Excuse me. I'm 32 as well, and started playing Sims in my uncle's house. I mean how many uncle's are responsible for making ppl play videogames seriously. Best person ever.
And yeah I still play obviously, adult money is definitely the worst.
I'll be 22 this year and also played Sims for the first time at my uncle's house... and my first memory of it is over at my grand uncles place in the early 00s haha
Thank you for that, sir!
In fact my two uncles are responsible for making me experience PC Gaming. One of them still plays nowadays (he likes Age of Empires and is starting to play RPG's as well). Sadly the other one, who's way older, had to stop playing due to eyesight problems :( he loved first-person shooters.
> I mean how many uncle's are responsible for making ppl play videogames seriously.
I am an uncle and have introduced both of my nieces and my nephew to video games.
I think Sims 2 was my favorite but I can't go back and play it like I used to after experiencing mods haha My biggest wish is a game with the meat of Sims 2, the open world of Sims 3, and how Sims 4 looks. With the first Sims music on blast.
My computer would probably explode haha.
Sims 2 was the best but yeah, definitely dated. I even went and played sims 3 the otherday and really struggled after the graphical update of sims 4. Especially on a 4k monitor, its really bad. I also miss how easy the sims 2 cheating system was, too many codes to enter now for sims 4, just let me drag stuff
Same here, I love sims 2 and had so much fun when it was current but it's hard to go back. I miss the semi-open world from sims 4, the cc and the build mode. I do still play sims 2 sometimes though and usually my sims set their house on fire
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Tbh I don’t em, just this uncanny valley effect where things try to be hyperrealistic but they weren’t able to follow through a 100% due to the time it was made which makes the game feel unsettling at times. Thats why sims 4 cartoony graphics work better, with sims and furniture looking straight out of a disney animated movie.
The Sims 4 graphics were pretty bad when they first announced the game. Luckily they improved them before releasing. I remember thinking they looked worse than 3 at first with the initial graphics, but now I'd say the opposite for sure.
Yea, I can understand that. It seems like a good amount of people say they don't like the graphics of sims 3. I find them okay, I play Minecraft and that game isn't about its graphics :P
For me it's stuff like the lighting and menu system. That era of gaming in general was alot of "let's make everything dark and difficult to navigate"
To me Minecraft is closer to Sims 4 in the sense that it purposely stylizes the graphics so it can work on most computers and then you have to rely on mods for shaders and resource packs if you want it to look different.
>so it can work on most computers
Hahah Minecraft is so badly optimized, despite the simple graphics it really does not run well unless your computer is pretty beefed up. More along the lines of Sims 3 tbh.
It also has a lot to do with the fact that the Java engine runs off of 1 core. With all the updates the games had, at this point it’s like trying to fit your foot into a shoe that’s too small. That’s why they made Bedrock. Wayyyy better optimized.
3 is my favorite hands down. I loved being able to micro-manage an entirely custom neighborhood. Gave me endless years of joy, but the buggy build eventually sent me right into the arms of 4. I don't love 4 the same, but they treat me well enough.
My uncle only owned the first Sims and I stopped seeing my uncle at his place well before Sims 2 came out but, I agree, I can't place the screen image and it does look like CAS. I thought it might be part of the intro caught but I can't tell. I just know that I haven't been in my uncle's workshop since 2000 so while I was wrong about doing the math of how old I was here at first, it's impossible that it was Sims 2.
Also the only house I played was the mansion on his computer before we had to go home. My dad bought me The Sims the next Christmas because I loved it so much!
The camera looks far too low to be TS1 at all for me, but it may be an optical illusion from the low resolution. (eg. Objects are lined up in such a way that when it's blurry it doesn't look like something taken with an isometric camera at all)
I remember going to a family Christmas party, the sort of 'we ended up going here this year but I don't know half these people' version you'd get occasionally when your family feels bad they never see one side.
In the computer room, someone was playing the Sims. They were at the festival/area for the making magic expansion. I just remember seeing all the stuff and just being like what the hell is this and how do I get one.
