I find it rather disappointing no one seems to have any idea what SimEarth is; it truly is a gem among sims (from this era...).

I own the PC version, and rented the SNES version.  imo I prefer the SNES version, as there is a definite ending there.  The final planet of the SNES's scenario mode was a pain until I found out you could boil over all the water on the planet and then let stuff grow and civilization flourish on the planet.  It was just about impossible to complete it with all the planet's water intact.  I'm not sure if anyone managed to complete it with all the planet's water intact or not.

The hard scenarios was really just Mars, and maybe even Venus.  The first scenarios could be completed through using the Monolith, and subsequent planets after Venus give you enough time to maintain the atmosphere, grow enough living plants, add enough lifeforms and civilization.

Can this game be played today on a modern Vista 64-bit PC through some emulator or something? This and SimLife seems a lot more interesting than Spore which was a dissapointment at least IMO.

I played this when I was younger and had no idea what what going on. I remember unleashing tsunamis and hurricanes again and again after my attempts to populate the earth with dinosaurs failed.

" I played this when I was younger and had no idea what what going on. I remember unleashing tsunamis and hurricanes again and again after my attempts to populate the earth with dinosaurs failed. "

I play this every now and then on my PC. I love making resource divides between large cities and seeing a whole city change to a combat unit to wipe out anything in it's path to get to that one block of lush jungle. Also: space faring mollusks are awesome.

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" I played this when I was younger and had no idea what what going on. I remember unleashing tsunamis and hurricanes again and again after my attempts to populate the earth with dinosaurs failed. "

That's pretty much was what I did. I was 7 or 8 when I played this.  I also played SimFarm and SimCity. "

Yep. I played this a ton. I don't think I ever fully understood it, but still thought it was really neat.

I rented the SNES version back in the day.  Didn't really play it much or think it was great.  More of a Sim City / Sim Ant person myself.
 
Only real thing is I like how they had 'ages' of mankind, the information age, nanotech age, and the monolith item.

Yeah I played it back in the day. Kinda sucked if you asked me. Sim City was waay awesome, and Sim Ant was also pretty fun. This was... meh.

SimEarth was a great idea, but I thought the execution was terrible. Spore, as a revisit to that idea, is as a whole a better game, if still a bit of a disappointment.

I played it, but was a bit to young to get it or care enough. Everyone who started to live on my planet died from something that seemed out of my control. That is my experience with SimEarth...

" Yeah I played it back in the day. Kinda sucked if you asked me. Sim City was waay awesome, and Sim Ant was also pretty fun. This was... meh. "

Of course. Actually had to okay the disposing of all my old game manuals when I was home last. Sim City, Sim Ant, Sim Earth, Sim City 2k (still got my free shirt too), etc etc. Miss the days when manuals actually held information, let alone minor lessons. Sim Ant covered biology, Sim Earth covered geology, Civilization was part history book, Railroad Tycoon covered locomotive engine bios. Good times good times.  
 
So sad that all that gets cranked out these days are Sims expansions and abominations of the Sim City francise.