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 popular consoles.

Versions

• Macintosh, developed in-house at Maxis. Released December 1993.
  • Japanese version localised by Imagineer, released at roughly the same time.
• MS-DOS, developed in-house at Maxis. Released February 1984. Version available on GOG.
• Commodore Amiga, ported by John Jones-Steele. Released November 1994.
• RISC-OS, ported by Krisalis Software. Released 1994.
• PC-98
• FM Towns
• Windows
  • a separate Windows 95 port is referenced that must post-date the Windows release date on Wikipedia?
• SNES
• Sega Saturn, ported by Maxis and Sega. One of the titles announced for the Saturn at its unveiling at the Tokyo Toy Show in June 1994. Released September 1995 in Japan, October in North America, and December in Europe.
• OS/2
• PlayStation
• Nintendo 64, ported by Imagineer. Released January 30, 1998. Japan-exclusive. Exclusive features, including "mini-games, a dating game, TV to replace the newspaper, horse races and monster breeding". Not to be confused with SimCity 64, another game based on SimCity 2000.
• Game Boy Advance, ported by DSI (Destination Software). Released November 2003 in Europe and North America; seemingly not released in Japan.

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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