I Played SimCity 4 20 Years Later... In 2023

Old man here!....I began playing SimCity 4 in 2003 when I was 50. I had never played any kind of computer game before. It could be addictive and I played it a lot for at least 10 years, then stopped and recently picked it up again and I am 70, now. I love that it is a relatively slow game, and there is no violence or killing. It is kind of meditative,...the preprogramed music is interesting, though over the years I began editing them out. My favorite is the GOD mode,...laying down forests, creating rivers, and mountains, landscaping , & earth moving. At the time I began playing the game, I was an active member of my community, and that meant I had opportunities to shape and grow the community I lived in. I was tickled by how close the operation of the Sim City, paralleled my reality. The housing stock resembled my real neighborhood. Sometimes I would just get lost in the scenery, and lose touch with reality.

Greatest City Builder of all time. CitiesSkylines is so easy and not challenging at all after you learn it (still a great game). This game still challenges me 20 years later. Amazing soundtrack too.

I sincerely think that you deserve a lot more subscribers because you really have the feeling of being a youtuber and I think I'm not the only one to feel it. The editing is quality on top of that and it makes for a great video. To come back to SimCity 4, it totally rocked my childhood and it was the first management game I had, but it will still be much better than SimCity 5.

As much I cant wait for CS2 , I hope we going to get a new Simcity game in the future

Keep playing Simcity 4! It’s such a good game.

So about the police kiosk, buildings like that do in fact exist. The most famous one in my opinion is the NYPD Times Square station. It’s called a station but if you look at an image of it, it looks like a kiosk.

I know this video is several months old now. But if you come back to this, a few helpful tips: - Your city growth is limited somewhat by neighbourhood connections. Build a city next door and they’ll both do better. - Agriculture is basically decorative without mods and so isn’t really helping your city. - The reason you kept getting fires in the industrial area is because only the area covered by the ring is protected (same for all service buildings). Ideally you want the entire city covered in fire stations. - I know it’s a mod but you really need NAM, it includes some bug fixes and lots of extra transport tools, which make this game much easier.

SimCity 2013 is more dead than SimCity 4 💀

I never played sim city before up untill now and I'm having a blast! I can say that even without the nostalgia factor this game is just objectively fantastic :) Seeing you play was so much fun, I'd love to watch a series from it

I still play sim city 4 till this day. Amazing game and ahead of its time

I have so much nostalgia for SC4, it was amazing for that time. And one with a great community and a lot of user generated content that made gamereplayable a lot. SimCity 2013 was a really big step backwards in my opinion, mostly because of the small plot sizes. really liked the video, keep it up!

Aaaah, this brings me so.much high school nostalgia of 2003 😭 In the midst of Ragnarok Online popularity that time, Im the odd one playing this game And yeah, my first city is a dumpster fire where I have no idea what im doing. Everyone protests, some citizens in my city threaten me with violence and eveyone in my advisor board hated me 🤣💔 not to mention the reset of the city resembling a rapture, its incredibly scary! Glad seeing your Simcity playthroughs getting so much love!

Amazing game. The NAM improves the game and unlocks the road connections you were trying to make there near the end.

that no road connection sign when they do have a road connection means they cannot get to the jobs they can have, as a medium wealth resident

Great video!

The background music can drive you nuts. And some passages are not always played. There was one bit of music I didn't often hear, and I was pleased that I found it on You Tube recently, as a stand alone sound clip. It was a haunting number,...an odd mixture of old time sounds, that reminded me of a Funeral dirge and modern "trance" music, or house music.

I loved playing SimCity as a kid 😂

No road access is a bit of a glitch, but if it doesn't go away, it just means that the jobs are too far away for the people to go to. The no jobs will also go away if you make more connections to the industry and create more jobs. If you had put down a highschool in town and some small parks in the industry areas, you would have created high tech industry which also employes high wealth residents.

In this game there used to be some cheat codes - and some Easter eggs as well. Typing somewhat with „dollysheep“ turned all these nerving consultant’s faces into goats 🐐😂

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition is an amazing city builder. In nowadays computer we need to use the SC4 Launcher to make the game works with mods and in 1080p (otherwise it will close suddenly). It made my childhood so much better lol