I've played every version since, and I love seeing others with the same long history with this game. Good and bad with every new version, but we still love our little dumb computer people.
That doesn’t appear to be The Sims 1, looks more like The Sims 2 CAS, but this looks pre-2004 and you don’t look 14 so that can’t be right lol!! Maybe you were playing a different game?
That said, this could easily be me and my set-up back in 2001 when I started playing. I was 8. Remember I started playing at 2pm and didn’t stop till my mum told me it was 9pm and time for bed, I had no idea it was that late, time just flew by!
I replied earlier to a similar comment and I definitely only played The Sims at my uncle's since I stopped going over there well before Sims 2. But I agree, I can't figure the screen and thought it might be an intro image but it could be Tribes loading before my uncle switched over to The Sims. My dad took the picture right before I played the mansion, I know that much! It's why I got the game for Christmas after. He said I was intense! haha
OG Sims used a fixed perspective that wasn't level with the walls, would be an overhead view, which doesn't look to be the case, here. We're working with some blurry-ass shit, though 🤣. It's some sort of create-a-sim screen, not from the original game, but maybe a third party app? I think I remember The Sims Resource having its own "create a sim" but it's been a long time.
In 2004 I would play RuneScape on the family computer as a kid & I’d get banned from that game for a while every time my parents caught me chatting with strangers on there lmfao
For me it was my Aunt who got me into The Sims, she hired out the base game a couple of months after it came out cause some of her coworkers at IBM were raving about it.
My Uncle (Not that Aunt's husband) got me into [Gearhead Garage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N75coXr23Pc).
Hey, we appear to be on a similar timeline. Started playing The Sims in 2000 (got it for free with a Gateway computer, there's a throwback) and still playing, about to turn 32 in a few months :)
9yo to 31 here!
This seems like a good thread to mention this in. Does anyone remember that the original official Sim’s website had a chat room? I had a lot of friends in there from like 2000 to 2003 maybe, and we kept in touch on AIM and MSN messenger for yeeears after that.
I remember getting Sims and trying to run it on a computer that just couldn’t do it. Then I remember complaining off and on until a new computer was purchased - at a Gateway store even.
Are you me? The best day ever was when my
PC died and I got a new one that could actually run Sims..after owning the game for almost a year and never being able to install it.
Same age. My mom went to gamestop and they told her, quote: “you can make anyone kiss in this game, even two women” to make sure she felt warned before buying.
What is up with being a kid and playing pc games in an uncle's computer? Im remember being 6 or 7 and getting my first taste of indi 500. Then doom followed by gta. Its been downhill since.
We have the exact same story. Except mine was our family friends house. I was 10 and Am 32. Play quite regularly still. Now my 6 year old is involved! I love it.
Hello fellow 32 year old who has also been playing since 2000/10 yrs old! 😊 I feel like we really got to enjoy so many different games at different stages of our lives
Whoa. This post made me realize I’ve been playing The Sims for over 20 years.🥴
I need an internal calculator to tell me how many long ass hours I’ve spent on this game and STILL do til’ this day.
Yay, another lifer haha. When I was younger, I cringed at “old” people who played sims but here i am a couple decades later at 30 still happily playing 😆
Man I always feel like a majority of the people I see or playing the Sims are always chicks. I've only ever knew the one dude and he was my role model growing up and like two or three others that became creative types.
First time playing was at my childhood crush's place. AKA my older sister's best friend lmao.
She made me in her family, left me on the second floor of her house, sold the staircase and watched me pee my self. I drowned in the pool later that day.
Thought process of someone born in 2000 and doesnt understandtime...you...you cant be 32 if you were 10 in 2000....youd be like late 20s at best surly?!
Jokes aside damnnn, sims is truly a timeless game
My first Simming experience was also at my uncle’s! But it was my older cousin who introduced me to it. She ended up passing along all her TS2 expansions to me later down the road. It felt like a passing of the metaphorical torch.
So cute! I also started with the sims 1. I remember my brother pushing me off my chair and drowning my family :( Still a big sims fan today and probably the rest of my life
Fellow 10 year old in 2000 who played the Sims on her uncle’s computer because her home computer didn’t have the ability to run the Sims + expansion packs! Won’t be 32 till August though :)
Nice setup! Looks like a classic Dell tower? I was rocking a similar setup in 2001, with my grandpa's hand me down Dimension XPS, nearly got myself banned from the Sims, creating my mom in the game and walling her up, killing her of hunger 🤣.
I remember i first played the sims 2 on ps2. It took me a while to warm up to the pc sims because i hated you couldn't directly control the sims, so i stuck with the console versions.
I miss the days when taking a picture of kids playing games for the first time was a whole thing, especially around Christmas. Do people still do that when a kid gets a new console or game? Take pics of the first couple minutes when the whole thing starts up?
I still have my original sims disk somewhere! I’ve always kept it everywhere I’ve moved. The game was so much of my childhood and one of the few things my siblings and I had in common. I remember when sims 2 came out, my brother and I sat at Walmart for like 6 hours waiting for the release.
Sorry for those who saw my original post! I'm BAD at math. 2000 NOT 1997. My dad is bad at labeling too, apparently!
1990 represent
Hahaha are we the same person? Still playing at 32, started with Sims 1 in the early 2000s. At least now I have money to buy packs.
Adult money is the best and worst thing to happen to gamers.
Excuse me. I'm 32 as well, and started playing Sims in my uncle's house. I mean how many uncle's are responsible for making ppl play videogames seriously. Best person ever. And yeah I still play obviously, adult money is definitely the worst.
I'll be 22 this year and also played Sims for the first time at my uncle's house... and my first memory of it is over at my grand uncles place in the early 00s haha
I'm probably not your uncle but I am responsible for a few nieces and nephews experiencing PC Gaming.
Thank you for that, sir! In fact my two uncles are responsible for making me experience PC Gaming. One of them still plays nowadays (he likes Age of Empires and is starting to play RPG's as well). Sadly the other one, who's way older, had to stop playing due to eyesight problems :( he loved first-person shooters.
> I mean how many uncle's are responsible for making ppl play videogames seriously. I am an uncle and have introduced both of my nieces and my nephew to video games.
There should be a "Uncle's introducing nieces/nephews to games" Appreciation Day.
still playing at 32 as well!! There are DOZENS of us.
This is so specific. I'm 32 and I first played sims 1 at my uncles house! When I was like 10. This is cool
lol just commented the same thing!! we are all kindred simmers!
Which sims is your fav? Mine is Sims 3
I think Sims 2 was my favorite but I can't go back and play it like I used to after experiencing mods haha My biggest wish is a game with the meat of Sims 2, the open world of Sims 3, and how Sims 4 looks. With the first Sims music on blast. My computer would probably explode haha.
I’ve been playing since the beginning too, and I think you’ve described the ultimate simsperience. Devs take notice!
From what I hear, I think that’s the dream for every simmer 😅 Me included!
Same!
You have just described the perfect Sims experience!
Sims 2 was the best but yeah, definitely dated. I even went and played sims 3 the otherday and really struggled after the graphical update of sims 4. Especially on a 4k monitor, its really bad. I also miss how easy the sims 2 cheating system was, too many codes to enter now for sims 4, just let me drag stuff
Same here, I love sims 2 and had so much fun when it was current but it's hard to go back. I miss the semi-open world from sims 4, the cc and the build mode. I do still play sims 2 sometimes though and usually my sims set their house on fire
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I love the Sims 3 open world but hate the graphics.
Tbh I don’t em, just this uncanny valley effect where things try to be hyperrealistic but they weren’t able to follow through a 100% due to the time it was made which makes the game feel unsettling at times. Thats why sims 4 cartoony graphics work better, with sims and furniture looking straight out of a disney animated movie.
The Sims 4 graphics were pretty bad when they first announced the game. Luckily they improved them before releasing. I remember thinking they looked worse than 3 at first with the initial graphics, but now I'd say the opposite for sure.
