11/7/2019 Sim City 2000
Long before got its hands on the franchise, there was the inaccurately named SimCity 2000. This iconic title debuted on MacOS in 1994, and continued being quite popular all the way through the actual year 2000 on PC, DOS, and a variety of game consoles. Now you can grab this piece of gaming history on PC for free. EA is graciously giving SimCity 2000: Special Edition away. They say there’s no catch, but there is: you have to use EA’s Origin platform to play it.SimCity 2000 was the followup to the original SimCity, which was released all the way back in 1989. Developer Maxis essentially owned the city-building sim genre with SimCity 2000. It introduced a huge number of building types, utilities, transportation, and financial and budgetary mechanics.
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Download SimCity 2000. Create your own city with this classic simulation game.
For some of us, the municipal loans in SimCity 2000 were our first taste of the evils of compound interest. The original release of SimCity 2000 included a number of pre-built scenario cities, but players could also start from scratch. The number of scenarios was increased by the “disasters” expansion. There was also an expansion called Urban Renewal that let you modify the building designs used in the game. These are both bundled with the Special Edition EA is currently giving away.EA usually sells this classic title for $5.99, and it could go back up at any moment. Even if you’re too young to have spent untold hours designing the perfect pixelated city, SimCity 2000 is worth checking out., the game is yours forever.
It doesn’t make up for the of recent years, but at least now you can build giant cities again.
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