SimCity (SNES) - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)
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In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 216, The Nerd plays a Super Nintendo classic as he tries to achieve a lifelong dream of getting a Megalopolis and Mario statue in SimCity, at any cost!
Directed and Written by James Rolfe
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Edited by Sean O'Rourke
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Gameplay by James and Mike
End Narration by Mr. Lobo
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Fan from saudi arabia!
This is my favorite SNES game.
Could you please review UmJammerLammy next Mr. AVGN
It's always a great day when you upload a AVGN Review.
Destroying schools and hospitals all in the name of urban development so the city’s demonic mayor can build a Mario statue 😂
I think the schools and hospitals increased the population by around 80 people.
Just like the real world.
At least it's not a Mickey statue...
@@michaelpipkin9942 Or a Zeus statue :)
HCBailly didn't need em. He wanted efficiency.
>send disasters to destroy the citizens lives
>approval rating went up
See? Now they respect you, Mayor. Because you're a threat.
Fly home,Billy 😂😂😂
Is that from The Incredibles
How do you think he got rich? He tamed tornadoes
@@Optimus97You sly dog! You had him monologuing!
This is how they get re elected, just look at California
9:09 "That's right we're gonna cheat"
Lol it still didn’t work!
The end game of the majority of 90s PC SIM games was the realization that the most effective way to run your city was to either turn it into a concrete dystopia or a police state.
Wonder what Will Wright was thinking about that, given us that kinda message xD
@@Evilriku13I was looking at the world around him I imagine
So that's why we are headed towards a concrete dystopian police state! Figures.
@DraphEnjoyer this u?
At my best, I had TEN PD HQs, not stations, HQs, but only ONE school!😂
To become a Megalopolis, heart is not required, having a soul is also questionable, only endless dystopian city planning.
Become Robert Moses
Citypunk shortly before Cyberpunk...
*Obey The Grid*
every major city be like
Fun fact: A hippo dressed like Princess Peach tricks Mr. Wright, a guest character in Link's Awakening, into believing he is Princess Peach.
Machinima died, GameTrailers died, Rooster Teeth died but The Video Game Nerds lives on
Does he really tho
@@japyoo2248 yea he does cope about it
More like the Angry Receding Hairline Nerd.
even Gaming Historian has called it quits. we should all be so grateful that James has a solid work ethic!
ScrewAttack died :(
*takes a long draw on a cigarette*
"We live in a Simciety"
Why must we put up with Bowser attacks weekly?!
Correction - "Shitcity"
Was that a sincity reference??
Ever have one of those days where you feel like a sim?
*claps*
The nuke scene from Terminator 2 was a nice touch Nerd.
It's a classic, much like Shakespeare
Fun fact: The SNES version of SimCity was developed by the Big N themselves (as opposed to Maxis), and was considered the best port of SimCity.
It added a lot of new stuff.
That Big N charm for sure!
They worked together on it. In return Maxis worked on ActRaiser.
@@MacUser2-il2cx SERIOUSLY!!?? The Enix's games!?
@@LayangSeto-lu1tcNo.
My Late mother who passed away 3 weeks ago at 87, loved this game. She got the Mario statue numerous times.
sorry bout your loss bro----now she is in the big Simcity in the sky
i was just wondering, did she get the Mario statue by hacking the game like rolf, or did she get it playing straight?
your grandma was an epic gamer
@@jlk311 haha nah no hacking it was the only game she ever played. She bought a snes just to play simcity after trying mine.
That's awesome dude
@@mattyoz0 haha that's awesome, my dad had a nes just to play pebble beach golf. One game also. Lol
The Nerd going mad with power, and turning his city into a police state, building a massive statue of himself was hilarious.😆
To this day, my dad is the only one I know who got the Mario statue.
Glad to see AVGN still going strong.
With almost none of the passion left
@@blackjacka.5097Don't care, still entertaining
@@PoorStargazermeatrider spotted
After that horse prince episode, anything is up
Still gooning strong
Always love when James incorporates obscure Twilight Zone references.
