SimCity 3000 - Sim Broadway / Central Park Sunday | Reacting To Video Game Music!
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Oh hey! I'm dkao12 who requested this music for the channel. I requested this song quite a while ago. I am so glad you got it!
Simcity series was one of my favorite games growing up. Simcity 3000's music always stood out for me the most. Its soundtrack always stayed in my library for ages.
I spent 100's of hours of my childhood playing SimCity and I forgot how jazzy and awesome the music is. Gonna have to revisit the soundtracks in their entirety sometime soon. Thanks for the reaction!
SimCity was the first city builder sim game, published in 1989. The creators, Maxis, then went on to make a whole raft of simulator games from SimTower to SimAnt to the Sims. The sequel was called SimCity 2000 (late 90s millennial enthusiasm led to a lot of that), and the sequel to that was this game SimCity 3000. They went back to the normal numbering for the last sequel SimCity 4.
The games in this genre are open-ended sandbox type games. There isn’t really a winning condition: you could just keep going. You can play specific scenarios though, which pose a problem you have to solve.
SimCity established the association of very jazzy music with city builder games. It’s supposed to evoke the idea of the 1920s skyscraper boom in New York. The music is in a playlist of distinct pieces that’s shuffled while you play rather than looped.
The basic summary of city builder games’ gameplay is that you have to build a city (usually from scratch, not based on a particular city). You can work on the same city for months, or even years. The fun comes from both the management side (these games are based on a system dynamics simulation of the economy of a metropolitan area) and the creativity of making a city that looks and feels a certain way to you. Lots of people make up narratives about their cities.
The entire OST from this game is incredible
Whenever I go to visit the city of Melbourne and I see the skyline in the distance I like to listen to this OST.
Sim City 3000 exposed so many people my age to jazz
The Sims is a spinoff series from SimCity, so yes they're related. SimCity 2000 was the big one that really put Maxis on the map. SimCity 3000 is the most direct sequel to it, but there there are plenty of other games in the series. I have the SNES version of SimCity.
Broadway is a street in Manhattan that runs diagonally. It's known for all the plays along it, but it's got plenty of other things, being a street. I used to work in an office just off of Broadway, but I wasn't anywhere near any of the theaters. (I was working on 28th, between 5th & Broadway, over a decade ago.)
SimCity doesn't take place in any specific city... It doesn't even start out as a city. At first it's just land and you place everything onto the map, from the very first residential zone and roadway on... But everything costs money and you need people to live in the city and pay you taxes to make the city bigger while maintaining the existing infrastructure.
Dear God the wave of nostalgia I got from hearing these songs is overwhelming 😂
Ooh, SimCity! Any game with a jazzy soundtrack is good in my book. In a similar vein, I would recommend one of the Neighborhood or Build Mode themes from The Sims 1’s OST; these have masterful piano improvisation. Thanks for your wonderful reactions!
There has never been, and probably never will be, any "Sim" music that's as good as Sim Broadway. It's far and above an outstanding masterpiece. Almost out of place in its complexity. One other suggestion I have in the same sort of vein is the song Aukio from Cities Skylines.
George Gershwin would love to hear Sim Broadway. It was written as a tribute to him, in a way
Simcity 4 also has ridiculously fire tracks, almost all of them (and there's A LOT of them). Some ambient, some funky, some poppy, some even classical (Morning Commute is outright jawdropping imho).
and yeah they're all amazing music to work creatively to
I still like the SimCity 3000 soundtrack despite its age. It's classical and jazz tracks give it a clean, rustic sound, while it also throws in some progressive rock and electronic stuff to keep things interesting. The soundtrack of SimCity 4 in comparison has a more modern, gritty sound to it.
What ties SC3000's soundtrack to together is a motif that is present in most of the tracks. For example, in "Sim Broadway" it's played very prominently in the intro on the piano (and pops up a few more times in the bridge sections).
I believe Jerry Martin composed most (if not all) of the music for The Sims. The neighborhood build/buy music is the most loved of all the different soundtracks he composed.
I played an absolute crapton of Simcity 3000 as a kid. I wouldn't be surprised if I tracked over 1000 hours, which is a lot for an 8-9 year old.
I remember seeing murnurings of Simcity 3000 Unlimited back then, but I never got a chance to play it. I eventually moved onto Simcity 4 when I was 9-10, and that remains my absolute favorite city builder to this day. It still holds up and is still a ton of fun.
Simcity 3000 unlimited (/4 (+rushour)) is both on Steam/GOG.
I got the GoG version of SimCity 4 to relive the memories but couldn't get it to generate anything but completely flat regions; I recall even trying to import some existing ones and they still just showed up flat. I gave up for now but I'm sure I'll get the itch and attack it again.
@@OOZ662 It always generates flat regions. However, the regions are stored as .png files and you can edit them using Microsoft Paint. I'm not even joking.
@@FSAPOJake I know. And importing ones I screwed with myself or even ones hosted online resulted in...flat regions.
Oh heck yeah. Sim city 2000 also has some bangers
I love the SimCity soundtracks as there's really just nothing else like them in games industry. 3000 and 2000 both have great, varied OSTs, but my personal favorite would have to be the Super Nintendo version simply titled "SimCity" which was composed by Soyo Oka, known also for composing the very first Mario Kart game and Super Mario All-Stars. All three games have such an unforgettable sound.
SimCity 2000 is the one I played all the time back in the day. SimCopter One reporting heavy traffic!
This music has no right to be THIS good for a Sims game 😆
Its jazz bro, not elevator music lol
GUYS HE MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT SIMS 1 AND SIMS CITY 4 MUSIC HOLY CRAP HES GONNA BE BLOWN AWAY
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@@JessesAuditorium sims 1 music is simply c l a s s i c and will always be its own entire masterpiece collection, and sim city 4 is like a iowaska trip in the clouds half the time and the other half a mechanical embodiment of traffic and industry
@@JessesAuditorium ruclips.net/video/F2MFv2xe8yQ/видео.htmlsi=01y7yTeVhWlwEUqu i know you have a paid tier i guess for priority in songs but this song will chop you soul in half with melancholy for a past era now gone. It moved me since i was a kid.
@@SS4KirinBolt Sim City 4's OST is definitely worth a listen, yeah.
@@EvaSharkette godly choirs singing the land you develope when in godmode and then you start a metro and suddenly your hearts racing against the tin drum beats and action jazz, it would often pull me away from everything to stop and drown in the dizzying music while my advisors begged me to reduce pollution but I'm too busy vibing in my mayor seat with good headphones