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Games I Played Growing Up: The SimCity Series

I'm 25 years old, and for 22 of the years of my life I've played some game in the SimCity series. To this day, I still play SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition. It all started back around 1996, when I got Sim Town, a now-obscure spinoff of the SimCity series targeted at young children. Here's a review of SimTown (warning: strong language) and in it the reviewer says that it is limited in scope. He does have a valid point. This is not a game for adults. There's just not enough in it to keep our interest; heck, children today would probably get bored with it. But as a 3-4 year old in the mid-late 1990s, it was A LOT of fun. I'm not sure of how long I played SimTown for. I largely skipped the first two entries in the main SimCity series, at least initially; however I have played them all at some point. When I got back into SimCity, it was around 2002, I was about 9, and SimCity 3000 was the latest entry in the series, having launched in 1999. At first I couldn't figure ...