Sim City is a very old game which I had already played when I was a six years old child. I played it in Atari ST, a machine from the 80's, but it is considered to be a classic PC game, the first pure strategy game. Of course, there were games more or less similar before the first Sim City, but this one was the very first strategy game which became well known abroad.

Sim City has some episodies and I will just review the first edition here (of course), the one known as "Sim City Classic".

The objective of the game is simple: you have to build a city getting as much population as possible. To make it work, you have to build streets and the

railway track, apart from the electric infrastructure. Then you have to place residential, commercial or industrial blocks and also police and fire stations so that your city can be comfortable enough so that people immigrate to your city. Finally, you can place gardens, stadiums, ports and airports so that your city becomes big and splendid.

You also have to control the traffic jams, the crime, the emmigration, the status of the streets, and face to natural disasters as floods, an eartquake or even a nuclear disaster.

And that is all! Placing everything is easy until you get rid of money, the hard matter is to make the town a city to live in the next years and generate enough money to survive to your initial expenditure.

It is not a very long game but it will keep you addicted some days. Easy to get (I think it is already freeware), easy to run and really small, less than 5MB I think, I still play Sim City if I think I can have a short nice time using the computer to relax and enjoy myself.

But look at the screenshot on your right. Does not say it to you, play me? Build, build, build! Engineering havoc!