I was four years old when the first SimCity was released on the 2nd of February, 1989. It was another ten years before our family owned a PC and I began playing the open-ended city-building video game ...

I was four years old when the first SimCity was released ... ten years before our family owned a PC and I began playing the open-ended city-building video game. Along with Theme Park Tycoon ...

Some video games never appear to have any serious competitors; not for a lack of effort, but more because some games are as good as they get. An example would be the Mario platforming titles ...