SimEarth: The Living Planet (TG-16 / TurboGrafx-16) Game Profile

Overview

Number of Players

Single Player

Genre

Simulation

Release Date

Wii Shop

22nd Jun 2009 (USA), 800 points
26th Jun 2009 (UK/EU), 800 points
12th May 2009 (JPN), 800 points

Screenshots (8)

Reviews

32

Virtual Console / TurboGrafx-16
Review SimEarth: The Living Planet

Put the weight of the world in your hands...
The simulation genre has come a long way - maybe not so much in the area of depth, as that's always been there. Where it has really progressed is in presentation: nowadays it’s no longer up to the player to have enough imagination to fill in the gaps left by technical limitations. Unfortunately, those...
- Tue 23rd Jun 2009
- Virtual Console
- Reviews

About The Game

An entire planet becomes your laboratory in this large-scale simulation game. Players help foster new life and promote its evolution into life forms of higher intelligence. Guide civilization along the path of evolution until it can achieve Exodus, the ultimate goal of settling on another planet. The basic challenge of the game is to maintain a comfortable environment for the life forms by adjusting atmospheric and geological parameters. Small organisms called Prokaryote and Trichordate will grow and evolve into a multitude of life forms. Making a drastic change is a recipe for disaster.

The key to success is making small adjustments and watching how the life forms react. SimEarth also includes planets with environments different from Earth, such as Mars and Venus. Try your hand at terraforming these planets with harsh conditions and creating a world where life can thrive.

1
Aenaida
Sat 23rd May 2009

So it's finally rated...

2
KeeperBvK
Sun 24th May 2009

Added again?

3
nintendo87
Wed 27th May 2009

looks like the snes one but with cutsences and looks better

4
KnucklesSonic8
Mon 1st Jun 2009

Maybe it was a good thing I held off on Sim City. We'll see.

5
SKTTR
Mon 1st Jun 2009

Sim City was the first SNES VC game I've download and this will be my first Turbografx game.

6
jhuhn
Sat 20th Jun 2009

The TG16 VC section claims to have the SimEarth out for June 22. This will also be the 60th TurboGrafx game to come out on the Virtual Console in the North America region.

7
metakirbyknight
Sat 20th Jun 2009

So is this like retro SPORE?

8
Pj1
Mon 22nd Jun 2009

So this is coming to Europe Friday? so it seems, if it looks good it might appeal to me. I'm hoping that Super Mario Kart will come this side of Christmas!!