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SimCity's botched launch: The best jokes and memes we've seen so far

Failure to launch

Failure to launch

111 best gaming memes

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We can't solve your SimCity woes, but we can help you kill some time while you wait for that server to connect. Introducing our gallery of SimCity jokes, memes, and other images from the botched launch (as recruited from the likes of memegenerator (opens in new tab), Reddit (r/SimCity) (opens in new tab), quickmeme (opens in new tab), etc...).

...reticulating splines...

...reticulating splines...

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Angry? Amused? Ready to give up on gaming? Let us know in the comments...

For more SimCity launch news and opinions, read EA, your SimCity is broke (opens in new tab), SimCity marketing campaigns suspended (opens in new tab), and our SimCity review in-progress (opens in new tab).

Matt Bradford wrote news and features here at GamesRadar+ until 2016. Since then he's gone on to work with the Guinness World Records, acting as writer and researcher for the annual Gamer's Edition series of books, and has worked as an editor, technical writer, and voice actor. Matt is now a freelance journalist and editor, generating copy across a multitude of industries.