SimCity etched
Back in 1992 (maybe '91), my parents bought me SimCity for the SNES. I used to wake up at around 5 AM every school day to get in a couple of hours of play. I think that went on for several weeks.
Needless to say, I was addicted. But I got to a point where I felt I'd mastered it, so I sold it to a family friend – that would've been around '93. I had a bit of regret from time to time for having sold it, so Asma bought for me three years ago as part of a birthday present.
I just opened the game yesterday. And as I'm putting the cartridge in, the theme song starts playing in my head. But what surprised me is that I actually had it right, even though I hadn't heard it in over fourteen years.
I'm wondering how many people have good long-term memory for music? It seems like it's one of those universal things, remembering fragments of a melody or an entire song. Probably because there's no memory to fudge? It's either clear or it isn't. A song is practically self-correcting, because it won't sound right without the right note placement. Unless your melody processor is off.
Anyway, I want to start dabbling in it again, along with the long backlog of a hundred other things that I should be doing. Maybe work my way up from SimCity 2000? Why is Apple still selling SimCity 4 for $60? It's pretty cheap for Windows now. Not fair.
Addendum: OMG! SimCity Societies! November!