amccour: For that matter, what about some of the other old Sim games/Maxis classics?
Ooooh, yes!
When my brother and I were young'uns my parents got us the Maxis Classics Pack - a box containing six or seven floppies with SimCity Classic, SimLife and SimAnt. Thos three games were our life for so many years! And the (really thick) manual that came with them was informational and funny, and not just about the games themselves. Pretty much everything I know about ants I learned from that manual, which was a treasure of cool, if not necessarily useful, ant facts.
We later got the second Maxis Classics Pack, which already came on CD and comprised SimCity Classic, SimEarth and SimFarm. We never really got into SimEarth, though that might have been because we didn't really understand or care about the theory behind it. Personally, I never got very far with SimFarm. As in SimCity, I tended to run out of funds in short order. (Could I do better as a budget-savvy adult? I don't know, but I'd be happy to try...)
One game I did do surprisingly well in was SimTower, which has been described as a vertical SimCity. I don't know why I managed not to go bankrupt in SimTower - maybe it was just because I was older? I built 100-story edifices and got the coveted 5-star rating while watching hundreds of tiny people navigate my elevators, escalators and stairs.
Oh, nostalgia...