Episode 27 - SimCity

Nate, Sebastian, and Ryan all gather - in one place this time! -
to discuss SIMCITY, the revolutionary open-ended city simulator
by Maxis Games. Come to hear about the bias inherent in the
simulation, stay to learn which one of us compulsively added
island prisons to his cities as a child. 


SHOW NOTES:


SimCity at the internet archive:


https://archive.org/details/msdos_SimCity_1989


"Micropolis":


http://www.graememcc.co.uk/micropolisJS/


SimCity SNES manual PDF (note Mr. Wright on the cover!):


http://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_SNES/manual/Formated/SimCity_-_1991_-_Nintendo.pdf 


Paolo Pedercini's essay on the bias inherent in the Sim-ulation:


http://www.molleindustria.org/blog/multiplicity/