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Inadequate funding of these services can lead to strikes, or even urban decline. These are provided by building relevant buildings or infrastructure, with each building covering a circular 'range' in its vicinity. Proper management of the city requires citizens to be provided with basic utilities ( electricity, water and sometimes waste management) along with public services such as health, education, safety, parks and leisure facilities. As the city matures, the player may be able to add government and other special buildings (such as a mayor's house or courthouse), depending on how large the city is. Across most titles, the player (acting as mayor) is given a blank map to begin and must expand the city with the budget provided. SimCity titles are real-time management and construction simulators.

3.1 SimFarm: SimCity's Country Cousin (1993).

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2.3 Societies and portable spinoffs (2007-2011).

2.2 Continued releases under Electronic Arts (1997-2003).

2.1 Under independent development (1985-1997).

A 2013 EA-Maxis reboot was subject to what has been described as 'one of the most disastrous launches in history', which may have triggered the 2015 shutdown of Maxis Emeryville and the end of the franchise. EA commissioned various spinoffs from other companies during the 2000s, focusing on console and mobile releases.

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Maxis developed the series independently until 1997, and then continued under the ownership of Electronic Arts until 2003. The first game in the series, SimCity, was published by Maxis in 1989 and sparked the creation of several sequels and many other spin-off ' Sim' titles, including 2000's The Sims, which itself became a best-selling computer game and franchise. SimCity is an open-ended city-building video game series originally designed by Will Wright. SimFarm, Sim City: The Card Game, SimCopter, Streets of SimCity and SimsVille

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Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Wii, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Nintendo 64DD, Nintendo DS, Sega Saturn, PlayStation 3, Palm OS, Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amiga CDTV, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, C64, DESQview, DOS, EPOC32, FM Towns, iOS, Android, PC-98, GBA, OLPC XO-1, OS/2, NeWS, Web browser, SNES, Tk, Unix, X11 TCL, Sinclair ZX Spectrum

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Maxis, Tilted Mill Entertainment, Aspyr Media, Full Fat, Infogrames, Nintendo EAD, Babaroga, HAL Laboratory, Track TwentyД®lectronic Arts, BrГёderbund, Maxis, Nintendo, Superior Software, Acornsoft, Infogrames Entertainment, SA, Zoo Digital Publishing but this one is just a very well-done curio.Construction and management simulation, city-building 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.

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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. Building a city from scratch is fun, and allows a person to experience the joys of being a ruler. 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. 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. 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.