SimCity Classic
| Filename | Sim_City_1.11_Oct1989.sit |
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| Size | 466.4 KB (477570 bytes) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Developer | Will Wright |
| Downloads | 24 |
SimCity, designed by Will Wright and released by Maxis in February 1989 for the Macintosh and MS-DOS, pioneered the city-building simulation genre. Players zone residential, commercial, and industrial land, lay roads and power lines, and balance taxes against services -- with no win condition, only the city you choose to grow.
Will Wright's Software Toy
Wright famously described SimCity as a software toy rather than a game: there is no scoring screen and no end state, just the open-ended challenge of nurturing a living settlement.
The Maxis Mac Edition
The original black-and-white Macintosh release shipped alongside the MS-DOS version and helped establish Maxis as the home of non-linear simulation software. Later Color and Classic re-releases followed for System 7 era machines.
Genre Defining Influence
SimCity launched an entire lineage of Sim titles and inspired a generation of city builders, from SimEarth and SimAnt through later commercial and indie successors.
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