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Original Sim City Playable for Free Online

Submitted by WilWheaton

Edited by WilWheaton

Tags: classic gaming, free games

If you're a geek of a certain age, you almost certainly invested hundreds of hours of your youth building and managing cities in Sim City. These days, you probably spend a lot of time yelling at the damn kids today to get off your lawn, while you hunt around the Intertubes for an opportunity to shift some funds and relive the glory days of 16-bit late 80s municipal management.

Well, grab your cane and shake your fist, because as part of the marketing effort behind Sim City 4, the good folks at Electronic Arts have released an entirely free version of the original Sim City, that you can play in almost any browser.

Electronic Arts is offering up Sim City Classic as a freely playable online application called Sim City Live Online! The original game has been retooled for Internet functionality, so all you need to play is your browser of choice (provided you aren't running Netscape Navigator.)

Uh, does anyone still run Netscape Navigator? The web version is based on the PC version of the game, and you can play it here. If anyone needs me, I'll be watching Godzilla rampage across my maps for the next few days.

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DhD_No_Pants

DhD_No_Pants

Katy, TX
May 2006

AUG 28, 2006 02:32 PM

Thank you!

DLPChris

DLPChris

Las Vegas, NV
February 2005

AUG 28, 2006 02:33 PM

I've still got my SNES version... I think it's time to revisit Butt Town and wreak a little havok.

Snottlebocket

Snottlebocket

Netherlands
March 2004

AUG 28, 2006 02:43 PM

sweet biggrin

Chriztian

Chriztian

Tallahassee, FL
September 2004

AUG 28, 2006 02:50 PM

the SNES version rocked...bowser would attack!

unravled

unravled

Portland, OR
August 2003

AUG 28, 2006 02:51 PM

Sim City 4 has been out for awhile now. The 1up article makes it seem like this is recent news.

lil_tuffy

lil_tuffy

MODERATOR

San Francisco, CA

AUG 28, 2006 02:53 PM

I spent many an hour in the College of Fine Arts computer cluster playning the original sim city.

Lil_Tuffy

Moya

Moya

Milwaukee, WI
January 2005

AUG 28, 2006 02:58 PM

Awesomeness. biggrin

starguitar

starguitar

Canada
August 2004

AUG 28, 2006 03:00 PM

I'm using Firefox and all I get is a blank screen when I try to play it, even after I registered, and even after I turned off the popup blocker. Did this happen to anyone else?

Altoid

Altoid

Huntsville, AL
November 2003

AUG 28, 2006 03:03 PM

starguitar said:
I'm using Firefox and all I get is a blank screen when I try to play it, even after I registered, and even after I turned off the popup blocker. Did this happen to anyone else?



Yep.

VikpreZ

vikprez

Norwalk, CA
April 2003

AUG 28, 2006 03:46 PM

Windows only? mad

VikpreZ

vikprez

Norwalk, CA
April 2003

AUG 28, 2006 03:49 PM

frown

ApostropheNow

ApostropheNow

Skull Valley, AZ
April 2004

AUG 28, 2006 04:09 PM

old news, this had been available for over 3 years

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

AUG 28, 2006 05:13 PM

Sim City was the highlight of my fourth grade math class. (Well, it was actually a fifth or sixth grade math class, but I was in fourth grade. I think. Maybe third. Bah.)

BatAttaK

BatAttaK

Reston, VA
OLD SKOOL

AUG 28, 2006 05:34 PM

ApostropheNow said:
old news, this had been available for over 3 years



Well then why didn't you post this info a couple of years ago? Or were you simply laying in wait just praying for the chance to use this completely original piece of snark?


BatAttaK

ApostropheNow

ApostropheNow

Skull Valley, AZ
April 2004

AUG 28, 2006 07:51 PM

BatAttaK said:
Well then why didn't you post this info a couple of years ago? Or were you simply laying in wait just praying for the chance to use this completely original piece of snark?


BatAttaK



huh? I wasn't trying to be snarky, asshole.

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