I wouldn't say this one was obscure. This episode is one of the more memorable ones. Little People is classic Twilight Zone.
grew up watching AVGN. Rewatching the entire series, going back to specific episodes, and watching supercuts. Now, I have grown up. Thank you so much, you definitely paved a part of the way to lead me towards my career.
Yes, the pain of the slow simulation speed of the game was real, masked by the awesome graphics and delightful music. Well captured in the video.
Only thing the nerd missed was the "reload" bug where after loading a saved games, you city entered a power outage for about 20-30 seconds that can cause high valued buildings to be replaced with lower valued buildings. And they often would never go back to the higher value.
Also, beating all of scenarios gives you a map with no water.
I hated that bug, it ruined my game so many times, I never ever got house values back up after that.
I was kinda disappointed he didn't get the Statue at the end.
There was also a cheatcode to get that area without water
@@MrXavierMoktar What do you do when people demand a Seaport?
@@Hugsloth probably launch a couple of Bowser attacks until the populace links the attacks to those who dared ask for a seaport in a landlocked city. Ostracizing the few who actually survived the attacks into submission.
That Twilight Zone reference at the end is pure gold haha
@@johnjoe3386 Correct.
I love it
I was getting more of an Outer Limits Sandkings vibe
You’ve just entered… the Bimmyverse
@@johnjoe3386 One of my favorite episodes.
I think I speak for my entire generation(I am 38) when I say, “Thank you man. Thanks for being a part of our lives”.
7:19 James, you could have just said "Detroit" minus the Robocop. lol
Fun fact: Mr Wright is a guest character in Link's Awakening where he is catfished by a hippo pretending to look like Princess Peach.
Link's Awakening is all about guest characters. It even has Mario for Pete's sake.
Same music too.
@@n-grat9368 Chain chomps too.
Ironic coming from a catfish bot
She's a goat, not a hippo! Her name is Christine and she loves hibiscus flowers.
thank you AVGN for talking about simcity, because of you, the clip of me showing the mario statue went up in views
See, I dont think James necessarily has to review bad games. I just like to see him speak and review on the games he has a connection to or grew up with. Like the Earthbound and Final fantasy 6 videos. Thats what I really want to see. Of couse I still want to hear him scream off the top of his lungs and drop multiple F bombs.
Same that’s why I love to see him review chrono trigger or something like super Mario 64 he could still make it funny while being positive about the games
this video was strangely calming
The best videos are always the ones he has some sort of personal connection to.
@@thomasbatta3250I second a Chrono Trigger review.
I enjoy his positive reviews so much more than the negative ones.
So many fond memories of SimCity.
Making sure to activate the money code to fully help grow my city.
Then enabling the natural disasters to ruin it all.
nothin but fond memories
We all probably did that.
"Take that, you puny sims!"
@@beauwalker9820”The fussy plebs…” - Zero Punctuation
Sim City - Natural Disaster Simulator.
17:24 lol. It's like the citizens are stood there next to the devil. "DO YOU LIKE MY CITY?!?!?!" > "YES LORD!" Because if they say no there's more destruction lol.
Loved the Twilight Zone reference. You did very well with all the lines and the laughter. Pretty clever to make the connection between Sim City and Little people.
There is actually a second set of 1000 additional maps you can unlock with a trick.
😨
So it’s something like the minus world trick then?
All on dat dang cartridge?
@cridlynch2135 the maps are generated and the numbers are just their seed values.
Dr hates it
Sim City for the snes was my childhood. Mom calling me for dinner from upstairs and me leaving the controller on the carpet next my Nintendo magazine... thanks for this.
Hearing that music instantly brought back a lot of memories.
I had Sim City on PC, SNES and aspects, but the SNES one was my favourite because of the unique Nintendoness of it.
As you were about to destroy the hospitals and schools, all that was going through my head was Palpatine saying "DEW IT" lol.
