Publisher: Altron
Developer: Altron
Release Date: 1997
Date Played: 2/1/2017
Region: Japan
Time Played: An excruciating hour
What’d you think?: One thing I am learning while doing this project is how often games of this generation would assume you’ve read the manual. Very few games will actually just have a tutorial, and in a city-building sim like this one, it would’ve helped a lot. Language barrier issues aside, it was a lot of trial and error trying to see what icons made what kinds of building, how bus stop routing worked, and all the other intricacies of any decent city sim. And decent city sim, this may well be! Unfortunately my town soon went bankrupt when I didn’t notice that all the factories I kept building each supplied more jobs than my town had population.