User blog comment:K6ka/EA has announced a new spinoff: Grand Theft Plumbob!/@comment-1365262-20150426223011

The truly funny part is that Maxis did this for real before it became part of EA.

In SimFarm, you could fly crop dusters after the town developed an airstrip and you purchased one. Flying and landing were next to impossible with the controls and speed, but it could be done if you were very, very skilled and lucky.

The PS1 port of SimCity 2000 let you to cruise through your city. A cheat even allowed you to earn money by collecting gold nuggets like Pac-Man.

SimCopter gave you the chance to steal Apache gunships, strafe innocent sims, sink ships, shoot down aircraft and UFOs, and even initiate nuclear meltdowns.

Streets of SimCity was like a buggier, unwinnable Twisted Metal. Enemy missiles would chase you until they hit, but yours couldn't even damage hostile cars because they always raised shields at the very last instant.

Even after EA acquired Maxis, there was still SimCity 4's UDI mode. Those evil mission objectives were just like the PS1 GTAs: "you steal what you can and run from the nation."