Like what you see? Why not follow CityMetric on Facebook or Twitter. Polish news site Interia ended its story on the competition with the thought the perhaps all future politicians should try their hand at a city game before they are allowed to run real cities. But then some people had to take it too far. This, we’re not going to lie, made CityMetric snigger. Others saw the story as a good excuse for a bit of a pun-fest: Redditors reacted to learning about this tragedy in their own unique fashion:

Sadly, he died in April 2010 when his plane crashed in Russia. Kaczynski would go on to win the mayoral elections in November and the Polish Presidential elections in October 2005. At the time, Kaczynski modestly credited his team for the win, especially his chief of staff Michael Rogus, who claimed to have an “interest in strategic games” but had never played SimCity before. The loser, Janusz Olechowski, had only 432. Each of the cities was hit by one of the natural disasters in the game: riots, fires, tornadoes and a UFO attack.Īt the end of the game, Lech Kaczynski was the winner: by the year 2087, his bank account had swelled to 934,000 Simoleons. Image: Adam Kliczek at Wikimedia commons.Īt half past two, the drama kicked off. Janusz Piechociński in more serious times. One news story written at the time also claims Piechociński was wearing an “elegant helmet”, which we haven’t been able to verify regrettably, no pictures of the event seem to survived in the public domain. SimCity 3000 Maxis SimCity 3000 With SimCity 3000, you have more power than ever before to build and control your city Recreate your version of the worlds greatest cities. The exception was Janusz Piechociński of the Polish People’s Party (now the country’s deputy Prime Minister), who apparently started by building a zoo. Each team started by enacting a major campaign policy, such as building police stations or roads.

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