The Year's Best-Selling Games (cont'd)

Number 8. Sim City 3000

Units sold: 242,435
Gross income: $7,992,300

Will Wright is the Steven Spielberg of gaming. He does great mainstream stuff that routinely breaks sales records and then someone else runs it into the ground with dippy sequels. Sim City 3000 is tired and clunky, the sort of thing that people who don't know any better will buy in droves. It's clearly the product a development process that went on too long and suffered a few too many refits. We prefer Sim City 2000's crisp engine and cleaner gameplay, but the series must go on.

Number 7. Sim Theme Park

Units sold: 309,516
Gross income: $8,514,816

Ooh...ahh...whee! It was the year of amusement park games. What Sim Theme Park (also known as Theme Park World until EA saw the sales figures for Will Wright's various Sim games) has on Rollercoaster Tycoon is 3D graphics that allows you to walk around the park and and actually go on the rides. What Rollercoaster Tycoon has on Sim Theme Park is more detailed and interesting gameplay. We wonder how many people purchased this game simply because they were hoping for a 3D Rollercoaster Tycoon?

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