Old vs New Media
Dear Sims, I know it's nearly 2022, but I still watch DVDs, have a CD player in my kitchen, and like the idea of listening to vinyls. I'm subscribed to a paper magazine (NatGeo). Also, I still know...
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Audio cassettes might make for a fun gameplay addition: Add maybe a dozen cassette exclusive songs to the game*, that the sims have to track down. Cassettes can turn up at the flea market (CL), in trash cans (EL, basegame) or via online trading (Plopsy or a new computer menu). They'd come in different states, similar to foods, that give different moodlets from listening to the songs. Once a sim has acquired their first cassette, they can buy a multipurpose player that comes with the option to listen to the cassettes as-is or digitalize the songs.
*...One song per audio cassette. That's not accurate, but maybe the other songs on that cassette are still widely distributed, with only one of them being a rare record that only exists in this form.
*...One song per audio cassette. That's not accurate, but maybe the other songs on that cassette are still widely distributed, with only one of them being a rare record that only exists in this form.
