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Wiki Article #1: Simulating Detroit:A City with Cars and Crime but no Races

Media:http://www.playthepast.org/?p=2474 Brief Summary:

SimCity (later named Micropolis) is a city-building simulation video game, first released on October 3, 1989, and designed by the famous game developer Will Wright. SimCity was the first product of the video game company Maxis, which has since been ported into various personal computers and game consoles, and generated 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.

On January 10, 2008, after EA owned the rights of Maxis, the SimCity source code was released by EA under the free software GPL 3 license with the original working title – Micropolis (Wright’s original name for his city simulation). The objective of the game is to build and design a city that can maintain a certain scenario set up for that specific city. In this case, of Detroit 1973, the scenario was that crime and depressed industry wrecked the city. The mayor needs to reduce crime and reorganize the city to better develop.


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