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 engineering background; many of the gameplay ...

A couple of weeks ago, I covered an in-depth report by The Obscuritory which talked about the strange SimCity business games that Maxis and other companies made in the 90s. Now, one of the most ...

Chances are, you'd never even heard of SimRefinery unless you were one of a handful of chemical engineers at Chevron during the early 1990s. That's if you knew about SimCity developers Maxis' brief ...

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 ...

The game, developed for Chevron in 1993, has been uploaded to the Internet Archive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Interest in ...

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 ...

SimRefinery (Prototype) (MS-DOS - 0MHz MiSTer Collection) by Maxis Publication date 1992 Topics 0MHz DOS Collection, MiSTer, MiSTerFPGA, ao486 Language English Item Size 5.5M ...

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 ...

Well, this is a weird one. A while ago, game historian Phil Salvador wrote an in-depth history about Maxis Business Simulations, a Maxis offshoot designed to apply gameplay concepts to real-world ...