Who's still playing the Sims 1 from time to time?

We used to be able to add players houses to the game, I'm not 100% sure there is a way but hopefully someone will know.

I do like building. I'm just not very good at it!

@Goldbear86

oh I am glad that house builds can be added to game because I defo know in the end I will want to do that, also when doing some research prior to installing the game first time the way heads and bodies are added as cc really freaked me out as I had never seen sims bodies so cut in half before lol

Well I'm guessing you can still add houses. You used to be able to download them, kind of like the gallery in 4. I've not tried downloading houses recently. You think I would download houses more as my building skills leave a lot to be desired lol

I used to have Sims 1 bought for me by my uncle when I was a little kid at primary school and I freaked out the first time there was a fire lol. That was until I had to reinstall Windows some years later and lost all my families and mansions, and I cried really hard. And that put me off the Sims for a long time...
Now all the disks are lost so I just went to download the whole thing and opens it to create some random sims, build some simple houses and watch the humour from time to time. The music, sounds and the graphic are so iconic and nostalgic it gets me into a days-long stream of playing every time lol. And surprisingly it still works with Windows 10 after I changed my laptop :smiley:
If the next Windows make Sims 1 unplayable then I will keep with Windows 10 for my whole life just for Sims 1.

I don't think there is going to be any further versions of windows. There will just be updates.

I know what you mean though, when my husband got the sims 1 working on windows 10 I was so happy.

Having the game sure did help my wedding planning stress!

I've always said that as long as I can have sims 1 and 2 installed I will be happy.

@Goldbear86

I am a terrible builder so am always looking for builds to use in any series and as I have heard terrible things about 10 including frying some brand named laptops I will keep 7 for as long as possible then move on to 8.1 with a 7 interface app and finally when there is no other choice 10-)

@Remiccino

wow everyone is able to get their 1 series working on 10 and I cannot get decent graphics on 7-) I am going to reinstall the whole series back on my desktop today and see if I can get it to play and more importantly resolve the graphics issue I experienced before..I laughed when you said you freaked out when there was a fire as I also remember the first time I experienced that and had no clue how to save my sim ( different series) :)

I just found a site with some builds and other bits and bobs have you seen this one before?

http://www.simechoes.org/simechoes1/sita/sims1lots/lot1/lot1.html

I love the pictures posted so much nostalgia of my teenagehood I played sometimes to this gamewhile I got freetime at that time I still got but I am not able to play anymore.It crashes on vista sp2 at the loading. :s It makes me sad .I liked this game despite the repetition.

I'm going to play some more either tonight or tomorrow. I will try to post pics :)

I play The Sims 1 all the time. The Sims 1 may not have all the bells and whistles of the newer games, but what it lacks in flexibility it makes up for that in simplicity. Plus, the Sims 1 has the oh-so epic soundtrack by none other than Jerry Martin. I'm actually listening to the game's music files as I'm writing this post.

I've been playing The Sims 1 since I was 8 years old, and there is still stuff I have yet to see in my 14 years of being a Simmer.

@Goldbear86

OOh pics lovely look forward to that..I was going to try reinstalling my game on my desktop today until I told myself off because despite being angry re the time frame of this laptop delivery I could be putting myself through unnecessary hag when eventually ( If I have not died in the meantime-) will have the right laptop for the job that should play 1 smoothly and without too many issues so I watched a lets play on you tube and surfed some sims 1 sites to try and keep myself happy instead..

What I cannot understand is my tech always comes to do a PC desktop upgrade within 3 days whenever I ask but for this laptop a 5 day delivery has turned into 15 days and every day I am getting more and more angry.. I will never ask him for anything to do with a laptop again..OK rant over :)

Edit

I don't know if you have seen the latest video re 4 city life and twitter feeds from the sim Gurus?

You cannot build the apartments which is obviously upsetting creator players but does not bother me because I cannot build lol

The Guru's response to remarks about the world being small have been rebuffed as they have stated it is a good sized world.

It appears from reading the twitter feeds that up to 4 families can live in the apartment blocks ( rent only not buyable) that your own sims can visit however one feed says there is a loading screen and another stated your sims can go out the apartment block into the festival square without a loading screen so I don't know which comment is correct but if sims can freely roam around an apartment block and go out into the festival square without a loading screen that would be awesome...

Your sims can give keys out to people they would like to visit

the apartments have traits so the cheap apartment will have electrical problems ghosts and rodents yuk
the arty penthouse will have other better traits and I quite like the idea of apartment traits..not sure if house traits will effect other builds/worlds..

Oh dear I think I am beginning to like what I see with this xp lol

http://simsvip.com/2016/09/20/sims-4-city-living-official-apartments-trailer/


@NewbieSimmer

I started with 3 and have been working my way backwards after I got sims 2 UC and loved that I decided I wanted to experience 1 as well and bought the sims complete collection which did install on my 7 set up but I did not like the sims detail so played for a little while and then uninstalled until I had the money to buy a laptop just so I could play 1 with the right specs which should hopefully give me better graphics and you can see how that is going by the rant above :)

I am dying to play this series and keep coming back to this thread to see if anything is being discussed and if there are pics to look at-)

If you have been playing since you were 8 you must know oodles of stuff about the game however I agree you can play the game for years and still learn something new :)