Yoot Tower: The Sequel to SimTower
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2020
- There was a Sim Tower 2? In all but name, yes! Let's take a look at Yoot Tower, aka The Tower II, developed by OPeNBooK9003 and published by Sega in 1998 for Macintosh and Windows PCs. Along with the Towerkit maps and other plugins from Japan!
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True story: My mom managed an Orange Julius for 25 years and they had a contest where the prize was a copy of Yoot Tower. After the contest ended, nobody won it, so the owner of the franchise said she could give the game to me. So that's how I got into Yoot Tower.
Man, that's cool! I love hearing stories like that.
My sister entered an Orange Julius raffle and they won and gave the prize to me! That is how I got into this game. It was a wonderful frustrating adventure. So freaking cool my friend!
Very cool!
What a wonderful youth you had
You should definitely tell that story at parties
I met Yoot Saito at a dingy Shinjuku bar, themed after Nintendo/Mario stuff, while I was visiting graduate schools in Japan and he gave me his Facebook...and I still don't fully believe that the man who made Seaman bought me a drink.
No way lol
I've been involved in the media scene and creative arts (they all overlap and it's a small industry) in my country. Some people I've worked with are apparently legends in their respective craft. They're all just ordinary but quirky people - so yeah, it's 100% believable the man who made Seaman did buy you a drink.
Hi tim
Legend!
In three years, no one has said it? I will step up and say.... PHRASING!!!
“Did you say ‘yoots?’
“Yeah, two yoots.”
“What is a yoot?”
“Oh, excuse me, your Honor. Two YOUTHS.”
This made my morning
I love when he gets woken up in the cabin! ^_^
Herman Fucking Munster!
"Are these MAGIC grits? Did you get them from the same guy who gave Jack his BEANSTALK BEANS?!"
😂 Clint needs to heart this. Ctfu over here. Great reference.
That "Buwuuuuuh!" elevator sound is engraved in my brain from Simtower 1.
Same. I haven't played SimTower in, god, probably 13 years at least. But I played SO MUCH that I think I will remember the sounds and opening music for the rest of my life.
Edit-Still have the CD, I must have gotten it in 1994-1995, because I was in middle school. I guess it still runs, my Master of Magic/Orion and my X-COM CDs still do.
That was just going through my mind as I seen this comment.
@@joelang6126same bro
"Dun-dun-dun! Condom Duck!"
I remember seeing SimTower being played on my cousin's Mac back in the day. It wasn't until decades later I found out what the name was. I had no idea this sequel existed and now I'm not sure which game it was...
There's 1 easy sign for which version it is. Do you remember the (quite distracting) animated stars on the top right of the ticker? If yes it's Yoot Tower, if you remember instead static gold stars on the top left side of the ticker, it's SimTower.
I've actually found out by accident that the saving/loading glitch on the Windows version with Kegon Falls somehow stops occurring if you somehow manage to play long enough to reach rank 2 before making your save. The crash only occurs if your tower is still at rank 1. Normally this would, of course, take forever. But you can force your tower to rank up (among gaining access to other cheats) by pressing CTRL + ALT+ SHIFT + D to unlock the Debug tab in the menu bar.
The "The Tower" series actually went on in Japan with The Tower SP for GBA in 2005, The Tower DS for Nintendo DS in 2008, and a couple iOS versions in 2010 and 2011.
A character from The Tower SP is also in Smash Ultimate (because Everyone is there) as a spirit, with his origin game identified as "SimTower SP" in western versions of the game.
Which is odd because Sega also released The Tower SP in the US (with the same name as in Japan)... (It was in 2006 so I'm guessing it did not have a chance?)
The Tower SP was a game I always wanted a copy of.
I used to play it on emulators because I could never find a copy.
"If we're not gonna translate Mother 3, why would we translate this extremely niche series of games?"
yeah i play the ios version still although its a struggle on the iphone se
@@otaking3582 It's always the fun games that never gets released outside of Japan.
LGR is very comfortable to watch. almost every video is one that seems like it was formulated to put you at ease while also keeping your attention and teaching you something new.
