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

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.

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

Since the beginning. Loved SimCity!

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.

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...

Memory isn't as good as it could be but I do know that I was definitely playing SimCity well before I married. Since my son is almost 22, 25-30 years would be a safe guess :p

Sims 3 is my first official sims game but I often borrowed the wii pets version and i owned like all the my sims games.

SimCity 2000 for the Playstation was my first Sims game.

Sim City was my first game in the Sim Universe. Though, I didn't enjoy the genre as much as I'd hoped. I found what I was looking for when The Sims launched. I bought it on the first day and I've been with the franchise, in some form or other, ever since.

Started playing in 2001