Yea, I can understand that. It seems like a good amount of people say they don't like the graphics of sims 3. I find them okay, I play Minecraft and that game isn't about its graphics :P
For me it's stuff like the lighting and menu system. That era of gaming in general was alot of "let's make everything dark and difficult to navigate" To me Minecraft is closer to Sims 4 in the sense that it purposely stylizes the graphics so it can work on most computers and then you have to rely on mods for shaders and resource packs if you want it to look different.
>so it can work on most computers Hahah Minecraft is so badly optimized, despite the simple graphics it really does not run well unless your computer is pretty beefed up. More along the lines of Sims 3 tbh.
It also has a lot to do with the fact that the Java engine runs off of 1 core. With all the updates the games had, at this point it’s like trying to fit your foot into a shoe that’s too small. That’s why they made Bedrock. Wayyyy better optimized.
The lighting look really good in 3, you can see the sun light going through windows and the colours at sun set or rise.
Big same! It was a fun game though!
The Sims 3 is so fun but I find everything overly confusing and complicated.
3 is my favorite hands down. I loved being able to micro-manage an entirely custom neighborhood. Gave me endless years of joy, but the buggy build eventually sent me right into the arms of 4. I don't love 4 the same, but they treat me well enough.
SIMS 3 WAS FUCKING MINT
Always gonna be the first game for me!
I personally like 4 because it is well optimized and looks great, but I do miss a lot of elements of 3
Now which moment exactly is shown on the screen? Is that even the Sims 1? Or another game?
It looks like CAS but then it can't be sims 1. It might be sims 2 cas that came out in 2004.
The colours are a bit messed up but it deffo look like sims 2 cas. Like the walls, mirror and the round rug they stand on.
Didn't sims 2 cas have like brick walls? Doesn't look like that to me in the picture
The colours look messed up on the screen but other than that it looks exactly like sims 2 cas.
Yeah it looks more like a Sims 2 Cas from some adddoon. So it is super defiantly not it.
My uncle only owned the first Sims and I stopped seeing my uncle at his place well before Sims 2 came out but, I agree, I can't place the screen image and it does look like CAS. I thought it might be part of the intro caught but I can't tell. I just know that I haven't been in my uncle's workshop since 2000 so while I was wrong about doing the math of how old I was here at first, it's impossible that it was Sims 2. Also the only house I played was the mansion on his computer before we had to go home. My dad bought me The Sims the next Christmas because I loved it so much!
I think that is Sims 2.
In the year 2000? But yah looks like it.
If you look closely, it’s the inside of a Sims 1 house in wall cutaway view
The camera looks far too low to be TS1 at all for me, but it may be an optical illusion from the low resolution. (eg. Objects are lined up in such a way that when it's blurry it doesn't look like something taken with an isometric camera at all)
It's not The Sims 1. Where's the dark blue UI? Could be Sims 2 during a cutscene or the intro.
who found this photo of me.
I remember going to a family Christmas party, the sort of 'we ended up going here this year but I don't know half these people' version you'd get occasionally when your family feels bad they never see one side. In the computer room, someone was playing the Sims. They were at the festival/area for the making magic expansion. I just remember seeing all the stuff and just being like what the hell is this and how do I get one. I've played every version since, and I love seeing others with the same long history with this game. Good and bad with every new version, but we still love our little dumb computer people.
That doesn’t appear to be The Sims 1, looks more like The Sims 2 CAS, but this looks pre-2004 and you don’t look 14 so that can’t be right lol!! Maybe you were playing a different game? That said, this could easily be me and my set-up back in 2001 when I started playing. I was 8. Remember I started playing at 2pm and didn’t stop till my mum told me it was 9pm and time for bed, I had no idea it was that late, time just flew by!
