I have a specific fondness for sim city. I think it is this fierce y political game, even if i don't think the politics in it are especially great. It has this great idea of will wright, thely designer, reading about city planning an basically using his beliefs on city planning as the win and los states for this game. The other a call back here, broderbund, star of the episode, actually opted not to publish this game. Big mistake. And then that like, we'll write ticks over to a little company called maxus. Maxus is like, bap, sure, seems great. We don't have a lot of experience in this
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