Retronauts Episode 639: Building SimCity
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When we think about “hit video games,” we tend to start with celebrated action titles like Call of Duty or one of Nintendo’s long-running franchises.about plumbers or princesses. Yet one of the biggest, most successful concepts sat unreleased for years because no publisher thought a city-building simulation could possibly catch on.
Today we recognize Sim-everything as made of gold, and it all began with SimCity in 1989. To better understand how this phenomenon came about, host Kevin Bunch speaks to Chaim Gingold, author of Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine.
Description: Host Kevin Bunch is joined by author and historian Chaim Gingold to talk about SimCity and the winding road that led to its creation with his new book Building SimCity.
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Artwork for this episode by Nick Wanserski and editing thanks go to Greg Leahy.
