SIMEARTH (SUPER NINTENDO SNES)

SimEarth is a life simulation video game, the second designed by Will Wright, in which the player controls the development of a planet. English scientist James Lovelock served as an advisor, and his Gaia hypothesis of the planet's evolution was incorporated into the game. SimEarth was released in 1990 by Maxis. Versions were made for Apple Macintosh, Commodore Amiga, IBM PC, SNES, Sega Mega-CD and TurboGrafx-16. It was also subsequently re-released on the Wii Virtual Console. In 1996, several simulation games from Maxis were re-released as part of the Maxis Collector Series with greater compatibility with Windows 95 and different box art, including the addition of Classics under the title. SimEarth was re-released in 1997 under the Classics label.