What year did you start playing your first The Sims game?

It would've been around 2003-2004 if I remember right. Started with the 1st Sims game though (or the console one) Sadly never got to witness all the pre-release era where the faces were all sideways and had emotions. You know, like this classic bug in 1?
https://i.imgur.com/3TWI2xd.png

Sim People 1 was great.