The comfort food of UA-cam
Very well put.
Everyone: “Why would you get a Mac over a PC?”
Me: “I wanted to save my games in Yoot Tower.”
Or just use Sheep Shaver.
@@NexXxus86 Shapeshifter! xD
@@elmariachi5133 I'm talking about the PowerPC Mac Emulator, Sheep Shaver.
Not the Themer.
I am talking about Shapeshifter, the Macintosh emulator on Amiga. :)
@@elmariachi5133 oh? didnt know about it
Fun fact: the developer of this game also develops seaman for Dreamcast
I don't know why but I read this comment and heard the Sealab 2021 song in my head.
Leonard Nimoy’s best gig
@LTrain 45 a wet dreamer
I too produce semen for dreamcast.
And now he runs a sandwich shop in Tokyo, a man of many talents.
Interesting observation: the "W" in the logo for Yoot Tower is also the kanji "山" (yama), which means "mountain".
"Folks are gonna hate Everything, so do the Best you can, because in the end, everyone becomes jaded enough to keep on running the Ratrace at a acceptable level of Frustration"
*Basically Everyday life*
4:51 "And Tokyo"
Specifically the "Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building", which sits adjacent to Shinjuku Central Park. To many people outside Japan, the central Shinjuku area and it's high rise towers being instantly recognizable as where Digimon Tamers is set. Literally 1:1 the exact IRL location.
Time to get out Midnight Club 2 again...
Gaogaigar episode 1 where he protects the building from the monster is what I remember most.
"...they'll become such an angry, anxiety ridden shell of a person that they'll soon quit their jobs and leave the tower for good."
Am I a Yoot Tower tenant?!
Yeet yourself from Yoot before it's too late!
RE, Disk 1: My copy of Mass Effect 1 on PC says Disk 1 on it, and apparently the European release had a second disk with language data on it. Maybe Yoot Tower did something similar
Seems plausible.
Can confirm. I'm Italian and my physical copy of ME1 has two discs, one for most of the data like the US version, another one for (optional) language-specific audio files and a bunch of extra stuff like screensavers and whatnot.
It has been ages since I've last installed it from the physical disk (nowadays I just use the serial key from the back of the case on a backup copy), but I seem to recall that if you want to play the game in English, you are only required to use disk 1. At the end of the installation process, it prompts you to insert disk 2 only if during the setup you pick a different language other than English for the installer.
Looking at the Japanese release, I can't help but wonder if they had plans to include at least one of the bonus discs, but changed their mind.
Yoot Tower was ported to iOS in 2010. Sadly, I was one of the very few who bought it and it was pulled from the App Store not too long afterwards.
What is the issue? If it's still installed you should be able to play it. Or go even further and export it off the phone and make it available "for reasearch"
They did the same with the Hatsune Miku Domino's Pizza app.
Even if you no longer have the app installed
If you can obtain a used iPhone running a old enoguh version of iOS, you could still redownload it from your purchases
I still have it on iPod touch. It had an update when old apps were to be discontinued in new iOS versions.
Did... did I really just hear "Condom Duck"?
It's a really old Trojan commercial parody.
Dun-dun-dun!
Those films remind me of the Film Cow /Jason Steele(creator of charly the unicorn) work. In style AND tone.
back when games had balls.
I heard "Random duck" but... now I have my doubts
I wish we had a modern version. I’ve played other tower type games, but Yoot Saito’s mechanics were so memorable.
There’s an equivalent that everyone is saying is like an improvement on the original, made a few years ago. It’s called “project highrise” and a lot of people really sing its praises.
try Project Highrise
Project Highrise is amazing
As someone who played SimTower and then Yoot Tower religiously, Project Highrise was a monumental disappointment and people who say it's similar have clearly not played the originals. The Tower games are, at their core, traffic management games.
But Highrise's elevators act like teleporters, the modding is a joke so they can't be fixed (at least, when I stopped playing it was), and there is little in the way of noise management. Your job is merely to check off objectives by building things wherever and wait for the money to roll in. And don't get me started on the ridiculous pain of building out every single utility on every single floor over and over again. They are only similar in that you build towers. The gameplay is totally different and I would definitely not call it an "improvement" in anything other than graphics.