At the start of the game: Hello fellow citizens!
At the end of the game: YOU SHALL FEAR ME!
Turning the end of the episode into a twilight zone reference was wonderful
This was one of my mothers favourite games, and one of the very few she still plays today! Personally, I could never truly get the hang of it, but I will still cherish it for being one of the few things me and my mom could bond over.
That opening scroll of the city with the music is one of my core nintendo memories. Just something about it fills me with such yearning.
Fun fact: Dr. Wright is also an Assist Trophy summon in Super Smash Bros. (starting from Brawl).
He's very useful in Brawl.
He also makes an appearance in Link's Awakening.
I always wondered who that guy was
And a regular trophy in Melee
@@pjf674And Minish Cap
he started out making a city of dreams, but ended up making the state of South Carolina lol
As a British person, I think our government is trying to reach megalopolis
Before I got home PC access as a kid, I must've sunk a thousand hours into SimCity on SNES.
'Yo, I heard you like AVGN reviews, so we put an AVGN review in your AVGN review!' -Xzibit...probably
Epic 😂
I got the 69th like 🎉
AVGN-ception
"Wow thanks Xzibit!!"
my favorite move was to jack up the taxes for like 3 months, reap the rewards, then set them to zero while building nothing but railway
Called the "million dollar cheat" because it takes advantage of a bug if I recall correctly.
My least favorite part of the game is when everyone is like
"Our mayor isn't doing anything!"
And I'm like
"What did you expect? You permanently set my money to 0."
@ThyPandora Oh. So THATS what Gavin Newsom is doing.
reap the whirlwind!
Lol
Wow! I loved this! I’m amazed that I actually got the 500K population and Mario statue way before the AVGN did. All you needed was that SNES players guide and with its tricks and map screen shots, especially one particular one, it really wasn’t that hard to do.
The moral of this game: If you're gonna be mayor, be corrupt.
Kinda crazy to think this was a launch title. Imagine you're 11 years old in 1992 and just got your SNES. This would've seemed ultra futuristic.
Lol I was 11 in 1992.
@@johnnythewalrus Ditto
It was.
Between this, F-Zero and once Starfox was in my hands, the early 90s felt crazy to me.
It didn't help that my Grandpa worked with Skunkworks as an engineer and was on the design team for the F-22. He played flight Sims on his expensive PCs back in the day and introduced me to Wing Commander.
So as a result, between playing this, Starfox and seeing him explain how cool the YF-22 prototype was, the 90s felt like a dream
I was 9 and dad got this with the SNES. SimCity, 7th Saga, Final Fantasy 2 and 3, and Mario Kart were my childhood.
Also 11 in 92... after having only Super Mario World for a while, the next game I got was Super R-Type. Seemed like a cool space shooter game, but I ended up returning it because I thought it was too hard.
15:41 that was the perfect image for showing how you're a dictator in the game.
Destroying the schools and hospitals to make more room and cram as many people into as small a space as possible is so dystopian I love it.
Forget it, James- it’s Nerdtown.
I learned a trick by accident. I was messing around and crashed a plane as soon as it took off. The entire airport was engulfed in flames and destroyed all but one little square. Still an airport, still counts and no pollution.
...I never made it to megalopolis either. I was always using the money trick so my stuff never filled in.
When residential zones are still just houses you can demolish part of the zone and stack extra blocks. This increases the population density significantly.
However this DOES prevent those blocks from reaching the max density high rise building.
@@slightlyevolvedThis is where the pro gamer move comes in: Create disasters on purpose to demolish parts of a residential high-rise, then bulldoze and build on the newly created space. As long as you keep the central square intact, it counts as an entire residential building.
@@slightlyevolved It's nice keeping some parts of your city into cozy mode. You shouldn't have to gentrify the whole block lol.
Are ya winning, son?
Same thing in Act Raiser. Hit the town with earthquake and some will die, yet they'll build back the city and population bigger.
