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ERPE - http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Game_engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_engine
The Sims 1 was not built on an 80's game engine - in fact in the 80's what game engine would that have been? LOL. In 85 I was playing games on a Commodore 64 - long before there was actual pcs for games. We did built an H8 computer from Heathkit around 1984 and there were no such thing as Operating Systems - so I took courses in Machine Basic at college and learned to make programs for the H8. Programs you could buy used to come in a kind of magazine - and it took weeks of typing in a single program to do anything with that early computer. There were not any game engines to speak of for sure. I was there. I know better. There were not much offering for a game period on a pc. I recall hangman (simple stick figure) and a simple solitaire card game that each took a couple weeks of typing into that pc to be playable. Lord help you if you missed a single icon - because it would not work and you had to wipe the whole thing and start over. Believe me there were no actual game engines - no harddrives - no anything at all we would even recognize now a days as a pc. Besides I was not programming the computer to play anything - never mind the very few offerings out there - I was programming it for college work I was doing. So that is a pure falsehood to say Sims 1 was built on an 80 game engine - when in fact it's game engine was built new and included a brand new 2D/3d design of the time. Even Will Wright spoke of the new technology he was getting to use to build his game on - with lots of joy at getting the chance to use it for a game of his design.
Back when Sims 1 came out I did not know any kids playing the game period. When I went to the store to buy eps - it was not teenybooper buying the game - it was 20-30 year olds. I admit it was almost always females, not males back then but we were ya's. It was popular with college girls and young mothers a like. We weren't buying it for our kids if we had kids - we were buying it for ourselves. It was so great to have a game about just being people instead of all the fighting or sports games out at that time. I never looked at it as a dollhouse or as a childs game at all - but as a game that help YA's learn how to manage their time, run a household, and work a job - etc - etc. Maybe it was a different experience in your country Erpe - but that was my experience. The Sims 2 was the same way. In fact when Sims 2 came out moms here would have not dreamed of allowing their young daughters to have such a game. Maybe in Europe that was okay - but in the USA small town America - it was not at that time in our history (Honestly, I did have a good number of friends who played the game with their children - but they did not buy the game for their kids that were under 13. I had a few friends who would not have allowed their 14 year old to play it by themselves for heavens sakes. Granted even I thought that was a bit much - and I was raised strictly. (My mom would not let me have a Barbie doll until I was 13 for crying out loud) LOL.
http://oldcomputers.net/heathkit-h8.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC
This was how you played with an 1984 pc after you built the pc from scratch practically
- Machine basic programming from 1984
https://www.google.com/search?q=Machine+basic+programming+from+1984&client=firefox-b-1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY-vnkkIrYAhWMRyYKHfVeDosQsAQIMg&biw=1889&bih=950
ERPE - You should know all this - after all didn't you say you were a computer teacher. Odd if you don't know all this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_engine
The Sims 1 was not built on an 80's game engine - in fact in the 80's what game engine would that have been? LOL. In 85 I was playing games on a Commodore 64 - long before there was actual pcs for games. We did built an H8 computer from Heathkit around 1984 and there were no such thing as Operating Systems - so I took courses in Machine Basic at college and learned to make programs for the H8. Programs you could buy used to come in a kind of magazine - and it took weeks of typing in a single program to do anything with that early computer. There were not any game engines to speak of for sure. I was there. I know better. There were not much offering for a game period on a pc. I recall hangman (simple stick figure) and a simple solitaire card game that each took a couple weeks of typing into that pc to be playable. Lord help you if you missed a single icon - because it would not work and you had to wipe the whole thing and start over. Believe me there were no actual game engines - no harddrives - no anything at all we would even recognize now a days as a pc. Besides I was not programming the computer to play anything - never mind the very few offerings out there - I was programming it for college work I was doing. So that is a pure falsehood to say Sims 1 was built on an 80 game engine - when in fact it's game engine was built new and included a brand new 2D/3d design of the time. Even Will Wright spoke of the new technology he was getting to use to build his game on - with lots of joy at getting the chance to use it for a game of his design.
Back when Sims 1 came out I did not know any kids playing the game period. When I went to the store to buy eps - it was not teenybooper buying the game - it was 20-30 year olds. I admit it was almost always females, not males back then but we were ya's. It was popular with college girls and young mothers a like. We weren't buying it for our kids if we had kids - we were buying it for ourselves. It was so great to have a game about just being people instead of all the fighting or sports games out at that time. I never looked at it as a dollhouse or as a childs game at all - but as a game that help YA's learn how to manage their time, run a household, and work a job - etc - etc. Maybe it was a different experience in your country Erpe - but that was my experience. The Sims 2 was the same way. In fact when Sims 2 came out moms here would have not dreamed of allowing their young daughters to have such a game. Maybe in Europe that was okay - but in the USA small town America - it was not at that time in our history (Honestly, I did have a good number of friends who played the game with their children - but they did not buy the game for their kids that were under 13. I had a few friends who would not have allowed their 14 year old to play it by themselves for heavens sakes. Granted even I thought that was a bit much - and I was raised strictly. (My mom would not let me have a Barbie doll until I was 13 for crying out loud) LOL.
http://oldcomputers.net/heathkit-h8.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC
This was how you played with an 1984 pc after you built the pc from scratch practically
- Machine basic programming from 1984
https://www.google.com/search?q=Machine+basic+programming+from+1984&client=firefox-b-1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY-vnkkIrYAhWMRyYKHfVeDosQsAQIMg&biw=1889&bih=950
ERPE - You should know all this - after all didn't you say you were a computer teacher. Odd if you don't know all this.
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