The Tower SP coming to the US?

[bokmeow]

http://www.sega.com/games/game_temp....id=hp_pldwnlst

Release date: 21 March 2006

[VanillaThunder]

wow! A simtower ripoff about a decade after it came out... My head is tingling in excitement.

[Weevus]

Originally Posted by VanillaThunder

wow! A simtower ripoff about a decade after it came out... My head is tingling in excitement.

My first thought was Simtower too.

At least it's not another shitty 3-D sonic game.

[Nesagwa]

Originally Posted by VanillaThunder

wow! A simtower ripoff about a decade after it came out... My head is tingling in excitement.

I thought this was a port of SimTower.......

(and am pretty sure it is)

[norton9478]

The worst part of it is:

It's comming out for the SP...

Would be much better on the DS.

[Weevus]

Originally Posted by norton9478

The worst part of it is:

It's comming out for the SP...

Would be much better on the DS.

Yeah, they could have done it better with the stylus, like a mouse, like in Sim Tower.

[Nesagwa]

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/nwt/ds...ken/index.html

LOL.

[Zenimus]

Originally Posted by Nesagwa

I thought this was a port of SimTower.......

(and am pretty sure it is)

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]

Originally Posted by Zenimus

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.

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 :kekeke: Rip off of SimTower my ass, Maxis published Yoot Saito's The Tower in the US.

[Soniku]

Originally Posted by Nesagwa

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/nwt/ds...ken/index.html

LOL.

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...

[bokmeow]

Originally Posted by Nesagwa

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/nwt/ds...ken/index.html

LOL.

Fist of the North Star Pachislot DS?

Hell yeah, now bring on the Metal Slug Pachislots and the China Girl Pachislot, SNK, are you listening?

[Weevus]

Originally Posted by bokmeow

Fist of the North Star Pachislot DS?

Hell yeah, now bring on the Metal Slug Pachislots and the China Girl Pachislot, SNK, are you listening?

A Metal Slug one would be nice.