How long does it take to read SimCity 2000?
Power, Politics, and Planning
Nick Dargahi, Michael Bremer
SimCity 2000 by Nick Dargahi, Michael Bremer takes about 8 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 449 pages, about 123,475 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a strategy, hints, tips, advise, and design guide to the Personal Computer game (PC) game "SimCity 2000", on Macintosh and Windows, MS-DOS format versions. This book tells what the new features are that were added to this game when compared to the original SimCity game, discusses how best to design and build a simulation city, what the icons and features of the game do. The next few sections deal with designing the terrain that the city will be laid out on, managing, money, taxes, laws and other such city duties. There is step by step help with designing the cities as well as beating the games scenarios, transportation, fire departments, power plants and other building and zoning options. There is also a making of section with question and answer information about how the game was designed, early artwork, music, documentation and interviews with William Ralph "Will" Wright and Fred Haslam. There are many gray-scale screenshots, and a special color 8 page insert. The cover art is by Jeff Bane. The book was later 'Revised' version in 1995. "SimCity 2000: Power, Politics, and Planning: Revised Edition" ISBN: 0761500758.
Subjects: Video games, Videogames, Games, Strategy, Puzzles, Passtimes
