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S.Peelman on 08 October 2023
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SvennoJ said:
S.Peelman said:

A bit less of a year compared to '93 if you ask me. Voted for Super Metroid. Good game of course, made my Top 50 for years, but not an absolute favourite of mine. Wasn't really into Donkey Kong Country and Final Fantasy wasn't a thing in Europe. Warcraft wouldn't get really good until the sequel, so Super Metroid it is.

Saw SvennoJ mention SimTower after I already voted, and I don't know how I forgot that one is '94, because I probably should've voted for it since that's one of the most important games from my childhood.

Yeah Sim Tower feels like it belongs later since it ran in Windows and could fully scale up with whatever resolution you were running. I played it at 800x600, so much detail on screen for the time.

I voted Warcraft as I found that very addictive and first time using magic in an RTS
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but Sim Tower was a lot more advanced technically
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I see there was a sequel made by Sega, Yoot Tower which came out in '99. I missed it at the time (so much else to play and I started Everquest that year)
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Oh it's on Abandonware and runs fine in Windows 10. (Says to put display into 256 color mode, but works fine)
It just starts without any tips or tutorials, old school! Not even tool tips and the text is microscopic in 1080p lol. But might be fun to try :)

I had the Mac version of SimTower and yeah it did look clean for the time. I remember the game came on floppy discs, and we just copied the files to the computer and then traded-in the game for SimCity 2000 lol. Piracy retro-style.

Yeah I played Yoot Tower a couple times. Also many years after it had released because I didn't know it existed, but I guess it went under the radar because it wasn't published by Maxis (was the same guy, some Japanese guy, that developed it though) and as such didn't have the 'Sim' name. It's fine for what it was, it's SimTower with some added features. Like you see in your screenshot you can leave air or open space between parts, so you can make two towers or a skybridge and you can also see the outside. It also has some more facilities to build, and you can control what shops go where for example. The GBA and DS versions of SimTower actually incorporated some of those Yoot Tower features.