You might know Will Wright from "The Sims", or "Spore", or some other insanely ambitious project that fell short of its stated goals but was still really, really good.

So, after nearly a decade on ice, SimCity is coming back in a big way in 2013, which got me thinking about the SimMania that gripped the world in the early-to-mid-90s.

Will Wright (creator of SimCity, The Sims, and Spore) has teamed up with Albie Hecht (former president of Spike TV and Nickelodeon) to create a TV show for the Current channel.