Since you started playing the VERY FIRST Sims game, even the first Simcity, how long ago was it?

Crashed Dad's work IBM-PC back in high school with MS-DOS SimCity. He really should've bought the Atari when we were kids. Probably would've been more of a console player, than a PC gamer, burning my eyes for hrs on end in the distant lands of RPG, simulation & time mgmt...

I didn't play it very much, but I did play this on a Commodore 64 as a kid.
https://retrofreakreviews.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/617850-simcity-dos-screenshot-now-village-mission-from-zero-to-city.png

After that I didn't play any other Sim games until 2020.

Since the beginning. Loved SimCity!

Sometimes I still think 2004 was just like 10 years ago, when it's actually 18 years ago. My first game was Sims 1.

It was in 2002. My sister and I started with The Sims Deluxe Edition and bought The Unleashed soon after that and I remember The Unleashed was very new back then and The Superstar hadn't released yet or even advertised, so it was in 2002. Almost 20 years ago... it feels like it wasn't that long ago and at the same time so much has happened in between.

I was in my early teens when I found Sim City 4 at a local store. Officially, it was the first "Sims" franchise game I played, and that was around 2008-9 or so.

sims 2 castaway on ds was mine

I played sims city in 1987 on my old commodore 64.

As I've said in multiple threads, I started playing around a year before TS3: Supernatural was released, so 2011-12-ish. That was the first pack I ever bought for the game. I eventually bought every EP after that.

Coincidentally, I'm just now starting a save in TS3: Midnight Hollow (store world) where my sim is a vampire. He's supposed to be Vlad's (TS4) father. I guess you could say I'm going back to my sims roots. :)

I know I played one of the SimCity games when I was really young, but I don't know if I really "played" it or just sort of pushed buttons until things caught on fire...

I spent a lot of time in Sims 2, but I don't think I got into it right away. Google says it was released in 2004, so I probably started playing that around 2005 or 2006. By the end, I had quite a few expansion packs. And then I moved up to Sims 3 and eventually Sims 4.