How did you get started playing The Sims?
Well, to answer my own question, I started right at the very beginning when Sims 1 premiered in 2000. I was a telemarketer and I was put in charge of the back room and part of my duties was to c...
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I was 13, my friend gave me a burnt copy of Sim City 3000 (Sorry Maxis!) and it had an optional trailer for 'The Sims' on it.
I watched that trailer over and over and over and over again.
The trailer had no dates with release on it that I remember and games being connected to the net an updated wasn't a thing so I had no real idea when The Sims would come out. Google may have existed in 2000 but search engines (even Ask Jeeves) weren't a thing I knew about yet and I was fast becoming the most internet-savvy person in my friends/family.
Then later in 2000 my dad had to go to a computer shop and like a Quest lighting up there was 'Livin Large' (the first Sims EP) placed prominently on a stand. I think I ruptured a few people's eardrums that day in the store with my squeals of excitement. I fangirl'd over The Sims the same way girls fangirl over boybands.
My poor dad clearly was forced to buy The Sims and Livin Large (i have no recollection of this encounter but i defininitely remember going home fawning over the booklet etc so i guess he paid for it? thanks dad!).
I've bought nearly every pack from nearly every game since then. (Like, i didn't get the Katy Perry thing).
