I am an OG simmer as well! I turn 45 next month and I have been playing since the first Sims game. I have played every game and bought every single pack, DLC etc. I have to say that I wasn't really all that bothered about TS3 (an unpopular opinion I know!). I still bought it all though. I played TS2 up until TS4 coming out and still for a while after TS4 was released. TS4 is my favourite but I still occasionally revisit TS2 for nostalgia's sake. I love knowing that there are so many "less young" players out there. Most people who know I play think it is odd that a woman of my age plays games. I don't think I will ever be too old to play.
I'm on my late 20s and been playing since I was around 10. My older sister (late 30s) Is also a big fan and we actually share her account to play and take turns to buy packs that interest us. It's so cool to have something in common since we're almost 12 years appart on age!
I am 70+ and have been playing since Sims 1 was first released. I own all packs except a few of the Sims 4 ones. I am a die hard Simmer and I tell everyone about the game. I love the Sims!!
I'm 44 years old now. I did join an other the Sims related forum in 2009 and as I remember it I have just been playing TS2 for about a year or so. I also remember that the game where being removed from the chefs by then (it could be found everywhere before).
Wow, a community I'm part of where I'm not "too old", and actually average aged lol. I'm heading towards my late 30s. I've only known about The Sims since about 2007, when my ex introduced it to me to The Sims 2 I believe it would've been around that time? I didn't buy it but I was semi-interested in watching her playing it and showing me. I don't remember when I began playing The Sims 3 but I only play 4 now, and that's been since... nope, no idea when I bought that either lol. I'm still very much a novice with the game!
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@GalacticGal I remember you from the forums back then. I have no intention of ever stopping play. This game is my escape from real life sometimes and I hope it remains that way. I have always been a lurker in the forums. Just add my 2 cents when it hits me. I love looking at your posts about your Sims.
I turned 29 last week! Been playing sims since I was 11 ❤️
We didn't have PCs when I was eleven. No cellphones, either. No 8-tracks, no digital anything. Certainly, no Internet. We even had those big fat paper phonebooks. Yeah, I grew up the Stone Ages.
I turned 29 last week! Been playing sims since I was 11 ❤️
We didn't have PCs when I was eleven. No cellphones, either. No 8-tracks, no digital anything. Certainly, no Internet. We even had those big fat paper phonebooks. Yeah, I grew up the Stone Ages.
Your comment really takes me back.
We had that black phone that wasn't even ours. The phone company owned it. We were also on a party line. Thank goodness those days are long gone lol.
I turned 29 last week! Been playing sims since I was 11 ❤️
We didn't have PCs when I was eleven. No cellphones, either. No 8-tracks, no digital anything. Certainly, no Internet. We even had those big fat paper phonebooks. Yeah, I grew up the Stone Ages.
Your comment really takes me back.
We had that black phone that wasn't even ours. The phone company owned it. We were also on a party line. Thank goodness those days are long gone lol.
We also had a Party Line, because it was free. You had to pay for the Private Line. Believe me, I was maybe all of ten when I tried to call my friend to see if she could come over to my house. I picked up the phone and must have started to dial when I got a togue-lashing from the two women who were in the middle of a conversation! Ah, me, the things that scar for life.
We didn't have PCs when I was eleven. No cellphones, either. No 8-tracks, no digital anything. Certainly, no Internet. We even had those big fat paper phonebooks. Yeah, I grew up the Stone Ages.
Lol. I remember my youngest thinking I came from the Victorian times
The years are flying by so very fast. I can still remember standing in good old Woolworths and my 2 sons helping to decide which new pack to buy for TS2; we ended up choosing the very awesome Open For Business. Seems like 2 years ago, not 17.
I think I might be the oldest still extant here! I'm over 80 now but don't play much these days, though I keep up the packs. I might find it an escape if I get moved to an old folks home!
I was 47 when The Sims came out and bought all of them since.
