SimCity

a.k.a. Sim City

created and published by Nintendo in 1991, running on Nintendo Entertainment System

This game has not passed the prototype stage.

type: strategy, simulation, manag./econ.
genre: City-building
series: SimCity
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player

other: Prototype
languages: eng

Official description

Enter SimCity and take control. Be the undisputed ruler of a sophisticated real-time City Simulation. Become the master of existing cities such as San Francisco, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro or create your own dream city (or dream slum) from the ground up.

Whether you take over an existing city or build your own, you are the Mayor and City Planner with complete authority.

Your city is populated by Sims - Simulated Citizens. Like their human counterparts, they build houses, condos, churches, stores and factories. And, also like humans, they complain about things like taxes, mayors, taxes, city planners and taxes. If they get too unhappy they move out; you collect fewer taxes, the city deteriorates.

# 2024-04-27 06:42:50 - official description

Technical specs

display: raster

Editor notes (2)

Prototype was eventually found an made public in 2018! Glitchy in my emulator, hence the bad screenshot.

teran01 # 2019-12-08 05:49:10

Practically identical to the SNES version other than having a reduced color pallet. It was never released because it was thought by Nintendo that it would decrease sales of the Super Nintendo. Wow, that's quite an endorsement! The prototype was featured in an article of Nintendo Power. Its worth noting that releasing the game now as a feature in a Wii game or as Virtual Console download would do very little to hinder Super Nintendo sales, it might even boost them.

(Zerothis) - # 2008-09-07 23:11:30