Sim City [NES - Unreleased]

by LiamRproductions In: NINTENDO| nes

24 May 2008

Around September/October 1990, Nintendo Power magazine announced that they would bring the highly acclaimed Maxis game SimCity to the Nintendo consoles on the market at the time, both the SNES and the NES. The magazine listed a release date of this for simultaneous release for Spring of 1991. In the November/December 1990 issue two screenshots from the game were published and those two screenshots were for a very long time the only proof that a NES version of the game actually existed.

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Almost 15 years later, Nintendo Power addressed the unreleased game once again, reffering it as “A lost treasure of the past”. Shown in the screenshot below, they say the game was never released “because of bad timing”. It also states the game was “far in developement” yet unfortunately “canceled”(Nintendo power made a spelling mistake there XD)

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Thanks a lot to NES World for these screenshots!

Video (From Grooveraider YT Channel):

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6 Responses to Sim City [NES - Unreleased]

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MAIcrosoft

September 19th, 2008 at 12:44 am

Yeah, too bad it didn’t came out :3 I was really waiting for this game back then D:

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Sega_Master

September 20th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

At least you can buy some crappy SimCity clones for cellophone :P

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Tilemaxx

September 20th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

Sim City java games for cellphone sucks balls

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James

November 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Looks like they just decided to port it over to SNES when they saw how successful it was.

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Grooveraider

December 11th, 2008 at 9:30 am

Here’s a clip from Video Power I just uploaded featuring Simcity on the NES at the CES 1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfJgZI9C2nk&feature=channel_page

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monokoma

December 11th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Thanks for the video Grooveraider, i have added it in the page :)

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