr81
    @tbthegr81 Před 21 dnem +124

    Jeez, that gameplay, those graphics... And less than 2 years later Midtown Madness landed and showed ya how racing through a virtual city should be done

    • @ziginox
      @ziginox Před 20 dny +12

      Monster Truck Madness 2, released just a few months later, also looks much better. Heck, even 1996's original Monster Truck Madness gives this a run for its money.

    • @JK-mo2ov
      @JK-mo2ov Před 20 dny +1

      That was only 2 years difference?!?

    • @ridass.7137
      @ridass.7137 Před 20 dny +2

      carmageddon has left the chat lol

    • @MrWolfSnack
      @MrWolfSnack Před 19 dny +3

      @@ridass.7137 Carmageddon wasnt so much a racing game as it was DOOM with cars.

    • @poindextertunes
      @poindextertunes Před 18 dny

      @@ridass.7137Carmageddon was the shxt

  • @mootbooxle
    @mootbooxle Před 21 dnem +72

    What a dream come true it would be to combine a fully-featured city sim and a fully-featured GTA-style driving and shooting game.
    A city that you build and then inhabit, and you can explore to your heart’s content as you build more city. The tech is there now, but it would essentially require the development of two complete games in one.
    Basically I just want this game, except good.

    • @presidentkiller
      @presidentkiller Před 21 dnem

      And NOT made by either EA nor Rockstar. Both are greedier than ever.

    • @common_c3nts
      @common_c3nts Před 20 dny +1

      I always dreamed of a GTA Sim city 2000 version.

    • @mootbooxle
      @mootbooxle Před 20 dny +2

      @@common_c3nts to me, it would pretty much be the best thing imaginable! A world that I build and manage from one perspective, and inhabit and explore from another perspective. It could be made to be extremely immersive, if virtually all of the buildings/structures had things you could interact with!
      It could be a game of unparalleled depth. It would be almost like real life, except fun. 😂

    • @Splarkszter
      @Splarkszter Před 20 dny +4

      Tropico is also well suited for that "inhabit what you build" thing.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Před 19 dny +4

      I wanted to literally load SimCity2000 data into GTA Liberty City.

  • @ViperSnake
    @ViperSnake Před 21 dnem +49

    Scholastic was how I discovered it. I asked my Mom to order it and she did, likely assuming it was some educational game. Even as a kid I thought this was strange, and maybe even an accidental listing. Looking at it now, maybe they were just that desperate to sell game lol. Either way I enjoyed it a lot and listen to the soundtrack all the time. Anytime I play a GTA style game with a radio, I always find a way to add the music from this game and SimCopter.

  • @jaimebakulic86
    @jaimebakulic86 Před 21 dnem +140

    As a thirdworlder without internet access I simply didn't know this existed. I used to dream of something like this while I played SC2k.

    • @JoshuaJacobs83
      @JoshuaJacobs83 Před 21 dnem +3

      If you don't mind sharing, what country are you from?

    • @casedistorted
      @casedistorted Před 21 dnem +3

      oh man, really? I grew up in Wisconsin USA so first worlder, and we had internet very early in our household (56k modem to cable modem in the 90's and 2000's), and SimCity and Street, and SimCopter were all favorites of mine growing up as a kid.
      I am very sorry you didn't get to experience these growing up :(

    • @Greendawn-di3dl
      @Greendawn-di3dl Před 21 dnem +3

      @@casedistorted my pc library was sparse and random to say the least I was lucky enough to get the sims 1 and like half the expansions and simcity which stole hours from my life

    • @user-pq2mu5xc2x
      @user-pq2mu5xc2x Před 21 dnem

      @@casedistorted trust an american to rub their privilege in someones face and not even really mean to...