You'd think James and Folding Ideas were working together
It's actually a great idea to use footage from the James & Mike series for AVGN episodes.
Sim city for snes was my childhood…got hit by a nostalgia bomb when I heard the music
no it was not you liar you never had a snes and you know it tough man
your child hood system was the pathetic hyper scan
and you actually enjoyed it
Soyo Oka
Sim City has one of the most beautiful soundtracks on SNES.
cough cough MOTHER 2!
excuse me i have a very bad cough
Me too. At dinertime: 'Oké, but can i please let the game running?!'
This really feels like one of the classic episodes where you're just kinda talking about a game for 20 mins. Love it
Definitely felt like a return to form
From the second he started laughing I was waiting for a T-2 reference and he DID NOT dissapoint, lol.
AVGN in this episode: Complaining about all the features 😂
Fun fact: Sim City was created because of the Commodore 64 game Raid on Bungeling Bay.
The programmer had so much fun while making the living world map, that he figured other people might also enjoy it.
It is actually amazing how AVGN Debuted in 2004 and still going 20 years later. I love AVGN so much!
That really is amazing. He's practically family to many of us even if we never met the guy.
@@justins21482weird...
So say we all
I only discovered him in 2015. Always remember the year (because of a breakup).
Binged every video in one month. Some amazing videos over the years.
I discovered him from a ytp
He made my memories and made people concerned as he influenced my humor too much
You guys gotta understand, James receding hairline makes him like a fine wine, not like an old man.
Amazing reference to the Twilight Zone episode "The Little People" at the end. The Nerd still got it!
This is the game that started my love for city builders. I use to play this all night and watch Monster Vision with Joe Bob Briggs in the back ground.
Monster Vision was awesome!
You get to play as the mayor? Mayor!?? I like the sound of that! Mayor Goldie Wilson
You can start by sweeping the floor
Better than that Red Thomas fella. Lol literally my favorite movie.
This is more like the old ones he used to make!!
"If you've seen my videos on Earthbound or Final Fantasy 6..." Dog, I've seen every AVGN, more than twice I think.
We’re growing up with you, AVGN. So cool you’re still making videos.
Real ones left their SNES on overnight or during school to raise funds.
Years later and still never gets stale
Like a crisp, cold Rolling Rock
It's always fun when Mr. Lobo pops up in these videos! I love the Rod Serling voiceover at the end.
Thank you!!!
I just watched the James and Mike episode of Sim City last week. They talk about almost everything mentioned in this video. This truly was a real James Rolfe episode. Glad these are still going strong.
At the end, I was expecting Mike Matei with a SNES controller saying "Ain't I a stinker?"
@@ajthefunkmonster4767 such a missed opportunity!! 🤣
@@Amanda-gg6kz Eh the Twilight Zone reference was great too
Sad that mikes not here ☹️
@@BuddyFellows-xd9yn He is... in the credits :P
@Amanda-gg6kz Nah, sounds like something a middle school freshman would come up with.
I think this is my favorite ending to a AVGN video that I’ve seen. Went to play Sim City on my SNES right afterwards. Did you know that there’s a debug menu? Wish I knew that as a kid.
That was a spot on Rod Serling impression!
The best for AVGN is for James to talk about games he actually cares to speak on I really do love these kinds of videos you've done
I don’t know James Rolfe. But that’s ok because AVGN is still enjoyable.
I don't know James Rolfe. 🫡
In one of the old SGDQs someone did a speedrun of Sim City. And while they were waiting for the game to finish, they also did a speedrun of Maniac Mansion.
nice
I loved the classic Twilight Zone reference at the end. One of my favorite episodes!
18:08 That was a beautiful Twilight Zone reference. I love when James's love of old movies finds its way into nerd episodes.
Shoe horned in
I remember a trick where you stack the red zones, then when 3 houses were built along a side you trash just those 3 and plop another red zone on top of it, so you get nothing but houses that will never combine into anything bigger. I forget why this was great to do.
