SimCity
SimCity, later renamed SimCity Classic, is a city-building simulation video game, first released on February 2, 1989, and designed by Will Wright for the Macintosh computer. SimCity was Maxis's second product…
SimCity is a simulator developed by Maxis, released 3 October 1989 on Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Electron, Amiga and Amstrad CPC.
What SimCity is
SimCity is a simulator game developed by Maxis and released in 1989. It was published by Fujitsu Interactive. It is available on Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, FM Towns, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PC-9800 Series, Sharp X68000 and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
SimCity is a city-building simulation video game developed by Will Wright, and released for several platforms from 1989 to 1991. SimCity features two-dimensional graphics and an overhead perspective. The game's objective is to create a city, develop residential and industrial areas, build infrastructure, and collect taxes for further city development. Importance is placed on increasing the population's standard of living, maintaining a balance between the different sectors, and monitoring the region's environmental situations to prevent the settlement from declining and going bankrupt.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sim series
SimCity is the second of 64 entries we hold in the Sim series. The next entry was SimEarth: The Living Planet in 1990. Its critic score of 59 is 8 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is SimCity 3000 at 85.
How it was received
SimCity holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Players rate it 72, 13 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
SimCity launched on 3 October 1989, within three weeks of Disney's DuckTales and Shadow of the Beast. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Disney's DuckTales, Shadow of the Beast.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for SimCity yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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