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

I answered 2001-2002, but it could have been 2000. Too long ago. Can't remember anymore :mrgreen:

My grown daughter introduced me to the game. She was alone in another state when her husband was sent to Kuwait. He was in the Army. Happily, for her, she had a couple of sisters-in-law living nearby. They introduced her to The Sims. She spent most of our telephone conversations telling me about this silly game. I was very glad she had something to keep her mind occupied while my son-in-law was deployed. She was very happy about Makin' Magic and was holding off on the new Sims2, hoping to explore all of Makin' Magic, first. Then her newly returned hubby gave her Sims2 for Christmas. That very quickly put an end to her Makin' Magic exploration. She was completely blown away by the phenomenal, wholesale changes Maxis had made in the game. By the time spring of 2005 rolled around, the kids were back home in the State we all lived in at the time). She was able to bring their gaming laptop over to my house wherein she proceeded to 'show' me the game. Then she suggested I create a Sim. Once that was done, she nudged me to put my Sim in a neighborhood. Then she sat beside me and guided my play. Yeah, I got hooked. It took all of us by surprise. I could no longer wait until she had the opportunity to swing by and let me use her laptop to play the game, while she worked for a couple of hours. My hubby urged me to go ahead and purchase my own copy of the game. I told him my laptop couldn't handle it. He said, buy the game and we'll see. When it wouldn't load I was crestfallen (even though I knew we had it built to not play games). But, that's another story. One day, my hubby called me from work to tell me to keep an eye out for the UPS truck. He had ordered a brand new gaming rig that was to arrive in about three weeks, making sure they knew it was to be able to play Sims2. My gaming in earnest began in August 2005. I haven't stopped, yet.

I picked up Sims 3 during a Steam sale late in its life, since I remembered being interested in the original game when it came out (but never got around to picking it up.) Most of my childhood was spent playing various iterations of SimCity, if that counts.

Bought the original game on release with allowance money. :D I'd seen the trailer for it when I switched from SimCity 2000 to SimCity 3000 Unlimited.

It was a gift The Sims 1 from my niece she said here you need to give this a shot I wish she had never given it to me. I hate that it's an addiction for me ??
To build a house, get tired of it wipe it build another one get tired of it wipe it build another one. Back then I made my own wallpaper I miss that. it was time consuming but I got the wallpaper I liked and it actually matched everything in the room lol.

I think I was 7 or 8 when I first seen it in a basket at the supermarket. It was sims 1 double deluxe edition, so I was fairly new to simulation games. My first time playing it was pretty cool. I loved that game so much that I regretted my decision on what I let happen to the cd's. It is still a favorite of mine, but it's been so long since I've played that I feel disconnected. Not long after that gen, I ran across the sims 2, which still to this day I LOVE. I couldn't live without this masterpiece to say the least.

I first played The Sims in 2000 after my Dad gave me a trial version disc he got with a pc magazine. I was hooked straight away and have played all the Sims game every since. I still have all my original discs for the first sims game and all the expansions. Can't believe its been 20 years!

"GalacticGal;c-17632587" wrote:
My grown daughter introduced me to the game. She was alone in another state when her husband was sent to Kuwait. He was in the Army. Happily, for her, she had a couple of sisters-in-law living nearby. They introduced her to The Sims. She spent most of our telephone conversations telling me about this silly game. I was very glad she had something to keep her mind occupied while my son-in-law was deployed. She was very happy about Makin' Magic and was holding off on the new Sims2, hoping to explore all of Makin' Magic, first. Then her newly returned hubby gave her Sims2 for Christmas. That very quickly put an end to her Makin' Magic exploration. She was completely blown away by the phenomenal, wholesale changes Maxis had made in the game. By the time spring of 2005 rolled around, the kids were back home in the State we all lived in at the time). She was able to bring their gaming laptop over to my house wherein she proceeded to 'show' me the game. Then she suggested I create a Sim. Once that was done, she nudged me to put my Sim in a neighborhood. Then she sat beside me and guided my play. Yeah, I got hooked. It took all of us by surprise. I could no longer wait until she had the opportunity to swing by and let me use her laptop to play the game, while she worked for a couple of hours. My hubby urged me to go ahead and purchase my own copy of the game. I told him my laptop couldn't handle it. He said, buy the game and we'll see. When it wouldn't load I was crestfallen (even though I knew we had it built to not play games). But, that's another story. One day, my hubby called me from work to tell me to keep an eye out for the UPS truck. He had ordered a brand new gaming rig that was to arrive in about three weeks, making sure they knew it was to be able to play Sims2. My gaming in earnest began in August 2005. I haven't stopped, yet.

Can I just say, I love your family?! :love: What a wonderful sim gamer story, I especially love the UPS truck calll part!

I'm totally dating myself here, but I went to Best Buy to buy a copy of ClarisWorks and saw Sims 1 on display, I picked it up as an impulse buy along with my purchase... and twenty years later... :D

Been down with Sims since it first came out