SimCity sur Super Nintendo est l'un des premiers jeux conçus par Will Wright, connu pour Les Sims. Vous incarnez le maire d'une ville et devez rendre les habitants heureux afin que ceux-ci ne vous virent pas. Le premier mode de jeu vous fait partir de zéro, avec tous les bâtiments et infrastructures à construire. Dans le mode Catastrophe, vous prenez les commandes d'une cité déjâ construite et devez faire face aux catastrophes naturelles, ainsi qu'â des émeutes et autres événements inattendus.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
