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

I first played the Sims 1 in 2002 after seeing my cousin playing it at her house. I begged my dad to buy it for my 10th birthday and I was so excited about it. Remembering that day invokes some serious nostalgia and it makes me kind of sad that I haven't been that excited for a sims game since.

I first played sims in 2001-2 time after seeing my older cousin play it, i was probably too young to play it but i was obsessed had the book and everything. I still have the big box sims one came in. I also have sims 2 sleeves and a couple 3. I bought Sims 4 on release and hated it so never played it again until last year thanks to lockdowns. Still love 3 the best but i love CAS / Building on 4!

I can't remember which Sims game I played, but I would play it over at my friend's house all the time, and we would take turns playing. A few years later, I got my first sims game, Sims 3 for the Xbox, and that is when my obsession with the game really started.

I find it interesting that as of today 63% of Sims players started 2004 and earlier. That's TS 1 & TS 2 territory, which says a lot about the perspectives of folks on the forums.

Brandontayor, interesting picture in your sig. They were grand ships in their day.

A classmate introduced me to the original sims and I have been played the series ever since. Although the sims 4 lack some of the features of its predecessors, it is my favourite mainly due to the linked worlds. I always wanted all of my sims to be able to interact with each other.

2001, I was 6 years old! growing up with this 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.

The same month and year that this thread was made.

I remember getting The Sims base game free with a computer way back in 2000 but I put it away for a few years. It was in 2003 when I got bored enough to try it (my hubby was on another tour of duty for 6 months).
I believe I stayed up all night playing. :lol:

It was a disc that was mailed to a step cousin of mine. I watched, learned, and got to play. I wasn't yet 12 yrs old yet.
He let me play for nearly a whole hour the next time. Few months later I got to have my own in 2000, but it was cool I got to test his before the game was in stores.