Add matching stairs, two security offices on the left, and 10 Fast Food centered around the middle stairs. Here’s my saved game, in case you want to skip that.

My 2020 laptop finished a quarter every 8 seconds like this, so it was only about a ten minute wait. For maximum speed, close the Map Window, shrink the Main Window, look at the sky, and turn on “Fast Mode”. Now, turn up the simulation speed and save up $60M. Add three stairways to serve them: after the 9th, 20th and 31st offices. Put three floors with 40 offices each on top. The map is 375 “segments” wide, but a 360 segment tower is much easier to fill evenly, so build a 360 segment lobby. See my SimTower Reference for some tables I wish I’d had before playing SimTower again, cobbled together from a few different websites and corrected. I was inspired by a very short and simple SimTower walkthrough, though I ended up using a Retail Store / Fast Food mix for higher income with similar population. Here’s my first pass at “solving” SimTower. I’ve written up the steps that worked for me. I installed Windows 95 to run it, which took a few hours of attempts and ended up being a nostalgic journey itself. Being from 1994, SimTower is actually a Windows 3.1 title, so you have to install Windows on DosBox to run it. Maxis learned about the game and offered to publish it in the US, branded as a “Sim”-title.Ģ6 years later, I’ve been digging up old games and wanted to really beat SimTower this time. The game was released as “The Tower” in Japan and was relatively successful.

SimTower was not actually developed by Maxis, but instead by Yoot Saito, who was inspired by the 1989 SimCity. The excellent SimCity 2000 released last year, but we’re looking at a lesser known title, SimTower. It’s 1994, and Maxis is a big name in gaming.

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