CITÉ: a city seen from above at sunset, with its towers, factories, power plant and a lake

GAMES / CITÉ 2026

CITÉ 2026

You are the mayor. There is grass, a river, $20,000 in the bank and nobody around. Lay the first roads, light up a power plant, draw the neighbourhoods: the people will come, or they won't.

Language
BASIC 2026
Map
64 × 64 tiles, in isometric view
Starts
January 1990

Click the floppy to insert it. In the machine, choose BASIC 2026 and type RUN "1:CITE". The game itself is in French.

Download the source code (ZIP)
The sample city: roads, houses, shops and a lake
The sample city, February 1990.
The budget window, open over the city
The budget: taxes, loans, debt.

Build

  • Roads, $10 a tile, $50 over water
  • Power lines, $5
  • Residential, commercial, industrial zones, $20
  • Parks, $25, and trees, $5
  • Police station and fire station, $500
  • School, $700
  • Power plant, $3,000, for 300 tiles

Govern

  • Three gauges tell you what the city wants: R, C and I
  • Taxes are set one point at a time
  • Borrow and repay in $10,000 slices
  • The map also shows pollution, crime and land value
  • Three time speeds, and pause

Survive

  • Fire spreads from tile to tile
  • A monster may wake up
  • Accidents can be switched off, or triggered by hand
  • The city is saved to CITE.SAV

The source code is yours

All of CITÉ fits in one BASIC 2026 program: the simulation, the interface, and every drawing, computed pixel by pixel at startup. The ZIP holds that program, the title screen in the machine's format, the images and a short guide.

Download the ZIP