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Game Pack Idea: Traveling through Different Decades
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This is a random idea I had yesterday: a 1950’s game pack. But the more I thought about it, I think they could make different packs for most decades of the 20th century, at least.
1950’s, for example:
The pack could come with:
-specific hairstyles from the era (bouffants, poodle cuts, and pompadours, etc.)
-specific outfits and clothing items from the era (pencil dresses and skirts, poodles skirts, jeans and leather jackets, etc.)
-a few new recipes of iconic foods that became popular that decade (beef stroganoff, pig-in-a-blanket, chiffon cake, milkshakes and different ice creams and floats)
-lots of build and buy stuff for 1950’s decor, including for special soda fountain/ice cream parlor and sock hop builds.
-the ability to create fountain/ice cream parlor businesses with Dine Out (maybe also comic books, records, and other stuff with Get to Work as well)
-an added Sock Hop social event as a dance for teens
-new ice cream flavors, and the addition of milkshakes and floats
-playable toys styled like 1950’s toys (Mr. Potato Head, Play-Doh, slinkies, Barbies, hula hoops… I think all would build imagination, but hula hoops would be for the motor skill)
-1950’s radio station
-new dance moves would be cute
I think that’s enough for a pack, no?
Then I thought, they could do that for the 1920’s, 1930’s, and so on to the 1990’s.
What do you think? Would you purchase?
1950’s, for example:
The pack could come with:
-specific hairstyles from the era (bouffants, poodle cuts, and pompadours, etc.)
-specific outfits and clothing items from the era (pencil dresses and skirts, poodles skirts, jeans and leather jackets, etc.)
-a few new recipes of iconic foods that became popular that decade (beef stroganoff, pig-in-a-blanket, chiffon cake, milkshakes and different ice creams and floats)
-lots of build and buy stuff for 1950’s decor, including for special soda fountain/ice cream parlor and sock hop builds.
-the ability to create fountain/ice cream parlor businesses with Dine Out (maybe also comic books, records, and other stuff with Get to Work as well)
-an added Sock Hop social event as a dance for teens
-new ice cream flavors, and the addition of milkshakes and floats
-playable toys styled like 1950’s toys (Mr. Potato Head, Play-Doh, slinkies, Barbies, hula hoops… I think all would build imagination, but hula hoops would be for the motor skill)
-1950’s radio station
-new dance moves would be cute
I think that’s enough for a pack, no?
Then I thought, they could do that for the 1920’s, 1930’s, and so on to the 1990’s.
What do you think? Would you purchase?
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Heck, if they made these a kit, I'd buy it
Play-Doh and Barbie would probably just be reskins of existing items too, which means we'd only need new animations for Potato Head, slinkies and hula hoops.
I'm already staring into space with a stupid grin imagining what the slinky animations would look like.
I am uncertain I would buy the pack. I would have to see what's included to be quite honest. Again, I like the general idea of going back into Time.
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I'd definitely go for a late 18th century/early 19th century pack more so than a 20th century pack.
Kind of like the Decades challenge, but starting in the 1950's instead of 1850's
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Yeah, I was thinking Play-Doh would basically be colorful molding clay, except for kids. Maybe they’d have new things kids could make with it.
Mr. Potato Head could be Mr. Llama Head.
I would love to travel through time into different eras and countries, but I think the 20th century would be less daunting: more familiar things to create from “recent” history, and less to create in terms of content. Just additions to existing packs, really. No new worlds required.
It would have to come with landlines though to be immersive. An option for Sims to only use landlines would be helpful.
Maybe some 1950 job careers as well.
Plus old fashioned cars! 😊🎉
1920's:
Hair: bobbed hairstyles (lots of variations of this), Dutch boy cuts, finger waves, eton crops with or without kiss curls, lots of fun headbands and hats
Clothing: feathered headpieces, drop waist gowns and flapper dresses, fans, jazz suits, knickerbockers, riding boots, Ivy League look styles, two-toned oxford shoes... garter belts, turban hats, long pearl necklaces
Food: deviled eggs, codfish cakes, chicken ala king, lobster canapes, pineapple upside-down cake
Decor: 1920's build items to create cool speakeasy-type nightclubs or Great Gatsby-type parties
Toys: adaptations of the Raggedy Ann doll (imagination), Tinkertoys (mental), and yo-yos (motor)
Gameplay: "Swanky parties" social events (styled like Great Gatsby parties), and the addition of baseball in the game (shoutout to Babe Ruth)... they could make baseball diamonds on a big grid and have kids and adults run to different bases or swing a bat at a ball. Or they could just have a play catch feature just with a glove and ball, sort of like how the soccer ball works.
Other: Charleston dance, 1920's jazz radio station, silent films added to the movies with actors who resemble Charlie Chaplin, Josephine Baker, Clara Bow and the like.
Hair: marcel waves, straight or waved pageboy cuts
Clothing: tops and dresses with puff sleeves, patterned house dresses, smoking jackets, beach pyjamas, culottes, sweater vests, English drape suits, sailor pants, saddle shoes
Food: Mulligan stew, molded gelatin for dessert, meatloaf
Decor: 1930's stuff
Toys: An adaptation of Monopoly, although I guess the whole family can play. It would build mental skill. Finger painting as a toddler creativity skill.
Gameplay: Dance marathons as a social event. Sims have to partner up and dance until they get exhausted and pass out (or leave to pee or eat, I guess). The last standing dancing Sim couple wins a cash prize. Radio programs where Sims can sit and listen to dialogue spoken with dramatic music. I LOL'ed thinking of their shocked reactions to hearing a suspenseful episode. Jigsaw puzzles which children and adults can assemble together (they can get happy moodlets, or become frustrated if they can't solve it).
Other: Miniature golf courses as a lot type. Or maybe you can place one inside a park. But it would have a few holes with different areas for the Sim to travel around attempting to get the ball in the holes. I guess it would be similar to hiking in Snowy Escape.
I like your ideas about decades game packs. If they do a couple of them every year, we could be looking at a lot of content over the next few years. I would also love a stone age pack. Something like the Flintstones.
To answer the first part: Sounds like it could be fun for people who like that sort of thing. I might like it, too, but in a different game. My Sims 4 gameplay isn't based so much on the real world or its time measurements, or in turn its era-based fashions, fads, and technology. So to answer the second question, no, I'd personally be very unlikely to purchase.
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