Since I've been staying with my nephews, they have been playing it a lot, it really is a fun game. What you first is create your family. You get to pick out whether it is male or female, hair color, outfit, personality traits, etc. Next you get to actually build your house, and put in it whatever you want (TV, stereo, swimming pool, etc.). Then when you get all that done, you click a button on your computer keyboard, and the Sims characters kind of come to life and start walking around the house. You can tell the Sims characters what to do (although they don't always do it). What's funny is the characters have human-like traits. For instance, if they're walking around the house and they don't like something that you picked out, they will shake their heads. They speak, but it's not even English (it kinda sounds like Pig Latin, honestly). This game is really addictive, and I can see why my nephews enjoy it so much. Shoot, even I'm getting into it.

yeah my daughter and her friends played it so much that they started speaking the gibberish to each other

how far have you gotten? are you married with kids yet?

Oh, I used to love it. I hardly played the actual game though. I just liked making and decorating the houses

jess555ja said:

Oooh, I did just that! I was done when I had the house and the charater ready. I used cheatcodes to get as much money as possible and build HUUUUGE mansions..

But occasionaly I did play with the characters, but it usually ended up in me making two girls or two guys kiss..

Mushanga said:

I would cheat too I liked for them to have huge houses with all the expensive items. I played it too. . . there were many illegitimate children and love triangles

OMG! I was so addicted to it! One day I spent 6 hours straight playing it. I even stopped posting on the org

I took a stand and sold it on ebay. I couldn't waste my time like that on a daily basis.

ThreadCula said:

damn

I have officially broke my addiction of that game. DOn't even get me started with the SIMS2 and Open for business!

I have to admit, at one time this game was like crack to me. I had all the expansion packs etc...then Sims2 came out, omg! I became even more hooked bought those expansion packs. But over the last few months...I have slowy weened myself from playing it daily.

i loved that game!

ThreadCula said:

I've spent longer...just trying to have a Baby or getting Santa to come down the chimney or Having a Party that was so good Drew Carey showed up. I owned..

Sims
Unleashed
Livin Large
House Party
Hot Date
Makin Magic (LOTS OF FUN)
Sims2
Open for business

superspaceboy said:

I use to love trying to get Drew Carey to show up to my party! I could have killed that mime!

MoniGram said:

That stupid mime was always at my parties.


I haven't played The Sims in years. I bought The Sims 2 and the expansion packs up to Open for Business, but then I bought a new monitor and the game wouldn't work on it, so I just sold all the games

I still play it. The Sims 2. I've got the University, Glamour Life, and Night Life expansions.

Very guilty pleasure.

jess555ja said:

Isn't that what the whole game is about?
I don't remember there being anythin' else to do other than that

FuNkeNsteiN said:

That was one of the things you could do. The whole point of the game was to control the lives of the Sims. They have to eat, go to the bathroom, be entertained, they have to socialize, and a whole bunch of other things. I liked to build houses and decorate them. I didn't play the actual game very much

Remember it??

Hell, we have every one of them I think.

My daughters LOVE them.

I just packed up an entire box of nothing but SIMS.

MoniGram said:

It takes a lot of preplanning and timing to get it right! The mime sucked!

jess555ja said:

We liked trying to kill them. No ladder in the pool. Or all of a sudden there was no way out because you took the door away. Good times! We'd also try to do the Ghetto House. Oh and the first 3 days of a babies life is HELL!

I use to sit for days building houses and creating familys, seriously days no sleep, I never really did the whole person thing on there though except to buy pets and stuff. The magic one is pretty fun and you can have a pet dragon



ok Ill shut up

I've never played it but it sounds interesting. I may have to download it.

I went to a music industry conference last summer and one of the meetings was about placing your music in games, and they had one of the developers of the Sims there and he was talking about how they actually developed the whole "Simglish" language and how there are people who actually can speak it! It's like the 21st century version of Klingon.

Im more of the Grand Theft Auto type, but I'm glad to see that there are other people on here hooked on games. It makes me feel not so lame.
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Nice to see that I'm not the only one who's diggin this game.

"The Sims" creeps me out.... My wife and son love playing it....they've even made a recreation of our fam on the game.....including a Sim reneGade....NOT FRIGGIN' COOL!!! Kinda freaks me out that whenever my wife gets mad at me, my Sim doppleganger meets with an untimely demise.....

Love the game...I love Sims2 even more! But I too, made my family in Sim Land!

When I first got it I didnt know they spoke in the little jibberish they do.
I thought I had a version in another language

My Sims was an artist. He couldnt get a date to save his life

guitarslinger44 said:

I love the Simglish. I saw a small documentory before SIMS 2 came out and it showed them in the recording studio speaking out all of the words.

reneGade20 said:

The other day when I was playing Sims with my nephews, we had a birthday party, with cake and balloons. We told the one Sims to clean up, because the party was over. Instead of putting the cakes into the garbage, the Sims put them in the dishwasher!

Another funny thing is when one of the Sims has to use the restroom. They hold their crotch and make a little wimpering sound. If you don't send them to the bathroom, they pee right there on the floor, then you have to make them clean it up.

It's also hysterical when one of the Sims is doing something in the kitchen, and they accidentally start a fire. You have to send them out of the house, and call the fire department to put out the fire.

This game is just too much fun!!