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Wright’s stock in interactive game design isn’t so much an investment as it is a personal Tony Robbins audio loop.

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Plus I could never figure out the tiered/express elevator system and now that I work in a building with that system I feel stupid for not getting it.

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This is still my second favorite Maxis game for no logical reason and I was always pissed that my 47th floor movie theater needed two floors of space because it screwed up the vibe of my building. (Conspicuously absent from his C.V.: SimTower. He also designed SimAnt and SimCopter which, I mean, cool I guess. If you owned a computer in the last two decades there’s a good chance you ran into one of Wright’s creations, whether it was the infinitely expansion pack host The Sims or the more traditional evolution game Spore, which sold 2 million copies in its first three weeks on the shelf.

It’s best to think of the Wright-era Maxis games as a sandbox rather than a baseball diamond. So when you see these little glass rockets separate from their terrestrial thunder thighs and make a beeline for the heavens, it’s as good an ending as you could for though I wish the little statue Arcologies starting going Godzilla on the city at some point as wellĪs far as simulators go, there’s Maxis and everyone else. Will Wright, the brain behind the SimCity franchise (minus the newest version, but we’ll get to that later), is the godfather of “software toys”- games that cannot be won or lost. SimCity 2000 was created in 1994 and isn’t what you would call dynamic by today’s standards, though compared to SimEarth it might as well be Mass Effect 3.

The simultaneous launch of the Arcologies is pretty satisfying. I would start saving for a spot in a Launch Arcology now. If you want to come as close to “winning” as you can while playing SimCity 2000 you’ll build as many of the Launch Arcologies as your coffers will allow because once the calendar hits 2051 and you have 300 of these weird, robot looking park-city things, your citizens will be rocketed upwards in their eco-domes to salvation while all the poor schmucks living in “condos” will be doomed to perdition, Maxis style. Secondly, the windfall is usually bookended with a natural disaster of some kind-though you can stop a flood by typing “moses.” You can also start a nuclear disaster by typing “gomorrah.” The guys at Maxis seems to have a thing for getting all Old Testament on your citizens.)

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(The free money comes with a couple string attached: first of all, Maxis has taken your pride by making you admit you’re a cheater.

Hallucinogenic architecture doesn’t come cheap so you’ll either have to tax the hell out of your sim-stituents or type “imacheat” during gameplay to get $500,000 instantly. Tyrell lives another like an especially sad (and constipated) ebony idol the last one looks like a game designer got bored and started eating too many donuts. There are actually a bunch of Arcologies in SimCity 2000: one looks like the house from Blade Runner where Dr. Launch Arcologies are what would happen if you fit Endor into a snow globe and stuck it on top of an especially obese chicken walker. You don’t win SimCity 2000. There’s no final cut scene after you figure out the golden ratio of commercial-to-residential zoning or light boxed VICTORY that pops up after you fit one last green/blue/yellow square onto the digital landscape.

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