

The Sims 1 have only 2 life stages: child and adult. It is a crappy game by modern standards, but it is innovative, being the first game of The Sims series, and if it didn’t existed, probably the better games The Sims 2 and 3 may have never appeared. Being SO pleased with being able to get a cat or dog because it meant your social bar skyrocketed without having to grudgingly invite Mortimer Goth round for a chat.The Sims 1 was launched on January 31, 2000. Pretty much the best ever way to stop your sim’s ‘room’ falling to nothing every time he left for work thanks to your lack of outside decor. Counting down the minutes in sim world til you could use your magic genie again, and having a garden crammed with water fountains and pink flamingos thanks to him. If you had too many your computer would come seconds from exploding and melting to the ground, so you quickly worked out the best ones to install (Livin’ It Up, Hot Date and Unleashed, obvs.)ġ7.

Getting a new expansion pack was waaaaaay better than pretty much anything – even watching a film in your English lesson.ġ6. And having that one friend that knew the cheat to take the bed away, take the blur away and let your pre-pubescent eyes see sims having actual sex.ġ5.

Admit it, that was your first exposure to sex education.ġ4.

While we’re on the subject of beds, spending the majority of your money on a Heart Bed so that you could turn on ‘vibrate’ and let your sims ‘play’. Feeling amused (and a little sad) that your child had to sleep in a cheap bed that looked a lot like a choc ice.ġ3. Always having your fingers crossed that your child wouldn’t look like Cassandra Goth when it bloomed from baby to child.ġ2. Your anguish when the Goth family turned up on your doorstep.
