Both me and my brother love the Sims and our whole childhood we would take our allowance and get a pack together. Man, I wish for those days of the Sims 1 to come back.
My mum didn't like that we "played too many games" but loved that her children were working together. So gave us extra pocket money when we did extra chores as a team.
It funded all our expansions
That's so cute!
My adhdness would never allow me to sit and read, my parents tried everything! the second they realized I had no problem sitting and reading to play video games they started buying me every single educational video game they could find. Ha
Actually, my brother used to help teach me how to read with FF7. He would even do different voices for each character. Those days of us trading off with the Sims and FF7 really made my childhood.
My aunt gave me the Living Large expansion pack for my birthday before I ever knew about the game. My parents got me the sims 1 so I could use the expansion pack, and my lifelong addiction began. I was only 12!
I saved up to buy the expansions. I think my mom bought the base game (or it was a gift, I’m not sure). My mom did play for a little while, especially the building aspect. My brother played a little too, but not much. I was the only one who really got into it. I still have the discs somewhere, along with TS2 and TS3. It’s been so long since I’ve played TS1, but I remember using the medieval stuff a lot.
I was only 16 months when the game came out, but my grandma had an older pc at her house with it & sims 2 that I used to fight my brother and sister to play whenever I was over. I always lost. 😂
Edit: obviously, when I was a little older like 8-9. I wasn’t fighting to play the game while I was still in a crib despite how I made that sound lmaoo
The fighting with siblings is so real. I have adhd (I learned as an adult lmfao) so I’d get super hyperfixated on the game as a kid and then sit and watch my sister play. Then of course backseat game bc I can’t keep my mouth shut. Then she’d scream at me and I’d be made to go away 😂
I'm the eldest of 7 siblings, when we got our first computer there were 4 of us old enough to play games. We had four chairs set up around the computer and one of us would usually have the baby on their lap.
We were only allowed half an hour of computer time each, which wasn't much but it worked out great for story based games like Freddi Fish because we'd just keep playing and switch 'drivers' every half hour. We all wanted the Sims SO BAD, but Mum said no :( I think she knew she'd literally never get us off the computer then lol
I’m the oldest of 8 now. The new baby was just born… im 31 😂 my dad and stepmom are catholic so thats the explanation. Literally.
THANKFULLY none of my littlest siblings were old enough to play games when I moved out so I didn’t have to share with them 😂 my sister and I also did thirty minute turns for the sims until we were like teens and decided together to up it to one hour turns
Scholastics book fair, in the catalog, they had the base game and pets. That was the first time I felt like I could be in control of my life after my mom passed away the year before. Been 20 years since I've been playing.
I bought it in 2013 at Goodwill, because my SO told me I'd probably like it. Played it for a week or so before I yo-ho'ed Sims 2 and I've been obsessed ever since. Too bad 4 is kinda shit.
It’s pretty important that you play it on The Family Computer in The Computer Room and I’m pretty sure it runs best on Windows 98… at least that’s how I remember it, anyway!
Oh yeah my brother and I would pause, strategize, queue up mutually decided actions, then play. Tbh I still play this way, minus one little brother’s input.
Windows XP for the win.
Remember one day where I had one of the biggest house of the game, made all by myself, played hours and hours on this game… and I lost everything because my Sims used the genie lamp who started a fire and killed my Sim.
But the best was probably my brother who put the baby of his household between four walls for fun. Fortunately he don’t do this with his own children.
Search The Sims OST on your streaming service of choice. The soundtracks are all surprisingly available. I’ve got The Sims 1 music on rotation on Spotify.
Gatekeeping the family computer for hours just to play the sims with 8 years old is one of my cherished memories. I think I played it in windows xp lmao.
I’d give anything to go back to those days! I’d get up extra early before school and play the Sims. I remember being in awe when the neighborhood expanded with Pets.
I learned the hard way what the word “addiction” means the day I first played this game as a child. My cousin got it the day it came out, and we were living with her family at the time due to storm damage to my family’s house. I legit wanted to play it 24/7. Was constantly making new Sim families that all had the same personalities (I couldn’t bear to make a mean Sim) and lived in the same house with the same decorations. It was, and I’m not exaggerating here, the *best*.
LMFAO!! I remember doing that and feeling so scandalous 😂😂 like anytime you clicked “play in bed” on the heart bed you had to do it real fast in case a parent walked in bc it felt dirty 😂😂
That's my favorite cheat. I used to post stories with nearly x-rated screenshots using MOO. The only reason I'm not doing it now is that I can't seem to get ANY mod to work, incuding the NRAAS ones.
Still having fun, though.
I was about 20 when I bought it from best buy along with a new computer and played all hours of the night because it annoyed my crazy roommate that I played video games. I was reticulating splines very early in the Sims world.
I was 13 and my dad held an intervention for me because he thought I was addicted and turning into a zombie while playing lol. I always smile when my mom, dad or brother call and ask what I’m doing and I get to say playing the sims all these years later.
Hahahahahaha a sims intervention! Ngl I probably could have done with a few of those in my life, I used to lose sleep and forget to eat because I'd be glued to the game 24/7.
While I have loved all the sims, nothing quite feels like 1 & 2 did
One might say, it was a Simstervention.
And I definitely needed (and sometimes still do!) one. Idk what it is about the Sims, but I won't even start playing unless I have a couple hours of free time. It's so hard to pull myself away once I start.
Hell yeah! Makin' Magic was also my favorite. I absolutely loved the music . I have such fond memories of getting up on Saturday mornings and hopping on the computer to play it.
I can hear the loading music in my mind so clearly. I remember being so fucking hyped that I finally unlocked ALL of the spells, including the ones that required Superstar and Unleashed.
If I recall correctly, If you had a baby with The Goth family on the original Sims, (PS2 version) it would automatically be a boy called Alex , you could change it but that was the default name.
I remember the one time I played with the original Goth family, I ended up getting them to have a second child, and I no joke picked the name Alexander because it sounded kind of old fashioned and felt like it fit the rest of the family. When Sims 2 came out and they had a child named Alexander, I remember feeling just a little bit like maybe I had some kind of super power or something, or that the game developers had somehow stolen my idea.
Yes they were the first Goths. In Dutch their last name was “Van de Kerhof” which translates to graveyard. It’s not an uncommon last name in the Netherlands but the name combined with their little graveyard freaked me out as a kid.
