SimEarth: The Living Planet is a life simulation computer game designed by Will Wright and published in 1990 by Maxis, in which the player controls the development of a planet. Versions were made for the Apple Macintosh, Commodore Amiga, IBM PC, SNES (developed and published by FCI in 1992) and TurboGrafx-16, which was also subsequently re-released on the Wii Virtual Console.
Although the game was much admired when it was released, SimEarth was n...
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SimEarth: The Living Planet is a life simulation computer game designed by Will Wright and published in 1990 by Maxis, in which the player controls the development of a planet. Versions were made for the Apple Macintosh, Commodore Amiga, IBM PC, SNES (developed and published by FCI in 1992) and TurboGrafx-16, which was also subsequently re-released on the Wii Virtual Console.
Although the game was much admired when it was released, SimEarth was not a big seller compared to its hit predecessor SimCity. SimEarth is also Maxis' first title to feature built-in copy protection, where players, upon the first startup of the game, must submit a correct figure from the manual for one of several questions pertaining to characteristics of planets in the Solar System.
In SimEarth, the player can vary a planet's atmosphere, temperature, landmasses, etc, then place various forms of life on the planet and watch them evolve. Since it is a software toy, the game does not have any required goals. The...
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