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Episode 27 - SimCity


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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/

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