Will Wright's Sims

"When I was a kid I spent most of my free time building and playing with models. Now I get paid for it. I started designing game software around 1982 after building homebrew robots for several years. In 1987 Jeff Braun and I founded Maxis Software and released SimCity (which I started designing in 1985) two years later. Since then I have designed several other 'Sim" games including SimEarth, SimAnt and SimCity2000"

- Will Wright, Seminar on People, Computers, and Design
Stanford University April 26, 1996 (announcement).

A Brief Chronology of Maxis' Simulations