SimCity is a city building simulator, originally developed by Will Wright of Maxis. Originally developed as a PC game, a new version was developed by Nintendo and released on the SNES in August 1991. It was later released on the Wii Virtual Console. It was a US Virtual Console launch title as well, on November 19, 2006. Interestingly, it was the first Virtual Console release, despite Super Mario World being the SNES launch title. (Super Mario World would, strangely, be left unreleased until several months later.) Due to Electronic Arts buying out the franchise, Sim City was de-listed from the Virtual Console.