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Instruction booklet · August 23, 1991

SimCity

Simulator1 playerDay OnePre-ESRB

The story

SimCity (SNES) was originally released in Japan in April 1991, the first console game in the SimCity series, and one of the launch titles for the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System in North America when the console was released there in August the same year. It was developed by Nintendo EAD under license from Maxis and published by Nintendo.

Specifications

Released: August 23, 1991 — launch day
Developers: Nintendo EAD, Intelligent Systems
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
Genre: Simulator
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Series: SimCity
Themes: Business · Non-fiction
View: Bird view / Isometric

What the magazines said

EGM · four reviewers

Famitsu · four reviewers

Players: 79/100 (17 ratings)
Mean Machines: 94%

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Week of August 23, 1991

Aug. 23

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is first released in the United States.

💵 $49.99 in a 1993 catalog · about $111 today

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