SNES

SimCity

Sim City is one of my favorite SNES games. It's the kind of game you just can't stop playing! You start off with a bunch of money, with that you can start to put down houses, buildings, roads, etc. Then as you progress your village will turn into a town, then city and so on. This is the hardest part in the game because you then have to try to accommodate your residents by lowering the tax rate, buying more police and fire stations and basically…spending more money. A good strategy is to think like your residents do. So put a police department close to residential and commercial areas, don't put a factory close to the city put it far away so that residents don't complain about pollution and so on.

Once you're involved though, there's no going back. This is the type of game that will sap hours of your time, and with amazing simplicity. Sim City is a game that works as it was intended. Its concept was strong, and the small, cool little additions to this version make it a classic for the console.

Sim City is one of those games in which once you start playing it's very difficult to turn off. You start building your city, then you add more bits on, and more. Build a seaport. Make an airport. Deal with a whole load of crime and pollution problems... and then discover that it's 2:00 am and you've been playing for six hours! It's an incredibly rewarding game to play, and you can watch your teeming metropolis flourish and grow - or start to fail if you don't run things properly! With it's multitude of options, mega-addictive playability and constant fresh challenges, Sim City has more lasting appeal than any other Super Famicom yet seen!

Auch auf dem Super Famicom hat "Sim City" nichts von seiner Genialität und Faszination verloren. Im Gegenteil: Die japanischen Programmierer haben dem Modul ein paar zusätzliche und witzige Features verpaßt und eine schnuckligere Grafik spendiert. Auch die Steuerung mittels Joypad geht nach kurzer Eingewöhnungsphase flott und flüssig von der Hand. Als spielerisches Bonbon gibt es nun einige Spezialgebäude.

Really, the only thing that SimCity falters on is its visuals; everything else is top notch. You can play the game for years and never really end, as the game itself has no real ending (though, after all your land is taken up with police stations and green splotches of park, there's really not much left to do). So my recommendation to you, anonymous loyal GameCola reader, is to pick up this game if you see it for sale cheap somewhere. Even if you've already played the PC version, you'll still have a good time earning presents and starting fires all throughout your town. And all of you people out there who are addicted to The Sims should especially try to get your hands on SimCity, if for no other reason than to see where your computer gaming champion got its start. So get on that as soon as possible. Mr. Write will be sad if you don't.