SimEarth: The Living Planet

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Description

SimEarth puts you in charge of an entire planet throughout its 10 billion year lifespan. Your ultimate task is to guide the planet’s inhabitants into the stars, from its humble single-celled roots.

The main threats you face include pollution, disease, famine, war and global warming. The controls available to you include the chance to move mountains and continents, creating different levels of species, and unleash tidal waves and earthquakes so as to reshape your planet. All of these things take from your limited energy, which must be replenished.

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Alternate Titles

• "模擬地球" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
• "SimEarth: Der lebende Planet" -- German title
• "Sim Earth" -- Alternate spelling
• "シムアース" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Genre: Simulation - Animal life / Biological
• Maxis Sim series

User Reviews

Best. Manual. Ever.

DOS

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Critic Reviews

Play Time	DOS	May, 1991	89 out of 100	89
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	Nov, 1990	10.4 out of 12	87
Power Play	DOS	Jun, 1991	87 out of 100	87
Power Play	Amiga	Feb, 1993	85 out of 100	85
Amiga Games	Amiga	Jan, 1993	84 out of 100	84
Entertainment Weekly	DOS	Jan 13, 1995	B+	83
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Oct, 1992	81 out of 100	81
All Game Guide	Macintosh	1998		80
Amiga Format	Amiga	Oct, 1992	79 out of 100	79
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	SNES	Mar, 1993	25 out of 40	62

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Trivia

There is actually a theory that believes that the Earth is a living organism. The theory is the "Gaia" theory. [SimEarth is based on this theory. -Editor]