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"Writin_Reg;c-16215467" wrote:
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.
Preach, my friend.
We're probably one of the few on these boards that still remembers getting games by typing them in by hand out of the pages of a magazine. They have come such a long way. Though, I long for the old days when this part of the entertainment genre was more about the entertainment and less about getting as much for as little as possible. Back then, it was art and passion that let to financial success. Now, it's more about the bottom line.
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