sim city
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The 64DD Was One Of Nintendo’s Oddest Experiments
11Switch Online is Nintendo’s first paid online gaming service, right? Nope. In 1999, Nintendo added the Internet to its Nintendo 64 hardware, by way of a disk drive add-on called the 64DD. It’s one of the company’s most interesting failures.
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How Sim City Finally Got Its Offline Mode
Sim City’s launch may go down in history as the most maligned of all time. To begin with, the online-only game was close to unplayable, as players swamped the servers. Then hackers seemed to make a mockery of Maxis’ claims that the game’s architecture was built from the ground up by figuring quick and easy…
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Sim City Is Heading To Macs At This End Of This Month
Here is a sad story: my wife and I needed space for a dining table and we had to make a ritual sacrifice. That sacrifice was my desktop PC. I don’t play games on my PC that often, but for now I only have my Mac to play ‘PC’ games on. It sucks. The point…
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Will Wright: Feels Bad For The Team, But Sim City’s Launch Was ‘Inexcusable’
Sim City’s launch was a troublesome one, we’re all aware of that — consumers unable to play the game they purchased at launch, misinformation regarding the always on connection and the reasons for its existence. Speaking to Games Industry International, Will Wright, the creator of the initial Sim City discussed the launch. While his first…