Can’t see this without immediately remembering countless hours playing toward a city full of Arcologies in SimCity 2000. Fun times!
There's a downloadable file if you want to see for yourself. IMO the concept is cooler than the execution. YMMV.
And yeah, the execution kinda sucks, but given the resource constraints at the time, it's understandable that it just exploded them all to fake launches instead of having an animated launch for each arco.