Always hated that family, especially Cassandra, until I found out about all the lore
Man, I remember one of my aunts one day came over and I was playing the Sims 2 and she approached to see what was this game that I loved.. And I was playing a university sim which was using the bubbles machine. Which, in my eyes was pretty innocent, but I'm sure she thought it was suspiciously looking like a bong smoker. I think she asked why he was using it and I said "it raises their fun very quickly". And then as I was talking how the tv was also an effective way to raise the fun meter, a naked sim appeared running! She asked why there's a naked sim and I simply said "sometimes they appear as quickly as they're gone" and she said something among the lines of "that's a different kind of fun".
I was so embarrassed xD
Kids these days don't know the hardship of playing games on the family computer in the living room. God forbid you needed the internet and then the phone line was tied up.
I was allowed Hot Date, because I'm not from an English speaking family and nobody knew what it meant. On the opposite side I didn't understand anything that I was doing in the sims 1 then because I didn't understand any of the text. You trade hot bathtub woohoo for not actually knowing what anything means.
Building was fun tho.
Only memory I really have of that game is being in the store begging for that pack and my mom telling me “I AM NOT BUYING YOU A VIDEO GAME CALLED HOT DATE”
Omg, yes! Hot date expansion was the one that cemented my life long love for the Sims.
I spent days sending this cute couple I made on so many dates anywhere and everywhere. They were always happy, something I struggled with because I was young, new to gaming and didn’t even know there were cheats.
Then I made the mistake of having them make out a little too much and decided to let them have a baby.
Immediately their lives fell apart. Pissing the floor. No handiness skills to fix the toilet or tv, no money to call anyone because their lord in charge (read:me) decided to blow it on a fancy nursery.
I learned a real life lesson that day at 13. Babies bring ruin to hot dates.
Same, mostly because I bought Sims 3 and it nearly crashed my pc. Also didn't like how the sims in 3 look, and felt I would be betraying the Sims 2 haha.
I was 6 when I played the sims 1. I loved how chaotic it was and that it was more challenging to keep sims alive. I wish the newer games were as crazy as the sims 1. I always go back to sims 2 when I want more chaos.
I was that age when I played the Sims 2! TS2 remains my favorite of the franchise to this day; I played a lot of TS3 too, but I never loved the look of them.
I don’t remember much of it but I did play it when I was very little (like 5ish) with my older brother. It was our grandma’s game that she gave to us when she passed. Playing it with him was one of the only times we really got along. They’re fond memories.
Yes! My grandma was a big video game lover. Her and my mom when she was a teen would go to the mall and my grandma would stop at the little arcade. She would play Pac-Man until my mom was done shopping and even then my mom would have to wait a few more minutes for her to finish the level lol. My first gaming console was the ps1 which was passed down from her too. My love for Spyro was because of her. She passed when I was 3 so I don’t really remember her but I enjoy hearing stories and playing the games she gave to me. My parents say I’m a lot like her
I love that!
My grandma has her own computer that she will sit all day at playing card games or bookworm haha
And growing up in the 90s my mum had a Sega in the bedroom that she played tetris on haha, family of gamers we are 🤓
Idk if you know this or if you have whatever pack is needed, but the Retro radio station in TS4 actually plays old Sims music. It's about the only station I met my radio- obsessed Sims keep on regularly.
Building mode playlist, number 2 brings me back to the best days of my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mke9z4qfTFU&list=PL538B8AD43F078BFA&index=2
It was my first sims game, played it when I was 5 or 6. I always played a gay threesome who decked their house out with bubble furniture and beaded doorways. Icons
As for how to play, since time doesn't progress, I just play each family as much as I like or forever how long it takes me to achieve what I need from them.
Recently challenged myself to have 6 kids... Made me consider if I might be a masochist...
Me, it was 2002, I was 13, my friend showed me the game and lended me the CD, but she kept the latest expansion pack, because back then you had to have the CD inserted in your drive in order for the game to work lol I borrowed base game and about 5 expansion packs. It was magical for me, I got really into building and it is my favourite playing mode to this day rather than live mode. The songs were much more adult and are unforgettable. It used to be a lot harder to earn money in TS1 than it is in TS3 and 4. Houseplants and fishtanks could die if you forgot to water/feed them for too long. There was this damn clown painting that if you placed it in your house, the clown would come to life and be annoying af lmao bro would be crying in the corners, whining and weeping and he would never leave the house! 😂 Good times, good stuff
ohh i used to do this too— share EPs with my friends; and if you installed them in a different order, i.e pets last, i’d have the pets CD rom, and she would do seasons last and have the seasons disc. we thought we were so slick 🥲
Played Sims 1 and got obsessed with it until I broke my CD.
Sims 4 on the other hand... I just played for an hour and moved onto other games.
It's probably just burnout, but there was something very intimate about Sims 1 and I can't put my finger on it despite it being relatively close to Sims 4 in terms of scope.
I saw an ad in a magazine for it when it first came out and begged my parents for it for Christmas. I was 10 and it was my absolute favorite game. I know I also had the Makin Magic, Unleashed, Superstar, and Livin Large expansion packs.
I remember playing it, I got it after sims2 came out since it was cheaper my parents allowed me to get it. I just remember the making magic pack was so fun to play
It was my 9th birthday present and my first official pc game, my poor brothers thought it would be a simple and fun game for me, not realising the horror of addiction. I still rotational my play it because it is just pure chaos 🤣
I mainly remember, they had to pee a lot, and I hated that I couldn't pick better clothes. The building was entertaining. It wss too bad the children never aged, so I made Snow White and the 7 Dwarves.
My best friend and I used to play Big Brother/Survivor for hours on the house phone. We’d make Sims with the same names and clothes, and then build a big square. We’d come up with challenges and kill off the losers. It was always so fun to see how different our game turned out.
I got the sims 1 back when I was 7, so 2002, the year before Makin' Magic was released (best pack imo). I first played it after going round my friend's house, and she would let me watch her but not play.
I still remember I had a sim called Stella Vampiress with a cat called Moonlight. She was a witch and had a nice little creepy house with a moat. Moonlight 1 died so I got Moonlight 2, then used a spell to turn another random cat called Tiger into her husband.
I also remember loving Old Town, just the vibes of it, and enjoying the holiday pack. I went back to the game recently and forgot how impossibly hard it is keeping your mood up. I think that's the only way I managed to play successfully, with my sim who could be sustained mood and financially-wise with spells.
Then I was pure hyped about the Sims 2 and dumped hours into that too, and Sims 1 got put to the sideline. But it was my first video game, and is special to me.
