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SimCity

This article is about the video game series. For particular games, see SimCity (1989 video game) and SimCity (2013 video game). For the album by Susumu Hirasawa, see Sim City (album).
Not to be confused with Sin City.

SimCity
SimCity series logo (2012–14)
Genre(s)Construction and management simulation, city-building
Developer(s)Maxis, Tilted Mill, Aspyr Media, Full Fat, Infogrames, Nintendo EAD, Babaroga, HAL Laboratory, Track Twenty
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts, Broderbund, Maxis, Nintendo, Superior Software, Acornsoft, Infogrames, Zoo Digital Publishing
Creator(s)Will Wright
Platform(s)Windows, Linux, Mac, Wii, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Nintendo 64DD, Nintendo DS, Saturn, PlayStation 3, Palm OS, Archimedes, Acorn Electron, Amiga, CDTV, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, DESQview, MS-DOS, EPOC32, FM Towns, iOS, Android, PC-98, Game Boy Advance, OLPC XO-1, OS/2, NeWS, Browser, Super NES, Tk, Unix, X11 TCL, ZX Spectrum
First releaseSimCity
February 2, 1989
Latest releaseSimCity: BuildIt
December 16, 2014
Spin-offsSimFarm, Sim City: The Card Game, SimCopter, Streets of SimCity, SimsVille, The Sims

SimCity is an open-ended city-building video game franchise originally designed by Will Wright. The first game in the series, SimCity, was published by Maxis in 1989 and was followed by several sequels and many other spin-off Sim titles, including 2000's The Sims, which itself became a best-selling computer game and franchise.[1] Maxis developed the series independently until 1997, and continued under the ownership of Electronic Arts until 2003. EA commissioned various spinoffs from other companies during the 2000s, focusing on console and mobile releases. 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.[2][3]

  1. ^ Walker, Trey (March 22, 2002). "The Sims overtakes Myst". GameSpot. CNET Networks. Archived from the original on January 19, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2008.
  2. ^ Kuosmanen, Ville (February 13, 2020). "Why SimCity died — and how an indie developer saved the city-building genre". Medium. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  3. ^ Sarkar, Samit (March 4, 2015). "EA shuts down Maxis Emeryville, studio behind SimCity (update)". Polygon.

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