SIM Town: Museum Object and Cultural History
SIM Town: date made: 1999. maker: Electronic Arts. maker: EA Maxis.
The object in the museum catalogue
This is a retail copy of the PC computer game SIM Town by developer MAXIS, published by Electronic Arts. The object include an opaque green plastic protective sleeve with a "MEMOREX" inscription imprinted on the plastic and a CD-ROM data disk. The face/front of the CD-ROM has the logo of the video game title at the top, the logo for the "Maxis Kids" sub-brand of titles by developer MAXIS is on the lower half, and the very bottom edge containing copyright information. The text/logo overlap a drawn image of a neighborhood with a "nightmarish clown bus" parked on the street.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1999
- maker: Electronic Arts
- maker: EA Maxis
- Object Name: video game
- Physical Description: plastic (plastic sleeve material)
- Physical Description: plastic; metal (cd-rom material)
- Measurements: cd-rom: 4 3/4 in; 12.065 cm
- Measurements: plastic sleeve: 5 3/16 in x 4 13/16 in; 13.208 cm x 12.192 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 2016.3016.36
- nonaccession number: 2016.3016
- catalog number: 2016.3016.36
- Credit Line: Judy Gradwohl
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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