I bought this as soon as it came available for my Commodore 64 and fell in love immediately. Untold hours of my time were spent building up my virtual cities and watching their blocky 2-D "buildings" develop, or wither, depending on my city management skills. A couple years later, having access to my workplace's Mac Classic, I bought the Mac version and played while at work as well as home...gee, some things never change.
As the years went by, SimCity, having become extremely popular, went through many newer versions, some better than others, but all were a little lacking, IMHO, when compared to the original. Oh sure, the graphics had improved and there were more options, but there seemed to be something, just a little something that the first game had and the others didn't.
Well now we have the newest version and I think it's everything that first one was and then some! I'm literally spending almost all my free time (and a good chunk of work time too, don't you know) playing it. I bought it on debut day a couple weeks ago now, I guess? I'm not sure...sometime the beginning of this month though so yeah, almost a couple weeks. This is kinda why I haven't posted much.
There were some issues with jammed up servers and the game can't be played offline so there were some pretty pissed folks griping about the fact that they'd shelled out the exorbitant sum of $60 for a game they couldn't even play. But I was patient, I knew they'd iron it out - and they soon afterwards did. Runs fine now.
I'll be posting some screenshots soon, and maybe I'll write a few posts about other things too before the month is out. Only 2 posts in a month is quite pitiful. But for now, I have fires to put out, criminals to apprehend and pretty parks to plop, so tata for now.