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Instruction booklet · February 1993

SimEarth

Simulator1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

The most ambitious and far-reaching of Maxis’ Sim lineage, Sim Earth puts you in charge of an entire planet throughout its 10 billion year lifespan. Your ultimate task is to guide the planet’s inhabitants into the stars, from its humble single-celled roots. The main threats you face include pollution, disease, famine, war and global warming.

Specifications

Released: February 1993
Developer: Tomcat System
Publisher: FCI
Players: 1
Genre: Simulator
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Series: Sim
View: Bird view / Isometric

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players: 49/100 (9 ratings)
Entertainment Weekly: A−

BE KIND, REWINDFebruary 1993

#1 song

I Will Always Love YouWhitney Houston #1 album

The BodyguardWhitney Houston / Soundtrack Admit one · #1 movie

Loaded Weapon 1$9,202,722 weekend

Vol. 3 · No. 77Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of February 5, 1993

Feb. 6

Former tennis player Arthur Ashe, 49, dies of complications due to HIV in New York. Ashe was believed to have contracted the virus from a blood transfusion during a heart surgery ten years earlier.

💵 $69.99 in a 1993 catalog · about $156 today

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