![]() ![]() Probably my proudest was in the summer of ‘97, when I edited all the building sprites in the game to be tall, glittering, sci-fi spires, and then loaded up a city I’d built especially on a terraced hill, so it formed this completely sick futuristic pyramid. I know I’m now going to reach the end of the post without really discussing SimCity2000 itself, but I’m just captivated thinking about all the broke-ass technological stretches that surrounded my playing of that game. It probably sounded a bit like this, but I swear to grond that it seemed a real rip-roarer at the time. For some reason, therefore, the undisputed theme song for SimCity 2000, in my head, is a MIDI arrangement of The Heat Is On by Glenn Frey, from Beverly Hills Cop 2. MIDI files! But that was the only digital sound archive I had, and so that was what I listened to. Until one day, that is, when my mate gave me a floppy disc full of MIDI files of pop tunes and movie soundtracks. Because thinking all the way back to 1996, I didn’t have any CDs, and even 56k internet was still two years off in our household, so my only way of listening to music was via cassette tapes on a sort of portable hifi thing. This time, the amusement being dragged from the engrammatic brine is Simcity 2000, and its musical parasite is one that shows my age even more than the game itself. And when I tip an old game’s memory, flopping, onto the deck of my consciousness, the music scrabbles out of its mouth, blinks in the sunlight, and clacks a catchy rhythm with its pincer-tips as it scurries back into the sea. The tunes are bycatch: scavengers of the benthic mind, which get caught up in my net whenever I trawl the depths for recollections. ![]() ![]() I rarely intend to do this, mind, but it happens nonetheless. ![]() Given that ‘Have You Played’ posts tend towards reminiscence, I find I often end up talking about the music I listened to while playing the games in question. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. It's your decision, but make the one you think is best for your city.įor more on arcos, go to the Arcologies page.Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. Launch is good for population, Forest is good for low pollution and crime. In the middle, are good depending on what type of city you want. I chose Darco as the best, it has good population and an OK amount of crime and pollution, it's the best overall. The reason I put Plymouth Arco last is because Plymouth holds a modest amount of people, but produces more pollution than most power plants. Should you or should you not get them? Which ones to get? Here are my overall picks on the best arcos: They also produce crime, pollution and traffic. These are all cities-in-a-building, they can hold a population As you probablyĪlready know, they are the reward at a population of 120,000. These are all the arcologies in SimCity 2000. "ol name, it must be good.", read on.įrom left to right, Launch Arco, Darco, Forest Arco, Plymouth Arco. Those who haven't gotten them but are dying to, or if you're just thinking: Most of you SimCity 2000 Fans have known about Arcos for a while, View last weeks tips of the week: Part Two, Starting off a City: Build, Build! ![]()
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