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The road to SimCity’s SNES port began with a 1989 meeting so vividly of its time that it almost sounds like it was invented for one of those recent period dramas about a product’s origins, like Air or BlackBerry.
As told in Building SimCity, a new book which chronicles the legendary simulation series, the deal was made in the summer of 1989 after Maxis co-founder Jeff Braun got a call from Nintendo informing him that designer Shigeru Miyamoto…
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Wow, that’s wild! Can you imagine just getting a million-dollar check slid across the table like it’s no big deal? That must have been such a crazy moment for the Maxis team. It’s cool to think about how SimCity made its way to the SNES thanks to that meeting. Shows how important those connections and decisions can be in the gaming industry. It’s like a piece of gaming history right there. Love hearing stories like this about how our favorite games came to be!