There was someone making a modern clone, 2D Tower, that was pretty much a modernized Tower game. I reached out a few years ago - unfortunately he never got savegames working and went on to other projects. I tested it and it works fine, but sadly it's been abandoned. So I still play Yoot but it's still got a lot of bugs and poor translation.
I like Project Highrise, but as a elevator appreciator (@mrmattandmrchay fan) I really think the game lacks the transportation mechanics of SimTower
My wife and I loved this game. We played the crap out of it back in the day on our little green iMac.
Check Project highrise on steam, sadly, not as full of content as yoot tower.
"What you lose in freedom, you gain in regional identity"
Holy shit
Woke
I wondered if that's an advertisement for North Korean immigration.
Moving to China be like
Boris Johnson's Cabinet in a nutshell.
17:48 Movie Theater - WEAR A MASK.
They clearly where ahead of their time.
That looks like a slot to enter a custom name, but I'm not familiar enough with the game's UI to say.
Waiting for YEET Tower: Battle Royale
YEET
Compete to hurl towers to each other
I'm personally waiting for Binyoot Tower: Expand Meat.
@@DeadHandtheSurvivor with Meat jiggle physics
@@thesandwichslayer9948 Well that went from 0 to a 100 extremely fast.
Just like that plane tha--
As someone who loved games like Theme Hospital, Sim Tower, Sim Copter, I'm happy to see that there are so many new alternatives. For example "Two Point Hospital" in the case of Theme Hospital and "Project Highrise" in the case of Sim Tower.
One that I still miss, though, is Sim Copter.. Probably there is something out there, but I've never heard of it..
Cities skylines is pretty solid for a sim city-like too
@@AaronA0597 Yeah. Also a very good alternative. Sim city-alike games are more common. Sim City's popularity is the proof that people love that kind of games.
The problem is that Sim Tower and Sim Copter were not the most well received games.. At least from what I remember..
Specially in the case of Sim Copter.. Is not much that it didn't age well.. Even back then it was an unfinished mess.. But I loved it.. hahaha.
Unless you find some indie devs that also loved those games and want to create a "spiritual successor" for other fans or as a personal project, you won't see anyone "wasting time, money and effor" on something that not many people would buy.
At least there are projects like SimCopterX with updates for modern systems!
www.simcopter.net/
@@Loofrewop Sim Copter was its own game? I just know it because I found an old laptop with SimCity 1 and I would always hear "SIMCOPTER ONE REPORTING HEAVY TRAFFIC"
@@MilesPrower1992 Yeah, that and Streets of Sim City. On top of the included campaigns, you could export SimCity 2000 maps and play on them. Both games (Copter and Streets) were pretty jank though (though thinking abou them is taking me back 20 years!).
"That's enough of passionate packaging perusal" I love this channel. Only on LGR could I enjoy watching someone describe an instruction manual and contents of boxes.
I love it too. We couldn't afford PC gaming in the 90's but the neighbour kids got all the good games and had a wall of boxes like LGR. I'd spend hours watching them game, reading through piles of Jane's Flight Simulator manuals and PC Gamer mags.
I'm a fan of how materials usage has been reduced but something has been lost in the art of game packaging. Clicking through a wiki just isn't the same!
They should make a modern 2020 version called "Yeet Tower"
I dunno, it would probably just be closed half the year 🤣
it would get cancelled
If present tense is Yeet, and past tense is Yote, does that mean Yoot is future tense?
Can’t wait for Yoop Tower where you’re tasked to build a bustling office tower in northern Michigan
Ah, yes. Lots of fudge shops, blueberry festivals and arts and crafts shops!
Or Yeet tower where you build a huge space station/tower and launch it into orbit with a mass driver.
@@Niskirin that would have tied in nicely with SimCity 2000's Launch Arcologies
Niskirin & LouisCYUL Sim Tower in space would be awesome.
@@Chosen1Creator ever played Startopia?
The lack of a Tower Records-branded stage in the Japanese release is a lost opportunity.
