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
🇬🇧 August 1993

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Computer Games Strategy Plus
🇺🇸 September 1993

Coverage of promotion at CES

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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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