EA donates SimCity to child laptop initiative
David Johnson November 9th, 2007
How cool is this? Electronic Arts is going to put a copy of the original SimCity game on every machine in the “One Laptop Per Child” (OLPC) program. In case you haven’t been following, OLPC is a not-for-profit humanitarian effort to design, manufacture and distribute inexpensive laptops with the goal of giving every child in the world access to modern education. When it came out in 1989, SimCity gave rise to an entire genre of simulation games… game that when done right, can teach players all kinds of things while developing decision-making skills.
5 Comments Add your own
1. tribster | November 9th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Dear OLPC DO NOT Accept it. My Word this Project still in infancy and Product Placement/Ads already Beginning.This one the WORST Considering OLPC Target audience. Shame on them.
2. antitribster | November 9th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Please Don’t Capitalize the First Letter of Every Word.
It Makes You Look Dumb.
3. Michael Gay | November 9th, 2007 at 10:00 am
And it’s addictive, until you unleash the aliens on your city and watch the whole thing destroyed with plasma blasts.
4. Z | November 9th, 2007 at 10:34 am
They should put Civilization on it instead. Adds the all important war element.
5. David Johnson | November 9th, 2007 at 11:50 am
i think it would be the best if they offered the engine as open source, so users could game the game to other things with it. but, hey, i’m dorky like that.
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