I might only be in my mid 30's but i did get shipped to an old folks home (a dementia care home to be precise!) for respite several times over the last 5 years and that has been some of my golden gaming time and where my love for the sims4 really developed. All that free time to just hunker down and do some proper simming. Don't get me wrong, i enjoy going for respite and nursing homes and do get involved with the home life and community, but for me my respite has usually been timed when i've been going through periods of great emotional and physical stress (and my body doesnt make any stress hormone of it's own, cortisol, so i have to try and keep my stress levels down as much as possible to stop me from quite literally dropping dead!) so carving out some time in my room to disengage from the outside world and just step in to my imaginary world where i am in complete control of EVERYTHING that is happening around me... well it is the perfect antidote to the chaos in my home life and medical world and all the respite i need! I shall have to try and teach some of my fellow residents about the sims the next time i go for a stay, although i must admit i've been stepped up to respite in a specialist neurodisability home now for young adults which is a bit more suited to my complex medical needs than a dementia nursing home!
Still i miss my adventures with the gang at the nursing home... we used to get up to all sorts of mischief
I started back in 2001, but it was the console games. Only got started playing it after my boys had finally started school. Had a computer at the time, but it was not compatible. In 2005 was when I started to actually play the PC versions, starting with Sims 1, but that PC was a bit behind the times at the time.
Been playing since I was 13 and started with Sims 3. I'm 27 now. Still feels strange that there are a bunch of people my age who actually started with the original; my parents would never! They actually followed the age ratings at the time!
I do feel like the forums skew towards the older age demographic overall.
I do feel like the forums skew towards the older age demographic overall.
I think that's because of the series' sticking power.
The game hasn't lost it's appeal. (For the most part... Sims 4 didn't pull me in until 2019.) Like a lot of Simmers, I started with 1 and just got hooked. Hopefully Sims 5 will be a satisfying game and we'll be playing to 100.
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We didn't have PCs when I was eleven. No cellphones, either. No 8-tracks, no digital anything. Certainly, no Internet. We even had those big fat paper phonebooks. Yeah, I grew up the Stone Ages.
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Your comment really takes me back.
We had that black phone that wasn't even ours. The phone company owned it. We were also on a party line. Thank goodness those days are long gone lol.
We also had a Party Line, because it was free. You had to pay for the Private Line. Believe me, I was maybe all of ten when I tried to call my friend to see if she could come over to my house. I picked up the phone and must have started to dial when I got a togue-lashing from the two women who were in the middle of a conversation!
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The years are flying by so very fast. I can still remember standing in good old Woolworths and my 2 sons helping to decide which new pack to buy for TS2; we ended up choosing the very awesome Open For Business. Seems like 2 years ago, not 17.
I might only be in my mid 30's but i did get shipped to an old folks home (a dementia care home to be precise!) for respite several times over the last 5 years and that has been some of my golden gaming time and where my love for the sims4 really developed. All that free time to just hunker down and do some proper simming. Don't get me wrong, i enjoy going for respite and nursing homes and do get involved with the home life and community, but for me my respite has usually been timed when i've been going through periods of great emotional and physical stress (and my body doesnt make any stress hormone of it's own, cortisol, so i have to try and keep my stress levels down as much as possible to stop me from quite literally dropping dead!) so carving out some time in my room to disengage from the outside world and just step in to my imaginary world where i am in complete control of EVERYTHING that is happening around me... well it is the perfect antidote to the chaos in my home life and medical world and all the respite i need! I shall have to try and teach some of my fellow residents about the sims the next time i go for a stay, although i must admit i've been stepped up to respite in a specialist neurodisability home now for young adults which is a bit more suited to my complex medical needs than a dementia nursing home!
Still i miss my adventures with the gang at the nursing home... we used to get up to all sorts of mischief
I do feel like the forums skew towards the older age demographic overall.
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I think that's because of the series' sticking power.
The game hasn't lost it's appeal. (For the most part... Sims 4 didn't pull me in until 2019.) Like a lot of Simmers, I started with 1 and just got hooked. Hopefully Sims 5 will be a satisfying game and we'll be playing to 100.