(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading ...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.
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)
Thanks a lot to NES World for these screenshots!
Video (From Grooveraider YT Channel):
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12 Responses to Sim City [NES - Unreleased]
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:
Sega_Master
September 20th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
At least you can buy some crappy SimCity clones for cellophone :P
Tilemaxx
September 20th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Sim City java games for cellphone sucks balls
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.
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
monokoma
December 11th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Thanks for the video Grooveraider, i have added it in the page :)
Tom Barrister
December 19th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Sim City for the NES definitely was released. I have a copy of the cartridge in a drawer at home.
Tom Barrister
December 19th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Skip it. It was the SNES. Doh to me.
boo
July 30th, 2010 at 9:13 am
“canceled” is the correct spelling in the U.S., “cancelled” in U.K.
DemonsThanatos
February 10th, 2012 at 1:32 am
Thats to bad . . . At least it came out for the SNES .
Steve0h
March 17th, 2013 at 5:49 am
At least the SNES version was great! I still would love a chance to play the NES version of it to see what it was like.
William Powell
March 18th, 2013 at 6:16 am
I have seen both spellings of the word in the U.S. and it can be either canceled or cancelled. It does not just have to do with the U.K. It also has to do with family generations. As for Sim City, too bad it was never released to those who wanted it. Too bad, indeed.