SimCity spawned an entire series of Sim games.
Until the release of The Sims in 2000, the SimCity series was the best-selling line of computer games made by Maxis.
The original SimCity was later renamed SimCity Classic. SimCity was Maxis' first product, which has since been ported into various personal computers and game consoles, and enhanced into several different versions including SimCity 2000 in 1993, SimCity 3000 in 1999, SimCity 4 in 2003, and SimCity DS & SimCity Societies in 2007. SimCity is a city-building simulation game, first released in 1989 and designed by Will Wright. For the series in general, see SimCity (series). Game History This article is about the first installment in the series of computer and video games.