fun fact: the more experienced and better you get at this game, the more disgusted you become of your old playstyle.

This video unlocked a core memory i thought i had lost a long time ago. I was gifted this game by my aunt after she married and she had a little spring cleaning before moving away with her husband. I was 10 at the time. It was the first game I ever played. I used my dad's work PC whenever I got home from school before he got home. If it wasn't for this game, I would've never wished for civ v that I spotted on a shelf in a hobby store for my birthday. That led to me creating a steam account and my world of gaming was never the same after that. Pressing this video, hearing the music and watching the UI layout made me realize that if it wasn't for me being gifted this game, I most likely would never have started getting into video games as heavily as I did. My life would be way different in ways I couldn't even imagine. My friends would be other people, I wouldn't be who I am today. Sometimes small events have big impacts, sometimes the youtube algorithm actually works. You earned a sub.

the aesthetics of this game are, honestly, unmatched

Dude the music of SimCity 4 is so nostalgic. This makes me want to play simcity, zoo tycoon and roalercoaster tycoon

I really love games with 2d sprites. They're light, they're beautiful, and they're comfy.

I still remember the 8 years old Vladimir playing this for hours after getting home from school. What a game!

fun fact when ever you start a new city, if there is land on the center of the map, you see sims in the middle cheering and celebrating, where the fireworks are set off, this only lasts for a couple of seconds, however you can set a few tiles of streets or mark the spot with a sign as point of reference.

2:19:00 sim city mod that invokes a zombie apocalypse and if the player fails to keep it in check it takes the map, interperpates it into a Project Zomboid map and then you have to survive the apocalypse in the city. and the stats of your city also affect loot and what items you'll get in buildings.

I wish city skylines would allow multiple cities like simcity. I'm still amazed how awesome some early 2000s late 90s cp games are. They really did good for the technology they had.

We all know - and very well appreciate - the philosophical wisdoms from Mr. ambiguous. But I think this finally took the price. At 1:13:38, he says "A large fire station, is kind of like a small fire station, but larger". Wow.

...20 years? There's no way it's been 20 years..

The power plants age overtime and become less efficient, more expensive and produce less, that accelerates when they are not meeting demand. Its worth levelling the oil plants and replacing with solar

1:18:20 The traffic you see is not actually "real", its merely a visual representation of the underlying simulation and how busy each individual piece of road is. Unlike sim city 2013 and cities skylines where evey vehicle you see is an agent spawned by the simulation from a building and physically moving from A to B. That's why you see the vehicles constantly fading in and out.

1:13:43 "A large fire station is kind of like a small fire station but larger" I can confirm this is accurate

Me: super entranced as to why AA was doing a spoke wheel water pipe layout AA: why did I do it like that?

Yo I refurbish vacuums that are used to make semiconductors AND our office is in a low-density residential zone. Sim City and Mr amphibian are accurate af

Hello ! If you're playing with the default game I strongly suggest you install a trafic mode. Because default settings makes every sims use the shortest road toward the destination instead of the fastest resulting in traffic jam. I used to connect my cities to a neighbour to buy water and electricity. This way they didn't become obsolete. The problem was that the neighbour never had any job to provide. And when a sims has to cross the border to work. The amount of worker capable to cross the border is devided by the amount of city you're connected to. So my commercial city always had demand for habitation. And when I switch to the habitation the demand was negative. Just because the sims devided the available job by the amount of city I was connected to. When you start a new city I strongly suggest you put your pollution on another tile. Because pollution doesn't cross the border. This pollu-town is gonna host polluting industries and can also host polluting energy (coal is the cheap one) Then pick again another tile where you can put your water pumping and a little bit of dense commercial just to generate monney. Once that's done you can go back to your main city and make Residentiel and Commercial tiles. Note : Residentiel will not generate enough revenu (even if you have skyscrapers) to pay for what they demand (schools, hospitals,police,....) That's why you need Commercial districts. Another and last tip is related to crime. There is a little bug. The larger it is. The more crime it gets. So, airports will ALWAYS have crime no matter how many police stations you put around it. I hope those tips are gonna help you. Have fun on sims city. (P.S. the game is kinda old and tend to crash on it's own)

These are the kinds of videos I need. No tutorials on the game, just some guy playing normally, while explaining what he’s doing. I love this game but hardly knew how to play it properly. This is the way to go.

"L'état c'est moi" perfect prononciation. I played so much of this game as a kid but I never understood how to make a profit. Luckily I had a friend who bought a magazine with the cheat codes and I was printing money 1 simflouz at a time haha gaming before the internet was a trip

This mans voice and humor For more than an hour What more do you want Goddamit

fires fires everywhere, and lots of traffic too

Dude I got Network addon mod, and holy cow. The most useful thing I've gotten from it is that people actually use my mass transit. My trains are SO BUSY, 10,000 usage a day, but only using 20% of their capacity. I LOVE trains in simcity man

THE URBZ..never thought I would hear someone bring that game up. I swear I was the only one throughout my life who has even heard of that. The Urbz was so cool as far as The Sims goes. Being able to travel to different districts and becoming "cool" enough by wearing the appropriate clothing and earning social emotes. Truly nothing like it at least at the time.

