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SimCity 3000 CityCam and Contest

March 29, 1999: Maxis, a division of Electronic Arts, revealed the debut of an innovative new City Cam feature and the first contest on the popular simcity.com Web site.

SimCity 3000 CityCam and Contest hits the March 1999 news desk on March 29, 1999. Maxis, a division of Electronic Arts, revealed the debut of an innovative new City Cam feature and the first contest on the popular simcity.com Web site.

Simcity.com is the official support site and community center for Sim City 3000. The City Cam grants visitors to simcity.com the ability to explore and navigate Sim City 3000 cities with a Javascript-enabled browser. Not every story comes with screenshots, but this is the sort of move that changes what players actually see later.