Is The Sims A Virtual Dollhouse?

When I was a kid, long before the Sims was heard of, I use to make my own paperdolls and play just as I play in the Sims. I drew out everything. Paperdolls with their paper clothes and different paper hair much used like a wig. I drew their homes and had 3D models of my main families home. I even created an entire town that covered the whole of my bedroom floor. It had all kinds of shops and entertainment lots. It was my escape and what I loved to do.

As I got older and into my highschool years, call me a nerd or whatever, I continued to draw my paperdolls and expand my paper town even though I didn't play with them anymore I started writing stories for them. It was a combination of realism and fantasy.

When the Sims came out I was able to take that same creativity, imagination, and play into a virtual world. I only wish now that I had saved those drawings and stories.

Call this game what you want, but I think it's just a fun way to express your creativity rather you're a architect, artist, designer, story teller or just someone who simply likes to play the game. Male or female or something in-between older generation vs. younger generation, it doesn't matter, it's a life simulation game in which you use your imagination and creativity to play how you want to.