SimCity on the Super Nintendo was groundbreaking — it managed to combine the joy of simulated city building that Mac and Amiga gamers enjoyed into a family-friendly console title that anyone could play. But did you know Maxis and Nintendo also had an NES version in the works, too? Last year, two prototype cartridges of […]
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The Secret History of Mac Gaming: How SimCity led to Seaman
GUEST: The following is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Secret History of Mac Gaming, “Simulated.” In 1985, at the suggestion of a neighbor from across the street, professional city planner Bruce Joffe, Will Wright began to expand the program he’d made for creating and editing the background graphics in his popular Commodore 64 h…Read […]
See the long-lost NES prototype of SimCity
Frank Cifaldi / VGHF Gamers of a certain age probably remember that Nintendo worked with Maxis to port a version of the seminal SimCity to the brand new SNES in 1991. What most gamers probably don’t realize is that an NES version of the game was developed at the same time and cancelled just before […]