I vaguely remember what the sims that I created in TS1 looked like but I don't remember any of the names. I do remember the family that I played with for a long time in TS2. It was just a random family and I just played it as a classic aspirational story where they kept making more money and eventually moved into a big mansion that I built. The mansion was kind of ridiculous. I just kept adding rooms with more stuff. It would take forever to walk around in it and also to walk to the carpool.
The father was Dr. Hunter Sandsley who was a genius surgeon. He was often studying in his library when he was home. He had glasses. The mother was a business exec who would throw parties to add connections. I think her name was something like Mary or Mary Anne. I know that they had three kids, a boy and two girls. The son was the eldest. He was named James and he was going to be a doctor like his father. I'm not sure I remember the middle daughter's name but I know that she was interested in science. The kids were all high-performing and aspirational like the parents. I know that Hunter had an affair with the mother of the Pleasants who sought revenge against her husband for cavorting with the maid. Hunter then patched things up with his own wife. James had a lifelong childhood sweetheart named Lucy who he eventually married. That's about where I ended it. James and his sister had gone to university and they were both in fraternities/sororities. All of that took a while. I'm not sure that I ever got to the point where the third child fully grew up.
Events in that game went a bit slowly but it was a pretty basic aspirational/go-getting family who got incredibly rich. The game that I play now is more varied, complex and diverse.
