Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

SimCity 2000
     
         An upgraded version of the game/simulation {SimCity}
        by {Maxis Software}.  In the new version you can raise, lower
        and level terrain; build roads and railways at 45-degree
        angles; name things in your city by planting "signs"; build
        raised highways, subways, and train and bus stations, schools,
        colleges, hospitals, electricity, water, recreational marinas
        and zoos.
     
        There are three levels of zoom, and the view may be rotated to
        look at your city from any of the four directions.  A query
        feature which will tell you the zoning, land value, etc. of
        any square.  You get newspapers, advice from council members,
        graphs, and charts.
     
        (1995-02-08)