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Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive

posted by martyb on Friday June 05 2020, @03:05PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

A lost Maxis "Sim" game has been discovered by an Ars reader, uploaded for all

We at Ars Technica are proud to be members of video game archiving history today. SimRefinery, one of PC gaming's most notoriously "lost" video games, now exists—as a fully playable game, albeit an unfinished one—thanks to an Ars Technica reader commenting on the story of its legend.

Two weeks ago, I reported on a story about Maxis Business Solutions, a subdivision of the game developer Maxis created in the wake of SimCity's booming success. Librarian and archivist Phil Salvador published an epic, interview-filled history of one of the game industry's earliest examples of a "serious" gaming division, which was formed as a way to cash in on major businesses' interest in using video games as work-training simulators.

[...] The anonymous Ars user returned to our comments section on Thursday to confirm that they'd uploaded the disk's contents, after an apparently annoying extraction process, to archive.org for everyone in the world to download and play.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @03:26PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @03:26PM (#1003781)

    Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operator (15W)

            Enlisted Officer

            Active Duty Army Reserve National Guard Entry Level

    Overview

    Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operators are remote pilots of unmanned observation aircrafts, aka military drones, or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) that gather intelligence used in operational tactics. Our drone operators are intelligence specialists; they are integral to providing Army personnel with information about enemy forces and battle areas.
    Job Duties

            Conduct air reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting and acquisition missions
            Plan and analyze flight missions
            Perform preflight, in flight and postflight checks and procedures
            Launch and recover air frame from runway
            Perform maintenance on communications equipment, power sources, light/heavy wheeled vehicles and crane operations

    https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/browse-career-and-job-categories/transportation-and-aviation/unmanned-aerial-vehicle-operator.html [goarmy.com]

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @04:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @04:25PM (#1003814)

    Tried, I was sectioned 8'd out of the application after the saying I had 476,000 kills in simcopter.