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SimCity 2000 - Newspapers

Simcity 2000 doesn't just have terrain generation. Every city has
between one and six newspapers that are updated every month with new
stories about the city.

The articles are clearly generated from templates, with liberal word
substitutions. The templates frequently correspond to the current
state of your city, with a few international news items thrown in.
The absurdity of the word swaps and the tone of the templates fit in
well with the rest of Maxis's trademark humor. 

Later SimCity games would use news tickers, but I miss the extra bit
of narrative connection you get with your citizens when you read an
interview with them, even one constructed out of absurd templates.
The news tickers tended to have clever headlines, but become
exhausted fairly quickly, whereas the newspapers had predictable,
even serious headlines and funny madlib text, which is I think what
gives them more staying power.

Fred Haslam, Debra Larson, and Chris Weiss are credited with writing
the content for the newspapers.

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