bokmeow
Ned's Ninja Academy Dropout
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The Tower SP coming to the US?
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Ned's Ninja Academy Dropout
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The worst part of it is:
It's comming out for the SP...
Would be much better on the DS.
It's comming out for the SP...
Would be much better on the DS.
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Zenimus
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Nesagwa said:
You are correct! The game we commonly know as SimTower was originally released in Japan as The Tower. Maxis ported it over to the US and renamed it "SimTower" and added a few minor changes.
Oddly enough, there was also a very similar version of the game released for PC in the US called "Yoot Tower" (after the creator Yoot Saito). I'm not clear on the differences between it and SimTower, but I remember seeing a screenshot once, and they looked almost identical.
So, this is a port of the original PC game for GBA, although I believe it would be much better suited for the DS. This was always one of my favorite computer games, so I'll be picking it up.
bokmeow
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Zenimus said:
Yeah, that's what I thought too, like, 'this game would be so awesome for the DS,' but there was a thread months ago about this, apparently The Tower for the Gameboy Advance was an extremely limited run. I'll do a search for it and post the link.
And VanillaThunder demonstrates his woeful ignorance, as always
Rip off of SimTower my ass, Maxis published Yoot Saito's The Tower in the US.
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Nesagwa said:
For a moment, I thought that was Rent a Hero No. 1 for DS...
I'm still wishing that it was.
As cool as portable SimTower sounds (that was the only Sim game I was ever able to play... And strangely, I liked it a lot...), it's probably going to be nausiating to play without a mouse or touch-screen... or not...
