What Is Your Favorite Memory Of The Sims 1?

Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:40 pm

As the title says, what is your favorite memory/feature of the Sims 1?
Mine are:

Hot Date EP- buying all those diamond rings with rosebud to make friends faster.

The Mechanical Bull downtown.

The Superstar Dance Mix Video with the Flying Ducks! Love it - so crazy!

This one, Midnight Love is silly, too.

The Flight Simulator. (Dig the skydiving death - LOL)

Sicking the family cat on the rabbit eating my sim's garden.

Throwing a great party and Drew Carey shows up.

My sims riding that Fun House Roller Coaster in Makin Magic.

Playing the Newbies, Pleasants, and Goths, my fave families in the Sims 1.

Claire the Bear

The Sims 1 was Silly-Fun!

So what are your favorite memories?

Tue Nov 24, 2015 1:11 pm Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

Unfortunately, I never knew about the Sims Games. I was first introduced to Sims in September, 2010... I was checking your attached videos, those all seemed fun. I liked the Roller Coasters, So funny. Were you able to make them go faster, or was that the same speed through the entire time they were riding them?

Tue Nov 24, 2015 3:20 pm

BBdoll wrote:Were you able to make them go faster, or was that the same speed through the entire time they were riding them?

It went the same speed, but it was still hilarious to watch. There were so many awesome and fun objects/interactions that I wish that they'd bring back. Unfortunately, The Sims 1 no longer installs on Windows 7 and up (although it did install on my old tower with W7).

Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:08 pm Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

I've got it on my Win 8.1....but i had to do alot of configuring with a friend who is a computer genuis & it took both of us several days working on it...but it works!!!!

Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:15 pm

MamaLambNC wrote:I've got it on my Win 8.1....but i had to do alot of configuring with a friend who is a computer genuis & it took both of us several days working on it...but it works!!!!

Aww, I tried all kinds of configuring from all kinds of forums, even MTS, but it just won't install.

Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:08 am Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

yes when i have time but been years since i loaded the sims1 even do i have the sims1 ultimate collection

Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:17 pm Message reputation : 100% (2 votes)

When my Mom died on Christmas morning 2007, I went into such deep grief that I wanted to died. My daughter gave me her Sims 1 disk then before I could get really involved, she dragged me down to an electronic store to get the Double Deluxe Sims 2 game. So playing Sims and connecting to the online fellowship saved my life.
lilrose

What I remember about Sims 1 is being so proud of the way my one little old slob of a guy pulling himself out of the gutter, sprucing up his appearance and getting a job.

Fri Sep 13, 2019 1:47 pm Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

A trip down memory lane with "Nonni"...

Fri Sep 13, 2019 9:00 pm Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

BBdoll3 wrote:A trip down memory lane with "Nonni"...

And MamaLamb... heartpump

Sat Sep 14, 2019 1:52 am

For sure! I saw Little Lamb...

Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:20 am Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

oh my !!

that was a sensation!

my daughter came home with the very first sims game

I believe that was for a playstation game

i thought then,

was a stupid game is this !!

and never gave it much attention

later when the laptop came out, and the sims game was re-released

yes this version

I looked at it more often, because my daughter was always completely absorbed in the game

I thought at first

what is important! , which makes her always so completely antosiastic

she always showed me

and therefore I fell in love with the game also,

so I also went to buy a laptop

and this game

by learning a lot from my daughter

I knew a little bit how to manage it

and from one came the other

I can't say which part I liked the most

because I liked everything about what you could do with the game

I thought building the house was the nicest thing

those objects were so beautiful

and especially the flora,

oh what a great time we had with the sims

thank you for sharing the old memories Cinda

Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:40 pm Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

I had no idea this game even existed until a year before I retired in 2010. And only then did I learn about it, by over hearing some friends at work talking about it. I happened to be in this store that was going out of business, and noticed they had their games on sale. I bought the Sims 2 DD for less than $10 bucks. Took it home and Loved it!!!!