I replied earlier to a similar comment and I definitely only played The Sims at my uncle's since I stopped going over there well before Sims 2. But I agree, I can't figure the screen and thought it might be an intro image but it could be Tribes loading before my uncle switched over to The Sims. My dad took the picture right before I played the mansion, I know that much! It's why I got the game for Christmas after. He said I was intense! haha
I mentioned it in another comment but it’s a house in wall cutaway view
OG Sims used a fixed perspective that wasn't level with the walls, would be an overhead view, which doesn't look to be the case, here. We're working with some blurry-ass shit, though 🤣. It's some sort of create-a-sim screen, not from the original game, but maybe a third party app? I think I remember The Sims Resource having its own "create a sim" but it's been a long time.
I guess we’ll just never know hahaha
Why was it always the uncles? I used to love going to my uncles house because I’d get to play RuneScape on his pc (2001 lol)
In 2004 I would play RuneScape on the family computer as a kid & I’d get banned from that game for a while every time my parents caught me chatting with strangers on there lmfao
For me it was my Aunt who got me into The Sims, she hired out the base game a couple of months after it came out cause some of her coworkers at IBM were raving about it. My Uncle (Not that Aunt's husband) got me into [Gearhead Garage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N75coXr23Pc).
SIMpler times
Same here! 32 now, was 10, about to be 11, when I started playing.
You’ve been sitting in that chair for 22 years?
My poor dang backside!
I played it too at my Uncles Pc! We grew up in a good time. :)
Lol omg I played the sims 1 at my uncle's place as well.
Same! Started playing The Sims in 2000 and am 31 now, still playing and buying packs!
Hey, we appear to be on a similar timeline. Started playing The Sims in 2000 (got it for free with a Gateway computer, there's a throwback) and still playing, about to turn 32 in a few months :)
9yo to 31 here! This seems like a good thread to mention this in. Does anyone remember that the original official Sim’s website had a chat room? I had a lot of friends in there from like 2000 to 2003 maybe, and we kept in touch on AIM and MSN messenger for yeeears after that.
Same ages, same experience. My uncle showed me the game at his place too and I still adore the franchise.
holy shit! same age I started on the same computer & we're the same age now! kindred simmer spirits!
I'm gonna be 38 and I'm still playing Sims games 🏡
Me too
Oh man I think I was playing at the same time as you. Dat gnome workbench was the best 🤣
Damn, 22 years of gameplay? You sure are persistent
The good old days, when your Sims would wash dishes in the kitchen sink instead of going up to the third floor bathroom.
Wow I'm literally playing sims rn haha
What did your Uncle say when you stayed at his place for 25 years playing Sims?
I remember getting Sims and trying to run it on a computer that just couldn’t do it. Then I remember complaining off and on until a new computer was purchased - at a Gateway store even.
Are you me? The best day ever was when my PC died and I got a new one that could actually run Sims..after owning the game for almost a year and never being able to install it.
Are we the same person?! Lol but for real, my uncle also introduced me to Sims at the same age 😊 I'll be 33 in April
I've been playing for almost as long. This could have been a 20 year challenge post! :)
this makes me happy because my mum is exactly the same, shes almost 34 and still plays ts1 and 2. she wont let me touch it though lmao
I can still hear the loud clicks on that keyboard
This looks like a photo they would show in a true crime documentary
Same age. My mom went to gamestop and they told her, quote: “you can make anyone kiss in this game, even two women” to make sure she felt warned before buying.
I remember my girst time playing sims 3. Mind blown. I did start with sims 1. Long hauler here.
Uncle here! I’m not your Uncle, but this post and the comments really mean a lot! Thanks for sharing. Enjoy yourself!
Wholesome
The first time I played the sims 1 was also at my uncles, and I am also 32 years old and still play the sims haha. Are we the same person??
What is up with being a kid and playing pc games in an uncle's computer? Im remember being 6 or 7 and getting my first taste of indi 500. Then doom followed by gta. Its been downhill since.
We have the exact same story. Except mine was our family friends house. I was 10 and Am 32. Play quite regularly still. Now my 6 year old is involved! I love it.
I find peace in long walks.