    • @casedistorted
      @casedistorted Před 21 dnem +1

      @@Greendawn-di3dl oh nice, yeah my main limitation growing up as a kid was only having the PC and games my dad or stepdad would buy, so when I had my own PC I could only play games like SimCity 1, since SimCity 2000 wouldn't even run on it.
      Now I am definitely overcompensating by buying over 2,300+ games on Steam the last decade lol.
      Never did own The Sims 1, which I always regretted.

  • @larrymantic2635
    @larrymantic2635 Před 21 dnem +53

    “Without rhyme or reason to the timing of its appearance, Casper the Unfriendly Police Car occasionally appears out of thin air to nab you” is a sentence I’ve never read before.

  • @natecw4164
    @natecw4164 Před 21 dnem +55

    "Four flat tires short of greatness."
    Mad props to whatever reviewer was so angry with Test Drive 4 that they managed to come up with that perfect summation 😂

    • @truesus1718
      @truesus1718 Před 15 dny +4

      Also, "It was clearly meant for an entirely different platform, but since the Intellivision market isn't thriving...". Yeesh indeed!

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts Před 13 dny

      @@truesus1718 *Accurate* for 1997. Retro Gaming was near non existent then, there was no CZcams, and anyone into it would be buying all of it *extremely* cheaply compared to today even on eBay, and I'm *sure* that more than a few old systems were just tossed in the garbage can.

  • @spvrda
    @spvrda Před 20 dny +9

    I have no idea what the ESRB was smoking when it gave the game with machinegun-equpped street racing machines blowing up cop cars and entire buildings to the tune of "my kick-ass car" and "splatter splatter" E for Everyone, but I'm sure the kids thanked them.

  • @ItsyoboyJordy
    @ItsyoboyJordy Před 21 dnem +53

    The fart truck at the end with the revs of farts had me incapacitated from laughter. Thank you!

    • @jayrx12
      @jayrx12 Před 21 dnem

      penis fart truck goes hard fr.

  • @dant5464
    @dant5464 Před 21 dnem +4

    13:58 it's Neil, moonwalking to The Cave with a new exhibit he just collected from the post office.

  • @damonwidynowski8838
    @damonwidynowski8838 Před 21 dnem +20

    One of my favourite childhood games! I played lots of SimCity 2000 (explains why I eventually became an urban planner), and once I found out I could drive around my cities I was hooked! Thanks for the happy memories :)

  • @benjamintan2733
    @benjamintan2733 Před 21 dnem +37

    Looks fun. Wish modern games like City Skyline and Anno give you this feature where you cruise around the city of your own creation.

    • @brodriguez11000
      @brodriguez11000 Před 21 dnem +1

      Anno 1800: CTRL+SHIFT+R

    • @Invalidar
      @Invalidar Před 21 dnem +1

      Pocket City 2 for iOS and Android.

    • @benjamintan2733
      @benjamintan2733 Před 21 dnem

      @@brodriguez11000 Huh, they did have this feature in 1800? My 2215 doesn't have this. There's postcard mode but that's just you standing at a spot to take picture.

    • @Stratelier
      @Stratelier Před 20 dny +2

      In some ways SimCopter still did it better than Streets, with the ability to get OUT of your helicopter and walk around on foot where needed / wanted.

  • @AnimeForeLife
    @AnimeForeLife Před 21 dnem +18

    I know these are probably the hardest types of videos to make but your reviews of old computer games are my favorite format

  • @novelezra
    @novelezra Před 21 dnem +5

    I can't believe this came out the same year as Quake 2. It looks like it was released like a month before Quake 1.

  • @dav2462
    @dav2462 Před 20 dny +4

    Christ have I really been watching LGR for fifteen years....

  • @tristikov
    @tristikov Před 21 dnem +7

    "Streets has never completely left my brain" Couldn't have put it better myself. My experience with Streets was largely the same, and it was a glorious fun time! I have fond memories of creating underground battle arenas by making a huge hill with a ton of adjacent tunnels going through it, or flying up in the air by ramping up a hill (or water tile's "waves") and hitting the airfoil just at the right time to glitch out the physics.
    As a kid, I liked the music and commercials so much that I mashed my mini boombox tape player against my computer speaker to record the ads so I could listen to them later on cassette tape... It was only later I discovered all the easier and higher fidelity way to listen to ALL the game's audio. To this day, I still regularly listen to this game's soundtrack, ads and all, as nothing else quite hits the combination nostalgia and adult appreciation sweet spot.

