Game

SimCity

1989 · Acorn Archimedes · BBC Microcomputer System · PC-9800 Series · Sharp X68000 · Commodore C64/128/MAX · ZX Spectrum · Simulator · Strategy

72IGDB player score
147 ratings

Previously Take

That 72 average hides a game its 147 fans would defend to the death. A strategy game for the planners — business, sandbox as the backdrop, outthinking as the game. A single-player game with no interest in being anything else. Respect.

About this game

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, which has since been ported into various personal computers and game consoles, and spawned several sequels including SimCity 2000 in 1993, SimCity 3000 in 1999, SimCity 4 in 2003, SimCity DS, SimCity Societies in 2007, and SimCity in 2013. Until the release of The Sims in 2000, the SimCity series was the best-selling line of computer games made by Maxis.

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Game facts

Release date

Oct 3, 1989

Developer

Maxis

Publisher

Fujitsu Interactive, Imagineer, Infogrames, Krisalis Software

Platforms

Acorn Archimedes, BBC Microcomputer System, PC-9800 Series, Sharp X68000, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, PC (Microsoft Windows), Acorn Electron, Mac

Genres

Simulator, Strategy

Themes

Business, Sandbox

Game modes

Single player

Franchise

Sim, SimCity

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric