Just curious what everyone's first experience was like.
It was super chaotic for 5-year-old me, I was super stressed! My first game was The Sims 1, I was playing the Goth family, and I thought you're supposed to watch and observe your sims' lives. I didn't realise you can click on them and make them do things until much later lol. So I sat there in horror watching Bella, Mortimer and Cassandra spend 2 sim days mourning at the graveyard, and then dying horrible deaths.
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I was hooked. Since then, every weekend I'd go to my boyfriend's house to play the game, he got pretty annoyed that I didn't want to play other games with him on the console that often anymore. His mother though, completely understood my new found adiction.
A year later, The Sims 2 came out and I bought it on release date. I still remember the feeling of playing TS2 for the first time like if it was yesterday.
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I have SOOOOOOOOO many fond memories of Sims 1 and all that followed. It was the game that made me comfortable interacting with files, exploring them to see what could be changed. LONG before Hot Date allowed us to buy pajamas, I'd found out how to change file names to make any clothes I wanted into pajamas. I can also vividly remember first playing Sims 2 -- being AMAZED by the camera. Sims 3 was mostly memorable for the open world...I remember following my little mini-me on a bicycle to work, being awestruck by the ability to just follow people around, instead of jumping from one place to the next.
For whatever its failings and abuses at the hands of EA, it's still a great series.
SimCity 2000 was my introduction to Maxis, too! (And..PC games.) Walmart had it installed on a display computer, and I didn't know how to play the game so I'd just plonk down roads and parks and other buildings until I was out of money.
Had to sneaky buy it for myself though. Was looking at it one day, and my parents didn't like why it was rated T. So I wasn't allowed to buy it when they were with me.
From there I expanded to 2. No regrets on my teenage sneaking.
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I never played The Sims Online, but a lot of the objects from it were extracted by modders and made available. Very cool stuff in that game!
oh my goodness yes! My entire body would jump and my heart would race like crazy the instant I heard the burglar sound. If I can be really honest, the sound still kinda terrifies me hahaha
I was in my last year of A levels our house had just been robbed but I had managed to get hold of the CAS demo silver linings and all that. anyway, the 🐸🐸🐸🐸 had taken all my notes (so I couldn't revise).
So just imagen the situation I am sitting upstairs on my computer and had just spent 2 hours on the CAS making a family feeling a little violated, when I get told that my Grandmother had just died so that was the worst day ever and from then on the Sims2 cas demo reminded me of my Grandmother but in an odd way the game and the demo helped me get through that bad time in my life.
So, I have to say my first simming experiences weren't too successful, but I gradually figured out what to do and how to do it, for the most part, at least.
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The first time when I was introduced to the sims 1, was when I was 10. My friend in school had this game when it just came out as they always had all the newest games and such. My family didn't. So, she said 'I have this very cool game, we can play.' and i sat side of her and watched her play with little puppets called sims. I was amazed by it as the latest game style I knew was ehh.. Nintendo 98 or something? She played a couple and then the neighbors would come over (welcome wagon) and hearing all those little sounds of sims talking and the doorbell was just WOW for me. I remember she had that dark red kitchen counter and I thought it was beautiful.
She actually didn't let me play, yeah I know.. -_- But I needed that game from that point on and as it was quite expensive, I lent it from my friend one day (my sister did the same with her friend who had the sims as well and lent the expansion Deluxe). We installed it on our PC and then found out that you need the latest disk to actually keep playing it. In the end, we had to return the deluxe EP, but we could play the basegame only. My mother bought us 2 more packs which were 'On vacation' and 'Party'.
Me and my two sisters were playing a LOT. My mom used to set an alarm for every 30 min, so we wouldn't fight who could play. We just sat and watched each other play and waited for our turn. While I was watching my sisters play, I was also planning what i would do next with my sims
Sometimes one of my sims would walk by the house of my sisters sims when she was playing and we always had to make sure none of us would ruin the relationship of each other sims by cheating etc. It was funny, but I kept my eye on them o_o
Two songs we always listened to when we played The sims 1 for the first time were:
In your eyes - Kylie Minogue
Rainy days - Mary J blige ft. J Rule
Whenever I hear these.. I go: omgggggg The sims 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I remember the first S2 gameplay. I got twins and one got taken away cause I did'nt know how to handle the game
I remember the first time playing S3 too. My woman got a job as a doctor and she was on call ever evening. And she had a baby too, was a single mum. I hated the game lol I thought it was so hard. I quit the job.
I didn't like S4 the first time either cause when I tested it out, before I started my legacy, I had a dude in my household a kid too and the man was all angry with the kid. All by himself, without my input. I threw me off a little. But then I started my legacy and I've loved the game ever since.
I (and by that I mean my sister hogging the mouse and keyboard while I dictated) made a couple named Joe and Emilia Smith, the most generic American name kid me thought of. Emilia worked in the science career while I had full control of Joe the whole day. Joe tried to change a lamp's light bulb with no mechanical skill and got electrocuted to death. Immediately after that, Emilia started a kitchen fire.
We didn't save
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Ooh, about S1, I actually remember my friend being like "I have this game, my classmate gave it to me, do you wanna play?" I guess we played it together then. I didn't have a computer at the time myself so I didn't know anything about computer games.
She was the same with S2. She was like, it's like sims but it's a new game. I didn't understand the concept of different iterations at all