You're the mayor.Now build the city.

It starts with a patch of grass, a river and $20,000. Lay down a road. Run a power line from a new plant. Mark out land for homes, shops and factories - and watch. Houses go up. Shops open. Cars fill the streets. Your village becomes a town, your town a city.

Then the trouble starts. Factories bring jobs, and smoke. Busy roads bring customers, and jams. Cheap land breeds crime, so you build a police station. Taxes pay for it all - but raise them too far and people stop coming.

TileTown's city lives on a 128 by 128 map, drawn in colourful Super Hi-Res. Land value, traffic, pollution and crime spread from street to street, and your citizens tell you what they want: more homes, more shops, a hospital, a school, a stadium, an airport, a seaport. Lay rail to take the traffic off the roads.

Open the maps to see the whole city at once - or as heat maps of pollution, crime, traffic and more. Graphs show how your city has grown over 10 years, or 100. The budget's sliders let you set taxes and decide how much to spend on roads, police and fire.

And when you think you have it all under control - a fire. A flood. A tornado tearing through downtown. An earthquake. Or, if you built that nuclear plant, a meltdown.

Written from scratch in 65816 assembly for the Apple IIgs, with sound effects and an original soundtrack on the Ensoniq sound chip: eight relaxed tunes that play in turn while you build.