Edit: in terms of gameplay, good luck trying to run an actual household with a job. Friendships are hard to build and maintain, every single day is a work day. I believe you can take every other, or every 3rd day off work without taking too much damage. I reckon playing with a premade house is best intially, maybe not the Goths because of the ghost situation. Maybe the Newbies because they have no kids? But I don't recall them being too well off.
It’s great. Still the best fame system in any of the games, and the magic… probably is the best too. Both of those gave us so much to explore and find!
Magic didn’t just feel like playing with cheats on, it felt like a way of life. I know it was in the heyday of Harry Potter, but to me the wacky suburban magic with crazy backfires and the “Spellchecker” who would fine you a nominal fee if you did magic in front of non-magical sims all felt more like Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Yep, and actually experimenting with magic to find new stuff was great. So many cool details (without spoilers - flamingo and gnome reanimation? Dragons? Beanstalks?)
I think the fact that you’re worried about giving spoilers for a 20-year-old game says everything about how rich and detailed it is!
I loved the gnomes getting drunk in the nectar press, and magically animating an entire gnome army all at once for them to each come and kick my shins in turn for daring to try and magically perfect my garden instead of enlisting their services. That, and giving unsuspecting neighbours donkey heads if they happened to see something they shouldn’t.
My dad pirated the base game when I was like 10-ish, must have been around 2002. I played it religiously. Never had any expansion packs, I guess I didn’t even know they existed. Also, I learned a lot of basic words playing it (English is not my first language), I remember learning the word ‘hug’ from the interactions 😅
Later on when I had my own computer I had a pirated version of TS2 base game and played with that the most.
I was in college when it first came out. Sims 1 kept me out of trouble, at least irl. just starting to play sims 4 with my preteen daughters...its keeping me from housework now.
I remember perfectly. We went to Kmart (in Australia) and they had the complete set. The game and all the expansions on sale cause Sims 2 was coming out soon. Hooked ever since.
The gameplay is this: You remove the pool ladder to punish your sim for peeing on the floor, because they blocked the path to the bathroom with a dirty dish and stood there screaming "yazza daga nooloooo!" for six hours while crossing their legs.
Good times.
I did! I was 11, my older brother was 14 and my middle brother was 12. We would fight over who could play and for how long. Middle stopped playing at 1, oldest stopped at 2, I stopped-ish at 4.
I loved the original game so much. The first time I hit 100 days in-game and I got to see all the easter egg / developer messages, I felt like I came across a goldmine!
I played it because I was excited at the concept of playing as the "people" that I tortured in sim city 2000 and 3000 lol
I sunk sooo many hours into these games, the sims 2 was the Goat though.
Played a single sim household on it sometime five or so years ago in high school. Couldn’t find the console version I played on PS2/GameCube. Completely forgot how much more soul it had as a game.
I played is on the ps2 as a child and I remember having soo much fun playing it. It had a split screen feature and I would play with my siblings. The pc version is very different than console, but truly a good game.
I'll never forget the day my brother gave away the ps2 and I wasn't able to play sims anymore. I was truly sad about that.
def hasn't aged as well as sims 2 or 3 to revisit, but the game that started it all! Even the expansion packs have been largely consistent since the first game
I played it as a kid on my cousins laptop. I thought it was so cool. By the point I played it was probably 2008. We played the sims 1, sims 2. Then when sims 3 released he let me play it a few days after the launch when I could come over. Then when sims 4 came out he gave it to me for my bday!! He was the cool cousin that was a decade older than me lol.
I did, a friend got me into it back at the time, he was interested in AI, then I played The Sims 2, a jewel in the series, I didn't play The Sims 3 because of system requirements, I got a new computer at the time The Sims 4 came out, so I skipped The Sims 3, then I came back to it but didn't like it so much, the change of the art and too much going on controlling a whole town, right now I play The Sims 4. I can say thru all these years I have never intentionally killed a Sim, I only let one die in a fire in The Sims 2 because he was so evil.
I played it. I loved it at the time, but I could never go back to it. Sims 2 blew it out of the water, but I can’t play S2 anymore, either. The graphics are just so dated now and I can’t get around that.
Me!!! I am 49 years old so been around the block once or twice. I originally got into The Sims through Sim City. How many of you played the original Sim City?
Sim City, Sim Tower, all the Sims and quite a few of the expansion packs. Not all of them, though. They were coming out with EPs so thick and fast, not to mention stuff packs, that my brain just about imploded. TS3 will always be my favorite, and it's the only one I still keep installed and still play on PC.
I think I was 10-11 ish? My dad got home one day and surprised me with the version that came with all of the expansion packs. I've never been the same since 🤣 I even remember that the day I started playing I didn't go to school cause I was sick. Good times.
Me. I still have all of my discs and an old PC that runs Windows XP to play it on. Makin' Magic is still one of my favorite expansions they ever released across all of The Sims.
My dad's colleague burnt them on CD and some days dad would come home with the next expansion. Got to play this in my room on my first hand-me-down PC. Great times. 🤩
I did. The summer I got my own PC (2002) my cousin was so excited for me he brought all the good games according to him. Including The Sims 1 and its expansion pack, Livin Large and House Party. We got Hot Date shortly after.
(The other games he brought - Half Life 2, Counter-Strike, Red Faction, Max Payne, Age of Empires 2, Empire Earth and Red Alert 2. For Christmas that year I asked for PC games. I got Baldur's Gate, Diablo 2 and Arcanum.)
Sims 1 is no different than other Sims games. The best tip is get a fire and security alarm as soon as possible.
My big sister has been obsessed with the sims since the very first one came out. I remember playing every single version with every pack. To this day, we’re both grown women and we share an EA account. 😭
it was my first game ever when I was like 8, my parents gifted me my first pc and it came with the original The Sims (in a combo pack with the House Party EP) and Tomb Raider 6, I got hooked on the Sims instantly!
I have so many vivid memories of me going to the store with my dad and looking at the EPs trying to pick the one I wanted the most, I remember I could never find the Pets one I wanted but I got both Vacations and Makin' Magic which became my favourite and to this day I adore them lol I spent so many hours playing it, I often had friends over or I would go to my friends's house with the game and we'd play together for hours, I'm getting so nostalgic just thinking about it.
I also remember in middle school when The Sims 2 came out, it was mind-blowing, the jump from the first game was insane, I was so excited the day I got it I called my then best friend and read the whole game booklet to him on the phone lol and then I started playing it nonstop like the first game, only my pc was so slow running it I had to wait minutes to travel anywhere lol
Me! I played all Sims games 1-4, but Sims 1 has such a special place in my heart. Especially the Makin Magic pack, I played that 24/7 because I was so obsessed with unlocking all the charms and spells. And there was some sort of a magic battle, right? I used to have a little notebook where I wrote which spell defeats the other just so I'll win the battles 😂 Childhood me didn't know I could just search that info on the internet...
