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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...