Miss the good ol' days of DOS games? Origin is now offering you a trip down the memory lane by allowing you to download SimCity 2000 Special Edition free of cost for a limited time and own it forever.

According to the revelation today, the offline mode will be coming as a free option with update 10 to all who play the game, with all previously downloaded content being available under it.

Hey guys - I'm having problems running SimCity 3000 Unlimited on my machine. Back when I had Windows 98, this game ran without a problem, but on XP, the games runs really, really slowly. Anybody ...

Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games Pickup trucks full of software boxes, Win95VersionLie, and other tricks.

More to the point here, SimCity for Mac is only available as a digital download. Further details here talk about how when you purchase SimCity you are granted access to both the PC and Mac ...

EA announced on Wednesday that the latest version of its hit SimCity franchise would land on Apple's Mac platform on June 11. As an added bonus, those who already bought the game for Windows will ...

Update: As of 12:58 p.m. ET, SimCity ’s servers are back online, and the game will prompt players to download Update 10 the next time they sign in.

Hopefully Sandbox mode will enable us lesser planners to tweak the game's difficulty as we go and prevent us from bouncing straight off the new SimCity's gorgeous transparent Glass Box windows.

As Frank Cifaldi recounts, the original SimCity was developed by Will Wright and released for PC in February of 1989. Over in Japan, meanwhile, Nintendo was gearing ...

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