Very glad James still uploads it makes me smile, My dad and I use to watch these when i was younger. I miss my dad…
I've never clicked an AVGN video faster. I LOVED Simcity on the snes growing up and never gave up trying to get to the megalopolis. Through the insane strats James showed, it's just barely possible.
Is this what Mike Haggar sees when not fighting?
The Twilight Zone reference at the end was the icing on the cake. *chef's kiss*
I have incredibly fond memories of walking through Hollywood Video looking at the box art for game rentals. There's something really nostalgic to me about the old school box art for games from the SNES and N64 eras. 🤩
So, Nerd still didn't achieve the population of a half a million Megalopolis.
That's what I'm saying
out of all the impossible games he's crushed, i thought he had this in the bag
Back to retro ehh?, that horse really messed him up
The horse really messed everyone up
What were they *thinking*?!
@@BladedEdgeNo kidding, I couldn't even watch the horse episode.
Please, let us never speak of the horse again.
Horse
the nerd is one of the most important parts of internet history. glad to find this show again today
Watching this right after watching the Dan Olson/Folding Ideas video on James hits different, especially the philosophical statements by James towards the beginning of this video
The missed potential for the snes mouse is crazy
The mouse didn't come out until the following year with Mario Paint.
Now it makes sense why Mike played this awhile back on Twitch.
was thinking the same thing
Exact-u-mundo
James never really plays any of these games, mike is the real avgn
@@Urgod420 for sure! That’s what I’ve been saying. Mike is the true AVGN!
Not saying this lightly, I've been watching you since... I don't even know how long. At least 13 years. This is one of your best, imo. Keep up the great work, James.
You can see the uvula of Nerd when he laughs so hard at the end.
It's like James and express vpn are best friends
How can we be lovers if we can't be friends lol
money talks
@@chriscripplercruz1833 idk
@@SeanOkita talks louder than the teacher yelling
Express VPN has been funding this show for years. I'm surprised they still think they'll reach more people through AVGN at this point. 😂
I discovered SimCity 2000 on the PC. I didn't know until years later there was a SimCity for Nintendo.
I couldn't imagine playing SimCity with a D-pad instead of a mouse.
And a SimCity 2000 on SNES
@@soanxious06that game was awful. It was painfully slow and water was always an issue. The Super Nintendo just couldn't handle all of the extra stuff that was Simcity 2000. I played the game multiple times and put together some nice towns.
@@jeee1074 it was unforgivingly slow. I liked it because it was simcity 2000 on a CRT tv. I don’t even remember if there was a speed aside from slow lol
@@FrothingFanboy Was actually quite comfortable thanks to a clever use of the buttons.
What always intrigued me the most with builder/sim/management games is that no 2 people have the exact same approach to them. So it's always fun to see how others go about a game compared to you.
California Simulator is accurate.
8:29 RIP to all those lost in the 2010 Boston nuclear meltdown.
With the ways things are going, odds are pretty high for global warming causing floods in 2047 though.
I mean we had a meltdown in Japan in 2011 so not too farfetched
"Imagine if you started up Mario Kart and there were so many courses to pick you couldn't even look through them all."
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and its DLC certainly tried.
CTGP-R also counts by technicality.
I miss when they did the AVGN intro with the vocals
That start screen music brings back so many memories
He needs to do Sim Ant
Sim Ant and Sim Tower were the ones that i played most.
Simcopter and sim tower for sure
+1 for Sim Ants lol I can imagine Angry Video Game Nerd had a sandwich one day then later a group of ants invade his house
I remember spending hours playing sim ant in computer class when I was supposed to be studying lol
Sim Tower was rad!
7:13 and the amount of crime in Robocop's Detroit rivals the real Detroit
lol
That got very surprising and creative, I really liked that crazy ending! lol I wanted to see you earn the Mario statue but still was awesome as heck