SimCity 2000 est la suite sur Playstation de SimCity sorti en 1989. Comme dans le précédent opus, vous incarnez le maire d'une ville que vous devez construire et gérer. Un mode scénario vous propose de prendre les rênes d'une cité déjà construite et d'atteindre un objectif précis. Construire des infrastructures, relier la ville au reste du monde, lire les journaux pour avoir l'opinion des citoyens, autant de tâches qui vous apprendrons le dur labeur de maire.
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.