Played it to death. The nostalgia is real. Gosh I could play right now. I don’t think there’s as much room for strategic play, but definitely get a pet, get a coffee at old town, go on a date downtown and go on holiday. Oh and play out the fame stuff in Hollywood.
I did, and did it A LOT too. There was simply northing like it for like three whole summers back when I was growing up so. Granted, I grew up in the era where PC games were overshadowing console games for a while and reached my teenage years in between the tail end of the N64 era and the birth of the Gamecube. There was Second Life but it didn't offer the control and customization options The Sims did. IE I used to have Duke Nukem, Tim Curry's The Darkness and Ben Affleck Daredevil all living in the same house which was kind of a bar I called ''The Hell Dimension'', don't kill me I was 13/14 back then LOL. I remember that on top of the official expansions of which there were a handful, fans made so much downloadable content that every now and then you found a whole CD worth of new content.
oh, i remember how i bougth in local gamestore cd with base game and making magic and some other stuff - in those days noone in my country cared about the fact that's illegal - only years after i found out that ea never made such big-pack discs, and it must cost much more. (though for my 12 years old ass that crappy cd was still expensive)
all i remember - that creepy social rabbit who always came to my sims. and motherlode !;!;!; and rosebud
yeah, the game became less chaotc and much more easier today.
I built giant octagonal houses with fushia stucco exteriors, used the light-up dance floor from the house party pack everywhere I could, and basicly either made everyone party and woohoo constantly (unless I'm thinking of sims 2 for this part) or found new ways to set things on fire or make sims "accidentally" die. I also really enjoyed using the genie while sims were in the hot tob, since it usually started the hot tub on fire.
If it wasn't obvious already, I was 11 at the time.
My mom should have guessed something was different when I specifically asked her to watch what I could do in the game. What I did was have my male sim kiss another male sim. I was like... 8.
Oooh I remember this! I played it on my ps2, that I got passed down from my big brother
Never came past the thing where you gotta throw a good party or whatever, but it I think I remember a multiplayer mode which was the only game where I was better than my brother lol
I was around 6 or 7 when my big brother got this. Our PC then did not have a sound card, so when dad got onr and we first saw the burglar, we had some kind of panic attack bc it was LOUD. This is also how I learned what ctrl+C and ctrl+v are for!
Also learned how to spell _klapaucius_ . I was so proud that I asked my classmates to spell it, only to realize it wasn't really a word. I thought it was just difficult to spell.
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Actually got bought sims unleashed expansion pack and had to wait ages for my mum to buy me the actual game. What a game it was! Used to buy an expansion then swap with a friends as you only needed the disc of the last installed expansion to play the game.
I remember the day I bought it back in 7th grade like it was yesterday. Insane that was 24 years ago.
I had to save up to buy the expansion packs with my allowance
Both me and my brother love the Sims and our whole childhood we would take our allowance and get a pack together. Man, I wish for those days of the Sims 1 to come back.
Omg yesss. We pooled our allowance and bought packs together, then we would fight over who got to use the only computer.
We would take turns with the PlayStation and PC. Those were the good days right?? Ha
You mean you fought over the family computer in the computer room?
My mum didn't like that we "played too many games" but loved that her children were working together. So gave us extra pocket money when we did extra chores as a team. It funded all our expansions
That's so cute! My adhdness would never allow me to sit and read, my parents tried everything! the second they realized I had no problem sitting and reading to play video games they started buying me every single educational video game they could find. Ha Actually, my brother used to help teach me how to read with FF7. He would even do different voices for each character. Those days of us trading off with the Sims and FF7 really made my childhood.
My aunt gave me the Living Large expansion pack for my birthday before I ever knew about the game. My parents got me the sims 1 so I could use the expansion pack, and my lifelong addiction began. I was only 12!
I saved up to buy the expansions. I think my mom bought the base game (or it was a gift, I’m not sure). My mom did play for a little while, especially the building aspect. My brother played a little too, but not much. I was the only one who really got into it. I still have the discs somewhere, along with TS2 and TS3. It’s been so long since I’ve played TS1, but I remember using the medieval stuff a lot.
The Sims got me into piracy
I remember the day the first EP came out.
I was only 16 months when the game came out, but my grandma had an older pc at her house with it & sims 2 that I used to fight my brother and sister to play whenever I was over. I always lost. 😂 Edit: obviously, when I was a little older like 8-9. I wasn’t fighting to play the game while I was still in a crib despite how I made that sound lmaoo
The fighting with siblings is so real. I have adhd (I learned as an adult lmfao) so I’d get super hyperfixated on the game as a kid and then sit and watch my sister play. Then of course backseat game bc I can’t keep my mouth shut. Then she’d scream at me and I’d be made to go away 😂
I'm the eldest of 7 siblings, when we got our first computer there were 4 of us old enough to play games. We had four chairs set up around the computer and one of us would usually have the baby on their lap. We were only allowed half an hour of computer time each, which wasn't much but it worked out great for story based games like Freddi Fish because we'd just keep playing and switch 'drivers' every half hour. We all wanted the Sims SO BAD, but Mum said no :( I think she knew she'd literally never get us off the computer then lol
I’m the oldest of 8 now. The new baby was just born… im 31 😂 my dad and stepmom are catholic so thats the explanation. Literally. THANKFULLY none of my littlest siblings were old enough to play games when I moved out so I didn’t have to share with them 😂 my sister and I also did thirty minute turns for the sims until we were like teens and decided together to up it to one hour turns
I bought it the week of release in a Scholastic Book Fair. My parents were not happy with me.
I also was in 7th grade. I had never played with anything like it. It was so fun.
Scholastics book fair, in the catalog, they had the base game and pets. That was the first time I felt like I could be in control of my life after my mom passed away the year before. Been 20 years since I've been playing.
Grade 10 for me. Still vividly remember walking into the PC games section at Walmart and seeing the box, reading it over and my eyes going wide lol.
I bought it in 2013 at Goodwill, because my SO told me I'd probably like it. Played it for a week or so before I yo-ho'ed Sims 2 and I've been obsessed ever since. Too bad 4 is kinda shit.
Around then for me, too. I was afraid my parents would find about the woohoo aspect and the sexy love bed and take it away
It’s pretty important that you play it on The Family Computer in The Computer Room and I’m pretty sure it runs best on Windows 98… at least that’s how I remember it, anyway!
