It's all thanks to one lucky floppy disk find. The SimRefinery that's available to play today is a prototype, so many parts aren't complete. It's also very much designed for those with a chemical ...

A glance at the graphics in the SimRefinery image above, and you know that this is an old game. It's actually an old, incomplete game that was recently discovered and made available to download and ...

Between 1992 and 1994, the Maxis Business Simulations division was tasked with a straightforward, albeit strange, job: create a refinery simulation game for the overlords in Big Oil, as reported last ...

SimRefinery ' is a training simulation game created by a major oil company, Chevron, who commissioned Maxis to develop the ' Sim City ' series of city management simulation games. This Sim Refinery ...

A relic from the first big boom of simulator games has resurfaced as Maxis' SimRefinery has been found and is totally playable. Before it was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1997, the company was ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. SimRefinery is clearly unfinished, and I was quickly faced with numerous graphical glitches when I tried to play ...

By Eric Abent June 5, 2020 2:09 pm EST SimRefinery, then, was the result of a partnership between Maxis Business Simulations and Chevron, which wanted a game that emulated the complexity of an oil ...

Update, June 9, 2020: In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the original upload for this recovered copy of SimRefinery‘s prototype was taken down from archive.org. As site administrator Jason Scott ...

Recap: In the early 90s, the Chevron Corporation commissioned Maxis' business simulations division to create a refinery simulator for its employees. The idea wasn't so much to teach employees how to ...