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

I'm going to say around 2003-2004 cause I don't remember exactly I know we owned the sims 2 deluxe but I also know a few packs had already been released for sims 2 but I do remember watching the trailer for season's so i'm going to say somewhere around sims 2 season's announcement is more accurate. Cause I know for sure packs like university and bon voyage where already out.

Oops, clicked the wrong one. Didn't play the pretest, just played it when it came out.

2003. I turned 13 and was finally a "teen" for the Sims "T" rating so on my birthday my mom took me to Game Stop and I was able to buy Sims Busting Out for PS2. It will always have a special place in my heart as it is what got me hooked on the game.

I started around 2009 with The Sims 3 on iPod Touch. Totally wanted to play on PC but I had a shared computer with my mom which was running Windows 97 or 98. ? (It was functional enough for me to complete my homework at the time and casually check Myspace, so I was grateful!)

When I got my own computer in 2010 I officially started with The Sims 3 PC.

2001 was when I got my first computer (clamshell iBook) because I was taking computer programming and wanted a computer so I wouldn't have to spend all my spare time on campus in the lab. I was cruising the shelves at the local Apple Store looking for something to occupy me when I wasn't doing homework, and saw this game called The Sims by Aspyr (they did the Mac ports for Sims 1 & 2) and thought it looked interesting. The rest is history...

Prior to that though, I'd played SimCity on the SNES and enjoyed that as well.

I first started playing sims games in like 2008, but that was mysims so I'm not sure if that would count. My first actual sims game was the sims pets on the 3ds in like 2012 and then I got sims 3 a while later.

2000. I read about it in a pc games magazine and bought it in release day.

I began playing The Sims 2 in 2009, shortly before The Sims 3 was released. I bought TS3 a few months later but at that time I was more into TS2 so I didn't start playing it more actively until like a year later.

It took me a while to discover the Sims series, since the internet wasn't as prominent back then as it is now.
I found the CD for "The Sims 2 An Introduction" in my sister's magazine, which was basically just a teaser for the game in CD form.
I loved it and I got Sims 1 and 2 right away

TS1 for the ps2. Been playing ever since.