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SimCity 2000

A Japan-only release of SimCity 2000 for the Nintendo 64 on January 30, 1998, produced and published by Imagineer Co., Ltd. It featured some additional features, mainly mini-games, a dating game, TV to replace…

3 February 1998

SimCity 2000 is a simulator developed by Maxis, released 3 February 1998 on Nintendo 64.

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What SimCity 2000 is

SimCity 2000 is a simulator game developed by Maxis and released in 1998. It was published by Imagineer​. It is available on Nintendo 64 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A Japan-only release of SimCity 2000 for the Nintendo 64 on January 30, 1998, produced and published by Imagineer Co., Ltd. It featured some additional features, mainly mini-games, a dating game, TV to replace the newspaper, horse races and monster breeding, among others, all of them in 3D. A few new "natural" disasters were also included, most of them being giant monster attacks (players were able to use their monster to fight against them).
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the SimCity series

SimCity 2000 is the 16th of 36 entries we hold in the SimCity series. The next entry was Ultimate Sim Series in 1998.

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What it launched against

SimCity 2000 launched on 3 February 1998, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Xenogears, Resident Evil 2 and Sega Rally 2.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Xenogears, Resident Evil 2, Sega Rally 2.

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When did SimCity 2000 come out?
SimCity 2000 was released on 3 February 1998 for Nintendo 64.

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