but this one is just a very well-done curio.

Future SC entries improve on this, and are worthy as game and social experiment. The fun in this version of SC is akin to the fun one gets with a paint program, not necessarily a game program.

In retrospect, the game is a lot like Balance of Power: the ideas are awe-inspiring, and the execution creative, but the game itself leaves a bit to be desired. The Bottom Line:It started and defined a genre that no other series has ever been able to touch- city planning games. The use of windows in this game, while allowing more flexibility than the DOS version, can get unwieldy. The pre-planned scenarios aren't very fun- once a grasp of the basic concepts of the game are in hand, demolishing buildings to build police stations in hot spots or bulldozing districts to stop the spread of fire just feel like boring puzzle games. Granted, Will Wright could mold the game in any fashion that he desired, but SimCity seems a weird place to trumpet one's own ideological utopian vision. Some have said that to 'win' you must lay out your city for mass public transit (with no roads) which strikes me as a lopsided statistical modelling job. There is little to do once you find that happy middle ground of taxes and spending- wait for enough funds, tweak your city a bit, wait for some more funds. The Bad:While the experience of playing SimCity is fun, the overall game is rather pointless. Build cities 'organically' like London, or build your city according to a larger over-all plan, like Washington DC. Depending on your computer system and hardware configuration, you can also use the LiveCD to boot and run FreeDOS directly from the CD-ROM without installation to your hard drive. Building a city from scratch is fun, and allows a person to experience the joys of being a ruler. Most users should use this image to install FreeDOS.

Its a simulation game, set in a managerial, city building / construction simulation and contemporary themes, and was also released on Windows 3.x, Commodore 64, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Acorn 32-bit, BBC Micro, Electron and Sharp X68000. The gameplay is familiar, system specs need not be powerful (unlike for the newer Sim installments), and gameplay is a bit smoother than on the standard DOS version. SimCity is a video game published in 1989 on DOS by Infogrames Europe SA. The game is set in a compilation / shovelware theme. SimCity 2000: CD Collection (aka SimCity 2000: Special Edition, SimCity 2000: Edição Especial) is a video game published in 1994 on DOS by Maxis UK Ltd. The review on MobyGames says it all'The Good:The original SimCity is a classic, and this is but a translation of it to the Windows environment. Description of SimCity 2000: CD Collection. One of the rarest versions of Maxis' genre-defining SimCity series, Simcity Classic is a good Windows 3.1 version of the original game, ported by Azeroth.

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