In 1991 Nintendo announced they were partnering with SimCity creator Will Wright to release the first console version of his PC hit SimCity. Two versions of the game would be made available, one for NES and the other for SNES, with graphics being the only difference between them. 1991 rolled on, and sure enough, there was a SimCity for Super NES shortly after its launch…but the NES version never turned up.
The Emoryville branch of Maxis has now been shut down. Maxis was the developer that defined casual PC gaming in the 1990’s. They invented SimCity, SimEarth, The Sims and basically every single thing that had the word “sim” in it.
If you are any sort of gamer, you’ve probably heard about the “demonic” and “communist-esque” always-on products. Over the past years, this thought train has been drilled in many skulls, but is it honestly that bad? I mean sure it’s inconvenient to most gamers, but will it really mean the end of gaming as a whole and bring on an age where no internet means no games?