June 14, 2011 by Susie | Category: 
When I was a kid, my dad bought us kids a game called SimTower. In the game you are supposed to construct and manage a skyscraper. There were offices, condos, restaurants, movie theaters, boutiques, hotel rooms, garages, elevators, escalators etc. in the tower.
I really liked the game and it was one of my favourites. I was fascinated by being able to decide what to build and in which order.
Unfortunately, I did not care about the logic of the game. I started with offices on the first 5–10 floors. Then hotel rooms and condos. But no offices and condos on the same floor! Or condos and hotel rooms. It would have been illogical, as it was very important to do everything in particular order. Who would want to live next to hotel rooms?! Rule number two: not too many elevators/escalators because they did not look nice.
I guess this was fatal for my tower and it did not work as it should have. You see, first I had to lower the rents, because my tenants were unhappy.
Then the restaurants lost their customers and went bankrupt.
I found stinking cockroaches and had to re-build the hotel rooms.
Not to mention the bomb threat I got…
I was a lousy tower manager. As a result I ended up destroying my tower and constructing a new one. I did not really learn from my mistakes, I did not care about the money, I just wanted to plan and design the building.
To tell the truth, if I wanted to design a skyscraper nowadays, I would buy some kind of house design software. At least yucky cockroaches would not haunt me anymore!
-Susie
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Really interesting to read. Especially as girls in your age weren’t that in computer and computer-gaming in the old days.
Had made some similar experiences but with “The Settlers”.
I had build many fisher-huts and forester-huts and tree-cutter-huts just because they were cute and would do good stuff. Then I placed some farmhouses for weed and some for pigs and mules. It worked well until the roads were full of resources and they couldn’t transport it anymore. I didn’t got into the army-stuff. So I placed some army-huts somewhere to get more land but didn’t produce any new stuff to get better army-men and also no coins to pay them. With that way I lost against enemies.
I still like that game. It’s nice to build a little village. But please – No War!
Comment by Urfoex — June 14, 2011 @ 4:20 pm
Thanks for your comment, Urfoex!
I used to play The Settlers as well and I TOTALLY agree with you – please, no war! It was so nice to build a cute village, but I was not into warfare.
I build “little villages in a village”, like “a timber village” with a forester, a woodcutter and a sawmill etc. I think it was not very efficient. But my village was the cutest!
Until the enemy came…
Comment by Susie — June 15, 2011 @ 11:17 am
The scale ratio of the cockroach and skyscraper pictures is just right for another Godzilla movie.
And the roach looks somewhat angry already.
Comment by Pavel — June 19, 2011 @ 11:28 am