  • @joeconti2396
    @joeconti2396 Před 21 dnem +14

    You bringing up TD4 review scores brought me back. That game was SO WONKY but I played so so SO MUCH of it. I mean the textures on almost every car weren't even aligned properly but it had so much charm!

  • @Branhower1
    @Branhower1 Před 20 dny +5

    I always got a good laugh when hearing "but I'm walking sideways" when driving by a package courier that literally walks sideways.

  • @OptimumPx
    @OptimumPx Před 21 dnem +6

    Oh man! 'Splatter on the Windshield of Life' I have such a strong memory of that song for some reason! I also remember that it was the radio in the first Sims game too, but with all the lyrics changed into Simlish of course!

  • @TheSubnetMaster
    @TheSubnetMaster Před 21 dnem +4

    19:47
    Maybe it's just because I'm so used to Professional Clint™ keeping his dialogue neatly controlled for maximum viewer reach, but for whatever reason, the "500 kilos of SMACK, no beatin' around the bush!" line took me *all* the way out. You keep being you, LGR!

  • @TheLexikitty
    @TheLexikitty Před 21 dnem +17

    Thus was literally my favorite game growing up, oh my god thank you for making this 💞

  • @studiopaisley6039
    @studiopaisley6039 Před 21 dnem +11

    This was the game that got me beyond PC gaming and into learning how to USE the computer. Once I discovered opening Sim2K maps in Streets, creating my own "race" tracks in the Sim2K editor, it was the perfect rabbit hole for a pre-teen to discover back in the late 90's. Thanks for the nostalgia!

  • @umbrellacorp.
    @umbrellacorp. Před 21 dnem +28

    Nothing better than an LGR video after a hard work week.☕️☺️👍💯

  • @nicholasmorris3924
    @nicholasmorris3924 Před 20 dny +4

    That article at 1:28. "You need some serious horsepower to run this game-32 MB of RAM and a video card with ONE MEGABYTE." Those were the days.

  • @SomeBlokeOrWhatever
    @SomeBlokeOrWhatever Před 21 dnem +6

    My father was a giant Maxis fan and my first gaming experiences were mostly Maxis games
    I found this CD in his shelf and he said to me "I bought this game and it just never worked"
    I was like "challenge accepted"
    After an afternoon I got it running
    I didn't know what 'jank' was back then, I just knew this game had cool cars and I could blow shit up.
    Ah, to be a child.

  • @johnthedatascientist7585
    @johnthedatascientist7585 Před 21 dnem +12

    All of a sudden I feel old. Great review!

  • @gardiner_bryant
    @gardiner_bryant Před 21 dnem +4

    Damn. I remember when your original Streets of SimCity review came out. I've been a fan of yours for AGES.

  • @aftermarkgaming
    @aftermarkgaming Před 21 dnem +2

    Watching this 20000 times to get the algorithm to tell Clint we want more game reviews and retrospectives

  • @HunterTinsley
    @HunterTinsley Před 21 dnem +6

    I love(d) this game so much. As a kid it was mind blowing that I could create a city, basically play a knock off Twisted Metal within it, and destroy all the buildings. All while listening to a radio that felt "real".

  • @DefiantPunk0810
    @DefiantPunk0810 Před 21 dnem +3

    I've been waiting for LGR to revisit this game for years! As soon as I saw this video appear in my feed I knew I had to watch it. Good as always, Clint!

  • @arsenic3208
    @arsenic3208 Před 21 dnem +6

    Clint, I’ve been watching since your first review of the c64, and you’ve always made great stuff.
    Thank you.

