SimCity 3000 is the city building game on which all others would eventually be modeled. It wasn't the first - even Will Wright's visionary 1989 original owes a creative debt to Utopia, from 1982 ...

When you look at a completed map in SimCity 3000, it's like a circuitboard, intricate and elegant at the same time. ... Metropolis 1998 looks like a richer, more vibrant version of classic SimCity.

SimCity for the iPhone is based on SimCity 3000. From your isometric view, you can scroll and zoom through crowded downtown streets and see an impressive amount of detail on your parks and buildings.

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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Electronic Arts has added nine classic games to Steam including Dungeon Keeper Gold, SimCity 3000, and WW2-era open-world action game The Saboteur ...

Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity .