The Best PC Sims of the Past
I had no clue how many simulation games I've played in the past until I compounded this list. I just hadn't thought of how many of the titles I've played actually fall into the category of sims. Railroad Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon and anything else ending in Tycoon are all Sims. The Sims is also, obviously, a sim. It simulates life. On this page, you'll see more games that simulate business, or life in some way more often than tank and war simulations.
As a college student pursuing a business degree, I've recently been digging out great classics like Rollercoaster Tycoon. I feel like I do better at the games in the preset, likely because I am tighter with my budgets. Players who haven't tried Tycoon games in the past should give them a shot.
I have enjoyed a number of flight simulators in the past, and MS Flight sim 2004 is probably one of the best. It had great graphics, and allowed you to jump straight into the cockpit to take to the skies. The games were a very surreal experience, especially when I was getting started and crashed. Taking off is easy, landing.. not so much.
Click here to buy Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 Official Strategy Guide.
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Train Simulator takes the obsessive realism of Microsoft's best-of-breed Flight Simulator games down to earth. Six real-world rail lines are included from throughout history, including the Flying Scotsman line of 1920s England and the modern Odakyu Electric Rail commuter line in Tokyo. Attendees at the National Model Railroad Association's August 2000 convention marveled at the game's painstaking attention to detail. But this game is not a model railroad game; it simulates the real thing. The game's developers traveled across the world with cameras and microphones in order to authentically capture the trains in their natural habitats. Train Simulator lets you experience the world's greatest trains in all their glory.
Train aficionados can drive the train, run the rail yard, or dive in with the terrain editor and create the rail lines of their dreams. Or you can just sit back, relax, and admire the beautiful scenery and dreamy click-clack of the tracks. --Andrew S. Bub
Click here to buy Train Simulator Official Strategy Guide.
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Railroad Tycoon 2: Gold Edition includes the blockbuster strategy-simulation hit Railroad Tycoon 2, the acclaimed expansion pack Railroad Tycoon 2: The Second Century, 12 new scenarios created by the PopTop design crew, and the Official Railroad Tycoon 2 Strategy Guide in electronic format (HTML). Now with Railroad Tycoon 2: Gold Edition, players will find themselves immersed in several new ventures, including the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad through the Appalachians. Gamers are also challenged to connect New York to Los Angeles--using futuristic, magnetically levitating transcontinental railroads--and rekindle Scottish pride by laying the tracks for the Flying Scotsman from Edinburgh to London.
Click here to buy Railroad Tycoon 2 Official Strategy Guide.
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Click here to buy Railroad Tycoon 3 Official Strategy Guide.
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The bestselling game that started the tycoon game craze ramps up the fun with all-new rides, features, and gameplay that allow you to create and run the ultimate amusement park. You can now add any of 25 different Six Flags roller coasters from five different Six Flags locations, including Six Flags Magic Mountain and Six Flags Great Adventure. Break ground and start from scratch, open the gates to existing parks, or just create the most gut-wrenching roller coaster ride ever--now you can play your way. In Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 there are no limits but your imagination.
Click here to buy Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 Official Strategy Guide.
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Click here to buy Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Official Strategy Guide.
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Create and control your urban empire with more power than ever. Expand your SimCities with new customizable terrain and hundreds of new buildings, including two new building sets from Asia and Europe. Inflict four new disasters (plague of locusts, toxic cloud, space junk, and a whirlpool) on your citizens. Take on 13 challenging scenarios, from reuniting East and West Berlin to rebuilding in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster. Or, create your own scenarios with the SimCity Scenario Creator. All the great features of SimCity 3000, plus these new options, make this a SimCity without limits.
Click here to buy Simcity 3000 Unlimited Official Strategy Guide.
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- Create and control the most life-like metropolis you can imagine
- Take your Sims from "The Sims" into your SimCity
- Dispatch police cruisers to fight crime, send out the Mayor's limo to quell a rioting mob, or cap an erupting volcano threatening your citizens
- Form mountains, carve valleys, plant forests, raise oceans, and more
- From mellow traffic flow to commuter hell, noontime crowds to nighttime calm, partygoers to troublemakers, the movement in your city is ever-changing and unpredictable
Get SimCity 4 and the Rush Hour expansion pack in one convenient package. Create, grow, and breathe life into your ideal urban environment. Fight disasters both realistic and fantastic. Govern your own virtual metropolis as you see fit with SimCity 4 Deluxe.
Click here to buy Simcity 4 Official Strategy Guide.
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Simcity 4 Deluxe
- Also available in DVD Edition
- Sequel to the hit lifestyle simulation
- Manage your Sim's dreams and fears over a lifetime
- Mix Sim genes and see physical and personality traits inherited down through Sim generations
- Movie-making feature lets you control the camera and capture the action into mini movies
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Click here to buy The Sims 2 Official Strategy Guide.
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The Sims 2
Click here to buy The Sims 2: University Official Strategy Guide.
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- Life-simulation game with three expansion packs
- Livin' Large adds more than 100 extreme items and some wild new characters
- House Party adds items and design sets for the ultimate theme parties
- Hot Date adds a downtown neighborhood with plenty of dating opportunities for your Sims
- For 1 player
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The Sims Mega Deluxe
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