← → ↑ ↓ = Directions
Z = A X = B
A = X S = Y
D = L C = R
enter ↵ = Start
space = Select
F8 = Load state
F5 = Save state
Only while game is active!
Start with a fledgling town (you name it yourself) and build it into a metropolis. Or, take on the challenge of rescuing a city overwhelmed with problems. Either way, taxes, zoning, crime, transportation, education, fire control, and other critical issues are in your hands. Time is passing, and every decision you make has a future consequence. Your assistant, Dr. Wright, can help you make the right decisions. Just ask! Surprise catastrophies also threaten your growing city–fire, earthquakes, airplane crashes, even a giant Koopa who has a nose for industrial pollution! Will you build the ideal city? Or will disgruntled citizens leave you with a ghost town?
If you unlock the Freeland scenario, you'll notice it to be a waterless place with only some forest in the center: that forest is in the shape of the face of Mario, the famous Nintendo character.