  • @TheTrueFool
    @TheTrueFool Před 21 dnem +2

    Been very pleased to see these game retrospectives as of late! I've been subbed to your channel for over a decade and I enjoy revisiting your back catalog from time to time.

  • @PowerInOne22
    @PowerInOne22 Před 21 dnem +11

    Test Drive 4 getting a lower score cracked me up

  • @SupGangsta1
    @SupGangsta1 Před 21 dnem +6

    My god, 10 year old me had a demo of this game and I played it endlessly. Driving through an empty city, shooting missiles at nothing and listening to a sick soundtrack.

  • @ThePolandball
    @ThePolandball Před 21 dnem +16

    NOSTALGIA OVERLOAD
    YES
    YEEEES
    Nice one Clint!!

    • @guguy00
      @guguy00 Před 21 dnem +1

      Nostalgia for old Maxis games or nostalgia for old LGR videos? :P

    • @BlaBla-pf8mf
      @BlaBla-pf8mf Před 21 dnem +2

      @@guguy00 Nostalgia for Nostalgia for Nostalgia for Nostalgia for Nostalgia for Nostalgia for Nostalgia for Nostalgia for Nostalgia.

  • @rogero8443
    @rogero8443 Před 19 dny +1

    Dude, amazing! Please redo all retrospectives as much as you want, this is great to get to re-visit fresh. Going to also watch the other one after too.

  • @iAmCyberwaste
    @iAmCyberwaste Před 21 dnem +14

    7:12 Oh I love when that shows up.

  • @Iymarra
    @Iymarra Před 21 dnem +8

    Groovy, but not as groovy as Interstate '76. Now THAT was groovy.

  • @MM.
    @MM. Před 21 dnem +4

    I'll always have a soft spot for Maxis' charmingly crude attempt at a particle system. Flickering dithered squares is all you need!

  • @timdene
    @timdene Před 19 dny +1

    Great timing, for me, I just watched your Streets of Sim City review from 2010 (I'm working my way through your back catalogue of videos). Great stuff, and really appreciated! I love how you still use the menu options from Extreme Rock Climbing (Practise Mode!) in your videos, it's hilarious.

  • @Thatguy11233
    @Thatguy11233 Před 21 dnem +1

    so glad to see more retrospectives the past few months these are always great

  • @MarissaFarmer
    @MarissaFarmer Před 21 dnem +3

    I'm a child, but I figuratively died at the fart motor.

  • @aceshighdueceslow
    @aceshighdueceslow Před 21 dnem +3

    We didn't have a lot of PC games when I was a kid, and most of them were usually bought as packages (Blizzard battlechests, Lucasarts volumes, etc.) and that was how I got to experience the glorious trifecta of SimCity 2000 SE, SimCopter, and Streets of SimCity, because in the late 90s my parents bought all three as a package. They still came with all the manuals and big boxes and everything, understandable for SimCity since even the Special Edition would've been pretty old by that point.
    Anyway, SimCity 2000 ran flawlessly, SimCopter...ran but we always seemed to have save file issues so we could never really advance a career past the third or fourth city, while Streets was in a category of its own. When it ran, it ran flawlessly, but if you went over an edge on an incline and caused your car to tumble like seen in the video, there was a good chance the game would crash if you weren't fast enough to exit back to the main menu. Some of the levels couldn't complete (this still happens NOW even with the Krimsky patches) and I have a feeling it's because the engine was held together with prayers to the powers of light AND darkness, so if you weren't expedient in wiping out enemy cars, the game would crash from loading too many cars.
    We played it on a Pentium II, that was probably mid-level 300mHz or something, no GPU and stock RAM. We also didn't really know anything about tech stuff for messing with graphics modes outside of what the in-game menus offered, so we just had to hope that this time, THIS TIME, the game wouldn't crash in the middle of a level. All that to say that, yes, I have nostalgia for this game because it was all we had, and we played it, we suffered with it, and we still found enjoyment from it.
    For me, the appeal of SimCopter and Streets was not the actual gameplay, it was the music and the radios. The hanger music from SimCopter and the garage music from Streets are etched forever into my memory because the Maxis music people always put in good work. Hell, the soundtrack from Streets was popular enough that EA actually released a game OST way back in the day (I believe that's the album you can listen to on Spotify).
    Were there better games to play instead of Streets? Abso-fucking-lutely, but did 8 year old me know about them? Not really, but the music was enough that I could overlook a lot of the terribleness of the game. That and I was REALLY bad at games as a kid, so a lot of the time I would just pause and listen to the music instead.

