SimTower - The Vertical Empire
(ver 1.0)
Abandonware


Maxis SimTower is a 16-bit Windows game based on the idea that the modern 
sky scraper is basically it's own self contained world. In SimTower you play 
the developer of a large building.

The gameplay consists of building floors and then filling them with offices, 
apartments, movie theaters, and restaurants. You can also develop hotels 
and shopping malls. You also must also provide services such as parking, 
security, first aid, and transport (ie. stairs, elevators, and escalators). 
While building, you must manage the your tower by studying people's traffic 
patterns, programming the elevators to work most effciently, and buying new 
films for the movie theater.

The game is basically open-ended, but there is a ranking system. The goal is to 
get to be get to Tower level. You get that way by filling tasks to moving up 
in the star ranking. For example lets say to move up from two to three stars 
you need to have so many tenets and a satisfactory stay by a VIP at your hotel. 

The game deals with time in a interesting way. The clock moves continually, 
but slows down at certain points, such as 9 am, lunch time and 5pm; it then 
speeds up during the night. In the game a week is made up of 2 weekdays and 
a weekend. There are only a few weeks in a quarter and 4 quarters in a year.
Tip: Turn OFF the fast speed as quickly as possible when the game starts.

The game as many small features and options such as being able to rename offices, 
being able to rename and track individual people, and having Santa Clause vist 
at the end of the fourth quarter.



Note: This is a Windows 3.x game, but works fine in Win2k.