SimCity/Boston


 * Disaster: Nuclear meltdown

Which nuclear reactor blows up depends on the version of the game. In most versions, a reactor to the south blows up. In the SNES version, the reactor to the far east blows up. In the neighborhood region called East boston.near logan international airport. you will notice theres two parts of the airport pertruding onto your playable area.Logan International airport can be made large but it costs about 50,000 simoleons or so. each airport plot costs 10,000 you might have to bulldoze the southern Airport plat to maximize the size of Logan international airport. but East boston region is a large sub-prefectural city that stretchs deep into the map that would adjone this called Wintrop.

also you can make the sims happier by building the red sox stadium in the far south west of the map.this building of a stadium will cost about 3,000 simoleons.

time limit/SNES version
on the SNES version you are not permited to play beyond 2015 AD you have to admit loss or win and move on. no playing and devoloping the city to the futureistic times of Star trek to wait for the radiation to dissipate.

boston size
i have noticed that the playable area of this map is only about 17 square miles in surface area. so if you hevily build up to 200,000 people it would be about a density of 11780 people per mile. at 400,000 people its 23540 people per mile. and of cource the figure goes higher if the water tiles are excluded from the surface area.on the standard game 16 tiles long was a mile but on this boston map its 26.and 2/3rd of a tile per mile.

some built up areas need to be relocated. remember to blow up one of Bostons sky scrapers in the north west of the city's downtown penninsula area next to charlestown nieghborhood.has to be converted to a train station this will add to the transportation buget be creative with how you lay your tracks this is where the subway tunnel begin and go to under the chareles river into charleston. this comercial re-development will subtract from the commercial tax base but making the city more like real boston has many advantages. a beefed of mass transit cystem can potentially increase score. there was a additional automobile tunnel that went to conect up with logan international airport. but it was not converted to rail. this road was built some time before 2010.if the reacter does exsplode in east boston try to preserve the airport and conect it up to the rest of the city by a beefed up transportation system. a rapid bus line uses the new tunnel in the far south east of the map.althosh bus type mass transit is not found on this game im certain that building this tunnel can help allieviate traffic congestion.

too many seaports
all though getting rid of the extra seaports may seam like a small thing its actually a very important thing you will only need one sea port in order to keep the benifit of a higher industrial capacity. bulldoze some of the Sea ports. always try to bull doze a few extra sea ports. replace them with industrial zones and park tiles.

Land values need to be raised
place parks in any small tiles surounded by zones. these parks are called plazas build these plazas in the empty spaces. technically not all open spaces are parks but sometimes skycrapers or factories can have plaza's on there side walks. also extra long side walks are part of this types of parks. the use of plaza type parks on S.C. Classic can thus raise land values all over the city. Thus raising the tax base. its nessesary to do this in order to raise your score enough to win.

Cheating/super nintento version
remember to use $999,999 cheat. in your first year 2010 immediatly drop tax rate to zero after bulldozing the 3 nuclear reacters. you can replace your nuclear power with coal power for a toal coast of $9,048. at the end of the year use the 999,999 simoleon cheat. its not nesesary to replace with coal but its cheaper. you can rebuild Nuclear becasue the game only has the one nuclear exsplosion programed into it but it will cost $15,048.

It is possible to hold down the L or R buttons and bull doze all 3 nuclear power plants. when doing this $1 x 16 tiles means a bulldoze fee of $16 simoleons.

PC version
You cannot demolish the given Nuclear power plant in hopes of avoiding the disaster; it will simply occur at a different power plant located within the city. While you can try demolishing all Nuclear power plants, it will be expensive replacing them with Coal plants. i have noticed on the PC version of classic simcity boston that you can continue playing after you have beaten it and beilve it or not the radiation does decay and by the 2300s AD boston should be nearly free of nuclear radiation.

It may not be possible to clean up the radiation, so just bulldoze around the effected area and rebuild elsewhere. the best advice is to bulldoze only the population in the effected area and plus bull doze the rubble and replace with park to help break down the radiation in the long run.try to maintain transportation links to help in the re-construstion in the 2300s AD Try to do a good job, because you need a decent city score to win the scenario.i have noticed on the PC version of classic simcity boston that you can continue playing after you have beaten it and beilve it or not the radiation completly decays by the late 2300s AD.