I ran back to the store and bought all of the other Sims 2 games they had. I think the cheapest one they had was for $5 bucks... So you know I made a killing that day. After about 2 weeks of me playing this game, my poor husband was threatening to take a 'Hammer' to my computer. I told him, if he even looked crazy at my computer it was gonna be a War in our house!!! That game was like Satan had possessed my body, only it was the Sims 2... I was burning up dinners, forgetting about appointments, I even forgot it was Thanksgiving... I go to work 6, come home at 5 and be on that computer until 4 a.m., take a nap, get ready for work at 6. I'm telling you, the Sims is worse than cocaine,,, and I don't even do drugs. I can not even imagine what it would be like if I had purchased the Sims 1... I even researched to see if they had a, Sims Anonymous

And They Dooooo!

Anywhooo, I just had to share that with y'all, as I'm sure I'm not the only one who was (is) hooked. Only after my hubby passed away, did I feel so much guilt from letting this game take over my life, that I missed out on the time I had left with Richard. I had stopped playing my game for well over a year after he passed. Just not the same. Even now, I don't play my game as I did at first, but I do still enjoy the time I do play.

Thanks again, Cinda for these fun videos!

Mon Sep 16, 2019 6:00 am Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

haha

,, I can imagine BB

I too had to leave the game to do the house skin and the care of my family

and often against sense ,,. oh what a shameful intention that was

she often called me simsannie

but luckily I have never neglected my family

and often only started playing when everything was done at home and when the children were asleep

I had to

because otherwise it would have gone wrong as with many families who played the game

divorces have ended up with families !!

whaaa

... omy what a state this game has produced also !!

but BB now that you also have all the games from sims2

are we still going to see you here?

hahaha .. i'm kidding lol1

and yes the computer will have to do its best to make everything run

I have therefore only installed sims2 ,. reluctantly badday

I also wanted to add all the extensions that I have, and I also have theme all still

but my laptop cant handle it so good all the games at the same time whacky

..

have fun BB thumbsup

Mon Sep 16, 2019 9:47 am Message reputation : 100% (2 votes)

I played The Sims 1 for the first time somewhere in September 2005 and few weeks later I learned that The Sims 2 exists with so many improvements so I jumped on 2 immediately! rolllol

Mon Sep 16, 2019 12:07 pm

You are so right about that Poppy. I bet there were many divorces. I know there had to be a lot of arguments that's for sure. It was so bad with me that one time the Smoke Alarm went off and the house full of smoke from me forgetting the food.   It was funny to me, but not Richard.

It was a great improvement, September. I finished watching all of the videos above and I don't think I would have enjoyed the Sims 1. Well, maybe I guess, but after playing the Sims 2 the 1 does not seem that much fun.

Believe it or not, as much as I enjoyed playing the Sims 2, after playing my Sims 4, and going back to Sims 2 for a day, I was warn out! I felt like I had just been in a cat fight. It's a lot of work in getting your simmies to do things. You have to direct them in just about everything. The Sims 4, they pretty much know what to do and can take care of themselves. I was playing one of my families and went to check on some food I was cooking and let them play. I came back in 1 1/2 hours later and they were still playing and in good shape. If I did that in my Sims 2, they would have been dead or dying.

Sun Sep 22, 2019 8:24 am Message reputation : 100% (2 votes)

I like the games which are challenging and I played mostly 2 and 3 and about an hour The Sims 4 and I'm having the feeling that The Sims 1 is the most challenging of them all. Not sure is that because I played it for a short time or it's lasting longer to earn plenty of money with sims to build and buy expensive stuff... cap'n

Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:18 pm

SeptemberSimsForum wrote:I like the games which are challenging and I played mostly 2 and 3 and about an hour The Sims 4 and I'm having the feeling that The Sims 1 is the most challenging of them all.

You would be correct about that - the needs in the Sims 1 are insanely difficult to keep up and pretty much impossible to make friends for promotions in my honest opinion. I learned not to complain too much on how difficult it is to keep the needs up in the Sims 2 and Sims 4 (Yes BBdoll, it's just as difficult to keep needs up in Sims 4 as it is in Sims 2 giggle

). At least the Sims 2 has lifetime award perks that slow down need decay. thumbsup

Even with those two major challenges, the Sims 1 was still incredibly fun to play... extrahappy

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