  • @AaronOfMpls
    @AaronOfMpls Před 21 dnem +2

    Man, I had too much fun with this back in the '90s!
    My brother also had Interstate '76 and '84, so he _very_ much saw Streets as a poor-man's I'76. Though he did have fun with the granny missions storyline a number of times. And he borrowed a bunch of the sound effects for his own Win98 theme:
    -- click on the Start menu, mouse into submenus -- **crashMOO!** ... **crashMOO!** ... **crashMOO!**
    -- click on a menu option -- **crunch!**
    -- get a message box dialog somewhere -- "Heeere's a little SOMEthing-SOMEthing, snookums!" "HowooOOO?" (he edited a copy of that Granny sound file)
    But I mostly just drove around my SimCity 2000 cities (having had SC2K for DOS since '94), and created new cities to drive around in (and occasionally blow something up). At an age when I was still _not_ quite driving IRL yet, just quietly driving around in this game was incredibly satisfying! Even the janky physics was still fun to laugh at. I even had fun building courses in the racecourse editor, though like you I found the races themselves rather less engaging. Though for just driving around, I found purpose-built cities worked better; I could space the buildings a bit farther apart, and it'd look both more realistic _and_ perform better on our AMD K6.
    And yes, the music! 🥰 Far better than it had _any_ right to be! And I was pleasantly surprised by how darn much of it got re-used in The Sims 1; I even copied over a few tracks that Maxis _hadn't,_ especially on the rock station. To this day part of me still wants to take a night drive around one of my old cities again and just enjoy it.
    And to this day, I still use Streets's version of SCURK for Windows to edit SC2K cities; it runs almost as well in Wine (on my current Linux PC) as it did in Win98. And SC2K for DOS reads my WinSCURK-edited cities just fine, with seemingly zero issues. Though of course I have no way to load my edited tilesets into SC2K itself, since I never did get SCURK for DOS or SC2K for Windows.
    Anyway, I can see why the reviews weren't kind to this game back in the day. But still, I didn't care. We had the game, and I'd found ways to have fun with it, at a time when my computer gaming options were a _lot_ more limited than today. Good times!
    Now if I could find where our old PC joystick ended up ... and maybe get a gameport-to-USB adapter for it somewhere ... and see if it works on my current Linux PC ... Heck, even with keyboard, I bet the game'll run better on Wine than it would've on WinXP or 7!
    *_*looks at the CD-ROM jewel case spine on the shelf, then tabs out to find those game-engine fixes you mentioned...*_*
    _EDIT: minor proofreading and formatting_

  • @Warpath37x1
    @Warpath37x1 Před 21 dnem +1

    Clint I've been subscribed to your channel since 2015. I made a new account since I first subscribed but I've still been watching 9 years. My favorite video you made is the red baron pizza coupon video. It is just such a unique and original thing to do. Your game reviews are my favorite and adding the whole trip to food lion and using the old coupon just made the review even better. I hope one day you'll get back to doing more reviews and maybe something similar to that red baron video. Thanks man for years of entertainment.
    Also last thing, your Christmas videos are becoming less and less every year. It just seems like you're toning it down until it disappears completely.Please keep doing the LGR Christmas.

