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SimRefinery, an all-but-forgotten oil refinery simulator from the tidal abaft SimCity, has been rediscovered as well as uploaded to the web as a playable game, ArsTechnica reports. The fact of the gutsy came to light last month hindmost it appeared in a wide-ranging report approximate Maxis' little-known lifework simulations division. Now, however, an pseudonymous user has uploaded the gutsy to the Internet Archive, area it's admittedly playable in a browser thanks to a born DOSBox emulator.

The game's discovery came approximate hindmost Ars covered a diffuse rhetoric approximate Maxis Lifework Simulations, the SimCity studio's plunge at making business-focused simulators. Soon, one pseudonymous Ars commentor towards that they admittedly had a touchstone of SimRefinery, obtained via a cognizable engineering friend of theirs. Now they've uploaded the gutsy to the Internet Archive, therefore it's self-governing for anybody to explore.

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It's adequately simple to start playing the gutsy hereupon in your browser.

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SimRefinery is notably unfinished, as well as I was quickly faced with opulent graphical glitches back I approved to spectacle it for myself. Instructions or papers of any kind are moreover tangy limited, making it infrangible to get a handle on what's going on.

The touchstone of SimRefinery was found on an old 3.5 inch disk with a simple white sticker printed with the game's name as well as the logo of Maxis, SimCity's developer. Reportedly, the gutsy was never meant to teach persons how to run an oil refinery. Instead, Chevron, the energy kinfolks who substituted Maxis to mass-produce the prototype, capital a gutsy that could sleekness off how an oil refinery works at a loftier level.

Although the gutsy is tangy difficult to spectacle in its current state, it's a sufferable deferral to a measureless story. You can gathering other screenshots from the gutsy over at ArsTechnica, or try playing the gutsy for yourself on the Internet Archive.