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"claudiamarie1964;c-16244253" wrote:
> @Erpe said:
> In those years I visited the game stores about twice a week to see if they had got new games and to read a little on the boxes for most of their games. I never saw any adult women look at the Sims boxes unless they were in company with very young girls. But I saw a lot of very young girls studying those boxes and discuss them with huge interest.
You do realize that what you've observed in shops and the gaming habits of your younger associates (from one of your previous postings) does not represent the true Simming demographic, right? The first two Simmers I knew and who got me hooked on the game back in 2001 were otherwise hard-core first-person-shooting console-gaming *males*. I recall the quote from one of them that sold me into trying the game for myself is "The Sims is addicting ..." If I went by my own limited observations, I'd be generalizing that console-gaming young men make up the majority of Simmers.
There is a huge difference between generalizing from just a couple of your own friends to what I observed. I visited a lot of game stores and book stores who in those days sold games too. But everywhere I saw the same and I wondered about the same thing: Why were all those young girls suddenly so interested in this new game (TS1) which didn’t interested neither me or any of the male customers at all?
Later I saw the same every time a new EP had been released: Young girls looking at the box and discussing it with exited voices. Sometimes only with eachother and sometimes with an older women which I thought was the mother to one of them. But I never saw women who weren’t just teens look at those boxes unless they were accompanied by one or two young girls and I never saw any males looking at the boxes either.
One or two times I looked at the boxes myself just to see what all the fuss was about. But it only made me understand why none of all the males who I usually met in those stores ever were interested in TS1 or its expansions because the graphics was ugly and outdated and the game looked like something back from the 1980s.
So the only thing that I agree about is that I can’t generalize to the whole world because I only looked at stores in Denmark where TS1 had a 7+ rating while it had a T rating in the US. So maybe parents in the US wouldn’t let their young girls get the game like all Danish parents did? I don’t know. But here in Denmark it was the young teen girls who got the game and I heard btw also once or twice some employee in one of the stores say the same.
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