![]() ![]() ![]() With four main instalments, countless add-ons and spin-offs, and more than 200m sales worldwide, it is equalled perhaps only by Tetris in its universality. Before we knew it, it was 3am.Īlmost everyone has played The Sims. With a thrill, we discovered we could make Sims “smooch” (though we were disappointed to learn that they couldn’t actually bone down – that wouldn’t happen until The Sims 2). We bought them a little telly, a nice couch, a blender, paging covetously through the game’s furniture catalogue. We took turns sending them to work, changing the wallpaper, and ordering them to put dirty dishes in the dishwasher instead of leaving them to gather flies. It was at my friend Hannah’s house three 11-year-olds huddled in front of her dad’s bulky old computer monitor at midnight, gazing into a miniature house populated by tiny people going about their inexplicably compelling daily business. L ike many girls of my generation, I first played The Sims at a sleepover.
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