

Hours upon hours poured into designing the perfect city, setting down roads and planning districts, enacting policies for the good of the people and preparing for the disasters on the horizon. Glued to our screens, mortal bodies left behind in favor of a hovering camera connected to our immortal mayor brain.

Nowadays video games about designing and managing your own space station, prison, mine or even amusement park are a dime a dozen.īut this simulation fever wasn’t always around, and I think it’s appropriate to give some love to the franchise that started it all: SimCity.
