I was just thinking about when I first started playing The Sims. I was quite young, maybe 6 or 7. I remember making myself in CAS (or choosing a blonde head, lol) and cheating for money to get a nice pretty big house. I remember I kept trying to walk the superstar runway, wondering why I kept getting yelled at, not knowing I had to have star points. I took her out for mud baths, fancy dinners, winter wonderland vacations, I even got her a pet!
And then I decided to switch houses and throw a party. Baaaad idea. I got them a pool for the special occasion. Everything was going really well, until my sim showed up and decided to go for a dip in the pool. Needless to say she drowned and I actually cried. I had no other choice but to save the game because I had gotten so far with the other family... And that was the end of my very first sim. I never dared to make my simself again in fear that I would die tragically once again.
Feel free to share your first Sims 1 family stories here! Hopefully they aren't as tragic as mine.
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So I made a Simself, and one for my then-boyfriend. Mine was a police officer and his was in the military. I asked him what career he wanted and everything.
...Until the stove caught fire and my Sim died.
I never wanted to make another Simself ever again, I was devastated. I swept it under the rug and made a different household.
I now have a new Simself, though, in my TS3 game, I made a household with me, my now-husband, and two of my BFF's. No-one's died.
Scream it out loud, One generation
Riot in the streets, Fighting and debris
Raise your fist high, the Generation Wild!"
As for actual play I started with the Goth family. Mortimer and Bella had a daughter after Cassandra was sent to military school, Sara(h), if I recall correctly and she was born outside the map and didn't know about cheats so she was taken away by the child services as I couldn't place the cradle inside the house. Eventually both Mortimer and Bella died too... and yep, that was probably one of the few unintentional deaths I had in my game
Not my first family but it was the one I remember the clearest. I made this family called The Wizzers and I used to make sitcom-esc stories about them with the photo album. I even made a theme song talking about their personalities. I remember a big form of conflict was that the dad hated flamingos but they were the mom's favorite animal so they had a ton of plastic yard flamingos that he would try to destroy. The daughter also had an unexplained English accent. I don't have the computer anymore since it was a really old Windows ME desktop I used to play on, but I would have loved to see what 10 me thought was funny now.
*Team Seasons*
I also made a Sim (me) and played this household for weeks working on skills, promotions etc. When I played other Sims in the neighbourhood, my Sim (me) would show up - take out her mirror and freshen her make up - am I really that vain!
My very first Sim lived at 10 Sim Lane, at the bottom of the neighborhood screen. I managed to find a pic via Google.
I expanded it a bit, of course. My Sim was a police officer. I don't remember how you met neighbors in those days. This was pre-Livin' Large! But anyway, he met Bella Goth and they began dating. Eventually, he proposed. It wasn't til later that I discovered Mortimer and Cassandra! lol
At any rate, that became my go-to house for my self-insert Sims.
The Criminelli mob family lived in the huge house on the top right.
The Rich Family (a businessman and his TV star wife) lived in the house with the privacy fence.
And the little house on the left was occupied by an elderly couple, Granny and Grouchy.
In TS2, I liked the intro of genetics and aging so I played a random family as they got really rich and moved into a huge mansion that I built. Their house was really too big and it took forever to walk around but the dad was a doctor who got to around the top of his field. The mom might have been a business exec. Their kids all got into private school through schmoozing. Later on, I played their kids as they went to university. The son was a straight A student in a posh fraternity who ended up dating this beautiful, wealthy girl. The daughter was nerdier and was going to be a science geek. I can't remember if the daughter found love; I'm not sure if I got to that point with her. I remember building fraternities and sororities.
In TS3, I think my first family was a blond guy and his redheaded wife who worked in the culinary career. I don't remember what he did, maybe tech. They had a child and they threw parties that Don Lothario, the Calientes and co would attend. That household started out modestly. I think I moved onto other houses because I don't remember more than the partying. I think Don tried to hit on that guy's wife which would not be surprising.
In TS4, I started with one random sim who I dropped into the game to see what would happen. He was a blond Swedish guy who got a job in IT. I said that he was brought into town because he was transferred by a large international IT company, so he was new to Willow Creek. He bought Single Streamlet where his descendents still live in this day as part of my rotation. He married Summer Holiday because he hit it off with her when she visited him in the Welcome Wagon. They had two sons, one was a gay genius nerd who went into IT like his father. The other son was a cool rocker who married a French model and moved to Oasis Springs. The grandchildren of those sons are still in my game. The gay one adopted a daughter who recently died of old age. She has a son who is an astronaut living in that house and a daughter who married Hugo Villareal and moved into his estate. Each of them have kids now.
The rocker guy's son is also a musician like him. That son married Sofia Bjergsen and they are boho hipster musicians. They have twin boys one of whom is named Lars and who is incredibly artsy even as a child. He dresses like Jackson Pollock and is clearly destined for a creative life. I don't know what the other twin will be like. They are both still kids. They all interact with a bunch of other characters in my game. I decided to play the town broadly rather than to focus on one specific house.
In the end, I had my dad's Sim fix up the alarm clock and then he got electrocuted and died straight away, lol.
I remember buying the EP's because I started with Livin Large and it was starting to bore me. One time with House Party, I was throwing a party and one of the pre made Sims died on the lot. I can't remember her name, but she wore blue running pants with white stripes, a white tank top and had short hair and lived in that octagon house. I couldn't believe that happened because up until that point, I have only killed one Sim and that was because I ran out of money so the fridge was empty and that Sim died of starvation.
I didn't find out until I started playing TS2 that there was a money cheat for TS1. When I found that out, I started playing TS1 more and I was able to give most of my Sims a comfortable life. I was building them huge mansions, and gave them the highest end stuff. I still to this day play TS1 and I still let them live quite comfortable.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/958714/cinebar-custom-content-clothes-updating-links/p1
The first household I really remember is this single female sim I played. Pretty sure her last name was Dallas. I played her for so long. I'm pretty sure I had aging off. She was a barbie beauty who maxed out multiple careers, but the one that really stuck was Superstar. She was this ridiculously famous woman, she a had a gigantic mansion (Basically a rectangle xD).
I remember being so creeped out by the guy who'd come to sort through her trash that I hired a butler and would always send him out to go fistfight the creepy stalker fan by the garbage. She had a thing for her neighbor, Mortimer, but I didn't have the heart to break up the Goth family and refused to let her pursue him even though she'd flirt with him when I wasn't looking!! So, she eventually fired the butler and married him. Her and her original butler, now husband, had a baby. I think I remember being afraid my parents would come in while they were woohooing in the sheets and I'd have to explain myself? LOL. I played on my dad's computer. Maybe it was the first baby I ever had in-game? I don't think I knew they could multiply before. I remember I was so excited to get that little blue basket! Then, he grew up into the most annoying, needy, little leech I ever did see. I really wanted to get rid of him, but I never did figure out how. I must've had aging off because he never grew up. I was stuck with him forevermore.
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I was terrible also because it was so much multitasking in it (which at the time I was horrible at).
So my Sims couple would always be hungry and tired and worked! Which ended up with them losing their baby!!
It was heartbreaking :(.