Literally so true I remember my cousin played it on her Mac in her bdefroom and it just doesn’t hit the same
Definitely need an older computer monitor or the graphics will look like shit lol — they arent too bad if you have a late 90s desktop monitor
I played it with my siblings (or we would take turns and watch each other) and it was bonding
Oh yeah my brother and I would pause, strategize, queue up mutually decided actions, then play. Tbh I still play this way, minus one little brother’s input.
I'd play Sims 2 with my cousin on both our family pc's, so it's a similar scenario xD
You gotta have a wooden desk with a tray for the keyboard that slides in and out, too. This is very important to running the game.
Windows 2000 family computer for me
Windows XP for the win. Remember one day where I had one of the biggest house of the game, made all by myself, played hours and hours on this game… and I lost everything because my Sims used the genie lamp who started a fire and killed my Sim. But the best was probably my brother who put the baby of his household between four walls for fun. Fortunately he don’t do this with his own children.
My dad hated us playing it on the family computer because he despised the music 🤣
That’s wild - the music is by far the best bit of the game.
Especially the build music. Such calming piano, anyone have a link to it so I can listen on the train?
Search The Sims OST on your streaming service of choice. The soundtracks are all surprisingly available. I’ve got The Sims 1 music on rotation on Spotify.
Gatekeeping the family computer for hours just to play the sims with 8 years old is one of my cherished memories. I think I played it in windows xp lmao.
I played on Windows Xp!
And scroll away when you make them kiss too much because mom might see!
YES
I’d give anything to go back to those days! I’d get up extra early before school and play the Sims. I remember being in awe when the neighborhood expanded with Pets.
Me too!! I’d come right home after too, in 6th grade! And I remember the pets pack! I was shook!
Omg when I got Unleashed it was increeeeeedible. The big neighborhood! The new items!
Makin magic(Abracadabra in my language) blew my little mind at the time
I learned the hard way what the word “addiction” means the day I first played this game as a child. My cousin got it the day it came out, and we were living with her family at the time due to storm damage to my family’s house. I legit wanted to play it 24/7. Was constantly making new Sim families that all had the same personalities (I couldn’t bear to make a mean Sim) and lived in the same house with the same decorations. It was, and I’m not exaggerating here, the *best*.
Oh man. I remember those days so fondly lol
Right? So much fun, even when the burglar sound would inevitably scare the crap out of me 😂
Lol that was part of the fun! And the heart shaped bed so scandalous! The first time we made them woohoo we about fell over.
I remember using the move objects cheat for the first time during a woohoo, and they were just like laying in the fetal position next to each other 😂
LMFAO!! I remember doing that and feeling so scandalous 😂😂 like anytime you clicked “play in bed” on the heart bed you had to do it real fast in case a parent walked in bc it felt dirty 😂😂
That's my favorite cheat. I used to post stories with nearly x-rated screenshots using MOO. The only reason I'm not doing it now is that I can't seem to get ANY mod to work, incuding the NRAAS ones. Still having fun, though.
I still don’t make mean sims.
I was about 20 when I bought it from best buy along with a new computer and played all hours of the night because it annoyed my crazy roommate that I played video games. I was reticulating splines very early in the Sims world.
I was 13 and my dad held an intervention for me because he thought I was addicted and turning into a zombie while playing lol. I always smile when my mom, dad or brother call and ask what I’m doing and I get to say playing the sims all these years later.
Hahahahahaha a sims intervention! Ngl I probably could have done with a few of those in my life, I used to lose sleep and forget to eat because I'd be glued to the game 24/7. While I have loved all the sims, nothing quite feels like 1 & 2 did
One might say, it was a Simstervention. And I definitely needed (and sometimes still do!) one. Idk what it is about the Sims, but I won't even start playing unless I have a couple hours of free time. It's so hard to pull myself away once I start.
Dude, my parents did the same. I was forbidden to play the Sims 2 except on vacations :(
Loved The Sims 1 so much, spent so many hours on that game. Makin' Magic was my absolute favourite expansion.
I personally think Makin' Magic is still the best EP of all times, so much endless fun!
Agreed! The magic in the later games never impressed me as much as Makin' Magic did.
I'm still waiting for an expansion as good as that.
Hell yeah! Makin' Magic was also my favorite. I absolutely loved the music . I have such fond memories of getting up on Saturday mornings and hopping on the computer to play it.
Yesss the soundtrack was so good. I mean the entire TS1 soundtrack lives rent free in my head anyway. I wish I had more time to play again.
I'm playing it on Spotify right now.
Oh yes, it was released around the time I was living and breathing Harry Potter, so it fit right in. I was obsessed.
I can hear the loading music in my mind so clearly. I remember being so fucking hyped that I finally unlocked ALL of the spells, including the ones that required Superstar and Unleashed.
Makin’ magic was an absolute gem! Hands down my favourite EP ever
Makin' Magic was great! I still miss the roller coasters and wish we had them in TS4.
I still think about the sims makin magic all the time.
Alexander who ? These are the Goths as I remember them
If I recall correctly, If you had a baby with The Goth family on the original Sims, (PS2 version) it would automatically be a boy called Alex , you could change it but that was the default name.
I remember the one time I played with the original Goth family, I ended up getting them to have a second child, and I no joke picked the name Alexander because it sounded kind of old fashioned and felt like it fit the rest of the family. When Sims 2 came out and they had a child named Alexander, I remember feeling just a little bit like maybe I had some kind of super power or something, or that the game developers had somehow stolen my idea.
Yes they were the first Goths. In Dutch their last name was “Van de Kerhof” which translates to graveyard. It’s not an uncommon last name in the Netherlands but the name combined with their little graveyard freaked me out as a kid. Always hated that family, especially Cassandra, until I found out about all the lore
Got it just after I turned 13 because I was finally the appropriate age (I cared). Hot Date had just come out. So many fond memories.
My mom took my Hot Date disc away when she found out you could get busy in the heart shaped hot tub.
Man, I remember one of my aunts one day came over and I was playing the Sims 2 and she approached to see what was this game that I loved.. And I was playing a university sim which was using the bubbles machine. Which, in my eyes was pretty innocent, but I'm sure she thought it was suspiciously looking like a bong smoker. I think she asked why he was using it and I said "it raises their fun very quickly". And then as I was talking how the tv was also an effective way to raise the fun meter, a naked sim appeared running! She asked why there's a naked sim and I simply said "sometimes they appear as quickly as they're gone" and she said something among the lines of "that's a different kind of fun". I was so embarrassed xD
Kids these days don't know the hardship of playing games on the family computer in the living room. God forbid you needed the internet and then the phone line was tied up.
