SimCity 2000

SimCity 2000 is a city-building simulation game by Maxis, and the first direct successor to SimCity. Originally released for the Macintosh, MS-DOS and, a little later, other home computers, it would eventually be ported to several popular consoles.

News

Weekly Famitsu
🇯🇵 7–14 January 1994

News article about Imagineer, the Japanese publisher, giving copies of their translated Mac version to members of the National Diet to seek feedback on how to make later ports of the game truer to Japanese city planning

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Weekly Famitsu
🇯🇵 10 June 1994

The Saturn is announced, and a console port of SimCity 2000 is listed as one of Sega's first slate of games (though it wouldn't come out for ten months after the Saturn's launch)

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Previews

PC Zone
🇬🇧 June 1993

Mentions the ill-fated Sim World

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PC Zone
🇬🇧 August 1993

Coverage from CES

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Computer Games Strategy Plus
🇺🇸 September 1993

Coverage from CES

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Computer Game Review
🇺🇸 November 1993

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PC Zone
🇬🇧 November 1993

six-page preview

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Edge
🇬🇧 December 1993

two-page preview

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Weekly Famitsu
🇯🇵 1 April 1994

Overview of PC/Mac version that mentions certainty that it (like its predecessor) will be ported to home consoles

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PC Games
🇬🇧 June–July 1994

Preview of PC CD-ROM version, with more scenarios and FMV

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Reviews

InfoWorld
🇺🇸 20 December 1993

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MacUser
🇺🇸 May 1994

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Advertising

• IMAGINEER SOFT LINE-UP FOR NINTENDO64 1997 PROMOTION VIDEO — Nintendo 64 version

🇯🇵 November 1997

Two-page spread from Nintendo's official Space World 1997 guidebook

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