I started playing Sims 2 back when I was still young enough to create myself as the child life stage! (I literally did, I made my family with my teen siblings at the time! Our Sims 2 mom had a mental breakdown when we didn't get into the private school-)
Now I'm fully grown!
I play Sims 2, Sims 3, Sims 4, and The Urbz: Sims in the City on gamecube and ds. Main Game: Sims 3
Some of these answers make me feel REALLY OLD. When I was in the child stage... my toys were this - there was no Sims.
Mom: "Go outside and play with your friends, I'll call you in for dinner. You have six hours..."
~sigh~
I was a 40-something when I started playing "the Sims".
@Nikkei_Simmer
I was 51 when I started playing The Sims 3, so I was in my late 40s when I started playing The Sims franchise.
The park across from my house had an all-metal slide, a 4-seat bouncer, and one of those round metal contraptions that would throw you off if it was spun too fast, and of course, a swing set and a dome-shaped jungle gym.
I remember that metal-spinny thing. A few friends broke arms getting flung off that thing. Some of us were insane and essentially used it as a g-force simulator hang onto the bars while our bodies were dangling off the contraption, while three other guys grabbed the bars and ran with it in a circle bringing up the speed. If you didn't have good grip strength, you'd get flung off. @texansky, I guess we're 60s n' 70s children which means that... we're ancient to the "youngsters" on this forum.
But it still doesn't mean that we can't enjoy Sims like they do. We just have the benefit of "life-experience" (my wife would debate that. She says that it appears that my mental age is 2)... I started playing Sims with "Sims 3" in Jan. 2017 - 2 months before I joined Origin - so late 40-something...
2008 with MySims party for the wii! I was six and my parents got the game because they figured both me and my brother would probably enjoy it. But it wasn't until I was 14 and I saw a box set of the sims 3 at the store while I was supposed to be shopping for my brothers birthday gift that I got one of the main series games and have been obsessed with the game ever sense.
I don't really know/am not really sure how long I've been playing sims. I know I started when The Sims Livin' Large launched. Back then I played on a Mac though so I had to wait longer for expansions for Aspyr Media to port them to Mac. Somewhere along the lines I switched to PC then Maxis started making them Mac compatible (I think?) Anyway... A lot of years.
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I kinda wish I bought the game in 2000 but I was too busy trying to make a career out of... <---Yep...that's what I was doing at the time...being a realtor - that and being newly engaged to be married in six months time.
I started playing the sims with the original Sims by Maxis in the early 2000s. I then played Sims 2 when that was released but took a break from Sims when EA released the Sims 3. I never got to play the Sims 3 until 2020, but It's the primary Sims game I play right now. I occasionally still play the original Maxis Sims 1, though. I lost my Sims 2 base game disk so I cannot play that again. I plan on downloading Sims 4, too, but have not yet because I'm having issues with the EA app regarding my Sims 3 expansion pack. I might download Sims 4 regardless of my EA app issue but would like to be able to download my Sims 3 expansions, and I don't trust the EA app due to its errors.
I first played in 2004 IIRC , with a copied CD from friend of mine. I loved it, so I went legit two weeks later and bought it along all expansions to that point on eBay, and I kept on going until they forced the game obsolete to promote TS2. So I shunned TS2 and switched right from TS1 to TS3. I still play TS3 from time to time and maybe I'll give TS5 a try.
I still have a The Sims: Vacation promo tshirt, though it no longer fits. I mean a real life tshirt, not a Sims' top.
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You know, the one in the dirty trench coat who's in love with you.
Now I'm fully grown!
Mom: "Go outside and play with your friends, I'll call you in for dinner. You have six hours..."
~sigh~
I was a 40-something when I started playing "the Sims".
@Nikkei_Simmer
I was 51 when I started playing The Sims 3, so I was in my late 40s when I started playing The Sims franchise.
The park across from my house had an all-metal slide, a 4-seat bouncer, and one of those round metal contraptions that would throw you off if it was spun too fast, and of course, a swing set and a dome-shaped jungle gym.
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But it still doesn't mean that we can't enjoy Sims like they do. We just have the benefit of "life-experience" (my wife would debate that. She says that it appears that my mental age is 2)... I started playing Sims with "Sims 3" in Jan. 2017 - 2 months before I joined Origin - so late 40-something...
I still have a The Sims: Vacation promo tshirt, though it no longer fits. I mean a real life tshirt, not a Sims' top.
My Traits: Socially Awkward / Artistic / Family Oriented / Hopelessly Romantic / Absent Minded
Academic Trait: Adventurous
Social Group Trait (Should I ever become "Nerd" enough): Computer Whiz
______
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.” Will Wright
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." Cpt. Edward A. Murphy Jr, USAF