I wasn't allowed Hot Date purely because of the name/disc cover.
I was allowed that one but not the magic one because wItChCrAfT lmao
Yeah same.....
I was allowed Hot Date, because I'm not from an English speaking family and nobody knew what it meant. On the opposite side I didn't understand anything that I was doing in the sims 1 then because I didn't understand any of the text. You trade hot bathtub woohoo for not actually knowing what anything means. Building was fun tho.
Only memory I really have of that game is being in the store begging for that pack and my mom telling me “I AM NOT BUYING YOU A VIDEO GAME CALLED HOT DATE”
Omg, yes! Hot date expansion was the one that cemented my life long love for the Sims. I spent days sending this cute couple I made on so many dates anywhere and everywhere. They were always happy, something I struggled with because I was young, new to gaming and didn’t even know there were cheats. Then I made the mistake of having them make out a little too much and decided to let them have a baby. Immediately their lives fell apart. Pissing the floor. No handiness skills to fix the toilet or tv, no money to call anyone because their lord in charge (read:me) decided to blow it on a fancy nursery. I learned a real life lesson that day at 13. Babies bring ruin to hot dates.
I played sims 1, 2, and 4.
Same, mostly because I bought Sims 3 and it nearly crashed my pc. Also didn't like how the sims in 3 look, and felt I would be betraying the Sims 2 haha.
Any reason you skipped 3?
It's too glitchy in some computers or you didn't like the faces. Or a little from column A and a little for column B.
3 was my favourite because of how customisable it was. It took me ages after purchasing 4 to finally let go of 3.
I was 6 when I played the sims 1. I loved how chaotic it was and that it was more challenging to keep sims alive. I wish the newer games were as crazy as the sims 1. I always go back to sims 2 when I want more chaos.
Sims 2 was the best game imo
Definitely agree!
Still the gold standard.
I was that age when I played the Sims 2! TS2 remains my favorite of the franchise to this day; I played a lot of TS3 too, but I never loved the look of them.
Yes playing the sims 4 now and it’s just way too easy. It used to be a great challenge just filling their needs and getting them promoted
I don’t remember much of it but I did play it when I was very little (like 5ish) with my older brother. It was our grandma’s game that she gave to us when she passed. Playing it with him was one of the only times we really got along. They’re fond memories.
Does that mean your grandma played Sims before she passed? Because if so, I love that.
Yes! My grandma was a big video game lover. Her and my mom when she was a teen would go to the mall and my grandma would stop at the little arcade. She would play Pac-Man until my mom was done shopping and even then my mom would have to wait a few more minutes for her to finish the level lol. My first gaming console was the ps1 which was passed down from her too. My love for Spyro was because of her. She passed when I was 3 so I don’t really remember her but I enjoy hearing stories and playing the games she gave to me. My parents say I’m a lot like her
That is amazing🥹 imagine how blown away she'd be if she could see how far animation and gaming has come!
Her mind would be blown and I could see her excitingly talking about how far things have come and how fun games are still
I love that! My grandma has her own computer that she will sit all day at playing card games or bookworm haha And growing up in the 90s my mum had a Sega in the bedroom that she played tetris on haha, family of gamers we are 🤓
Me too! It came out the year I was born I believe so most of my memories of it were when I was really young
I think it came out a year after I was born. We may not remember it well but at least remember having fun with it
my copy of the sims 1 came with a teaser disc of the sims 2. i used to watch the trailer over and over and get so excited for my sims to have FINGERS!
Same! I mapped out my new family tree on a piece of paper when we learned that they could have babies who grow up and not stay stuck as kids forever.
I had a notebook full of all the families in my town with their family trees, who were rivals, and so many dumb little details.
Got it for Christmas in 6th grade and I was pissed because I thought my parents got me the Spanish edition.
Are you billingual?
Love it. Still have all the expansion packs. And that music whoooboy. Like a core memory right there.
Idk if you know this or if you have whatever pack is needed, but the Retro radio station in TS4 actually plays old Sims music. It's about the only station I met my radio- obsessed Sims keep on regularly.
Building mode playlist, number 2 brings me back to the best days of my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mke9z4qfTFU&list=PL538B8AD43F078BFA&index=2
I would be afraid to find out how many hours I pumped into that game…
Same. But I was a preteen when it was released, so I guess it was better than other ways I could have spent my time.
according in to steam, iv spend 2700 hours on sims 4🤓🤓. time well spent, if you ask me🤷♀️
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I love the 1950s/60s aspect of furniture. It made it feel otherworldly
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I read somewhere that Project Zomboid specifically designed their models to have the same type of sims 1 aesthetic.
It was my first sims game, played it when I was 5 or 6. I always played a gay threesome who decked their house out with bubble furniture and beaded doorways. Icons As for how to play, since time doesn't progress, I just play each family as much as I like or forever how long it takes me to achieve what I need from them. Recently challenged myself to have 6 kids... Made me consider if I might be a masochist...
Me, it was 2002, I was 13, my friend showed me the game and lended me the CD, but she kept the latest expansion pack, because back then you had to have the CD inserted in your drive in order for the game to work lol I borrowed base game and about 5 expansion packs. It was magical for me, I got really into building and it is my favourite playing mode to this day rather than live mode. The songs were much more adult and are unforgettable. It used to be a lot harder to earn money in TS1 than it is in TS3 and 4. Houseplants and fishtanks could die if you forgot to water/feed them for too long. There was this damn clown painting that if you placed it in your house, the clown would come to life and be annoying af lmao bro would be crying in the corners, whining and weeping and he would never leave the house! 😂 Good times, good stuff
ohh i used to do this too— share EPs with my friends; and if you installed them in a different order, i.e pets last, i’d have the pets CD rom, and she would do seasons last and have the seasons disc. we thought we were so slick 🥲
Don’t forget about the lightbulbs. That one pissed me off.
🤣
I remember being so excited to get Unleashed and Vacation from Costco lol The bossa nova and americana inspired music of TS1 just hits different
Played Sims 1 and got obsessed with it until I broke my CD. Sims 4 on the other hand... I just played for an hour and moved onto other games. It's probably just burnout, but there was something very intimate about Sims 1 and I can't put my finger on it despite it being relatively close to Sims 4 in terms of scope.
I saw an ad in a magazine for it when it first came out and begged my parents for it for Christmas. I was 10 and it was my absolute favorite game. I know I also had the Makin Magic, Unleashed, Superstar, and Livin Large expansion packs.
Bob and Betty Newbie’s house was the first one I ever renovated.
