10 Video Games That Punished You For Being A Thief

Is cheating stealing? In the case of SimCity 2000 it might as well be, given that you're able to enter cheat codes that magic money out of thin air, namely "cass" to receive $250 or "imacheat" to net a stonking $500,000.

But in acknowledgment of the fact that conjuring cash out of nothing is a one-way ticket to destabilising the local economy, developers Maxis included a universe-correcting solution: not-so-natural disasters.

Both cheat codes are accompanied by the high probability of a disaster, such as a UFO attack, earthquake, flood, hurricane, nuclear meltdown, volcano, or meteor.

Clearly, Maxis is trying to tell players that cheaters never prosper, and sooner or later their pilfering from the digital void is going to have dire consequences for their bustling, ill-gotten isometric metropolis.