Go read this incredible history of the SimCity studio's forgotten business games division

A screenshot of Project Challenge, a project management simulator. | Thinking Tools Popular "simulation games" like SimCity aren't literally training players to run something like a city. But what would happen if they did? In the 1990s, SimCity studio Maxis tried to find out. In an exhaustively researched essay at The Obscuritory, librarian and writer Phil Salvador recounts the fascinating history of Maxis Business Simulations -- a short-lived studio that designed simulations of oil refineries, ...