20 Years of Sims

Since I came to the Sims in Dec 2016, it’s only been three years for me going on four as of the 3 yr badge in April 2020. But yes, I have seen Sims game boxes around for the past twenty years. Of course when Sims 1 first came out in 2000, @Featherbelle was still in Louisiana and I was working at H&R Block Canada head office as a seasonal accountant. My fiancee (at the time) and I were making plans for her to come up in July. So I did not think about buying the game. @Featherbelle and I got married in August of 2000.

By the time Sims 2 came out in Sept 2004 my wife and I were parents two times over.

Sims 3 came out ten days before I turned 39. And at least 4 months before my wife found out she was pregnant with our daughter.

Sims 4 is the only one that hasn’t come out on, in or around some sort of milestone in my life.

So anyways, ever since I started playing the Sims, I’ve started to realize just how much my own experiences have intertwined with this game. Even though my own personal playing of this game didn’t start until after the current iteration came out.

All I can say is I hope the Sims series doesn’t go the way of SimCity...

LONG LIVE THE SIMS!!!

I hope Sims 5 is a worthy sequel.

@Nikkei_Simmer Been a general Simology fan, since the late 90s back when SimCity3000 was huge. Which if it wasn't for that Game, we wouldn't have the Sims ;)

Wow. I've been playing Sims from the getgo. It's funny, I literally remember the very first time I got it. We were in the computer store and my mom showed it to me and said "this sounds like it would be right up your alley". Mother, you could not have been more right. It was that night that I became a Sim addict.

I played Simcity in the 90s. I didn't know about the sims until after my son was born. My husband bought it for himself and tried it for a few hours and hated it so left the disc on my desk. I was a bit busy raising my son and settling into a new country to play it immediately but eventually gave it a try and thought it was fun. I can't say I was hooked because life was quite demanding back then. When my son was a toddler TS2 came out and I had more free time on my hands and TS2 was so charming that I would spend hours playing, often with my son on my lap :) When I read that TS3 was coming out, I knew I had to have it and got it the week it came out and have spent more hours than is healthy playing it over the years :D

It'd hard to believe. I've played them all since the start

I remember my dad buying the sims 1 when it game out. We had to return it the first time because the laptop we had was terrrrrrible, but he later got a better one and we got the game again. We played through the Bob and Betty Newbie tutorial and immediately after we set Betty on fire with a grill. I wasn't able to get all the EPs for that one because my parents were the ones in charge of getting them, and my computer had limitations. TS2 came out around when I graduated high school, and I played that an awful lot. I even took a laptop with my sims with me on my honeymoon in 2008 :D

I had a computer made for TS3 and my husband left early in the morning on the day it was released to get it for me. I was in the early stages of pregnancy with my first son and I remember I had to leave playing WoW because morning sickness while I played that game would make me really dizzy, so it was perfect timing for the sims, although I remember feeling so frustrated at the lack of CC in the first months, and all the hiccups with story progression.

Years have passed, obviously. I've tried TS4, but I just can't get into as much. I think it's beautiful, but the gameplay is lacking for me. I've modded the heck out of TS3 and it's nice not having to worry about patches and updating. I can play pretty often, even with four kids now, going on 12 years of marriage. I hope there is a TS5, and if there is, that it's a decent upgrade, but TS3 has been pretty great and stable now that I've figured out a good balance of modding, CC, and a decent computer.

I was only seven when The Sims came out, and at the time The Sims was released, my mother had just given birth to her last child, a boy, and we were in the proccess of moving to a new house as the street we lived in at the time was being demolished. Three years later, I was reaching the next stage in my life, going to Secondary School, and so my parents brought a computer for when I have homework. In 2005, I went to visit my grandmother's house and I saw my cousin, upstairs, on her grandmother's computer playing The Sims 2. I asked my cousin if I would like to play, and she said I can, but she was going to return the game to her friend once the half-term holidays were over; I created a family, consisted of an elder named Daphne Molyneux, her children and her grandchildren. Within a day my cousin sent Daphne and her family over to her Sim's pool party and ended up drowning them. Afterwards I asked my parents if I could get The Sims 2, and I received the game and the Expansion Packs for my birthday. In 2009, The Sims 3 came out, but I was feeling depressed at the time due to the fact I was struggling to get into college that I didn't ask for The Sims 3; my sisters were reaching the age I was when I discovered The Sims 2, but they decided to wait until they have their own laptop. My yongest sister got a laptop first, and she had installed Sunset Valley, Riverview and Hidden Springs on her laptop; she even started building up her SimPoints by watching adverts. Then my younger sister got her laptop and she too, got The Sims 3. By that time I had managed to stop having "bad days" and in 2016 I received my kitten, named Dexter. Dexter cheered me up and in 2017, I finally got The Sims 3. By that time my sisters had finished University and had amassed a collection of Stuff Packs and Expansion Packs and was looking at The Sims 4. The first time I played on The Sims 3, it was without Mods and CC. In 2018 my sister added some Mods and at the same time, I was looking at CC hair. After trying a hairstyle on a Sim, I decided that I would be better off with retextures of CC. Sure enough, after accidentally deleting my Mods folder, my sister loaned me her memory stick which contained the missing Mods as well as some CC. I continued to work on my Expansion Packs and Stuff Packs, and as of 2020 I only need one Expansion Pack to buy and four more Stuff Packs. I am hoping to have at least a significant amount of items from the Store, and my long-term goal is to have as many items from The Sims 3 as possible, so if I do move on to The Sims 4, when I want to go back and play on The Sims 3, I would have a variety of items installed to choose from. I plan to buy several memory sticks in the future to back up my files in case my laptop gives up the ghost. Here's to another 20 years of The Sims

I first played in Easter 2000 whatever month that was.

Looking back 2000 was the last year of the 90s!

wow it is hard to believe that I have been playing the sims for 20 yrs. My Granddaughter gave me the sims for my Birthday, best present I ever got. The fun just keeps on going.

"Aaeiyn;d-971469" wrote:
Can y'all believe it's been 20 Years of the Sims?

Haha i don't know if i feel nostalgic or old :) i was in my uni or maybe last year on high school when i read on a game magazine about sims 1. I got it right when it went out. Im engaged since day 1. Have spent times in and out during this 20 years but there's something i know for sure: i always come back to the game of my life :)