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

Started with SIMCITY original. We've owned almost every SIM and SIMS title and DLC including participating in a very expensive family four pack for The SIMS ONLINE.

Been a long and fun road...mostly. Still waiting for IT to happen. :) 

The sims 3 apps for iOS in 2010 (3, ambitions, never had world adventures)

First mainline game was 4 in 2015

I played Sim City and Sim City 2000 as a kid in the late 90s. Then tried out The Sims at a friend's house but I thought it was kinda stupid, lol. Only in late 2010 did I find out about Sims 3 through a Let's Play and fell in love with it. I first borrowed the base game from a friend and played the heck out of it before I eventually bought it and all EPs for myself. 

1989. I did play the original SimCity on Amiga. I played religiously until SC3000. The Sims i started w Free Play in 2015.

Probably simfarm way back when you needed floppy discs and it was DOS based so ?1990