Many people know of the SNES version of SimCity, but there was actually a version made for the NES that was unreleased, and The Video Game History Foundation published a few minutes of gameplay of the prototype for it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0q93b_allY.

It looks similar to other versions of SimCity we know. The music is fairly repetitive (that 8-bit limitation has a lot to do with that, I'm sure) but the video here shows a lot of the gameplay features, including the monster destroying the city. The music of the short cutscenes with the animated characters (saying you have too much crime, etc) really have a kinda Mario sound to them, in my opinion.

This was a cool watch for SimCity fanatics like myself. 😂

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SimCity NES Unreleased Prototype Gameplay

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Recientemente The Video Game History Foundation abrió al público el acceso digital a su biblioteca. La fundación es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a preservar, celebrar y enseñar la historia de los videojuegos. Entre sus proyectos se encuentra la preservación del código fuente de videojuegos, educación, archivo de arte e información, recuperación y…