Even the once-booming but now-hurting ultimate "fun city, " Las Vegas, wants in on the act.
Simcity 5 has been announced to have forced multiplayer, and looks like it eliminates single player conventions like saving and then having fun destroying your city.
Now, eight years later, New Orleans is at the forefront of video game development, putting the fun-loving city in competition with major gaming hotspots like Austin, San Francisco, Toronto, and Quebec.
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At the same time Siu attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to study computer science, but after a visit to Boston he found the city more fun and more stimulating, and soon transferred to Boston University.
On most Wednesday nights for the last seven years, hundreds of cyclists have joined in the Ciclopaseo ride, a Critical Mass-style pedal through the city streets that is about the fun of riding and also stands as a political message about cycling rights in the city.
We are having so much fun and learning lots at the City Learning Centre, Eston.
"This picturesque seaside resort city is the epitome of fun and relaxation, " promises Lonely Planet.
Managing director Andrew Hutchinson said they were a "useful and fun" way to take tourists around a city.
Others, such as Terry Nichols Clark, of the University of Chicago, stress the pleasures of the city as a reason to live there: entertainment, they say, can replace manufacturing in the post-industrial city, providing both jobs and fun.
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Foresee nothing but fun on your fourth-day sightseeing tour of Guatemala City, Central America's largest city.
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My day behind the wheel of the CODA was spent mostly on city streets around Los Angeles, with a fun detour into a downtown section of the Los Angeles River, a scene reminiscent of the drag races in the movie Grease.
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The City Centre is a hotspot of family-friendly fun, with ice skating, bowling and wall climbing.
We have proved they can be fun for everyone (even the people who live in the city).
For Sheen, the "Spin City" role was a chance to have some fun with his own bad-boy image.
Not that a cultural Mecca like New York City needed The McCoys, but it was really fun while they were around.
And you might spot their descendants, alive and at play, in the city's smattering of old-fashioned restaurants and deliriously fun nightclubs.
Whereas locals prefer period properties, foreigners tend to go for new stuff, in Chelsea, Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Mayfair and Docklands (not much fun, but flats there let easily because of its proximity to the City).
The city of San Francisco acknowledges the thicket of regulations and even pokes fun at itself for it.
It's fun, affordable, eye-opening and fascinating (seriously, what other city of 21 million other than Mexico City is founded on a filled-in lake?).
"I've done a few outrageous places in the city for divorced fathers and bachelors, and it's a fun thing to do because it's like a second childhood, " he says.
Last week I was back in New Orleans for my first visit in 20 years, and although in town to curate a photography exhibition for the New Orleans Photo Alliance, I was also there to take my own photographs of a city I knew to be incredibly photogenic and full of warm-hearted, fun-loving people.
In cutting-edge club terms, the city's no Berlin or London, but there is still plenty of after-dark fun to be had.
"This is all in good fun, but it's not a joke, " says Mr. Olsen, a lawyer in Tahoe City, Calif.
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