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SimCity
electronic game
SimCity, city creation and management simulation game designed and produced in 1989 by American game designer Will Wright and electronic game developer Maxis (now a division of Electronic Arts [EA]). SimCity is viewed as a quite original game, and it inspired an array of sequels, including the very successful series the Sims. Inspired by his reading and by the map-building functions of other games, Wright originally called the game Micropolis. Because the first incarnation of the game did not have a final ending or a winning condition, many companies did not consider it marketable, and Wright had trouble finding a ...(100 of 387 words)