I so miss this game...soon as I heard the song it brought back so many great memories of long nights working on making the perfect city...fine tuning and chipping away at it.

Watching this video makes me think deeply. As a small child I played Sim City on the Super Nintendo . It really helped me learn to read. I mastered it by five years of age. After that game, I was hooked. I mastered every Sim City till Sim City 4. Now I'm mastering City Skylines. I feel lucky my dad got me into city games at such a young age. If only it payed the bills.

The plural of moose is "Oh shit, don't fucking move." Cause those things will kill you. But no seriously, the plural of Moose is Moose. Same for Deer, sheep and Elk. The number one predator (besides humans) of the moose is actually the Orca. Y'know, Killer Whales. No bullshit.

I just fired this game up last week. The art assets are fantastic, the music tickles my nostalgia bone, and it's very fun. I'm having bittersweet memories... OMG I'm old

Man, I have recently played sims 1 with all expansions, and 2 , and 3. I still have Sims 3 installed with all expansions. The Sims 3 came close to being the ultimate video game.

“Maybe they DO need a hospital now” Never change Ambi

Thanks to you, I had a mass blast of nostalgia and spent 4 hours working out NAMv44 and old mods I had (many of which haven't been supported for over 10yrs). Finally got the game to work and now I'm addicted all over again. Only old plugin I couldnt get working is SimPEG Mountain Pack cause it has a few puzzle pieces for avenues that make vanilla NAM shit the bed and crash

i remember seeing my dad play simcity a lot when i was younger so its very nostalgic for me

still the best sim city game ever...

I remember playing a lot of this game as a kid, and almost instantly ruining my city 10 minutes in because I was a dumbass

Man I miss playing this game. I tried playing with the hardware configuration but my GPU just doesn't to run it instead running on the integrated processor graphics.

One thing I hate about these games is how suddenly you can go in the red and into a death spiral.

Such a amazing game for its time...

Your disappointment that it’s Elk and not Deer is hilarious

Personally, I would be proud to live in a town with a nuclear missile silo.

I played Sim City 3000 a lot when I was a wee lad. I picked up 4 as a way to kind of relive it, but I don't remember 3000 being nearly as difficult as 4. I think it's due to the desirability mechanics such as commute time and number of customers. PS. Bohemia is a region southeast of Germany, and is basically the Czechs.

I got a severe impulse to buy the game because of the sheer nostalgia

I listen to AA to fall asleep, but I got jolted awake upon realizing that AA and RCE watch each other. Although considering I initially found both of them through the algorithm, I assume the algorithm too would naturally bring together both worlds.

This vod was very bohemian in nature

I always wondered, since the simulation is already tracking where each sim lives and works and shops, why can't they figure out how the industrial zones stock those danged commercial zones? Thankfully, Cities: Skylines solved this, and maybe Simcity 2013 did but I don't remember

Wow this brings back so many memories. This was my favorite SimCity game and I had played the first 3 as well, ever since I was 7 years old and had the original on SNES. I forgot that SC4 has the same sort of needs panel as the Sims. Cool to see this game again after so many years. I do think overall Cities Skylines has vastly improved the genre, but SC4's farming system was so much better.

One of my favourite games. I can't believe it has been 20 years....

1:09:15 "When the budget isn't balanced, I get viscerally uncomfortably." Please run for office. We need more of that sense. lol.

Oh one thing lots of peeps don't know you can cheese the building placements. Like lots of missles, most of the things that only allow one item, you can in fact have MANY. So just before you place the "one item" hold center click, then left click...rinse and repeat as necessary.

cities skylines is very fun, but i think that it definitely lacks a unique style. that's not necessarily a bad thing, the UI and interface is perfectly serviceable, but it just doesn't get me hooked aesthetically in comparison to the simcity games. same with the music, there are few city games that match the excellence of the simcity soundtracks.

I am listening to Sim City 3 and 4 Soundtrack on spotify almost every day. I can recommend it for anyone that is learning, chilling, working or just wanting some good old memories.

Would love another SimCity game vod if you get around to it. Hits right in the feels and you do a good job.

You have a great sense of humour and a way with words! I watched RCT videos, The Sims and now this, all games I spent too much of my childhood immersed in. Yet here i am in adulthood, looking back. You are a great game content person! "If i build high tech industry on a hill, will it be HIGHER tech?".

This game teach me how extremely important one way road is

I'm getting visual nostalgia but not audio, played Sim city 3000 till the CD died. Thanks for playing!

You have reawakened some memories for me…..I used to play this for HOURS!!!

Omg, 20 years later and I still have the same feels with this game as I once did when i got this brand new, boxed and on CD deluxe edition, back in 2003. I was a kid, and so eager to play it like I was with SimCity 2000 and 3000, back in the 90s. 🤓

Then comes the common issue, present in Any city building game, of never making sure your budget for your services never exceeds your revenue from taxes and other sources of income. Especially when you start expanding your city! Been dealing with that since SimCity 2K! Lol.

