First experiences with The Sims (20th birthday)

And as I opened the topic... I should answer myself!

I remember my first steps as a builder in The Sims. I had this obsession with creating 'flying houses'! I'd place a lot of columns in the lot, build a house on top, and then delete all the columns with move_objects. Past young me found it hilarious so I did it with most of my builds :smiley:

Ooh, let me see. My first experience with the sims was when I played TS1 deluxe. Windows 95 PC. I also played TS1 PS2, UrbZ, Sims Bustin' Out, TS2 on DS and PS2...and then I tried out TS2 on PC. My sister let me try it out. Then I got TS3. Most of my Expansion packs and Stuff Packs were digital, except one, Katie Perry's Sweet Treats. That's a physical disk. And later, I got TS4. I have quite a few mistakes, too many to count...

One experience did shake me a bit. During my Sunset Valley Furystrykar save on TS3, when I was setting up a scene, Rachel Applebee, the sim I was controlling at the time, decided to investigate a strange lightshow outside the house. I couldn't stop it from happening, and before I knew it, Rachel had been abducted by an interstellar interloper. That was not pleasant for me.

During my Sims 1 sessions, I would deliberately place a fire place in a room, fill it with flammable objects and then tell the unfortunate sims to go into the room. I took away the door and watched the Grim Reaper have his work cut out.

First time playing The Sims was back when my brother got the game, he had his Sim cooking food or something and when I took over to try out the game for myself, I accidentally let the house burn down. Luckily the fire didn't do too much damage and my bro was able to replace the stove and whatever else was burnt in the fire.

Mine was somewhat similar to other Simmer's lets play stories.
Husband left me after 25 years. Had married as a teen and being suddenly single was very scary.

I stumbled upon the Sims when it came out in 2000 and it has kept me company ever since through all the series.

It filled in lonely hours, made me laugh and occasionally cry. Seriously when I saw the first baby born in Sims2 I actually had tears.

Its been a staple in my life which may sound strange except to Simmers of course. Thank you for so many years of laughter, tears, frustration (which usually led to laughter) & joy.

Happy Anniversary

I think my first "surprise" was the first time a Sim looked straight at me as if to ask what the heck I was doing. That was in Sims 2 and its never been as "real" as that first time.

When I was a kid, The Sims taught me that you can have a baby just from a kiss. :D

I was traumatized. :p Anywho, Happy 20th Anniversary!

My first Sims game was the Sims Unleashed I loved playing with all the dogs and cats in the neighborhood and thought the raccoon that would steal your trash was really funny. I remember the first big surprise I had was when my sim died, her husband pleaded with the Grim Reaper and she came back as a Zombie!
I also loved going on vacation I spent way to many hours trying to win tickets so my sims could buy souvenirs.
Another big surprise was the ending of Sims Bustin Out on Gameboy Advance, I don't want to spoil it but it was a big twist!

Started in TS4 the middle of last year. created several sims (Tobias Lancaster, Ryan Jacklin, Sanders Family, Sandra Matthews, Garza-Schwindt, Harlow and others) then settled on a first lot, that lot built in Newcrest in comfy cubby was a starting point down a path of 2.3k hours ingame time. first sim i had to make use of the house lot; Sandra Matthews (sim in my avatar). She originally started as an adult originally but i pushed her age to teenager after realising she didn't have much time to do anything of note and too late to have children of her own.

I remember first playing it, watching sims wonder past, usually Alex Moyer, Zoe Patel and Summer Holiday wondering around in the base game.
Several of my sims have become successful in their own right but Sandra as a sim is one i enjoy playing.

As far as mistakes are concerned? i didn't have that many at all, the game tutorial didn't teach me much at all, and it was trial and error from there on, more trial than error.

I played Sims 1 some, but Sims 2 came out soon after and I loved it so much (still my favorite)! I started Sims 2 with a single mom and a daughter - Mortimer Goth came storming over one day and starting yelling at the child and I was so puzzled as to why he would do that - it took me a while to figure out she had been looking through the telescope during the day and he did not appreciate being spied on!
I still play Sims 2, 3, and 4

Have told this story a few times on the forums already but my first experience with the sims was with TS1 for PS2. I spent the entire time trying to figure out how to get the baby in to the house (the crib and baby were outside for some reason) and no one could interact with the baby but the child age daughter for some reason so it kept getting taken away.

I then moved on to TS2 for PS2, UrbZ, Bustin' Out for PS2 & DS, before moving on to Sims Stories as my first PC game. I eventually got TS3(and all the expansion/stuff packs as they came out) and Sims Medieval. Lastly, got TS4 and GTW.

When I first started playing TS1 I didn't realize you could play with dropped down walls, so I struggled to see my sims for ages until I found the toggle :D