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Sim City: The Card Game

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Sim City: The Card Game is a now out-of-print collectible card game published by Mayfair Games in 1995, adapting the city-building premise of Maxis's SimCity video game into a tabletop format. Players take turns playing cards that represent individual city blocks, gradually assembling their own city from the ground up on the table in front of them, while managing the economic side of development to collect profit as their city grows. As a collectible card game, it was sold in expandable card packs rather than one fixed box, encouraging players to build out a personal collection of city-block cards over multiple purchases, following the collectible card game sales model that was common in the mid-1990s tabletop gaming market.

Facts
Origin Year
1995 1
Playing Time
120 2
Skill or Luck
Mixed 1
Age Suitability
Family 1
Designer
Darwin Bromley 2
Designer
Louis Rexing 2
Designer
Tom Wham 2
Publisher
Mayfair Games 2
Game Category
Card Game 2
Game Category
City Building 2
Game Category
Collectible Components 2
Game Category
Video Game Theme 2
Game Mechanic
Hand Management 2
Game Mechanic
Network and Route Building 2
Game Mechanic
Tile Placement 2
Game Mechanic
Voting 2
Minimum Players
1 2
Maximum Players
99 2
Classification
Player Count
Large Group or Variable 1
Sport
Game Type (category)
Card Game 1
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1. Sim City: The Card Game (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, release date
    Release Date: 1995
  • Introduction
    Sim City: The Card Game is an out-of-print collectible card game based on the video game SimCity by Maxis.
  • Infobox: random_chance
    Medium
  • Infobox: ages
    10 and up
  • Infobox: players
    1+
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2. Sim City: The Card Game (BoardGameGeek)
  • Playing Time: 120
  • Designer: Darwin Bromley
  • Designer: Louis Rexing
  • Designer: Tom Wham
  • Publisher: Mayfair Games
  • Game Category: Card Game
  • Game Category: City Building
  • Game Category: Collectible Components
  • Game Category: Video Game Theme
  • Game Mechanic: Hand Management
  • Game Mechanic: Network and Route Building
  • Game Mechanic: Tile Placement
  • Game Mechanic: Voting
  • Minimum Players: 1
  • Maximum Players: 99
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