  • @steevf
    @steevf Před 21 dnem +5

    My favorite thing about this game was the Soundtrack especially the jazz/funk tracks. I really wish they would release the Sim Copter soundtrack in a high quality format some day as it has some of my favorite Jerry Martin / Marc Russo Jazz tracks.

    • @LGR
      @LGR  Před 21 dnem +6

      Agreed, it's painful how low quality the tracks are from the game itself

  • @cujoedaman
    @cujoedaman Před 20 dny +3

    Maxis: Now you can drive around the cities that you build!
    Us: Gonna create a city that cannot possibly exist with 20-lane hiways and buildings in the middle of the road!

  • @Redmage913
    @Redmage913 Před 20 dny +1

    One second in, and all I can scream is:
    THANK YOU!
    One of my favorite games ever, and one I really need to revisit…

  • @dazhigh9208
    @dazhigh9208 Před 20 dny

    Great video Clint, A pleasant suprise on a saturday morning to wake up and find another new LGR video. Cheers dude Many thanks from Daz and my Dog Max from the East coast of Lincs UK. 🙂

  • @that_colin_guy
    @that_colin_guy Před 21 dnem +3

    Man this takes me back. Got the triple bundle of SC2K, SimCopter & Streets back in the day and vividly remember then fun.
    Getting to drive around in the maps I had created in SC2K blew my 12 year old mind.

  • @FrancisFjordCupola
    @FrancisFjordCupola Před 21 dnem +10

    We need the Streets of Cities: Skylines now. With Glide API renderer.

    • @EhFrank
      @EhFrank Před 21 dnem +3

      If they ever make that game, I want them to call it "Cities: Streets"

  • @orkanisedcrime
    @orkanisedcrime Před 21 dnem +1

    Nice some new old stuff to watch this evening. Thanks Clint! Havve a good one!

  • @ultravioletcombat5933
    @ultravioletcombat5933 Před 20 dny +1

    The original Streets of Sim City review was one of the first videos of yours I ever watched, seeing a new take on it is awesome.

  • @davidromeroblaya7920
    @davidromeroblaya7920 Před 21 dnem +3

    The music was so awesome that some songs were reused in The Sims' radio stations.

  • @JohnCharb87
    @JohnCharb87 Před 21 dnem +4

    I started watching and subscribe to this channel in 2012. I remember this was one of the first videos I watched among others.

    • @sugargliderdude
      @sugargliderdude Před 21 dnem +1

      for you

    • @mikeymaiku
      @mikeymaiku Před 21 dnem

      Odell Down under for me, its litterally a game i played in my childhood with the first family pc

  • @humanharddrive1
    @humanharddrive1 Před 20 dny +2

    10:53is such a clusterfuck and i love how perfectly timed the jump that sent your car upwards was
    holy crap those movement controls are equal parts genius and insane😭
    I too loved messing around with game files in other games and seeing what skins i could make

  • @rjcgy713
    @rjcgy713 Před 20 dny +1

    I watched your original review not so long ago going through the official lgr playlist. Awesome!

  • @Angrymuscles
    @Angrymuscles Před 21 dnem +5

    The instant the Splatter on the Windshield of Life line started I immediately and uncontrollably began singing and remembering the lyrics. Despite the fact that it's been twenty to twenty-five years since I last played it or heard that song. Memories Clint, good memories. Thank you so much.

  • @martinw89
    @martinw89 Před 21 dnem +3

    The car customization music + art style unlocked some memories 16:51

  • @mikedouglas9863
    @mikedouglas9863 Před 21 dnem +1

    Please always do these re-reviews. Love you, LGR

  • @Mark-qj5kp
    @Mark-qj5kp Před 5 dny +1

    "Im just a splatter splatter splatter on the windshield of life..."
    Man, that song has been living rent free in my head since this game first came out.

  • @stoffhimel
    @stoffhimel Před 21 dnem +3

    Streets really is one of those games. Still have my copy from when I was little. Spent hours making car skins. And “flying” around the city.

