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If you haven't yet, don't forget to check out Chaim Gingold's recently released "Building SimCity"❗

A deep dive into the trailblazing simulation game #SimCity, situating it in the history of games, simulation, and computing.

Learn more here: thevideogamelibrary.org/

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i seriously love how much craftsmanship went into Maxis games. in addition to its 200 page tome of a manual, SimLife came with a laboratory notebook to encourage you to do experiments and document them.

you can totally tell this was made so an enterprising science teacher would xerox 30 of these and hand them out to students for lab assignments 😂

For my collection of floppy disk images, I enjoy finding all kinds of different versions of a retro game. Yesterday, I stumbled over version 1.03 of the original SimCity for MS-DOS. This one came on a 720K 3.5inch disk and was captured using the "Applesauce" controller. What an awesome addition to the collection!

My gratitude goes to "floppyarchaeology", who is kind enough to share his treasures on archive.org!

archive.org/details/sim-city_2