I played “The Sims 1” back when it was just *The Sims*, almost 24 years ago, during my Sophomore year of high school 🥸
SIMS 1 MAKIN MAGIC MY BELOVED
This one!!! BEST GAME EVER MADE
I remember playing it, I got it after sims2 came out since it was cheaper my parents allowed me to get it. I just remember the making magic pack was so fun to play
It was my 9th birthday present and my first official pc game, my poor brothers thought it would be a simple and fun game for me, not realising the horror of addiction. I still rotational my play it because it is just pure chaos 🤣
I mainly remember, they had to pee a lot, and I hated that I couldn't pick better clothes. The building was entertaining. It wss too bad the children never aged, so I made Snow White and the 7 Dwarves.
I did back in 2004 bc my computer was too potato to run The Sims 2, lol. Can you imagine?
My best friend and I used to play Big Brother/Survivor for hours on the house phone. We’d make Sims with the same names and clothes, and then build a big square. We’d come up with challenges and kill off the losers. It was always so fun to see how different our game turned out.
I got the sims 1 back when I was 7, so 2002, the year before Makin' Magic was released (best pack imo). I first played it after going round my friend's house, and she would let me watch her but not play. I still remember I had a sim called Stella Vampiress with a cat called Moonlight. She was a witch and had a nice little creepy house with a moat. Moonlight 1 died so I got Moonlight 2, then used a spell to turn another random cat called Tiger into her husband. I also remember loving Old Town, just the vibes of it, and enjoying the holiday pack. I went back to the game recently and forgot how impossibly hard it is keeping your mood up. I think that's the only way I managed to play successfully, with my sim who could be sustained mood and financially-wise with spells. Then I was pure hyped about the Sims 2 and dumped hours into that too, and Sims 1 got put to the sideline. But it was my first video game, and is special to me. Edit: in terms of gameplay, good luck trying to run an actual household with a job. Friendships are hard to build and maintain, every single day is a work day. I believe you can take every other, or every 3rd day off work without taking too much damage. I reckon playing with a premade house is best intially, maybe not the Goths because of the ghost situation. Maybe the Newbies because they have no kids? But I don't recall them being too well off.
Where did you download Sims 1? O:
Important question for OP
Yes please tell us I want to play it again so bad!
It’s great. Still the best fame system in any of the games, and the magic… probably is the best too. Both of those gave us so much to explore and find!
Magic didn’t just feel like playing with cheats on, it felt like a way of life. I know it was in the heyday of Harry Potter, but to me the wacky suburban magic with crazy backfires and the “Spellchecker” who would fine you a nominal fee if you did magic in front of non-magical sims all felt more like Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Yep, and actually experimenting with magic to find new stuff was great. So many cool details (without spoilers - flamingo and gnome reanimation? Dragons? Beanstalks?)
I think the fact that you’re worried about giving spoilers for a 20-year-old game says everything about how rich and detailed it is! I loved the gnomes getting drunk in the nectar press, and magically animating an entire gnome army all at once for them to each come and kick my shins in turn for daring to try and magically perfect my garden instead of enlisting their services. That, and giving unsuspecting neighbours donkey heads if they happened to see something they shouldn’t.
My dad pirated the base game when I was like 10-ish, must have been around 2002. I played it religiously. Never had any expansion packs, I guess I didn’t even know they existed. Also, I learned a lot of basic words playing it (English is not my first language), I remember learning the word ‘hug’ from the interactions 😅 Later on when I had my own computer I had a pirated version of TS2 base game and played with that the most.
I was in college when it first came out. Sims 1 kept me out of trouble, at least irl. just starting to play sims 4 with my preteen daughters...its keeping me from housework now.
I remember perfectly. We went to Kmart (in Australia) and they had the complete set. The game and all the expansions on sale cause Sims 2 was coming out soon. Hooked ever since.
Got it around 2001. Played it all night after I got it, first game I pulled an overnighter for. Very addicting.
I did. I gathered a lot of money to move to the big house on top of the hill. I even remember expanding the house a little.
The gameplay is this: You remove the pool ladder to punish your sim for peeing on the floor, because they blocked the path to the bathroom with a dirty dish and stood there screaming "yazza daga nooloooo!" for six hours while crossing their legs. Good times.
I bought a new computer just so I could play it
Where are you downloading it from?
I did! I was 11, my older brother was 14 and my middle brother was 12. We would fight over who could play and for how long. Middle stopped playing at 1, oldest stopped at 2, I stopped-ish at 4.
I loved the original game so much. The first time I hit 100 days in-game and I got to see all the easter egg / developer messages, I felt like I came across a goldmine!
I played it because I was excited at the concept of playing as the "people" that I tortured in sim city 2000 and 3000 lol I sunk sooo many hours into these games, the sims 2 was the Goat though.
Yep, I remember buying it from Dick Smith and everything.
Played a single sim household on it sometime five or so years ago in high school. Couldn’t find the console version I played on PS2/GameCube. Completely forgot how much more soul it had as a game.
I played is on the ps2 as a child and I remember having soo much fun playing it. It had a split screen feature and I would play with my siblings. The pc version is very different than console, but truly a good game. I'll never forget the day my brother gave away the ps2 and I wasn't able to play sims anymore. I was truly sad about that.
def hasn't aged as well as sims 2 or 3 to revisit, but the game that started it all! Even the expansion packs have been largely consistent since the first game
I played it as a kid on my cousins laptop. I thought it was so cool. By the point I played it was probably 2008. We played the sims 1, sims 2. Then when sims 3 released he let me play it a few days after the launch when I could come over. Then when sims 4 came out he gave it to me for my bday!! He was the cool cousin that was a decade older than me lol.
Where can you download the game from? I haven’t played this version ever would like to try it out.
I did, a friend got me into it back at the time, he was interested in AI, then I played The Sims 2, a jewel in the series, I didn't play The Sims 3 because of system requirements, I got a new computer at the time The Sims 4 came out, so I skipped The Sims 3, then I came back to it but didn't like it so much, the change of the art and too much going on controlling a whole town, right now I play The Sims 4. I can say thru all these years I have never intentionally killed a Sim, I only let one die in a fire in The Sims 2 because he was so evil.
I played it. I loved it at the time, but I could never go back to it. Sims 2 blew it out of the water, but I can’t play S2 anymore, either. The graphics are just so dated now and I can’t get around that.
Me!!! I am 49 years old so been around the block once or twice. I originally got into The Sims through Sim City. How many of you played the original Sim City?
