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Tie-in with book?

Is there a relationship between Sim Ant and the book The Ants, by some French with a name ending in -er? From memory, they appeared at the same time, and i thought then that The Ants influenced SimAnt.

Woops

Shoot... I just created an article for Sim Ant without realizing this one existed first. I'm somewhat new at this -- anybody have an idea about how to merge the two? --FleaPlus 02:11, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Aaaand...merged!

--Furrykef 09:25, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Amiga version

In the Amiga version of the game, you could dig into the red ants' nest by digging around the bottom area of your own. Was this feature / easter egg present in editions of the game for other platforms?

I remember that feature on the Mac version, so I assume so. -Peter

FWIW, the PC version also had that trait. IMO, it made the game far too easy. -Fuzzy 04:45, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The game as a whole was too easy. Once you start the mating cycle, it pretty much wins the game for you. Often, the red ants will even drive the humans out of the house for you. 208.12.108.71 04:08, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I recall this happening occasionally in the Super Nintendo version as well. Stovetopcookies 23:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Screenshots?

If there are no copyright issues and anyone's interested, I could get some screenshots from my copy pretty quickly. CrossEyed7 23:34, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If it's to illustrate a point, I believe that falls within fair use. Go for it. :-) --TangentIdea 02:35, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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"Silly" Mode

I played the macintosh version of this and In that version there was a option that was called "Silly". When you turned it on the ants would say stuff in little text boxes and it could be pretty funny... For example, The queen ant would say stuff like "To think I gave up flying for this?" And soldier ants would say "Your queen wears army boots!" To other ants that they would fight.

This mode also existed in the Amiga version. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.234.106.197 (talk) 13:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I remember this being either the PC or SNES version as well. --141.217.63.165 (talk) 15:27, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SimAnt - The Electronic Ant Colony

Is considered Abondonware by some and is downloadable from the internet. but some sites charge you for it and I think that it may be illegal and that some legal justification should be brought down upon these villians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.218.216.210 (talk) 04:42, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested rename/move

I suggest renaming this article to SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony. Additional discussion is happening here. SharkD (talk) 19:45, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Many other SIM games also have subtitles but hardly any actually use them as a full name, exception being SIMIsle. Weaselboy246 (talk) 18:35, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Release Date

The article says 1991; I don't doubt this but I'D like it to be more exact. Which month? I came to wikipedia looking for exactly that information. 2A02:8388:1602:6D80:0:0:0:1 (talk) 14:09, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]