#ts4-memorylane-entries | The Sims | Page 1

burnt sentinel Jan 28, 2025, 10:14 PM

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my favourite memory is the sims 3 toddlers! I loved taking care of them and having families with them x

wheat hornet Jan 28, 2025, 10:18 PM

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Anyways! My favorite memory was designing my Plumbot OC, Aria, for the first time!

gentle field Jan 28, 2025, 10:18 PM

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My favorite memory is when my sims try to cook, but start burning instead. (and it’s often, too. I think I wear my nickname well)

hidden ruin Jan 28, 2025, 10:18 PM

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this is nightmare baby, nightmare baby is a glitched baby that somehow got turned 2d in a 3d game. We are scared of nightmare baby. (this happened during a challenge I was doing back on my old PC. This glitch is most likely fixed but idk)

fast island Jan 28, 2025, 10:19 PM

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One of the funniest memories I've had in the game was when my sims daughter was walking to dog and then they decided to levitate and rotate sideways and walk in place 😂 Can't really screenshot it but I own the Discover university case with the disk inside!

remote flower Jan 28, 2025, 10:19 PM

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Getting my 2 little kittens

queen pecan Jan 28, 2025, 10:21 PM

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When Sims 3 University first came out I held a Hunger Games where I would pay the winner a million simoleons and three sims died at exactly the same time.

fallen thistle Jan 28, 2025, 10:23 PM

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star gazing with the grim reaper!

gloomy trail Jan 28, 2025, 10:26 PM

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My best memory is the ice cream truck from sims 3, im obcessed with freezer bunnies

cunning geyser Jan 28, 2025, 10:28 PM

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started playing family dynamics a few months ago. heres a few screenshots of gen 1 and my gen 2 heir as a baby. im so obsessed w this family

tranquil ferry Jan 28, 2025, 10:31 PM

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My favourite EP for The Sims. Best parts were tickling baby dragons for their tears and enchanting the gnomes… if you were a nectar maker 😉
And the bonus CD the game shipped with giving our TS2 preview was amazing 😂

karmic sandal Jan 28, 2025, 10:31 PM

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My favorite memory is watching Bella and Mortimer’s love story and lore through the games ✨ They’re my favorites

worldly mist Jan 28, 2025, 10:32 PM

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one of my favourite memories is getting back into ts3 and finding out that winning a pie eating contest is scary looking 😭 ❤️

vocal echo Jan 28, 2025, 10:32 PM

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I've got a couple favorite memories, although one got partially tainted by a factory reset.

First, I had a surgery and was bedridden for a few months afterward. Watching xUrbanSimsx play Seasons and Generations got me through it, and during that time I also purchased TS3 and played with my own family. It's been so many years that a lot of the families I played are starting to fade from my memory, but I made my family and I also had a mess around Legacy family that I enjoyed playing.

My other favorite memory was playing the Not So Berry challenge in TS4 and watching the families grow. My computer factory reset itself when I was on Gen 5 so I haven't returned to it, but Grey was definitely my favorite. He accidentally wound up with 6 kids and it was super fun.

snow vine Jan 28, 2025, 10:34 PM

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My favourite memory was when I was a teenager and playing the sims 3. I had a 5 sim household, 4 of them worked at the same job and had taken the car to work...There was a pregnant sim in this household and she chose to go into labor when the other 4 were at work. so she had no choice but to RIDE A BIKE WHILE IN LABOUR TO THE HOSPITAL. What a girlboss.

wicked horizon Jan 28, 2025, 10:37 PM

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One of my favorite memories that The Sims has gifted me was how I was able to introduce the Sims to my brothers. My eldest brother in particular who the day after teaching him how to play (The Sims 1 on PS2) I woke up early in the morning and found him still playing, trying hard to get his Sim promoted in the military career. I was so shocked, "You're still playing?!" And he looked at me with dark circles under his eyes, "It's your fault!" No regrets.

hollow canyon Jan 28, 2025, 10:40 PM

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my favorite memory is when my mom took me to her friends house and his daughter and i played sims for hours together she was a bit older than me at the time and she put up with a lot of my silliness i dont remember which sims it was but i remember her teaching me how to lock a sim in a 2x2 room to remove them from the family i remember being really excited for grimm to visit for some reason

fallen thistle Jan 28, 2025, 10:41 PM

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fallen thistle star gazing with the grim reaper!

my favorite memory is all the time i spent playing sims2 castaway on my ps2 growing up. it was my first ever sims game, and i played it constantly. i loved making friends with the chimps, exploring the islands, and building beach huts! i became obsessed to this day because of this game :)) writing this post gave me such a fond feeling of nostalgia!

gray knoll Jan 28, 2025, 10:44 PM

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There was a trailer on the SimCity 2000 game that I would watch over and over in anticipation. Finally, Christmas came and I recall feeling through the wrapping paper to spell out the raised letters of Sims! When I finally got to open it, we had to go up north so I brought it in hopes that it would play on the old computer there and it could not be played! Eventually, I did get to play and the rest was history!

