Source · Secondary · web

From SimCity to, well, SimCity: The history of city-building games

Moss, Richard. 2015. “From SimCity to, well, SimCity: The history of city-building games.” Ars Technica.

Cite as
Moss 2015
Original
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/10/from-simcity-to-well-simcity-the-history-of-city-building-games/
sha256
b8aacffc19936608f2a4d465f6030282063413ce8e7803b8c5e560ea5a598a56
Archived
https://web.archive.org/web/20260825094147/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/10/from-simcity-to-well-simcity-the-history-of-city-building-games/
Accessed
2026-10-20
Licence
all rights reserved
Credit
Richard Moss, games historian.

Cited on

Claims (3)

Richard Moss dates The Sumer Game to 1968, on a PDP-8 in FOCAL.Web
Richard Moss calls The Sumer Game "the first computer game to concern itself with matters of city building and management".Web
Richard Moss counts George Blank's Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio (1978) as the most notable of the "expanded versions" of The Sumer Game that kept "the same core systems".Web