Children in developing nations who receive the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation can exercise their imaginations and build their own cities with the original “SimCity” video game. Electronic Arts announced Thursday that it has donated the game, originally released in 1989, to the OLPC Foundation for the organization to include on its laptops, which sell for around $200 each. The non-profit’s mission is to design, build, manufacture and distribute inexpensive laptops to children in developing nations.
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Game On for OLPC: EA to Put ‘SimCity’ on Low-Cost Laptops
Posted by: Walaika Haskins November 9, 2007 02:42 PMChildren in developing nations who receive the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation can exercise their imaginations and build their own cities with the original “SimCity” video game. Electronic Arts announced Thursday that it has donated the game, originally released in 1989, to the OLPC Foundation for the organization to include on its laptops, which sell for around $200 each. The non-profit’s mission is to design, build, manufacture and distribute inexpensive laptops to children in developing nations.