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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Revek on Friday June 05 2020, @07:46PM (3 children)
In case no one has figured it out the most scared males on the planet are white male US citizens. I'm a white male US citizen and as a result I get to see all of the sunshine they blow up each other asses while they discuss 'those' people.
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(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @08:01PM (2 children)
>> the most scared males on the planet are white male US citizens
Tell that to the black man staring down the policeman's gun barrel, you self-centered idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @04:52PM
After rounds of race training cops will now shoot anyone regardless of skin color
(Score: 2) by Revek on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:33PM
Let me hold you're hand and explain they are terrified without that kind of stimulus. You obtuse prick.
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