  • @tsufordman
    @tsufordman Před 21 dnem +3

    My sister was the Sims player in the family, but I could turn my brain off and enjoy this one. Especially after learning that the van with 8 machine guns was about invincible.

  • @tipulsar85
    @tipulsar85 Před 21 dnem +2

    Ah yes, Streets of SimCity. I got the Budget rerelease back in the day, still have the disk. It reminds me now of Car Wars, which I would not be surprised if it was an influence. For those of you that don't know, Car Wars is a tabletop vehicular combat game, whose current version uses Hot Wheels sized minis, from 1981. It did get adapted to PC in the 80s under the name Autoduel by fellow EA bought studio Origin Software.

  • @Wolfburns
    @Wolfburns Před 21 dnem

    I never played Streets but SimCopter is favorite. Thanks for keeping the memories alive LGR. Love all the videos and really appreciate your work!

  • @aerynmusick4548
    @aerynmusick4548 Před 21 dnem +4

    Wooo new LGR

  • @Bellzair
    @Bellzair Před 21 dnem +4

    I'm gonna tell my grandkids that this was gta 6.

  • @BeyondCocytus
    @BeyondCocytus Před 20 dny +1

    Man, I LOVED this game when I was a kid. I made dozens of maps and skins for my own game and levels with their whole own lore than only existed in my head. I even made a (bad) reproduction of my hometown to drive around and cause havoc in. Thanks for the core memory unlock, LGR

  • @flippedoutkyrii
    @flippedoutkyrii Před 21 dnem +1

    That original review is what dragged me into this channel to begin with. Hope you do more review retrospectives on your older stuff!

  • @terryechoes3192
    @terryechoes3192 Před 21 dnem +6

    It's a shame this game came out poorly. It sounds like a really neat concept. Even just driving around your city without the combat mechanics sounds neat.

    • @fallingwater
      @fallingwater Před 21 dnem +2

      SimCopter is basically the same thing done right. Well, done almost right, anyway - it was janky in its own right, but it didn't feel like it was Ramsey-level FUCKING RAW the way Streets does.

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts Před 10 dny

      @@fallingwater Streets is not even a game you can beat without modding it in its stock crash-happy form. The "Forever War" mission takes a pathetically long time to finish even if it WOULD work right, I got about 3 hours in on minimal graphics settings and on level 8 before the game was like "I must quit" and I lost my progress. There *isn't* a save feature for it during the mission.
      Someone told me he beat that mission by modding. He had to use the minimum graphic settings, use the in-car camera only, and replace the city file with one that had no buildings but gas stations, and one long train track with many railroad crossings just so the enemy cars would keep blowing up. Fair enough since the game is just *_so_* badly programmed that it keeps crashing under its own weight.

  • @colddogs
    @colddogs Před 21 dnem +3

    tgif everyone - hope you have a great weekend

  • @thawhole9
    @thawhole9 Před 21 dnem +1

    Starting @7:32 i was in literal tears cackling all the way through the side by side comparison with the moonwalking pedestrian on the 3Dfx Glide view 🤣
    Well done, sir!

  • @johncranston421
    @johncranston421 Před 20 dny +1

    Thanks for shouting out Krimsky, the SimCopterX patch is a godsend 🙏

  • @Toddis
    @Toddis Před 21 dnem +3

    Heck yes

  • @spiderplant
    @spiderplant Před 21 dnem +3

    I know it's a shitty game, but i Loved it so much

  • @AmvC
    @AmvC Před 21 dnem +2

    3:42 the german "na ja" 😂 it equals to "well ... if you have to, you can buy it, but we wouldn't" or "well, there is something on the screen, but it's not really worth the time or money" :)

  • @kiddhkane
    @kiddhkane Před 21 dnem

    Finally! A new game review. This is my favorite type of content from LGR.

