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SimCity 2000 Scenarios Volume 1: Great Disasters is an expansion pack for the city building simulation game SimCity 2000. It was released in 1994 for the MS-DOS platform by developer and publisher Maxis Software Inc. This add-on content provides a series of specific challenges that deviate from the main game's open-ended urban planning.

In this expansion, the player assumes the role of a mayor tasked with managing a city through a predefined crisis. The core objective in each of the ten scenarios is to successfully navigate and recover from a major disaster within a set time limit or before specific failure conditions are met. Gameplay involves the standard city management systems of SimCity 2000, such as zoning land, constructing infrastructure, and balancing a municipal budget, but these actions are directed toward mitigating an immediate catastrophe. The scenarios are based on both historical and fictional events, including a major flood and a hypothetical extraterrestrial attack, which are presented as pre-built cities already in the midst of emergency. Progression is linear from one scenario to the next, with success measured by the player's ability to stabilize the city and meet the unique victory conditions of each disaster.