Just for fun, I'm curious to know how long everyone has been playing
I got into Sims 2 aged 10ish and I've had long periods (years) not playing but now in my mid-30s I'm still playing Sims 3 lol. I went crazy in a Steam sale and bought everything. Recently I went on a custom world binge and downloaded everything and finally settled on playing in Mayfield springs.
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Had a long history with the series in general.
I was first introduced to the the Sims 3 in Jan 2017 during recovery from a near-fatal bout with pneumonia. You soon realize that it's very hard to live if you can't breathe (near total lung congestion the number being given to me by the ER nurse was between 85-90%...on the x-ray and subsequent CAT Scan after being IV'd) Of course, after I get home...I realize that I didn't have anything to do during the course of my recovery and being male and stupid, I whined to my wife...that I needed "something to do..." Finally getting tired of my complaints, she handed me the Sims 3 disc, I think around the 11th of January, 2017 which was far longer than what I thought she'd stand my whining for. Most impressive.
So that was when I started playing Sims 3. Once I started playing, I was hooked...as in full-on 100% addiction. The town of Sunset Valley and its quaint sims...were like an addictive substance (not that I've tried any). I've been hooked ever since and it's now almost 4 years now.
2017 Nikkei_Simmer's sims.
2020 Nikkei_Simmer's sims
So, yeah, my addiction to Sims 3 just increases. And provided my ticker lasts, I'm hoping to be here for a long time yet.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
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It's only been relatively recently that I discovered I have a computer that can now run The Sims Complete Collection, The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection (that Origin gave away a while back) and The Sims 3 with every expansion and stuff pack (save for Sweet Treats since it's no longer being sold by Origin or Steam).
It could run Sims 4 up to whichever expansion it was that switched to not supporting 32 bit or whatever it was, but I don't have any expansions or whatever for Sims 4 since I don't have enough interest in doing so.
TS2 I was busy working two jobs so I didn't experience it too much.
TS3 I started playing shortly after release. Someone let me borrow the game but I ended up ruining the case which forced me to buy my own copy so I could switch out the cases. It was a really nice distraction after making the move to a new state (homesick). I don't even mind the case being messed up. It just reminds me of that time in my life.
S3 simblr: http://simplysimming.tumblr.com/
S4 simblr: http://simlogic.tumblr.com/
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I never played Sims 2 because my laptop at the time didn't meet the minimum requirements.
When I got a new laptop in fall 2010, I bought Sims 3 almost as an afterthought: it was just sitting there on the shelf at the Apple Store where I got my MacBook Pro, and I figured why not try it, since I loved the first one. I got the bundle that included Ambitions and happily played with just that pack for about 6.5 years, until my laptop's performance started to falter a bit. I still tried to play though; I couldn't really help it.
I bought a new laptop in December 2017, and the rest of the EPs and some SPs in January 2018, but I still haven't really played with all the packs yet. I'm having too much fun adding one at a time and trying out all the new gameplay.
Okay, it was Nov 2011, it must have been just after Thanksgiving, and just possibly I have recovery from a family holiday get together confused with recovery from a horrible battle event from the 1850s. To be fair though, that can be easy to do.
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June 27, 2011 is when I registered the sims 3 base game but I didn't get to play until that December because I didn't have a computer that could run it. I registered it on my aunt's computer online, but installed it in December of 2011 once I got my laptop. Now I'm back on a desktop because my laptop can't run properly anymore and it's missing some keys.(my temper got to me and pulled some keys off. Stupid, I know.)
ETA: Overall, I actually started playing Sims in 2006, a year after Sims 2 was released, and I've never looked back. Lol. I stopped playing 2 after the official site was shut down.
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