{"id":70986,"date":"2014-12-10T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T09:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70986"},"modified":"2014-12-10T11:13:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T09:13:57","slug":"simcity-2000-special-edition-free-on-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/70986-simcity-2000-special-edition-free-on-origin","title":{"rendered":"SimCity 2000 Special Edition free on Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA\u00a0is\u00a0giving away SimCity 2000 Special Edition free through its online gaming platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.origin.com\/en-za\/store\/buy\/simcity-catalog\/pc-download\/base-game\/special-edition\" target=\"_blank\">Origin <\/a>&#8211; and you are invited to download the classic title.<\/p>\n<p>As a city-building fan, I tried to get the free game this morning, but an error message keeps popping up telling me to try again later. Hopefully this is resolved.<\/p>\n<p>As with all of Origin&#8217;s On the House promotions, the game is free to download and then keep and play for as long as you want.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal is to provide a great gaming experience and a way to discover awesome new games. Having a game in your library, for free, is a fantastic way to see what Origin is all about,&#8221; said EA.<\/p>\n<p>The holidays are coming up, and nothing brings a broken family together like a bit of PC gaming nostalgia &#8211; so get downloading.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70988\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/simcity2000_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70988\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70988\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/simcity2000_3-600x382.jpg\" alt=\"All this could be yours\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/simcity2000_3-600x382.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/simcity2000_3.jpg 1245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All this could be yours<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Any SimCity 2000 fans out there? Talk to us in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/70842-telkom-adsl-free-double-data.html\">Telkom ADSL free double data<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/70862-steam-now-lets-you-broadcast-and-stream-gameplay.html\">Steam now lets you broadcast and stream gameplay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/70846-this-weeks-epic-video-roundup-21.html\">This week\u2019s epic video roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go on, you know you want to download this classic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":52026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,1851,2180,9289],"class_list":["post-70986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-headline","tag-origin","tag-simcity","tag-simcity-2000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}