  • @EirkenElite
    @EirkenElite Před 21 dnem +3

    For real this holds a place in my heart yadda yadda yadda parents just got divorced I buried myself in streets of sim and Napster....I would play the create your own all the time only played missions once must have 1000 hours on it....just edited this more freal easily over 1000 hours in this game never knew you could load up your sim city file and drive arounds

  • @Lu-db1uf
    @Lu-db1uf Před 21 dnem +4

    My grandparents loved this game when they were kids

  • @Pheorize
    @Pheorize Před 20 dny

    Yay, a remake of a old review! I definitely approve! I was watching your review of Interstate '76 yesterday, were you mentioned the original review. So very good timing (for me that is) to release a remake! :D

  • @superhooch
    @superhooch Před 19 dny +1

    Clint you're the GOAT. I've been a fan of yours for years. Keep killing it. Just wanted to take a moment to share some appreciation.

    • @LGR
      @LGR  Před 19 dny +2

      Thank you, I appreciate that!

  • @lauramae6548
    @lauramae6548 Před 19 dny

    Thanks for the vid, I adored this game ♥. It's great to experience the music and weird package descriptions again. Granny's Wild Ride was my FAVE back in the day

  • @Rilch
    @Rilch Před 21 dnem +1

    Idk what it is about your voice but it is so soothing/relaxing. At this point I don't even care what the video is about I just like hearing you speak :D But man watching vids about these old games really makes me miss being a kid.

  • @LeonardoSalvatore
    @LeonardoSalvatore Před 9 dny +1

    I like what you are doing with this "remastered" version of your old game review. Go on pleaseeeee!

  • @WolfIsMySpiritAnimal
    @WolfIsMySpiritAnimal Před 11 dny +1

    When you make these videos, it always becomes apparent to me how much fun developers had back then. Remember playing Dungeon Keeper and Abe's Oddysey and having so much fun with the humor and characters. These days the investors get to decide and only care about money. They cared about money as well back then, but there was so much more freedom in the development. The only unique games I see these days are from indie developers, and even they are becoming worse every year.
    Yeah, I'm old...

  • @naa1619
    @naa1619 Před 15 dny +1

    Ooh excited to watch this soon. An iconic game for me. The jazz radio still cones up on my playlists

  • @joedesktop8546
    @joedesktop8546 Před 21 dnem +1

    WOW!! It's been 13 years since the original review already?...thanks for so many years of content

  • @alexgeorge501
    @alexgeorge501 Před 21 dnem +2

    "now maybe i'll be able to get some fishing in..."
    (this game truly had one of the best soundtracks in a maxis game next to the sims 1)
    13:53 Cow goes Moo & Explodes

  • @NCC-1031-A
    @NCC-1031-A Před 20 dny

    LGR it was so wild to open this video and immediately see you using city footage of my hometown!!!

    • @LGR
      @LGR  Před 20 dny +1

      It's _my_ hometown 😁
      Winston is where I grew up and was playing Streets back in the day.

  • @StephenStaver
    @StephenStaver Před 21 dnem

    Thank you for making this video. Streets of SimCity was one of my original favorite games.

  • @HissinSpit
    @HissinSpit Před 19 dny +1

    I never played this but almost immediately recognized the music because of my obsession with The Sims 1 back in the day. After installing the Complete Collection about a decade ago, I found the folders that contained the music (and TV station sound bites), and I still listen to them to this day ("Splatter" is one of my favorites too, even if it is in Simlish in this version).

  • @rabbitything
    @rabbitything Před 21 dnem +2

    i loved this game, it was so weird, really neat that it sim copter and simcity all used the same "maps"

  • @howsy0ursister486
    @howsy0ursister486 Před 21 dnem +2

    I just heard your voice in a Tetris documentary. Now this, what a morning!

    • @moka6564
      @moka6564 Před 21 dnem

      Video name?

    • @howsy0ursister486
      @howsy0ursister486 Před 21 dnem

      @@moka6564 czcams.com/video/_fQtxKmgJC8/video.html , his voiceover starts at around 21 mins