older generations unite!

I answered the questions & sent a request.

"SERVERFRA;c-18128064" wrote:
Sometimes I switch the numbers of my age. Like this year I decided to be 35 instead of 53 & my next birthday I'll be 45 instead of 54. :p

Fun idea but it won't work next year or the year after. ;)

My username says it all! 75...born smack dab in the middle of disco, baby! MJ and Hair Bands are my jam and I am impatiently waiting for my August concert ....Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Joan Jett and Poison. Speaking of...why weren't those acts added into some of the many incarnations of the game??? That would have kicked some serious...well... you know. >:)

Awesome thread!

Early 30's and playing since the sims 1 came out :) I imagine i'll still be playing when i'm 60!!

Am really enjoying this thread! Reading the posts brings back lots of memories: the games, the machines we played them on, life in general. I first found the Sims while it was still in development in the course of researching an economics paper. How EA came to be the subject is a long and sad story but the game concept was revolutionary, intrigued me, so I kept following it. Pounced on it as soon as it was released and have been simming ever since.

"Oldeseadogge;c-18128520" wrote:
Am really enjoying this thread! Reading the posts brings back lots of memories: the games, the machines we played them on, life in general. I first found the Sims while it was still in development in the course of researching an economics paper. How EA came to be the subject is a long and sad story but the game concept was revolutionary, intrigued me, so I kept following it. Pounced on it as soon as it was released and have been simming ever since.

The Sims has some history in higher education! TS1's game engine was lent to several universities so that computer science students could practice programming new game objects. Here is a fascinating instruction guide by Will Wright:

https://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/papers/files/programming_objects_in_the_sims.pdf

I'm approaching 44 and I've been playing since Sims 1 and I have loved every version since. Each has its positives and negatives. I'm probably a bit of an oddball among OG simmers though, because 4 is my favorite.

I'm definitely from a family of gamers. At one point, we had every game made for the Atari. My dad would even pick up copies of games while on business trips overseas. (If only we would have known what that collection would be worth someday and hadn't sold it to make room for the next generations of consoles.) I also remember my mom and dad occasionally getting so into a game that they'd call in "sick" to keep playing... and that usually meant we also had a sick day from school and would get to play too.

I was the first in my family to buy a computer. It's crazy to think how big of a deal it was for me, especially when I see my son unable to comprehend a life without them. The Sims was actually the very first game I ever played on that computer.

I'm in my early 50s and have Lupus. Actually started playing the Sims during the Sims 3 days and picked up Sims 2 when it was free on Origins. As one said, Sims was and is not about nostalgia for me. Instead, it became a way of getting away from the crush in life that Lupus brought about. During this Covid hit, well Sims 4 suddenly became and still is my 'proverbial' best friend since I'm confined indoors you know... lacking an immune system does that. :wink:

"Finvola;c-18126214" wrote:
People thought I was much younger than my true age up until I reached my 40s. I'm also short, so people still call me "kiddo" even though I'm 47 (48 in November) and for the most part these people are either the same age or a few years older so it feels weird to be called that by my own age group.

I've also been age shamed, as I think there is still a stigma with "women of a certain" age being told they can't wear this or do that once they reach 30. It is a thing and I've experienced it many times. Being told my hair was too long "for my age", or saying I shouldn't wear logo tees "at my age". So what is one supposed to do once they reach a milestone? Revoke their right to fashion? And of course playing games "at my age". As well as dancing. Fun fact was that I was the youngest dancer in my group in my late 30s-early 40s, the other ladies in my class were older. Yup, they called me "kiddo", haha. Someone had said to my face before that "nobody wants to watch adults dancing and it's "for kids". Yeah people sure have a lot of opinions about other peoples' ages. I tell them to whistle and that I didn't ask their opinion. I guess that's one thing I've learned to appreciate with age. I used to be too timid to speak up for myself and now I'm not.

Really your post speaks out to me. 30 though is no different to being 20's (mentally and sometimes physically speaking) I pretty much could've written your post, although I can get away more (dressing and wearing what I want) because I'm short for (and don't look) my age. It is a pain but at the end I've learnt not to give too much weight to other people's opinions. At the end of the day; being ID'd for certain things will come in handy when we're far older than we actually look. And another good thing that comes with aging is caring less by the day what other people think, as you said. :) There are benefits lol.