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SimSafari

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SimSafari is a construction and management simulation game released by Maxis on March 19, 1998. It is similar to SimPark, except that the park is set in Africa rather than in North America, and therefore has African animals and plants.

The game is divided into three different zones, the nature park, the tourist grounds, and the African village. The ultimate aim is for the players’ park to reach five stars, although like most Sims games the player can continue playing indefinitely. To gain five stars, the player needs to make sure each zone is being run properly. The player can control tourism and staff.

The park is where the player can buy animals and made sure they were not being over-eaten or underfed. The player can control the species of animals, grasses, shrubs, and trees that were built here. The game has information on every species in it, with short animations for the animals. Natural disasters can occur, like fires, droughts, locusts, and twisters.
The Camp, also known as the Tourist Ground, is where tourists stay. The player can build restaurants, hotels, swimming pools, cottages, tents, etc. for guests. The buildings are staffed by workers hired from the village. …

SimTown

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SimTown is one of several entries in the city-building simulation series, SimCity. As in prior installments, players are tasked as the mayor of a newly formed municipality, taking charge of it’s expansion and success. Being aimed at a younger audience than that of the other games within the series a greater emphasis is placed on managing a small, socially ideal town than a sprawling metropolis. As such it features a much more stylized, cartoon representation and user interface, a number of added features allowing for greater interactivity with the populace, and a simplified system of resource management.

As their first priority as mayor players will simply need to construct a town, supplying not only housing for their residents but employment, schools, and civic buildings as well; Roadways and bike paths being needed to connect them all. While each building has its own associated costs and benefits they’re often marginal enough that a player’s selection will often be as much an aesthetic consideration as a functional one. In order to finance all of this consideration will also have to be paid to the player’s limited resources of water, wood, and crops, which rejuvenate only so quickly. …

SimTunes

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SimTunes is based on “Music Insects”, an interactive audio-visual exhibit which was designed and created by Toshio Iwai in 1992. Iwai’s original, Music Insects is a very popular permanent exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

SimTunes is an interactive ‘painting/music/simulation’ game. The user paints colored squares on a virtual grid, where each color maps to a tone in a musical scale. Then the user unleashes four little ‘bugz’ to roam around on the painted grid. Each bugz has an instrument or vocal style associated with it, and when it walks over one of the squares of light it ‘plays’ its sound at that tone. The user can control the scale, the instruments, and the speed and direction of the bugz, creating an interactive musical experience. …

Sonic’s Schoolhouse

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Sonic’s Schoolhouse is an educational game where the Sega mascot teaches mathematics, reading, and spelling. The game is entirely played from a first person perspective which allows the player to explore the schoolhouse and enter four different classrooms. There are two rooms for math, one for reading and one for spelling and each room has a total of ten questions which are written on chalkboards.

In the math rooms there are numerous numerals dancing around and the player has to pick up the right number and carry it to the chalkboard where said number is missing from the equation. The spelling room works the same but with letters that have to be matches with the unfinished words written on the chalkboards. The reading room contains balloons with pictures that has to be matched with the words written on the chalkboards. In each room the player has to avoid Dr. Robotnik who steals the answers when he gets close. …

Sim Theme Park (Theme Park World)

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Sim Theme Park is the sequel to Theme Park and the second game in the series. It is a theme park management game where players build their own theme park with roller coasters, rides and food stalls. Each building can be customized for its appearance, prices and also the length of the ride. Roller coasters play an important role as the main attraction for visitors. Players can design a custom ride and then test it from a first-person view.

In this version the park can be built in four different worlds: Lost Kingdom (prehistoric theme), Halloween World (spooky theme), Wonderland (fantasy theme) and Space Zone (futuristic theme). The game boasts 3D graphics and players can walk around in their park as if they were one of the guests, and go on the rides. Golden Tickets can be won by doing great things to the park and these can be used to buy new rides and parks. …

SimCity 4

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The most noticeable change in the fourth main game in the series comes through the new graphics, now in full 3D. The basic goal remains the same: build the ultimate city. You do this by balancing funding of community services with taxes, transit fares, and other forms of income.

But now you have more options. The new god mode tools allow you to sculpt a realistic terrain in seconds. And now disasters won’t happen in random locations, you choose where to unleash them. There are all new buildings, and the gameplay is a bit more challenging this time: you have to actually start small, the way a real city is developed, or you’ll run out of money. You can also import people from The Sims and insert them into your city, and have them give you feedback.

Your advisors are improved. They too are in full 3D, and they won’t annoy you as much. They will provide you with helpful advice, and you can listen to them or annoy them to the point that they all turn into llamas. Literally. …

South Park Rally

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Choose your character from the cast of the popular ‘mature’ cartoon South Park, and tear through the streets in this racing game. Your character’s vehicle may be a little cart, trike, or box, for example. Weapons include rockets, Salty Balls, Cheesy Poofs, the beloved Cow and even an Anal probe. All of the voices are also included, making it feel more like the real cartoon than a rally game. You can also play an all-on-all 4 player mode. …

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