Ask New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. You'll need 230K of free memory to install the software. It has a simpler economic and city planning model than some of the newer versions like SimCity 2000 and SimCity 3000. But the game is still as addicting and challenging as ever, given the simplification that's required in order to run it on the Palm platform. Most of the game is run from the main map screen, where you start off constructing a power plant, of which you have your choice of Coal or Nuclear.
Coal plants are cheaper than nuclear plants, but over time they generate a lot of pollution.
Once you've built a power plant, you start zoning your city. How and where you place these zones will be a major factor in whether your city becomes a New York, a Newark, a Detroit or a Belgrade. Zones are square areas that you place on your map, and they need to be supplied with interconnected power lines or placed next to each other to receive power from your power plants. You have to build roads around them or the SimCitizens won't be able to get anywhere. The kinds of zones you build and when you build them is determined by the zone demand indicator, which is located on the upper right part of your screen.