Sim City (album)

Sim City is the fifth solo album by Susumu Hirasawa. Inspiration came from Hirasawa's visits to Thailand, where he developed a strong interest in the country's transsexuals. The album's name refers to its story, in which a futuristic Thailand is portrayed as a simulation city.

Hirasawa had originally planned to make this album a 90s version of The Dark Side of the Moon, but his newfound fascination with Thailand led him to create Sim City instead. It's the first part of a trilogy of Thailand-influenced albums partially recorded in Bangkok, followed by SIREN and Technique of Relief.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Susumu Hirasawa, except "Recall", "Sim City" and "Prologue", with lyrics by Hirasawa and Miss N. 

Track information

Shares its name with a P-Model song (originally from Fu Kyoka Kyoku Shū, re-recorded for Another Game). Both are tributes to Pink Floyd. It was also the basis for the Berserk song "Gats". The song was conceived in Bangkok. The song's subtitle, a reference to the address of Miss N.'s parents' house in the Bang Phlat District, appears only on the album's lyric sheet.

SimCity

SimCity is an open-ended city-building computer and console video game series originally designed by developer Will Wright. It is published by Maxis (now a division of Electronic Arts). The game was first published in 1989 as SimCity, and it has spawned several different editions sold worldwide. The ongoing success of SimCity has also sparked the release of many other spin-off "Sim" titles, including 2000's The Sims, one of the best-selling computer games

In SimCity, the player is given the task of founding and developing a city, while maintaining the happiness of the citizens and keeping a stable budget. In SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4, the player is allowed to alter the terrain of the city before building on it.

The player must define development zones, each having limits on the kind of development that can occur there. Development of the zones is not performed directly by the player, but happens when certain conditions are met, such as power supply, adequate transport links or acceptable tax level. The residential zones, in green, provide housing for Sims; the commercial zones, in blue, provide shops and offices; and the industrial zones, in yellow, provide factories, laboratories and farms. There are three different densities in the game: low density for small buildings, medium density for low to mid-sized buildings, and high density for anything up to large tower blocks.

SimCity (disambiguation)

SimCity is a video game series.

SimCity or Sim City may also refer to:

In the video game series, the first and fifth installments, which were both titled simply SimCity:

In music:

See also

SimCity 64

SimCity 64 (シムシティー64, shimushitī-rokujūyon) is a city-building video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64DD. The game and this peripheral were released exclusively in Japan. SimCity 64 is not to be confused with the Nintendo 64 port of SimCity 2000, which was developed and released in 1997 by an entirely different developer, Imagineer, or the Commodore 64 version of the original SimCity.

Gameplay

SimCity 64 may have been intended as a sequel to Nintendo's Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) release of the original 1991 SimCity, given several elements from the SNES version are found in SimCity 64, including Dr. Wright, the city advisor. Although general gameplay in SimCity 64 is much like SimCity 2000, the game's graphical textures and building tilesets are considerably different. However, the game sports several advanced features that were not seen in SimCity 2000 or even SimCity 3000: The ability to view the city at night (now also available in SimCity 4), pedestrian level free-roaming of a city, and individual road vehicles and pedestrians (which could only be seen while in the free-roaming mode). Cities in the game are also presented in 3D hybrid graphics. The 64DD incarnation of the game SimCopter, which was first planned as a stand-alone title, was later integrated into SimCity 64.