# SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series | PC Gamer - Host: [pcgamer.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/pcgamer.com/) - Saved: March 7, 2023 (2023-03-08T02:27:28Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/52bf04cde607/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/52bf04cde607.json ## What Jamie wrote SimCity is one of the very few games I ever played for extended periods of time. Tetris was the other. I loved early versions of SimCity and had a city that I had built and expanded for years of play. I remember actually importing that original city into SimCity 2000 and maybe even SimCity 3000. Then the went downhill as EA shifted it more online, more pay-to-play and ruined many of the original game mechanics. A shame really. It would have been so great to just see that original game get better and better graphics and faster gameplay, instead of going off a cliff. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT245: Weekly Thing #245 / Curation, Outcomes, Disturbed](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/245/), Notable ## Saved the same week - [Playdate Catalog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/52a9c68ccaf0/) (play.date, March 7, 2023) - [Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/47da20e41b3c/) (jvns.ca, March 7, 2023) - [How To Build A Blog Without Social Media – WARREN ELLIS LTD](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0a62b07696ba/) (warrenellis.ltd, March 7, 2023) - [Daring Fireball: Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c7a1b0944d61/) (daringfireball.net, March 7, 2023) - [Hanging out: Americans report fewer friends. Could the cure be simple?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a4f34bfdf029/) (slate.com, March 7, 2023) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.pcgamer.com/simcity-launched-a-decade-ago-and-it-was-so-disastrous-it-killed-the-series/