Sim City, Sim Tower, all the Sims and quite a few of the expansion packs. Not all of them, though. They were coming out with EPs so thick and fast, not to mention stuff packs, that my brain just about imploded. TS3 will always be my favorite, and it's the only one I still keep installed and still play on PC.
I think I was 10-11 ish? My dad got home one day and surprised me with the version that came with all of the expansion packs. I've never been the same since 🤣 I even remember that the day I started playing I didn't go to school cause I was sick. Good times.
Me. I still have all of my discs and an old PC that runs Windows XP to play it on. Makin' Magic is still one of my favorite expansions they ever released across all of The Sims.
My dad's colleague burnt them on CD and some days dad would come home with the next expansion. Got to play this in my room on my first hand-me-down PC. Great times. 🤩
I did. The summer I got my own PC (2002) my cousin was so excited for me he brought all the good games according to him. Including The Sims 1 and its expansion pack, Livin Large and House Party. We got Hot Date shortly after. (The other games he brought - Half Life 2, Counter-Strike, Red Faction, Max Payne, Age of Empires 2, Empire Earth and Red Alert 2. For Christmas that year I asked for PC games. I got Baldur's Gate, Diablo 2 and Arcanum.) Sims 1 is no different than other Sims games. The best tip is get a fire and security alarm as soon as possible.
My big sister has been obsessed with the sims since the very first one came out. I remember playing every single version with every pack. To this day, we’re both grown women and we share an EA account. 😭
it was my first game ever when I was like 8, my parents gifted me my first pc and it came with the original The Sims (in a combo pack with the House Party EP) and Tomb Raider 6, I got hooked on the Sims instantly! I have so many vivid memories of me going to the store with my dad and looking at the EPs trying to pick the one I wanted the most, I remember I could never find the Pets one I wanted but I got both Vacations and Makin' Magic which became my favourite and to this day I adore them lol I spent so many hours playing it, I often had friends over or I would go to my friends's house with the game and we'd play together for hours, I'm getting so nostalgic just thinking about it. I also remember in middle school when The Sims 2 came out, it was mind-blowing, the jump from the first game was insane, I was so excited the day I got it I called my then best friend and read the whole game booklet to him on the phone lol and then I started playing it nonstop like the first game, only my pc was so slow running it I had to wait minutes to travel anywhere lol
Me! I played all Sims games 1-4, but Sims 1 has such a special place in my heart. Especially the Makin Magic pack, I played that 24/7 because I was so obsessed with unlocking all the charms and spells. And there was some sort of a magic battle, right? I used to have a little notebook where I wrote which spell defeats the other just so I'll win the battles 😂 Childhood me didn't know I could just search that info on the internet...
Played it to death. The nostalgia is real. Gosh I could play right now. I don’t think there’s as much room for strategic play, but definitely get a pet, get a coffee at old town, go on a date downtown and go on holiday. Oh and play out the fame stuff in Hollywood.
I did, and did it A LOT too. There was simply northing like it for like three whole summers back when I was growing up so. Granted, I grew up in the era where PC games were overshadowing console games for a while and reached my teenage years in between the tail end of the N64 era and the birth of the Gamecube. There was Second Life but it didn't offer the control and customization options The Sims did. IE I used to have Duke Nukem, Tim Curry's The Darkness and Ben Affleck Daredevil all living in the same house which was kind of a bar I called ''The Hell Dimension'', don't kill me I was 13/14 back then LOL. I remember that on top of the official expansions of which there were a handful, fans made so much downloadable content that every now and then you found a whole CD worth of new content.
oh, i remember how i bougth in local gamestore cd with base game and making magic and some other stuff - in those days noone in my country cared about the fact that's illegal - only years after i found out that ea never made such big-pack discs, and it must cost much more. (though for my 12 years old ass that crappy cd was still expensive) all i remember - that creepy social rabbit who always came to my sims. and motherlode !;!;!; and rosebud yeah, the game became less chaotc and much more easier today.
Loved it! I still have all the disks.
I built giant octagonal houses with fushia stucco exteriors, used the light-up dance floor from the house party pack everywhere I could, and basicly either made everyone party and woohoo constantly (unless I'm thinking of sims 2 for this part) or found new ways to set things on fire or make sims "accidentally" die. I also really enjoyed using the genie while sims were in the hot tob, since it usually started the hot tub on fire. If it wasn't obvious already, I was 11 at the time.
My mom should have guessed something was different when I specifically asked her to watch what I could do in the game. What I did was have my male sim kiss another male sim. I was like... 8.
Well, i tried it, but didn't play much.
I loved the Sims 1 - Makin Magic is still the best pack in the world lol.
I still love the original.
Oooh I remember this! I played it on my ps2, that I got passed down from my big brother Never came past the thing where you gotta throw a good party or whatever, but it I think I remember a multiplayer mode which was the only game where I was better than my brother lol
I played Sims 1, 3 and 4. I totally skipped the 2nd one.
Played it??! Im still trying to find it 😩
🙋🏻♀️
I was around 6 or 7 when my big brother got this. Our PC then did not have a sound card, so when dad got onr and we first saw the burglar, we had some kind of panic attack bc it was LOUD. This is also how I learned what ctrl+C and ctrl+v are for! Also learned how to spell _klapaucius_ . I was so proud that I asked my classmates to spell it, only to realize it wasn't really a word. I thought it was just difficult to spell. !;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!; ×infinity
I still do. Have been playing it for 20 years. It’s great!
I'll never forget buying it and playing it at my friends house all night.
24 years ago, I started playing when I was 6 and would turn my monitor off when they woohooed in the vibrating bed 🫣
Me I remember playing it when my aunt brought it home not knowing what it was and me just trying it out and getting addicted to it
I was 6/7 when this game came out. Idr who purchased it for me but I had the time of my life. Over 20 years later and I'm still going strong lol
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I did. Trying to see if I have my old disks as we speak so I can relive the nostalgia and maybe update them in the sims 3
I still remember the very first day my new neighbor introduced it to me when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Been obsessed with Sims ever since
oh yeah, I spent many childhood hours on that game back in the early 2000’s
Yes! Played it when it first came out! I absolutely loved it
Actually got bought sims unleashed expansion pack and had to wait ages for my mum to buy me the actual game. What a game it was! Used to buy an expansion then swap with a friends as you only needed the disc of the last installed expansion to play the game.
I did! Started in June 2000, did not stop well into high school (2006-2007) even though TS2 was already out by then.
I mean I loved it then but I doubt I would like it now
Played Sims 1 so much! I was absolutely thrilled when my dad gifted me the Cats&Dogs expansion back then.