And Sim City I'd always flatten out before Megalopolis, even though the entire land was developed and airports were downgraded so minimal pollution, no taxes, rails instead of roads, etc.
There's actually something in the instruction manual that shows how you can squeeze more stuff in (as zones are developing, you can demolish the outsides and build over them and no problems happen). They explicitly say it's not cheating.
Of course it isn't. It severely limits how much the demolished zone can develop, so it has a significant downside as well as an upside.
Also, Sim City can be speedrun. Megalopolis in about 40 minutes, I believe, by utilising a glitch to get infinite money (they don't explicitly say this isn't cheating).
Even funnier thing is that FE7 is one of the easier games in the series
Eh... on it's lowest difficulty, perhaps, but most FEs aren't too hard on Normal/whatever their easiest happens to be. Like, okay, they're somewhat tough to new players, but generally as long as you pay attention to what the enemy is packing and plan ahead a little you're going to be fine. On it's highest difficulty FE7 is fairly middling I'd say. Even of the English releases it's around the middle (harder than FE8 (Sacred Stones) and FE9 (Path of Radiance), much easier than FE13 (Awakening) and FE11 (Shadow Dragon), and... about equal, perhaps a little easier, than FE10 (Radiant Dawn).
Also on the topic of Fire Emblem games, since I saw a few people mention them on page 1, the reason Marcus is so good isn't that he starts strong and helps build your team - it's that he's consistently good throughout the entire game. FE7 enemies, even on it's hard modes, aren't very strong, they're just high in numbers, and Marcus still beats them easily even later in the game. Yes, he can't take on as many at once as perhaps a trained Kent or Sain, and is a little worse against the promoted enemies, but he still rips through enemies just fine. On the lower difficulties in fact, he can still smash through enemies easily on the final few chapters! (And even on the higher difficulties, you can still use him at base level, although he's obviously much less effective).