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

I wish I could erase my memory and start playing Sims again for the first time, the learning curve was so amazing! I remember for example moving in tree Sims in an apartment in San Myshino, this was Sims I put a lot of effort into creating, it took about tree minutes for one of my Sims to be killed by fire when grilling on the balcony. I was so pissed off! I restrated my game and it took two minutes for another one of my Sims to burn to death in the simular fashion!