The most important of these demos, though, was Klik ‘n’ Play. There was a video of SimTown, which I watched many times over, and a point-and-click adventure based off of Greek myths that had an annoyingly timed first mission. The demos that specifically came with SC2K are lost to time, unless you own a copy of the original disk, which I do not. The important thing about SC2K, and what pertains to it here, was the demos that it came with. Expect a full post on SC2K some day there’s far too much to say about it here.

Not The Sims, which probably deserves its own article, but the original Sim games (which you never really see anymore): SimTower, SimAnt, and, most especially, SimCity 2000.

Probably the best places to find game demos back in the day were on the discs of the Sim games (closely followed by MECC, creators of the awesome Oregon Trail). Without game demos, I wouldn’t have gotten so interested in creating video games, and I wouldn’t have then studied 3D animation, and I wouldn’t have attended the university I attended for their virtual technology degree, and wouldn’t have gained the skills necessary for my current career. I’m not certain how many people can say that game demos have changed their lives, but they definitely changed mine. Sorry about the delay on this post I was moving all weekend and for the past two days and only now have extra time that isn’t being spent eating ice cream and sinking, exhausted, into the couch.

I’ve always had a skill for poorly-made, pixelated graphics.

Strange things in simtown