There was a "Tower Records" shop in the Japanese 'Tower II' release. Tower Records is still a thing in Japan.
That was the one thing that bummed me out about Yoot Tower coming from Sim Tower, in that you couldn't build one big mega tower with everything inside, with certain amenities being locked to their specific scenario. Kid me was just so frustrated with that that I went right back to Sim Tower
There's still way more stuff in the Tokyo level than SimTower had. The Tokyo level is the sequel, and the others are extras.
2:30 Wow, I had every single one of those games on my Saturn when I was a teenager, neat.
You think someone is going to see this and decide to make a modern open-source patch for Yoot Tower? That I would definitely play!
I was just watching your Sim Tower video not too long ago and had thought it'd be neat to see you do one on Yoot Tower too! Thanks for bringing back the memories again.
I love your videos mate. Your content is awesome and you have such a calming and fitting voice for these
The old silicon in this guy's house can be smelt from 5000 meters away
Mmmm yes. 250nm with a hint of old voltage regulators and... and i think a little stale or overcooked ram stick? Would still eat tho
@Daniel Doran Of course not, nobody could bear to be that close to your stench
@@MrHendrix17 Yeah, their skin would melt off like the Nazis from Indiana Jones.
Happy belated 11th anniversary to the LGR channel, I've been watching for the last 6 years or so but I am catching up on the older videos. I hope Clint carries on bringing us retro themed goodness for many more years.
That's so nice! I remember talking about this game on the LGR subreddit a while ago, so cool that you made a video about it!
your videos are therapeutic, i always end up falling asleep watching them, not because they’re boring, they just bring me back to my childhood and it feels so nice
Maybe the 'Disc 1' symbol on the disc was from early in production, and perhaps they may have still had plans to port over the expansions from Japan?
Or disc 2 contained localization files for Europe, namely French, German and Spanish.
@@oz_jones Good point! Didn't think of that.
I'd be surprised if a second disc would ever be needed for localization files, the entire game barely takes up 100MB of space on the CD.
@@LGR That is true. It's still pretty weird either way.
The garbled text might be fixable by changing one or two settings: the System Locale (aka Language for non-Unicode Programs) and/or the Date and Time Format. A lot of games that have region locks or suffer from garbled text on Western Windows can be fixed by doing this. No guarantee it will help here, but it might be worth a shot if you haven't tried already.
I did that to fix a Sailor Moon doujin fighting game demo & I found I can't use the alt codes to type in "é" unless it's in the start menus search box.
Took me 3 weeks to fix it & googling didn't really help me this time.
Oh my lord... its been so long since ive watched your videos and as soon as i heard your voice, i jut got this weird sense of nostalgia.
I love these long videos they are just so chill man! the Sims has a special place in my heart, it was the first PC games I ever played.
i spent countless hours playing SimTower, it was definitely one of my favorite games of that time. i had no idea this existed up until a few years ago, finding a physical copy of this game, especially CIB, is incredibly hard today. Loving that japanese release, wish we could have gotten that one. shame there is no translation or way to import them into the English version.
Ah, I'm so happy to see some mac stuff on lgr recently!! Pathways into Darkness!
Is it just me or is his voice so relaxin? 😌
Just woke up and this makes my day, as always
shout-out to everyone who managed to fill the entire buildable area in the original Sim Tower and get 5 stars
I feel cheated! Sim Tower was my favorite game growing up and I never knew there was a sequel. This looks like it would have been right up my alley back in the day.
Neither did I
I concur, loved to play Sim Tower
3rd-ed. SimTower was one of my first 2 PC games as a little guy back in 2001, it sparked my fascination with figuring out obscured mechanics that made me the systems engineer I am today. Yoot Tower would've been my jam.
Downloaded it the other week and it's kind of trash.
I actually remember the game and loved it's mechanics vs Sim Tower! Brings back the nostalgia! Great review!
I just wanted to say I absolutely love seeing a new game review. Wonderful look at a fun and wacky game, and I really appreciated this video. Thank you, LGR.
Nice! Loved Sim tower back in the days.
Ya it was a good game!
