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SimCity™ 2000 Special Edition

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4.5/5

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4.5

306 Reviews

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SimCity™ 2000 Special Edition
Description
Now you can design any city you can imagine and SimCity 2000 will bring it, and its resident Sims, to life. It has all the features, flexibility, art, animation, and power you need to create an environment of your dreams. Choose from a selection of bonus cities and scenarios to rule or ruin as you p...
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4.5/5

( 306 Reviews )

4.5

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1995, Maxis Software Inc., ...
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Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, DirectX 9.0c...
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Description
Now you can design any city you can imagine and SimCity 2000 will bring it, and its resident Sims, to life. It has all the features, flexibility, art, animation, and power you need to create an environment of your dreams. Choose from a selection of bonus cities and scenarios to rule or ruin as you please. Build schools, libraries, hospitals, zoos, prisons, power plants, and much more... Lay down roads, railways, and highways. Explore the underground layer and build subways and utilities without compromising your aesthetics. Customize different buildings or design your own graphics sets from scratch.

This is the ultimate classic Maxis city-building and management simulation. If this game were any more realistic, it'd be illegal to turn it off!

SimCity 2000™ Special Edition © 1995 Electronic Arts Inc.

Goodies
manual reference card urban renewal kit
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Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Release date:
{{'1995-02-28T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Size:
81 MB

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Update (13 November 2024)
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  • Verified Cloud Saves support
Internal Update (21 March 2019)
  • Added Cloud Saves functionality
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Posted on: October 4, 2025

harm1383

Verified owner

Games: 69 Reviews: 47

Memories

i can remember early 90's when this game was around, i just builded chaos on the map with no clue & didn't played any further after tryin it a few times; nowadays my city came very far but was hit several times by disasters, i like how the buildings look; game is fun


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Posted on: October 5, 2011

antihippie

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Games: 196 Reviews: 52

Fantastic Game

Sim City is one of those games that seems simplistic and uninteresting on its surface, but has a way of drawing you in, making the hours slip by as you build up your metropolis. Starting from a small village you can build into a gigantic city scape, complete with trains, colleges, ballparks, and, as time passes massive arcopoli to save your futuristic population. Your problems can range anywhere from traffic congestion to monster from outer space attack, and you must combine able planning with budget sense to keep from going bankrupt. It's a deep, complicated and hugely fun game.


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Posted on: November 18, 2011

Merkaba

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Games: 632 Reviews: 2

A milestone in reticulating splines

My first real PC game when I first bought a PC and what an excellent choice it was! This was one of the best Maxis games that's been released with a great mix of realism, simulation and the usual dose of wacky Maxis humor. I lost countless hours trying to build up a huge, bustling metropolis. I even went so far as to buy the Official Handbook which only served to awaken an interest in actual city planning that led me to discover more about the design of some of the great cities of our time. A great game and a hallmark title from Will Wright and Maxis. You won't be disappointed.


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Posted on: May 10, 2015

RaminHAL9001

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Games: 10 Reviews: 1

The Mac OS version is actually a DOSBox

I downloaded the "Mac version" of this game thinking it would give me the version that would run on my old 68K Macintosh Quadra. Unfortunately, the "Mac version" that GOG.com is providing here is actually the DOS version of SimCity 2000 wrapped up in a DOSBox emulator. To be clear, THE GAME RUNS WELL, NO PROBLEMS, so those of you just wanting to play the PC version SimCity 2000 on your modern Mac computer, this is the right product for you to buy. But if you are trying to get the authentic 68K Mac version of SimCity 2000 that you had when you were a kid so you can run it on your favorite Mac OS emulator, this is NOT the right product for you to buy. I rate this product 3 stars because you do get a no-hassle, properly working version of the game for your Mac OS X computer, but I do not rate it higher because this is not what I wanted. My fault perhaps, but I am still disappointed.


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Posted on: October 26, 2024

nykra

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Games: 57 Reviews: 1

30 Years .. still good

I've been playing this game since I was a kid and now my son is playing it as well - it's still great!


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