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Joystiq presents

The return of Sim City

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That's right. The game that sucked up hundreds of your precious hours as you lovingly crafted your commercial zones and coal-based power plants is coming to a DS near you...as long as you live slightly east of the Asian mainland, that is. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed a special DS version of the classic Sim City 3000 (considered by many to be the best in the series) coming to Japan, complete with full stylus control. And that's not all! They've even thrown in some extras: mini-games and a special advisor to help you fend off those alien invasions. Sweet.

Sim City does nothing but bring back ever-so-fond memories for a very, very large group of people. Though a North American release has not been confirmed, it would be absolute lunacy for EA to ignore such a guaranteed and obvious profit. With any luck, you'll be giving those silly college-trained civil engineers a run for their money soon enough.

[via Joystiq]

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1. Ooo, I'd buy this in a second. That's what the DS is missing.

Posted at 1:39AM on Aug 31st 2006 by randomguy132 0 stars

2. We all know that EA is gonna bring this game here, the question is when?

Posted at 2:36AM on Aug 31st 2006 by Wilson 0 stars

3. The DS was made just for this game. I loved Sim City. The SNES one was my fav. Ahhh the memories. This is definately a game you can just keep playing over and over again!

It'd be nice to make sister cities and neighboring cities with Wi-Fi of some sort. Or maybe trading special items or buying them from one another. But that could be more frustrating that what it's worth.

Posted at 4:53AM on Aug 31st 2006 by BillBix 0 stars

4. Sim City is awesome. The SNES update of the classic was my favorite version. I hope this version of 3000 will get the Nintendo touch too.

Though I still want stylus controlled Diablo..

Posted at 7:41AM on Aug 31st 2006 by Mike 0 stars

5. DIABLO 3 on the Wii and DS... think about it... take your character online on the Wii and destroy... put the character on the DS and go portable, do mini dungeons / side stories, team up with other DS players...

OMFG... Awesome!

They best bring SimCity here.... or I will create a city and play around with the disasters menu, like a virtual voodoo doll!

Posted at 11:00AM on Aug 31st 2006 by Korexz 0 stars

6. I'm gonna wait for the SNES version of Sim City on the Wii and this time, I'm getting that #@$%&* Mario statue.

Posted at 2:03PM on Aug 31st 2006 by cooper 0 stars

7. Wooo..... I really hope they can port this game in all it's glory. I don't want some lame spin off or cut down version...

Just give us oldschool city building action with a few nifty perks!

And the cheats. Because I suck without lots of starting money.

Posted at 12:30AM on Sep 1st 2006 by Kefka 0 stars

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