Games That Changed Our Lives: Sim City
Steven at GameSpew writes: "Can you think of anything more boring than Urban Planning? A friend of mine took a degree in it at university and several times I witnessed conversation stop dead at parties when someone asked “So, what do you study?”
Urban Planning is up there with Librarianship and Administration as the most tragically dull subject you could apply for (and, by extension, hope to spend your one-and-only-life immersed in) – yet it spawned one of the most played and loved games of all time."
