The blog post was written by Joel Spolsky in May 2000, but was recently re-discovered by podcaster and game maker Kal Yoshika on Twitter. When Microsoft wanted users to switch to Windows 95, for example, they went so far as to add specific code that looked for SimCity and, if it was running, changed how memory allocation worked so that the game wouldn't crash. This didn't happen by accident, as an old blog post by a former Microsoft programmer explains. Most old games will simply run, and for everything else there's usually a compatibility mode built into Windows or DOSBox to get it going. In a bad way.It's easy to take backwards compatibility for granted on PC, so much so that we rarely even use the phrase "backwards compatibility". Simcity 2013's title and marketing sold a Simcity franchise title, but what we got was nothing like what we had played before. And that is why (along with the nissan leaf and crest advertising vs) people are pissed.
So why not just call it Simtown 2013 or Simcity Industries or SimPlayland or some other title that hints at the fact this isn't really a simcity game? Money. But it can be said that Simcity isn't really a Simcity game, or at least, huge steps back in the number of features and editable features of one's city. That is what Simcity 2013 is.įeatures lacking from Simcity 2013 that are available in previous Simcity's has been catalogued ad infinitum on this subreddit, so I won't go into them.
Sure it may be a fun game, but it wouldn't be a Super Mario Brothers game. And all the advertisements before the games' release included features that never appear in the final product. Its like if Nintendo released "Super Mario 5", but it was a 2d platforming game and missing a bunch of stuff from the previous games No yoshi, no goombas, no underwater levels, no haunted houses, no stars. Nintendo took a franchise, created a fun spinoff, and took what they needed to make a solid gaming experience. This was before Garage Band, Super Smash Brothers, and all those games we play now when we have a few friends over to just hang out and have a few beers. It was fun to play tennis as Luigi and beat your buddy who was Yoshi. What started as a punchline became what we did Saturday nights (super dorks, but we wore that badge proudly). Party games? With the Super Mario characters? What a blatant money making shill. Your post sparked a memory from my college days, which I think explains why people are so frustrated at Simcity 2013.īack in college, when it was pretty popular to have a Gamecube in your dorm room, my friends and I laughed when they released "Mario Party". I've tried to stay as much out of these flame posts as possible, but I can't anymore.
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