Sierra LandDesigner 3D 
Sierra’s line of home productivity software (really!) included this gardening tool, which makes it easier to plan a garden but doesn’t necessarily teach how to landscape well.
Tagged: 90s
Sierra LandDesigner 3D
SimHealth 
A product of Maxis’s former business simulation division, SimHealth embodies the potential and danger of using games as educational tools for public policy and debate.
SimIsle: Missions In The Rainforest
Everything has a visible cost in SimIsle, a tropical simulation game about the dynamics between industry, labor, and ecology. What does it mean that it contradicts its own environmentalist message?
A close look at SimRefinery
With the SimRefinery prototype now available, let’s take a close look at what we can learn from the unfinished state of the game.
SimRefinery recovered
Thanks to a reader, a copy of SimRefinery has successfully been recovered!
SimTower: The Vertical Empire
Yoot Saito developed a surprisingly personal take on Maxis’s simulation sandbox genre – and one of the stronger entries in the Sim series.
SoulTrap 
SoulTrap is a nightmare – a frantic and clumsy trip through a fear-filled dreamworld so surreal that it’s abstract.
Spaceship Warlock 
Reactor Inc.’s foundational interactive movie adventure follows no existing blueprint and nearly falls apart from the tonal whiplash of combining open exploration with cinematic intensity. Nearly.
Span-It! 
Span-It is a decently fun, cerebral board game, but its strategic weaknesses are cripplingly obvious against the computer.
Star Wars: Pit Droids 
Lucas Learning put together a decent Chu Chu Rocket-like game, dampening the inherent unlikeability of a Episode I tie-in game for kids.