The Sims 1: An LGR Retrospective Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Warren
The Sims was a huge part of my childhood. I was obsessed with it, and even would play around with architectural plans and architectural design software on some mid-1990s Mac computers as a kid. My parents saw this outlet as not being desirable and tried to limit the time I spent on it - which got more stringent later in life as my parents saw this time as being not worth much. Later, I moved on to SimCity 4, The Sims 2, and SketchUp.
Joke's on my parents, I now work a job where I do quite a bit of design work for buildings using SketchUp, as well as its more professional-feeling cousins AutoCAD and Revit, often based on real-world measurements, building codes, and other information, and I love almost every minute of it.
I still enjoy listening to The Sims soundtrack sometimes, even today. I found all the songs in the game files a long time ago when I still had the Complete Collection, and imported them to my iTunes library - where I later organized them very thoroughly, and named all the songs I could find names for online.
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The Sims was a huge part of my childhood. I was obsessed with it, and even would play around with architectural plans and architectural design software on some mid-1990s Mac computers as a kid. My parents saw this outlet as not being desirable and tried to limit the time I spent on it - which got more stringent later in life as my parents saw this time as being not worth much. Later, I moved on to SimCity 4, The Sims 2, and SketchUp.
Joke's on my parents, I now work a job where I do quite a bit of design work for buildings using SketchUp, as well as its more professional-feeling cousins AutoCAD and Revit, often based on real-world measurements, building codes, and other information, and I love almost every minute of it.
I still enjoy listening to The Sims soundtrack sometimes, even today. I found all the songs in the game files a long time ago when I still had the Complete Collection, and imported them to my iTunes library - where I later organized them very thoroughly, and named all the songs I could find names for online.
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buttpipe
I first played this series (the sims 1) PS2, then PC a few weeks later with the base game and livin large. I was around 9 or 10 at that time, and it absolutely absorbed me because there had been nothing like it I had played prior. I still vaguely remember the order in which I got all the expansions too. I also remember the 45 minutes it took to install everything with the +10 CDs. Probably one of the best games I-ve played, and the isometric pre rendered graphics and amazing soundtrack are pretty timeless. The Sims is a little different now and I-m not sure if it-s just my rose colored glasses making me like the earlier games more. Either way, I hope young incoming simmers enjoy the series now as much as I enjoyed the first.
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I first played this series (the sims 1) PS2, then PC a few weeks later with the base game and livin large. I was around 9 or 10 at that time, and it absolutely absorbed me because there had been nothing like it I had played prior. I still vaguely remember the order in which I got all the expansions too. I also remember the 45 minutes it took to install everything with the +10 CDs. Probably one of the best games I-ve played, and the isometric pre rendered graphics and amazing soundtrack are pretty timeless. The Sims is a little different now and I-m not sure if it-s just my rose colored glasses making me like the earlier games more. Either way, I hope young incoming simmers enjoy the series now as much as I enjoyed the first.
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Napishtim
I find it interesting that this game is built on the idea that americans have of a -universal lifestyle-, because outside of the US I can assure you that it is considered an extremely american game. even when the recent Sims4 tries to portray places from around the world, it is clearly through american lenses. The way space is handled, finding a job, managing relationships, well basically everything is american. We play this game as an american sitcom simulation. This also includes the language, that mimics american intonation and even a lot of american phonemes. Again, maybe that's the american idea of what a universal pseudo-language would sound like.
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I find it interesting that this game is built on the idea that americans have of a -universal lifestyle-, because outside of the US I can assure you that it is considered an extremely american game. even when the recent Sims4 tries to portray places from around the world, it is clearly through american lenses. The way space is handled, finding a job, managing relationships, well basically everything is american. We play this game as an american sitcom simulation. This also includes the language, that mimics american intonation and even a lot of american phonemes. Again, maybe that's the american idea of what a universal pseudo-language would sound like.
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Linalarity
While everyone was playing Sims 3 and Sims 2, I was playing Sims 1 since it was the cheapest one I could find on the flea-market back in grade 5, which was in 2013/2014. Eventually I switched to Sims 2 and it worked great on my crappy PC until I got an expansion pack which broke my PC: ) Till this day I play Sims but I gotta admit that Sims 4 is severely lacking in game play compared to Sims 1 and 2. I used to play for HOURS without getting bored, but now I can only play for one hour until I don-t know what to do anymore. What a pity.
