Founded by Will Wright and Jeff Braun in 1987, Maxis is best known for its "Sim" games, starting with Simcity. The success of Simcity lead to many sequels and spinoffs. Eventually Maxis was acquired by EA in 1997. Their first major release with EA was The Sims, a groundbreaking and immensely popular game to this day.
Official Maxis Software website
Maxis Software's Mobygames page
Maxis Software's Wikipedia page
Games developed and/or published by Maxis Software
Simcity 2000 (1993)
Simcity (1989)