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

"readerbug2;c-17870008" wrote:
My first Sims game was The Sims Bustin' Out on the PS2! I played that game for years! I tried playing Sims 2 on console, when it came out, but it lacked all of the charm of BO, so I switched back. Didn't touch any other sims game until Sims 3 on PC around 2018.

My first was Bustin' Out, also. So much fun, but very limited. I kept seeing pictures of other people's Sims and aging children
and I wondered why that wasn't in my game. Then I found out that the PC game had so much more! I bought a laptop and the
rest is history.