I knew The Sims 3 was on the way, before it had been released.
The game went on to have its own set of expansion packs, and stuff packs which I diligently bought, and I never lost my interest in the game despite the fact things were happening in my own life. The Sims 2 was so different from the first game, better in some places and such a revolutionary game in how genetics worked when sims had babies. Most simmers couldn’t afford the space to keep both games on their PC, but I made it work, having invested well, into a computer that could run both.
When the second game was released in 2004 I went and bought that one too, but unlike most simmers, I kept the original game and played the new one as well. Over many months and subsequent years, I would escape into the world of The Sims buying up expansion after expansion and living out the lives of these little people, while often ignoring my own! Playing with the sims was like playing with a doll’s house (one of the names the developers gave the game before release was actually Dollhouse), except unlike most dollhouses, this one was okay to play with regardless of your age, and there was something so thrilling and freeing in being able to do what you wanted in the little sim world – even though mist of the tasks I enjoyed were mundane things like cooking dinner or taking a swim!Īs the years moved on, and my life did too, I never stopped playing The Sims. I was stressed and depressed and suffering a lot bullying at school, so when The Sims came out, it was an escape from my reality into a world where things were pleasant, where I could have the house I wanted, could live the life I wanted, and where the biggest worry was whether my sim was going to get to the car pool or school bus in time. My life wasn’t brilliant and I was struggling with a lot of things that were happening. I began playing the game in October 2000 and fell in love with it right away. The very first game I ever owned on my very first home computer was The Sims. But now in it’s fourth version, and a fifth Sims looming on the horizon, is the game still worth playing? Simmer since the start The original game became the biggest selling PC game ever not long after it was released and has continued to sell well, despite increasing problems. Most people have heard of The Sims with many having seen footage of it or even played it. The Sims videogame officially turned 20 years old on the Tuesday (4th February) and although the original game is hardly played anymore, the franchise lives on.
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