Ditto, but I always ALWAYS hated how unreliable the elevators were, especially when the tower got too big and too busy.
Glad we got something like Project Highrise since neither SimTower or this game are on Steam.
Are they on GOG
@@elijah4168 no unfortunately
@@elijah4168 don't know about this one, but sim tower isn't
Places like Abandonware have it and both run on modern hardware or at least Win7.
Eh, Project Highrise lacks virtually all of the traffic management that made the Tower games unique. Without it, the people walking around are basically irrelevant to the gameplay - what's the point of elevators that just teleport people to their desired floor instantly? All you end up doing is building stuff to complete checklists and waiting for money.
These game sounds bring me right back. Memories are neat :)
Nice to see another game review! I enjoyed this :)
Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease we need a full translated version of The Tower II.
Japanese: Here is a neat binder and multiple CDs with DLC!
USA: Screw you, here's a pamphlet and disc 1
Only Disc 1 (Which is marked disc 1 somewhere in either the packaging or somewhere else like the title screen) of a multidisk game being included in the box? What is this the MGS Essentials Collection version of MGS3 Subsistance?
I just want to THANK YOU for always crafting your videos in incredible quality and uploading them in 4K. I’m a rare bird who watches UA-cam primarily on my TV, and your videos always look stellar on my LG C9. Kudos!
Love the new intro man. Looks really good!
I was literally thinking to myself the other day that I'd like to see LGR do a Yoot Tower review and then I wake up today and what do I see?
Happy Fourth of July!
Just one day early.
“OK, gentlemen, only 10% of players remember the lead designer, and 0% of prospective buyers do. What do we name the game?”
“Yoot Tower!”
“Perfect. Everyone will be so confused, they’ll *have* to buy it, I’m sure.”
Kinda shocked they didn't name it Naka Tower in the west (After Sonic creator Yuji Naka)
I'm instantly happy when I see a new LGR video in my feed.
Nice! I've been missing LGR game reviews!
The past tense of yeet is actually yoot
That's "Yoted" to you, sir.
@@lilguava70 No, Yoten
Yeet, yote, yoten.
Where is the "Yoot Tower Cinema Extravaganza" on LGR Blerbs?
We NEED a showcase of all that sim-movie-madness!
;-D
@Adam Demeter Oh, you're right! Thanks!
Love all the videos you do man!!
finally a dedicated episode to yoot tower. much appreciated.
Everyone:
Guy with giraffe puppet: Say hello to my little friend.
hello giraffe friend! :D
Sir, this is a Wendy's - would you please not show off your little friend?
“These yoots...”
"Hello, fellow yoots"
!!!!!!!! New LGR vid upon waking up on another quarantined morning, priceless.🙏🏻
I loved and still love these type of games. Clint, a man we will never forget aaahhhhh
"Folks will hate everything no matter what". I guess it's pretty accurate representation of Japanese offices and level of worker's stress
used to make an office only tower for the start since time speeds by when everything is closed. easy way to stream cash
0:07 ohhh beautiful Sierra collection there on the left shelves. Gorgeous!!
Great video, Clint! I miss my old Compaq Presario- I had that same monitor-speaker set up!
There's a part of me that really wants something like this but for giant sci-fi space ships like the Macros SDF-1. Then we could have giant mechs running around inside fighting each other.. and annoying singers might get blown out into space..
Ahem.. or something where you design the interior layout of Star Trek ships. I would totally just fill Picard's Enterprise with nothing but whale tanks, or put only one bathroom on the ship, and watch the mayhem unfold.
Or extend Quarks bar so it takes up 75% of the interior of DS9...
Damn, I'd love to see one of these playthroughs! xD
Not quite a direct hit, but would FTL scratch that itch? It's a bit different but has some similar mechanics.
Jeez, this japanese version is out of this world. Love it.
Love you're new intro!!
I still love this game series to this day. A testament to it's zen-like relaxing effecting
YESS OH MY GOD! I WAS HOPING YOU'D COVER THIS SOONER OR LATER!
