20 Years of Sims

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