SimCity™ 2000 Special Edition

I bought this game hoping it was the Windows version I purchased on CD-ROM a long time ago. Unfortunately, it is the MS-DOS version, instead of the Windows 95 version. I don't know why GOG chose to offer the MS-DOS version instead of the Windows 95 version, as it is a 32 bits app which can run on Windows 64 bits

Yes, the graphics may feel a bit outdated compared to current city building simulators. But no matter how much fancy 3D-water-reflection in real time they may add, none of them feels like SimCity 2000. This game is a relict from the times where game design was more important than graphics only. Everywhere you click, you see that the creators really knew what they were doing. Modern games get a new release every year and still are full of bugs and (design) flaws. A year later, the previous versions are already forgot. But SimCity 2000 is still popular after almost two decades. My mobile phone today is more powerful than the desktop-filling computer I first played SimCity 2000 on. It still binds me longer to the monitor than any current game can. Yes, I admit, that's quite an emotional and not really fact-based review, but most people knowing SC2000 know what I'm talking of.

I used to play the windows version of this when I ran Windows XP. I had a 1600x1200 monitor and I could fit SO MUCH of my city on my screen. This dos version runs at 640x480 and the music is AWFUL. There's probably a windows version floating around somewhere that has been modified to work on a 64-bit operating system, I know they did it with Sim Tower and a few others. My opinion - the fact that it's a dos version is a deal breaker. Don't buy.

I see this game has some haters in the reviews... but I played this version of Sim City in the 1990s, I liked it then, and I wanted to play it on my Macbook. It's working fine. I still like it, and it only cost a couple of dollars. Thanks for making the port to MacOS work.

Shame on GOG for using Windows version for the demo video and pics when this is only the DOSBOX version of the game. I made the mistake of buying it without reading the reviews as I was in a hurry at the time. After realizing it was only the DOSBOX version I submitted for a refund. I assumed that they used some sort of updated patched version to make it compatible with Windows 10/11 because they put that under the compatibility information. That is very wrong of them. If it is a DOSBOX game, they should list DOS as the compatibility or at least put [DOSbox] in brackets. Even if they could have included the proper version of the game & listed Windows 95 - Windows XP 32-Bit I could have bought the game to use on my Windows XP 32-Bit system. I guess I will look elsewhere for a proper version of the game.