![]() The budget window is also another important option because it’s here where you manage the taxes you collect and then distribute that money between your Transportation, Police and Fire departments. Of course, not only you have to build all these for your city to grow, but you also have to manage the city budget. But also some entertainment for your citizens, like parks and stadiums. ![]() ![]() Building roads and rail tracks is quite easy actually, but to provide electricity you need first to build a power plant (coal or nuclear) and then power lines to distribute the electricity to your city.Īs your city grows, you’ll also need to build other services, like Police and Fire stations, airports and seaports. You actually plan zonings on the terrain where buildings can be built on, but however as the mayor, you have to provide all the necessary services required for living in a city (namely electricity and transportation). You see, you don’t actually build your city building by building (unless they’re public buildings). each line representing the growth of the three main zonings of your city: Residential, Commercial and Industrial. Below it, there’s a small graph with three coloured lines. The main window contains a screen with an overworld POV and on its left, a group of several icons, each representing what you can build (except for the bulldozer, which only serves to remove). So Wright founded Maxis alongside Jeff Braun in order to publish the game along with Infogrames and Brøderbund.īut enough of backstory and let’s look at the covers, shall we? SimCity was originally conceptualised by Will Wright, who developed it as Micropolis in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and pitched it to several publishers, but it was originally rejected due to the latter’s lack of belief it would sell. In 2006, the SNES version was re-released in the Wii Virtual Console and in 2007, the original version was re-released for modern Windows as SimCity Classic. In 1999, it was ported to Symbian and Palm OS. In 1994, it was ported for OS/2 and in 1995, it was again ported for Macintosh (Enhanced CD-ROM) and Windows 95 (version 2.0). In 1992, it was again re-released for Windows 3.X and in 1993, for DOS as an Enhanced CD-ROM version and for the Acorn 32-bit. In 1991, it was ported for the SNES and the CDTV. It was re-released the following year for the BBC Micro, Atari ST, Electron, FM Towns, PC-98, Sharp X68000 and the ZX Spectrum. It was originally released in 1989 for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, DOS and Macintosh. SimCity is a simulation/managerial game developed by Maxis and published by Infogrames. I’m talking about the one and only SimCity. The international version was part of On The House back in March, but as there is no French-language version of SimCity 2000, this is being given as an alternative.And again we’re going to take a look at not just a true classic game, but also a highly influential title that helped define an entire genre, spawned several clones and influenced several other titles. However, if you're in France you will instead get a copy of the French-language version of Dead Space. Though that may be entirely optional.Īnd just by heading over here and loading up Origin, you can grab your very own copy of SimCity 2000 Special Edition, to keep for free. Then destroy it all with UFO attacks, earthquakes or giant kaiju. Create taxes, make laws and keep the population happy and working. The object of the game is to create a fully sufficient city, from the power plants to hospitals and houses, by zoning out districts for the Sims to populate. It was originally on Mac when it came out in 1994, but spent the better part of a decade being ported to almost everything - or at least the 1995 Special Edition version did. SimCity 2000 has been released on nine different platforms, including DOS, Amiga, SNES and Game Boy Advance. ![]() News // 10th Dec 2014 - 8 years ago // By Andrew Duncan SimCity 2000 is On The HouseĪs with the previous On The House offering, you can get SimCity 2000 Special Edition for free, for a "limited time" only.
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