SimCity

games Maxis Software's simulation game which lets you

design and build your own city, which must be administered

well if it is to thrive. Land must be zoned, transportation

systems built, and police and fire protection provided. Once

you've zoned some land, and provided electrical power, the

simulation takes over, and simcitizens move in. If you

perform your mayoral duties poorly, however, they will move

out again. If you don't provide enough police, crime will

rise and sims will vote with their feet. Try to save money on

fire protection, and your city may burn to the ground. There

is no predefined way to win the game, building the largest

city you can is just one possible strategy.

SimCity runs on Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST, IBM PC

and Macintosh. There was also a NeWS version for Sun

SPARC workstations running OpenWindows.

SimCity 2000 is an upgrade of SimCity.

(1995-06-11)