I have been playing SC4 on and off for 20 years and have seen the missile launch misfire MAYBE ONCE. AA puts it down and within FIVE MINUTES a rocket explodes in midair. Astounding.

For the record, I think the word 'moose' is already plural. Love this game, the best entry in the series for me, by far, and it's one of the old childhood games I still play today (SimHospital, Civ 4 and Alpha Centauri being the others that stuck with me over the years).

This game takes me back, man. I was a kid in 2003 playing this game, brand new! I still have my physical CD copy!

When he said M0N3Y I felt that.

Terrain..... Just play the song "Terrain" and leave it on repeat for.... Say..... 10 hours..... You'll be super chill. :D

This game was on sale this week Jan 24, 2023 on steam. I had the whole Deluxe pack and the 3D simcity on disc in a box set as a kid, but I wanted mod capability. It was only $5. Anyways, thanks for getting me back into it. A tutorial on making a profitable city would be great. I’m always like 200-700 Simoleans short on my budget!

The soundtrack was/is 🔥

Ah simcity, God this game is truly a gem

If you ever want a look at a good grid system look at the arizona roadways , theyre built like a str8 up grid

SC4 has the best soundtrack of all playable city-builder games in 2022, change my mind

I really like this guys commentary, how he can just go from having a really insightful thought to going "well, that's just my stupid opinion" inside of just a few moments. 😂

nearly started crying first started playing this in seniors at like 13....miss those days before adulthood moving out jobs problems it was a good time to be a kid

20 years?! Feels like yesterday.

"will they move into the middle of the cloverleaf?" You probably have never driven through LA

I spent so much time & had so much DLC, now Cities Skyline does all that 4 with DLC did & better, but the memories. Thanks for the nostalgia trip

My first exposure to the series was SimCity 2000. Not sure where I got it from, but I had the CD for the game and tried to play it on the family computer. I didn't really understand what to do so my cities would usually just get destroyed by disasters when I got bored.

man, i remeber playing this game as a kid. all of my cities became millitary bases & testing sites, and the still failed.

Dear Mr Ambiguous Dingus, the energy doesnt come from the potato it comes from the nails sticking out of the potato Sincerely Yours, Anonymous et al

"bohemian" just means something from Bohemia, wich was a country/kingdom in europe in Holy Roman Empire era, speaking high german, englisch didnt even exist back than.

This makes me miss 2003 me. Life was so much more simple. Just a nerdy kid and his video games…. Wait I’m still a grown ass nerdy kid inside..

Jesus man. Where do you get those names from? Cantstandinopole, Torsolo, Dingleberry, Pushmeat, Flap-a-boo. I love every single of them

The meaning of Dyngus or Dingus is: worthy, proper or suitable. Food for thought.

I used to have low density residential sprawl with a small park and a single tile of surface water in every housing block to pump residential prices. I forget which version I played though.

At last, a glimpse into the darker days of my past. Cheers!

Its actually moosi.

I had a SimCity game once, it had a lovely bug in the coding that resulted in anything above a zero percent tax rating sending your approval rating down the toilet and one section of road produced complaints over too much traffic.

Still have the copy of Deluxe Edition I got at a Scholastic book fair. Never had a quite good enough pc to run it well, unfortunately, but still have some good nostalgia for it.

If not for the avenues and Making Money Tutorial I'd swear you were playing the base game without Rush Hour...

Building games? You have the itch? Come, join us in Space Engineers. We build Icarian paths to the void! Try it out Amphib! I promise you'll enjoy it. I'm glad "Icarian" is a word and means what I thought it would :D

“Cleaner energy” immediately uses oil power

that music really takes me back.

Ah yes, placing agriculture next to an Oil Power Plant.

this guy is definitely my comfort streamer although I refuse to ever even open twitch

This made me go buy sim city, lol. I just found out what was missing in my life. So many memories.

I remember they had the natural disasters version on every computer in grade school. I used to send mobs and mobs of aliens…good times

I still have the boxed CD rom set of this game with the expansion. I miss this game

Sure miss the days of having a challenge in city builders

"I am the state." - Ambiguous Amphibian

This is one of the best games ever made. If this gets remastered i will be elated.

The last console I bought was a Wii U. I have a switch now because mobile gaming that doesn't suck is pretty awesome, but I no longer bother with consoles that are stuck to a TV. If I'm going to be sitting there, I'd rather be on my computer as well.

The funniest thing is that this runs better on my old laptop than my new one. It has a hard time understanding the fact that the RTX3070 is a superior card to that of the Intel Integrated GFX... And I've tried everything possible to get it to use the RTX to no avail. Until I found some Voodoo emulator thing that lets me rig things around a bit more and actually use my RTX card. This is by far my favorite city builder of all time. The only thing that I still hate about it to this day is the way shore lots work, even with the best mods, its just such a pain in the ass to get waterfront lots to do what you want.

as a kid i've always wanted to play simcity 4 and eventually got the cd-rom and sadly as I realized it was just the demo version.. even back then ea charged 10€ for a demo and every run you could always only play 30 minutes. that's a bummer.

You have a fellowship of the ring GBA game? That’s insane.

Here for the soundtrack