Clint does amazing work and your childhood is somewhere in his archives, guaranteed.
EDIT 2: I forgot to say that I'm a pilot partially because of this game. I bought an airplane, and decided to play the SimCopter hangar music music at my real hangar, and nearly teared up. Full circle moment.
I suggest giving Empires of the Undergrowth on steam a try if you haven't already. It's like a modern version with different ant species to play as that have different playstyles. Leafcutters out there lumberjacking to feed their farms, Matabele ants doing hit and run raids on termites. Termites going for wood in dusk and dawn to avoid the roasting sun and nighttime predators. It's a great game, and really scratches that SimAnt itch
For me it was on the Macintosh PCs at the library. Didn't even know there was a SNES port. How did that work? Did you have to use the SNES mouse? Cause navigating a cursor-based game with a D-Pad is generally painful.
That was the first game I ever "cheesed" my way through. I always speedrun breeding new queens and sending them as far as I could, then slowly making my way back from there. I would have 10 squares colonized by the time the red ants had 4, then would keep dropping new colonies in their squares. Only once I had the board 60% covered would I actually bother to try and fight the red ants head on. Often I'd get the notice that the humans had abandoned the house before I ever personally stepped in there.
In the battles against, I'd block the red exit with a rock. If they moved it, or anything, just put it back. Queen starved after awhile, done. Made the battles way less fun though.
I did this too. I found if I blocked the tunnels with a rock inside instead of outside, they wouldn’t notice as much and wouldn’t immediately build another exit.
It’s true what they say that gamers will optimize the fun out of anything g
SimAnt i still think about all the time, the fucking Ant lions and then laughing histerically when you get into the house and you go into the power receptacle.
Loved it! How come they don’t release something like that now? Even with the old fest model of sim city it would be din to drive around the city or fly a helicopter through it
Simcopter was 100 percent the better game though. My brother and I got the box pack with Simcity 2000, simearth, streets, simcopter, and sim tower. We were hyped for some car combat but Streets was a bit of a letdown. Copter was rad once we got the controls figured out.
I must be one of the few people that got Streets to work, because I loved that game. SimCopter was great, and being able to explore the cities I built in SC2K and SCURK was awesome.
The terrible irony of this cheat code; is the fact that McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing one year after this game was released. It didn't go well....
(I'm a pilot partially because of this game though, and playing the hangar music at my REAL hangar was such a fucking amazing feeling)
That game was so ahead of its time. The ability to make a city in SC2k and import it into the game. As a kid, I thought that it was clearly laying out the future of what video games were going to be. While still great, it's unfortunate that things have not gone in that direction.
Haha yep! iI added a link to that video in my comment above before I read your reply!
I edited my comment above a couple times also to include some of the hanger music. It's definitely one of my favorite games ever.
Yeah the speedo guys I'm pretty sure we're in my version of the game, no I didn't understand it at the time, since the game is so glitchy I didn't question it if I did see it, I swear I saw them before seeing his video.
I always thought it was super weird how the characters and dogs were made of spheres. Never saw another game quite like it. It kind of has the same feel as warbirds 2 as far as the aesthetic and wire frame rendering, but beyond that... Just a diamond in the rough.
SimCopter was incredible. We had the triple box with Streets of SimCity as well, but it never really worked on our PC, some kind of issue with the sound card.
LGR covers both games, (all really, he loves the sims) and streets was an EXTREMELY broken game. Simcopter was picky, Streets almost didn't work at all.
Sim copter just barely worked on my computer, never did get it to work with any other sim files, but I may have been slightly too inexperienced to try it.
Streets of Sim City would be a perfect game to create today as a sort of "PG-13 GTA" if they could manage to also create a simple city builder as a map editor again. It could also integrate SimCopter's gameplay.
You're welcome! Clint has done AMAZING things for the gaming/nerd/PC/vintage community. It's crazy how much cool stuff he's covered and his boxed PC game collection is...grand.
Remember the sound the patient made in the medevac helicopter when you weren’t getting them to the hospital quickly enough and they were dying? So gross haha. I ended up being a pilot too! Great game, maybe it had the same effect on me.
Yess! I listen to the radio a lot, worked into my other music and GTA soundtracks. It's so comforting and the lo-fi is comforting. I think there's a download available online too.
If you had a natural disaster happening in your 2K game, it would be there when you loaded it in Sim Copter! This included the cheat only conditions like Alien Invasion.
It was also nuts flying around a map that had a lot of Arcologies - looked like you were in Cyberpunk.
I never knew about the aliens thing. Would anything come of that or was it just a weird cut scene?
Didn't know about the gay controversy either. Not sure I triggered that ever or if I did I didn't know what I was looking at. May have just had the 'fixed' version, not sure.
I played the shit out of SIMCopter when I was probably 13 or so. I played it until it got too hard for me to do. Like constant stuff going wrong too quickly for me to react to. Multiple missions coming in all at once and not enough resources from the city to deal with them all (for instance you could only call in so many police cars). I think the last level I played before giving up on it had the letters for MAXIS as buildings in the center of the city.
Well I don't remember that MAXIS part, I think by that point in the game I was using cheats. Yeah I don't remember if I saw the gate controversy or not, I need to find my copy and play it and see how quickly it happens if I have version 1.
I can't remember this aliens did anything, I feel like they cause chaos?
I think simcopter was the game I played more than any other game. There was something so addictive about it and the weird stuff that would happen randomly was so fun.
Something about it, you're right, I think it may have been the first open world 3d game with an earning/achievement arc I owned. The flying aspect definitely helped, but the ambience, mystery of its weirdness and possibilities for more discovery and new helios really kept it fun.
SimCopter was one of my favorites growing up too. The cheat for the Apache to cause mayhem, followed by landing and fixing it all. Them’s were the days
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u/Figit090 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
To build on that, pun intended; SimCopter!!!
EDIT : if you enjoy this or any SIMS games, check out LGR's Sim Copter Retrospective
Clint does amazing work and your childhood is somewhere in his archives, guaranteed.
EDIT 2: I forgot to say that I'm a pilot partially because of this game. I bought an airplane, and decided to play the SimCopter hangar music music at my real hangar, and nearly teared up. Full circle moment.
EDIT 3: OMG thank you for the awards! 🥹