I knew I’d get a bollocking because it was in full colour and it chugged a cartridge half-dry. Anyway, it was bloody good work for a 12 year old, to the extent where I printed the city out on 16 sheets of A4, sellotaped it together, and put it on my bedroom wall. It was meant to be what I reckoned Coruscant looked like (that’s the city planet off of Star Wars, by the way, which only existed in books for bullied kids at the time, because there were still only three movies). 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. Stumbling out of her crib, she encounters an undead cop, and promptly falls into a manhole after a. In the game you play a heroine who wakes up one day to find that everyone has turned into sex-crazed zombies (how convenient) in her city. 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. Parasite in City has just been released a couple of days ago by developers Pixel Factory. parasite in city(1.03) Side Scrolling Indie Game / Survival Horror / Pixel GraphicsDLsite Adult Doujin is a download shop for hentai doujinshi & games.
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