If you're a geek of a certain age, you almost certainly invested hundreds of hours of your youth building and managing cities in Sim City. These days, you probably spend a lot of time yelling at the damn kids today to get off your lawn, while you hunt around the Intertubes for an opportunity to shift some funds and relive the glory days of 16-bit late 80s municipal management.

Well, grab your cane and shake your fist, because as part of the marketing effort behind Sim City 4, the good folks at Electronic Arts have released an entirely free version of the original Sim City, that you can play in almost any browser.

Uh, does anyone still run Netscape Navigator? The web version is based on the PC version of the game, and you can play it here. If anyone needs me, I'll be watching Godzilla rampage across my maps for the next few days.