"Stroll down Memory Lane" Thread.

Oh, I love this topic!
I like to show off my family. :D
I´ve been playing this family since Supernatural was released, that was on 6th September 2012 here in Germany.
Haldir, the later founder of my family the Helmquists is actually my first picture I still have, the pictures before the release of Supernatural are gone, because the old computer had died a few weeks before and I´ve lost everything.
Here is the very first picture of him where he learns how to talk.
That picture is from the 10th September 2012
https://i.imgur.com/2TNw5qW.jpg
A few weeks later, on 3rd October he taught his first born Emerson how to walk
https://i.imgur.com/9TUl4DZ.jpg
On 5th October he married the love of his live Travis in a very private ceremony at the beach of Moonlight Falls
https://i.imgur.com/9XN9vpA.jpg

To this day they still are married, this is their recent official picture for celebrating their marriage!
https://i.imgur.com/ooKN1rz.jpg

If somebody is interested in them and their family, here you can read some more

Although I have nearly all of the pics I have taken since I started playing when the game came out, they are packed away with other memories of my life in America. I found the earliest screenshots on this laptop from August 2016. I told my son I was due for a new laptop and the age of these pics tells me I am right. As soon as this lockdown is fully lifted I am off on a major shopping spree! :D
I must have been playing a save with Eddie and Jensen when I got this laptop.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50420983136_8bce4a032b_o.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50421151612_21f763e325_o.jpg

I found two old screenshots of one my sims from 3 years ago. I noticed that my gameplay tends to be somewhat gritty at times...

This poor soul’s name is Rex. He’s a highly skilled mixologist at a popular Sunlit Tides bar. In the eyes of others he seems like a happy, carefree man, but apparently it’s not all Paradise for him (sure look at the poor fella). Like many of my saves, this was going to turn into a wild, supernatural adventure i.e. sim trying to break out of everyday boredom; finds mysterious item; gets into (paranormal) trouble; saves the day.
Although none of that happened to this guy yet...I’m beginning to feel bad for leaving him in his room like this...

https://i.ibb.co/kMRR1tM/Dude01.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/KNQxpcz/Dude02.jpg

Some sim ladies I made recently o\ver the last year-ish or so


https://i.imgur.com/oJipPlA.png

https://i.imgur.com/y4mO6Av.png

https://i.imgur.com/yPawvYE.png

https://i.imgur.com/J4JzLbu.png

https://i.imgur.com/cHTo47Q.png

https://i.imgur.com/fVPdLKK.png

https://i.imgur.com/i1CUU1J.png

https://i.imgur.com/FutlQGl.png

https://i.imgur.com/iuqdWc1.png

https://i.imgur.com/iJavTmR.png

https://i.imgur.com/HHwo8ZV.png

https://i.imgur.com/MKaIeos.png

https://i.imgur.com/c1y0H7e.png

https://i.imgur.com/clWgSVa.png

https://i.imgur.com/O1Poyet.png

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Oh yeah .....






And I made Robin Williams from Mork and Mindy :D See I make guy sims too

https://i.imgur.com/6qSIFh3.png

Photobucket is the devil, so I don't have access to some of my older pics, but I do have some cute ones from 2016 ish:

Like this one, where it looks like toddler Seth Costova is about to punch Bridgeport's Devin Ashton in the face. :tongue:
https://i.imgur.com/R4gCOCi.jpg

And Seth's stroller victory celebration. :lol:
https://i.imgur.com/JYZeqPf.jpg

Seth being sniffed by the family's cat, Bernie. Named after Bernie Sanders. :lol:
https://i.imgur.com/S5kSs54.jpg

This real cute wedding pic of Mia and Devin
https://i.imgur.com/CeWxFOV.jpg

And this pic of Devin and Mia also heckin cute. :3
https://i.imgur.com/8YaANQc.jpg

I'm going to stop now before I post my entire imgur account. :lol:

@Emily4331 I remember Mia :p she was one of your characters I really liked.The way you made her lips was so cute how she would have that mischevious grin.Definately one of the cutest upper lips in Sims 3 history <3 Always reminded me of younger Winona Ryder *Horowitz*

@CravenLestat Were you filling off-colour the day you made a male!? ;)

@Emily4331 Mia is always the first sim I think of when I think of you :)

ooo i like this topic! ahaha

Im not sure when this was taken but a while ago I made a super ridiculous looking family just to play with genetics and see them out and about when my sims went places for laughs. It was during my first try at a legacy challenge. Here's the dad from that family..
https://i.imgur.com/FwHjFIr.jpg

Of course they had to have a ridiculous house too... Looks like I only have an unfurnished screenshot, but the whole house had glass walls with blue roofs and every room was 4x4 with narrow hallways to get everywhere. It was a maze and it was hilarious! If anyone's interested I'll get more screenshots if I can find the save xD
https://i.imgur.com/ntt3Iiw.jpg

And when I used to build mansions then not actually play the game for much longer I always did floor patterns with different floor tiles to keep it interesting. Now I build cozy homes that turn into mansions as my families get richer, since I don't play with money cheats anymore. Here's an old screenshot of one of my mansions and cool floor, it's from a save where I wanted to play as a single teen but I got bored too quick haha
https://i.imgur.com/zgttwnS.jpg

Alright I'll share more later :P Thanks for reading if you do!

@CravenLestat The best lips in Sims 3 history, eh? I'll take it. :lol: Though it is oddly specific.

@Mikezumi I did spend such a huge chunk of time playing her and her family. :tongue: Honestly, come to think of it, she might be the only sim I played for an extensive period of time. So she's definitely in my sim hall of fame. :lol:

So this thread made me go through more of my imgur photos and now, having gone on a difficult hunt for some of my old sims, I'm going to go give them makeovers now because sleep is for the weak.

But, I mean, it kind of works out, right? Because @Chi5678 's first pic is going to haunt my dreams for all eternity, so looks like it's time to shift into "night-owl" gear anyway. :lol:

Edit: lol I put "week" instead of "weak" which should be all the indication I need that I should sleep but HA HA proper brain function is so overrated. :tired_face:

My memories are cut short as I hadn't bothered with taking pics for quite a while. It didn't help that my game crashed nearly every time I entered CAS, so my old sims are hardly changed preset sims, which isn't overly exciting. I posted my third pic ever recently in the main thread, and here's Marcus, my SV founder, in ITF again.
https://i.imgur.com/1rfoOyp.jpg
Well, I only really got into TS3 last year, and he's nothing to talk home about.
Later I went back to one of my earlier saves with an earlier version of the same sim, who was one of the presets with some random traits etc. He had a "normal" face, but given he was hot-headed, he mostly made a face like this:
https://i.imgur.com/y9Ftxqq.jpg
My really first TS3 memories would be Bridgeport, ca. 2013. I guess I could try and pull one of those saves up, but given it was just a pre-set, it's probably not worth it. My current avatar pic is the current version of my very first sim.