Aaand I got Sims 3 as a gift from a friend but it never worked on any PC I tried: )
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While everyone was playing Sims 3 and Sims 2, I was playing Sims 1 since it was the cheapest one I could find on the flea-market back in grade 5, which was in 2013/2014. Eventually I switched to Sims 2 and it worked great on my crappy PC until I got an expansion pack which broke my PC: ) Till this day I play Sims but I gotta admit that Sims 4 is severely lacking in game play compared to Sims 1 and 2. I used to play for HOURS without getting bored, but now I can only play for one hour until I don-t know what to do anymore. What a pity.
Aaand I got Sims 3 as a gift from a friend but it never worked on any PC I tried: )
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Marc
I remember my best friend having a PC at home and 'The Sims' installed. Everytime I visited him after school we just played it for 6-8 hours straight until I had to go back home. I literally dreamed of this game. Then finally I had my own PC and luckily it had a hard drive barely large enough to have Windows and Sims on it. It took almost 15 minutes just to launch the game but it was so worth it. Then I upgraded the RAM from 32 MB to 48 MB and my mind was blown when I saw the improvement in performance. Ahh, those memories.
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I remember my best friend having a PC at home and 'The Sims' installed. Everytime I visited him after school we just played it for 6-8 hours straight until I had to go back home. I literally dreamed of this game. Then finally I had my own PC and luckily it had a hard drive barely large enough to have Windows and Sims on it. It took almost 15 minutes just to launch the game but it was so worth it. Then I upgraded the RAM from 32 MB to 48 MB and my mind was blown when I saw the improvement in performance. Ahh, those memories.
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Alan
I remember being a kid and my folks were at the local home and building supply store (before we had Home Depot) and my Dad picked up a PC program called Floorplan Plus. It was a home design program where you would design a house and it had templates for furniture, household items and so on. Man I spent hours playing it even though it wasn't a game. I made all kinds of crazy houses and when The Sims came out it reminded me of all the fun I had with that program. :)
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I remember being a kid and my folks were at the local home and building supply store (before we had Home Depot) and my Dad picked up a PC program called Floorplan Plus. It was a home design program where you would design a house and it had templates for furniture, household items and so on. Man I spent hours playing it even though it wasn't a game. I made all kinds of crazy houses and when The Sims came out it reminded me of all the fun I had with that program. :)
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kuro
the sims 1 has a special place in my heart. Even hearing the musics make me wanna cry. I used to play this with my dad when I was 11-12. Im 32 now btw. My parent is divorced and my dad lives with his new wife and my mom lives with me. Im still hang out with dad from time to time but the memories of me playing the Sims when he was still living with us is just, ahh, i feel like i wanna cry haha
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the sims 1 has a special place in my heart. Even hearing the musics make me wanna cry. I used to play this with my dad when I was 11-12. Im 32 now btw. My parent is divorced and my dad lives with his new wife and my mom lives with me. Im still hang out with dad from time to time but the memories of me playing the Sims when he was still living with us is just, ahh, i feel like i wanna cry haha
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AtheoAng3l0
As a kid, it bothered me that when Sims get married, they'd just instantly change clothes and marry on the spot. Took me a while to realize that it was all up to you if it would be a quick instant marriage or you'd first find (or build) an appropriate venue, prepare food and possible activities, and invite people before marrying them off.
So much freedom.
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As a kid, it bothered me that when Sims get married, they'd just instantly change clothes and marry on the spot. Took me a while to realize that it was all up to you if it would be a quick instant marriage or you'd first find (or build) an appropriate venue, prepare food and possible activities, and invite people before marrying them off.
So much freedom.
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LuBu4u
Its strange how when executives dont understand a game - its becomes one of the most iconic games of the decade.
And when they do understand the game, it becomes BFV or Lawbreakers.
Spores another great example, it was originally more simulator based and EA management demanded it be more -cute- so they cut a lot of content, part of why Wright left.
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Its strange how when executives dont understand a game - its becomes one of the most iconic games of the decade.
And when they do understand the game, it becomes BFV or Lawbreakers.
Spores another great example, it was originally more simulator based and EA management demanded it be more -cute- so they cut a lot of content, part of why Wright left.
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Eduardo
Damn. I had that game on the family computer and my sisters used cheats to just build their dream houses, but I actually played the game the right way and it made me depressed. No dlc or expansions just the base game, so I just went to work and fulfill needs and it made me think -is this all there is to life-. made me depressed I had to stop playing it
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Damn. I had that game on the family computer and my sisters used cheats to just build their dream houses, but I actually played the game the right way and it made me depressed. No dlc or expansions just the base game, so I just went to work and fulfill needs and it made me think -is this all there is to life-. made me depressed I had to stop playing it
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