I first learned about Berber because of this game, and as an adult, I made sure it never touched my floors! That said, the woohoo vibrating bed absolutely needs to make a comeback.
I definitely disliked it in the late 1990s, but I unironically liked it at first in Microsoft Comic Chat. I knew it had its place... the thing that really made it a meme was people just using it in the most wildly inappropriate places. My name is printed in red Comic Sans on my Engineering degree. 🤮
One of the first games I ever played. The loading times where abysmal, but the music from building and buying mode is positively lodged into my brain now 😌 so many good memories!
Bittersweet. I've gotten my fair share of enjoyment out of The Sims but also hate how it became almost the exclusive focus of Maxis, effectively ending all the Sims offshoot games and relegating even SimCity to a secondary interest it couldn't evolve from properly.
I'm happy to report that this game can be patched to widescreen and played on Windows 11. How I know this? Because I love the first Sims ever since I got it in Dec 2000.
My wife who was my gf during this time played sims like crazy until her character caught fire cooking. It was walking around and everything started burning and the whole time making that sound they used to do. She never played again…
True story!
What pushes me away from the most modern Sims games is the speed of things. I feel The Sims 1 and 2 was more like a video game where 3 and 4 are slow and more like a gallery of reactions or "lets interact and see what happens".
This is the first game I ever played on a PC! A friend I was staying the night with was playing, and asked if I wanted to add to her house + taught me the basics.
My girlfriend at the time (we were 13) would be playing this all the time and when I would come over and hang out , she would show me and her having a life together and asking me to help make decisions lol
Meanwhile your family friend has recreated your family and is forcing them all to dive in a pool without an exit. Then watching... cackling and looking at your face. She's now a lawyer.
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Wooowwoowwooowwooow 😞
Top 10 "video game" soundtracks on this bad boy IMO
Amazing game btw
Sims Social was even better!!!
Gods but I miss Sims Social
True story!