Lost Sim City for NES prototype discovered

[Mr. Analog]

Can't believe this almost got made

https://kotaku.com/lost-nes-version-of-simcity-emerges-after-27-years-1831308462

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[Lazybones]

Looks rather nice for an NES title.

The more I play old retro games the more I appreciate the more in-depth ones.

[Mr. Analog]

Looks rather nice for an NES title.

The more I play old retro games the more I appreciate the more in-depth ones.

Right!? It's amazing what some games were able to do with how little they had

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[Darren Dirt]

The mid-to-late 1980s were truly a Golden Age of creativity due to limitations on graphics and storage.

I mean, THIS game (which had all of its resources randomized each time you played) was on 2 floppy disks. And I think that was when they were only 720k per disk.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=atari+sundog+gameplay

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EDIT: oops, actually it was a SINGLE disk. http://www.lukin.com/sundog/index2.html

Found the link to that site via this fun-to-watch Let's Play of "SunDog: Frozen Legacy", which demonstrates the amazing variety of stuff that one disk actually held/built.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is0w3Sz2nqs

btw, for those who played "FTL", this is VERY clearly one inspiration for that modern game. Heck, it was released by a software company CALLED "FTL Games" https://sourceforge.net/projects/sundog/

I think it's so cool that, more than 30 years after the game came out, super-fans of the original game were so vocal about their love of the game that they got the attention of the ORIGINAL game dev, and for a decade he's been working on a "Tribute/Sequel" modern release.
http://www.sundogresurrectionproject.com/Sundog_Owners_Manual_16MAR2016.pdf
http://www.sundogresurrectionproject.com/SUNDOG_RESURRECTION_GAME_MANUAL_23MAR2016.pdf

[Mr. Analog]

Amazing stuff!

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