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{{Infobox video game
|image = Simcity64 boxart.PNG
|image_size = 250px
|caption=Box art
|developer = [[Organization:HAL Laboratory|HAL Laboratory]]
|publisher=[[Company:Nintendo|Nintendo]]
|designer=
|series= ''SimCity''
|released ={{vgrelease|JP|February 23, 2000<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/allsoft.html |title=NINTENDO64全発売ソフト一覧 |website=Nintendo |access-date=2022-09-19}}</ref>}}
|genre=[[Software:City-building game|City-building]] simulation
|modes = [[Software:Single-player video game|Single-player]]
|platforms = Nintendo 64DD
}}
{{nihongo|'''''SimCity 64'''''|シムシティー64|shimushitī-rokuyon}} is a [[Software:City-building game|city-building]] [[Engineering:Video game|video game]] developed by [[Organization:HAL Laboratory|HAL Laboratory]] and published by [[Company:Nintendo|Nintendo]] for the Nintendo 64DD. The game and its peripheral were released only in Japan.<ref name="ignrev">{{cite web | author=Schneider, Peer | date=June 28, 2000 | title=SimCity 64 (Import) | url=http://ign64.ign.com/articles/151/151948p1.html | website=IGN | access-date=2011-05-01}}</ref>

==Gameplay==
[[File:SimCity 64,Standard,Hide&Seek,Train&Chopter.png|thumb|left|{{ubl|Top: Standard, Hide & Seek.|Bottom: Train, Helicopter, views}}]]

''SimCity 64'' may have been intended as a sequel to Nintendo's [[Engineering:Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] (SNES) release of the original 1991 ''[[Software:SimCity (1989 video game)|SimCity]]'', given several elements from the SNES version are found in ''SimCity 64'', including Dr. Wright (named after Will Wright), the city's advisor. Although general gameplay in ''SimCity 64'' is much like ''SimCity 2000'', the game's graphical textures and building tilesets are considerably different and also, the game eliminates the water buildings and pipes only leaving the power plants and power lines. However, the game sports several advanced features that were not seen in ''SimCity 2000'' or even ''[[Software:SimCity 3000|SimCity 3000]]'': The ability to view the city at night (now also available in ''[[Software:SimCity 4|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 computer graphics|3D]] hybrid graphics. The 64DD incarnation of the game ''[[Software:SimCopter|SimCopter]]'',<ref>{{cite web | author=IGN Staff | date=October 9, 1997 | title=Sim Copter Shuttles to 64DD| url=http://ign64.ign.com/articles/061/061348p1.html | website=IGN | access-date=2011-05-01}}</ref> which was first planned as a stand-alone title, was later integrated into ''SimCity 64''.<ref name="ignrev"/>

==Development==
''SimCity 64'' was developed by [[Organization:HAL Laboratory|HAL Laboratory]] and published by [[Company:Nintendo|Nintendo]]. Word that it was being developed leaked to the press in mid-1997.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Nintendo in SimCity?|magazine=GamePro|issue=107|publisher=IDG |date=August 1997|page=20|quote=While nothing official had been announced at press time, industry sources report that Maxis and Nintendo cut a deal to create a SimCity game for the Nintendo 64. ... Shigeru Miyamoto ... will reportedly head up the project.}}</ref> Producer Shigeru Miyamoto was involved in editing the game.<ref>{{cite web | author=IGN Staff | date=January 8, 1997 | title=New Miyamoto Interview | url=http://ign64.ign.com/articles/060/060469p1.html | website=IGN | access-date=2011-05-01}}</ref> ''SimCity 64'' was originally intended to be released as a launch game for the peripheral.<ref>{{cite web | author=IGN Staff | date=June 2, 1997 | title=Four Games to Launch with Japanese 64DD | url=http://ign64.ign.com/articles/060/060850p1.html | website=IGN | access-date=2011-05-01}}</ref> After numerous delays of the 64DD, ''SimCity 64'' was made playable at Nintendo Space World in 1999.<ref name="famitsu">{{cite web | author=IGN Staff | date=February 24, 2000 | title=Famitsu Insane? | url=http://ign64.ign.com/articles/075/075657p1.html | website=IGN | access-date=2011-05-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=64 DD 出展ソフト一覧 | url=https://www.nintendo.co.jp/event/spacew99/itiran/dd/index.html | publisher=[[Company:Nintendo|Nintendo]] | language=ja | access-date=2011-05-01}}</ref> The game is considerably obscure, given its {{wipe|Japan}}-only release and designation to run on the ill-fated 64DD platform.

==Reception==
The four reviewers of the Japanese magazine ''Famitsu'' awarded ''SimCity 64'' scores of  8, 8, 8 and 7<ref name="famitsu"/> for a total of 31 out of 40 points.<ref>ニンテンドウ64 - シムシティー64. Weekly Famitsu. No.915 Pt.2. Pg.33. 30 June 2006.</ref> IGN gave the game a 6 out of 10.<ref name="ignrev"/>

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