Virtual Console Reviews

I loved the Metropolis music but could never get a Megalopolis city. I always had to cheat on this game too...

does anyone know the map number for the most area of land, i remember playing this game way back and i thought it was 064 or something like that, either way it was a map that hand a small river twoards the bottom and the rest was all building space. Megalopolis seems damn near impossible to get to, but one must try.

It was #061

okay....how do you get that money cheat?...i think its been disabled for the VC version,not sure....i could leave my Wii on i suppose...

I suck at this game! XD
I always end up bankrupt after about 5 years! It does put me off a bit, and SimCity never has been my favourite series but I still think it's great! I'd give it 3.5/5

Love this game, can't wait till my Wii points card gets to my house. (It always takes forever).

Btw, Nintendo does not change the VC games from the original, that's why all the glitches in the old games are still there. So the cheat should still work. If not, I'll be kind of skeptical on what they promised...

the cheats work on VC download and i need help getting Megalopolis i can only make small Metropolis ooo and 1 more thing it sucks for PAl ppl nstc is also been better anyway!!!

How do you do the money cheat?!?! Too long ago for me to remember

For the money cheat: $999,999
You have to spend all your money
Set your fire dept spending lower( or police but fire is more expendable)
Then when December comes and the tax screen shows up you have to hold L and click on "go with figures". While still holding L you have to go back to your tax screen and set everything back to 100% and click on "go with figures" ( your figures need to be in the negative for this to work, it may take a couple of years to make sure you'll end up in the negative without getting fired)

Then once your back to your map you let go of L and BAM you have $999,999

The 'God Game' to end them all. Sim City was an absolute phenomenon when it was released back in the late 1980s. Spreading out from it's origin on the Mac and PCs of the era, the game soon became available on every format under the sun - including many of the consoles.

Some questioned why this was one of the first SNES games on VC, but it's a really good game. The basic premise is that you're a Major/town planner of a city and you've got to build it and run it to a profit. You choose how the budget is spent and also how the city is designed and grows. Choose badly and you'll either go bankrupt or design a city that is beseiged with problems such as crime, pollution and traffic congestion. Building the perfect city is not an easy job! And it it wasn't just that, there's always the risk of a natural disaster scuppering your plans. All in all it's very addictive!

The presentation looks like it was lifted straight from the VGA version of the game on the PC and has a style that is very reminiscent of PC games of the era, i.e. very formal and questionable use of colour.

It's worth downloading as it's still got a simple charm compared to the complexity and overblown nature of the latest additions to the series. It's release might also encourage Westwood to release the Megadrive port of Dune 2 to Virtual Console - now that would be worth shouting about.

I have this game, and I like it. To answer some of these questions: The map with the most land that isn't a scenario is map 61. It is a great map because the river separates the land into two large halves, and there is a small island that is perfect for the airport. I have achieved megalopolis in Sim City, but it is very difficult. You have to pretty much cram people into your city by developing every square inch of the map. You have to strategically plan how much land will be used for power plants, transportation, police stations, fire department, etc, and be able to place as many zones as possible.

I remember playing this game on my friends SNES. It could've been a sequel cus i think you could have either bowser or DOnkey kong destroy your village and cause other disasters. Thats the only reason we never got far cus it was just too tempting to destroy everything.

watchout this one steals your sleep:P

How do you get commercial and residential areas to their top level ? I would appreciate any suggestions.

My top favourite VC game. Every other game I've downloaded was too short, too hard, too known or too bad. There were good games also, but they were like 10-15 hours until you beat them completely.

But this is a game you will always come back to.
Every city will be different. There are thousands of maps.
You can be creative, but must be thoughtful.

For the VC this game is perfect, cause it will be a channel that's not going to bore you after completing it.

The game itself plays easily with Gamecube or Classic Controller and isn't as confusing and complex as most of the new simulation-titles.

The music is awesome. It's one of the SNES most classic tunes. Graphically everything is clean to look at, the different seasons and little cars and planes and trains and growing houses give the game a living touch.

Fits perfectly on VC: 5 Stars.

i dont think that the money cheat is available on the wii version. on the original computer version you had to hold shift down and type "funds" to get 10,000 dollars whenever u wanted it, but if u did it too much there would be a disaster.

the money cheat DOES work in the Wii Downloadable version. I am watching my buddy play it right now with 891536 dollars. He started with 999999.

AND Dr Wright from this game is to appear in Smash Bros Brawl!

Quite a good game, Campaign is near impossible, you definitely buy it for the practice mode. A tricky but entertaining game that takes planning, but is rewarding when you see your town start to grow. 3 stars!

I love Sim City on SNES.

And i love the music Metropolis and cathastrophe. Any body have one of this???

Yes this game is indeed fun. I got it for the Wii VC and I got a metropolis but never quite made it to a Megaopolis. this game is very addictive!

This game is fun, but I could never play it longer than an hour. I get bored.

This is the very first VC title I bought! It was so difficult when I was a kid but now that I am older I wanted to go back and defeat it. It is still really hard, but at least now I don't have to use the money cheat, now I just use patience.

One of the better versions of Sim City, although it is a game better played with a mouse!

I love to create stuff but I could just never figure Sim City out. I'm still not sure what to do in senerios even though I'm in my teens now, will someone help me:/

Sweet Im gonna buy this and River City Ransom When I get 2000 Wii Points

Thats a pretty good Strategy in the clip. Why dont you follow that strategy and use the money cheat Zelda Freak. At least for this Simcity.

Thats very true Dexter thats very true. I have Simcity 4 and if my computer was able to run it I would buy Societies

Kool Kitties how'd you get bored with this game in an hour. That's impossible. I think you'd better see a doctor and quick!

I just tried the money cheat, and it really helped me. thnx Csheroe. I finished a huge city but i can't remember how many citizens I had though. This game is so much fun now! XD

Its pretty awesome I just bought it with my new wii points Next comes River City Ransom....
I hope

I got to 20000 people in practice mode. I could've gotten it higher but I shut it off`.

Got faaaaarrrrr to much time on my hands. now at 1989, metropolis and at the time of writing 123,580 people and £65816 in the bank and nowhere else to build on lol. Good game. No cheats by the way.

@don remenis. Wow thats great going, well done. I didnt know about the stacking method til now,thanks. Will give it another look. How many citizens are needed for a megapolis?

megalopolis is when you have 500 000 citz and more

@don remenis. 500,000 Jeeez, i'm gonna need all the help I can get. If you have ANYTHING that can help, im all ears and it would be much appreciated.

@don remenis
just had a proper read at the walkthrough,good reading. Im gonna start a land 61 with prob donut pattern,time is aginst me right now but I really appreciate the help. will def take me up a level.

Is this game no longer on the VC?

@Sle - SimCity is still available on the VC. Did you look in the Super Nintendo section?

okay.... do people play this game without the money cheat or with? I used to; i don't own this game on VC but i did own it as a kid. i could never reach to Megalopolis even with it. Which was fine because the Metropolis music rocked.

Can you make your city a miserable hole and cackle madly? That's a deciding factor in my purchase.

@ 2hip, you can even recreate Gotham city and claim yourself as Razel-Algul from the League Of Shadow if you want...Scy-rise criminality, extreme pollution, never ending recession, disasters by the douzen, so many way to «build» an unhappy place...
This game well worth the 800 vc points !

@ Zelda Freak
your welcome
always glad to help out.