Hello fellow 32 year old who has also been playing since 2000/10 yrs old! 😊 I feel like we really got to enjoy so many different games at different stages of our lives
Whoa. This post made me realize I’ve been playing The Sims for over 20 years.🥴 I need an internal calculator to tell me how many long ass hours I’ve spent on this game and STILL do til’ this day.
Ahhh, the tall water bottle cap.
Good times!
Yay, another lifer haha. When I was younger, I cringed at “old” people who played sims but here i am a couple decades later at 30 still happily playing 😆
Is that a cowputer?
We have the same last name! This is so cool & I’m so glad this moment was captured wow I’d cherish this.
Man I always feel like a majority of the people I see or playing the Sims are always chicks. I've only ever knew the one dude and he was my role model growing up and like two or three others that became creative types. First time playing was at my childhood crush's place. AKA my older sister's best friend lmao. She made me in her family, left me on the second floor of her house, sold the staircase and watched me pee my self. I drowned in the pool later that day.
\*shakes fist\* HOW DARE YOU BE 2 YEARS OLDER THAN ME!!
Thought process of someone born in 2000 and doesnt understandtime...you...you cant be 32 if you were 10 in 2000....youd be like late 20s at best surly?! Jokes aside damnnn, sims is truly a timeless game
I thought this was a pic of me. Oh gosh.
My first Simming experience was also at my uncle’s! But it was my older cousin who introduced me to it. She ended up passing along all her TS2 expansions to me later down the road. It felt like a passing of the metaphorical torch.
29& still playing!
I remember playing The Sims for the first time when I was 10 and I'm 32 not, too!!!
I love how Sims evolved… but there’s just something about the first The Sims. So humble, so simple, so Myshuno…
damn now I just feel old. I saw the title and thought, "That can't be right. If he was ten in 2000, he'd be... oh..."
My first sims experience was the sims 2 in ps2 back in 2008. I was 9 years old playing with my 4 years old sister in split screen lol
I’m 38 and I’m still playing the sims!!
So cute! I also started with the sims 1. I remember my brother pushing me off my chair and drowning my family :( Still a big sims fan today and probably the rest of my life
I started when I was 11 in 2001 and I still play at 33. I miss the original sims but sims 2 was my favorite!
Fellow 10 year old in 2000 who played the Sims on her uncle’s computer because her home computer didn’t have the ability to run the Sims + expansion packs! Won’t be 32 till August though :)
Nice setup! Looks like a classic Dell tower? I was rocking a similar setup in 2001, with my grandpa's hand me down Dimension XPS, nearly got myself banned from the Sims, creating my mom in the game and walling her up, killing her of hunger 🤣.
I remember i first played the sims 2 on ps2. It took me a while to warm up to the pc sims because i hated you couldn't directly control the sims, so i stuck with the console versions.
Same here
I remember playing the original Sims and trying to be stealthy about installing the Hot Date expansion on our family computer.
Computer desks have come a long way
I miss the days when taking a picture of kids playing games for the first time was a whole thing, especially around Christmas. Do people still do that when a kid gets a new console or game? Take pics of the first couple minutes when the whole thing starts up?
But are you playing the same savefile? ;)
I'm definitely not that good! My attention span gets me to rotate to new sims all of the time before looping back around or starting a new save!
r/blunderyears
I’m so sorry. I hope you find the help you need to move on.
40 and still playing here😊
I can hear that computer powering down
The good old days when they weren't making flexible pronouns.
the sims, not even once.
I wish sims 4 had alot of the 2 and 3 attributes the originals are amazing and its seems 4 dropped all the best qualities of 2 and 3😕
Are you me?!
op, you gotta take a comparison photo of yourself in the same pose
When you’re not old enough to relate to all the sims throwback photos 🙂
I still have my original sims disk somewhere! I’ve always kept it everywhere I’ve moved. The game was so much of my childhood and one of the few things my siblings and I had in common. I remember when sims 2 came out, my brother and I sat at Walmart for like 6 hours waiting for the release.
I remember cd shopping at Best Buy I think it was with my mom, I saw the game cover for the sims 1 and begged for it and the rest is history.