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The Life and Times of Maxis Software, part 1: SimEverything

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Jimmy Maher writes about how SimCity’s massive success bankrolled a run of gloriously earnest flops. Author Will Wright himself admitted SimCity was a caricature of a city, not a real simulation — yet it invented the city-builder genre, legitimized sandbox play, and left its fingerprints on everything from Civilization to modern strategy games. The follow-ups […]

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