10 Greatest PC Games of All Time
By siliconindia
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Friday, 21 October 2011, 00:53 IST
4. SimCity
SimCity is a city-building simulation video game, first released in 1989 designed by Will Wright. SimCity was a groundbreaking game. It was the first game that had no end, no defined goal, that you could not win though you could lose if you run out of money. It was also the first game where the map itself became the object of the game, instead of being a more or less immutable board where the players moved their pieces. It spawned off a whole new genre.
SimCity has influenced many game designers since its release in 1989, including Sid Meier, who channeled that influence into something even greater than a software toy.