I remember running this on my Mac a decade or so ago, for whatever reason that version had SEGA billboards while the PC one I tracked down years later did not :(
I remember losing my shit at the stupid movie theatre clips and being very confused about thieves... funnily enough some feature from Yoot Tower (like the aforementioned thieves) made their way into the SimTower port for the iPad, despite the game being based on the original.
"Condom Duck" on this episode of the island of rejected mascots
I’ve been waiting to hear about this!
Awesome review. I never heard of the sequel until this video. I'm now curious to see a review of The Tower II with add-ons and comparing the differences with Yoot Tower 😃
1998 : Brochure for a _chance_ of winning a free game
2020 : Humble, EGS distributing games like it's nothing for FREE, while steam sales giving games for chump change
These are bright times.
how old were you when you learnt that simtower wasnt developed by maxis? I was just now years old.
Don't look into EA, then :D
It's funny finding out stuff like this just like how a train was a translated game to(edit) and we would have got Dragonslayer games from Japan thanks to origin but Lord British notice they stole art from Ultima games for there manuals so that never happend
oh wow, i played so much of the original sim tower as a kid; had no idea there was a sequel. great video! i'll have to check the game out.
I’ve been trying to find this game for years. Played it a lot back in the days but completely forgot the name. Thank you LGR!!!
Clint: "disc one?"
Gollum: "one disc to rule them all"
Disc 1 of 1
I remember seeing ads of this in EGM...always thought it was a port of SimTower renamed. They never reviewed it as far as I can recall though, and I never sought after it. Still love me some SimTower though.
The author of Sim Tower/ Yoot Tower series - Yutaka "Yoot" Saito, studied Architecture at Waseda University, Japan. No wonder he developed a game that is so architectural and in a sectional manner.
That intro was fancy, I'm diggin' it.
If you already used simulated hardware, why didn't you use a snapshot as improvised "save" function? 😉 Regards from Germany, keep up the amazing work 👍
"Building up an average level of irritablility means they'll soon become such an angry, anxiety ridden shell of a person, they will quit the job and leave the tower for good"
In Japan? That's unrealistic!
Yeah, so many years back in a time I was playing simtower, great games actually! Thank you for this review , never thought there was next chapters for this great game!
One of the only games I ever "borrowed" from the internet. I had no idea it existed, And in 2006 there was no where to buy it when I did discover it. Great video!
Japan's rules on manuals are SUPER strict and they need to be very verbose, at least in regards to business software.
the eternal melancholy of the japanese videogame fan who hasn't got the time/energy/finance/ability to learn japanese 😔
The only thing you need is motivation. Everything else is just an excuse.
@@NarmyHiiragi Because linguistic developmental disorders are just excuses. Try learning stuff for yourself sometime instead of just quoting #inspirational quotes your buddy shared on Twitter.
I got this game as a birthday present way, way back in the day. Good times. I need to find a copy to play it again.
The first video of yours I ever watched was your Sim Tower review 10 years ago. This one was long overdue
I remember being so upset as a kid cuase my PC wouldnt run SimTower. It needed 8MB and I only had 4 lol. I begged my dad for months until he ordered another 4MB of ram from god knows where, I remember it being over $100 and this was in like 1990 or something. Times were more exciting then I guess, you had to wait for stuff and everything had a mystery about it. Internet is cool and all but...
I remember having to put 2 Meg upgrade for like 120 and a svgacard God knows how much that cost just to play simcity2000
@@Mikey-zj8bn That same PC had a 233mgz processor, and 200MB hard drive. I remember if I had Command and Conquer installed, I didnt have room for anything else lol. I'd have to uninstall it to install other games.
Hello there lgr I live around Dallas and I'm currently in the process of getting my hands on something really cool it's known as Knights Ferry Larrabee it's a prototype graphics card that was never put into mass production I'm about to get my hands on a fully functioning what can I only assume is a demo unit I would be more than happy to lend you the card to make a video about and perhaps preserve it and the cards bios onboard no other cards that I know about to have the BIOS on board so no one's been able to really test it or make any videos about it you would be the first it would be my pleasure to let you borrow the card I know that you would take care of it
Love the new intro Clint!