rose flax Jan 28, 2025, 10:44 PM

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a fond memory i have of The Sims 1 is sitting in the “computer room” playing the game, all while tying up the home phone with two other friends who were also playing Sims 1 at their houses and chatting about what was going on in our respective games 😂 such a nostalgic memory of Sims 1 itself and just of simpler times

scenic drum Jan 28, 2025, 10:44 PM

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One of my favorite childhood memories is playing The Sims FreePlay on my very first tablet when I was around 9 or 10 years old. I loved creating my friends and family in the game, building houses, and imagining all kinds of stories for them. It felt like having my own little world where I could control everything. I actually discovered The Sims thanks to my mom, who used to play The Sims 1. Watching her play made me curious, and that’s how I fell in love with the whole world of The Sims games ! Hearts

valid crow Jan 28, 2025, 10:47 PM

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My favorite memory is my current legacy founder's life! She was made during a rought time in my life and her happy endings were really comforting. I don't wanna get to into it because it's personal, but playing with her and growing as her family grew was extremely helpful for me.

crimson sun Jan 28, 2025, 10:47 PM

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My favourite moment was when I first killed a sim in the sims 4 it was by pool exhaustion on my best friends Xbox it was so funny because after I made that sims husband date grim I loved it

kindred sleet Jan 28, 2025, 10:48 PM

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The Freezer bunny plush coming in the mail with the special plumbob packaging when it was first released in the store. It was my first merch of The Sims and having a plushie for my collection, that’s related to the games I loved near and dear to my heart is such a great feeling freezerbunnyhappy Cute 🥹

chilly condor Jan 28, 2025, 10:50 PM

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The time I forgot to set a dress code so my sims father showed up to the wedding to officiate it dressed as a crow! Also as soon as they finished their vows it immediately started raining.

hybrid adder Jan 28, 2025, 10:50 PM

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My first real Sims game. The year was 2008. I noticed my next door neighbor was having trouble setting up a basketball hoop she'd bought for her teenaged son. So I borrowed some of my Dad's tools and helped her set it up. She was so thankful, she gave me a good $40 for the job and refused to take it back, telling me to buy something for myself.
So I wandered the local Walmart later wondering what to get when I spied a copy of The Sims 2 Double Deluxe edition for PC. I'd played the Sims before on console (via blockbuster rentals) and loved it and figured that seemed good enough. I bought it, went home, and installed the game on my bare bones eMachines desktop PC.
I was blown away by the game. I very quickly became attached to Strangetown, and Nervous Subject, constantly finding ways to give him the life he deserved. It spiraled and became an obsession. I've been a huge Sims fan ever since. The game helped me experiment with my sexuality in ways I didn't understand until years later. The game offered me a freedom to express myself I could find nowhere else at that time in my life.
Unfortunately, I ended up missing the entirety of the time The Sim 3 was relevant, which is why I'm glad it's still available to buy on the EA app. See, that old eMachines desktop could run The Sims 2 fine, but the PC was so outdated with its single core AMD Sempron CPU, and embedded Nvidia graphics chip, that it couldn't even launch The Sims 3. It wasn't until 2017 that I built a more powerful PC that could run the game, and by then, The Sims 4 was out.

dire goblet Jan 28, 2025, 10:51 PM

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One of my fav memories was the burglar breaking in to Studio 8 in Bustin Out - Absolute most intense moment and Studio 8 was just such a great build, loved it Love

sacred solar Jan 28, 2025, 10:53 PM

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I had Vladislaus Straud impregnant as many NPC sims in the game as possible and one of my Sims. I then used all of the offspring to do challenges (including breed out the ugly), play my legacies and everything else. All pictures are of the offspring and a few grandchildren. I lost that save but I now want to do this again. Muahhahaa

flint stone Jan 28, 2025, 11:01 PM

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This is my favorite family, The Ishikawa's. I have been playing them for years. Jae-In and Masato met, fell in love and had 11 children (some by aliens). They had been married 2 years and had the twins when it was Jae-in's birthday. So they threw a party, Jae-In wanted everyone to have a good time and tried very hard to make everyone laugh. Jae-In tried everything to make people laugh. Finally it happened and Jae-In was hysterical. Masato went to put the twins to bed when it happen, Jae-In died. It was so unexpected that Masato had a hard time losing his soulmate. He wouldn't eat or feed the twins. He became obessed with bringing his wife back to life. He quit the Acting career and became a writer. His ghost wife went back to work to help out and also took up fishing. It took a couple of years but Masato got his wife back and they celebrated by having 9 more children. The youngest is a teen now and the others have moved out and had families of their own. Masato has just died and Jae-In is not too far behind. This family is my heart and soul.

pliant summit Jan 28, 2025, 11:09 PM

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My favorite memory definitely has to be when I was getting back into playing the Sims regularly and had just bought the Strangerville pack. I'll never forget the chills I got when the welcome committee showed up at my house and this is how one of the residents was looking at me. 💀

midnight bramble Jan 28, 2025, 11:12 PM

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I have so many favorite memories from all of the games; the first time playing The Sims in all of its chaotic glory, the iconic cut scenes in Sims 2, the fire on my sims wedding day in Sims 3, but I think if I had to narrow down 25 years of The Sims to one memory it was probably the one in Sims 4. My sims, Chie, and Miroku were getting married, and I had turned off the UI to take some really pretty pictures and suddenly the entire bridal party started crying and I am like, OMG what is going on. I put the UI back and zoomed out only to discover that all of the guest had died from the heat and Grim had shown up. I was laughing and crying because it was so over the top hilarious and definitely a sign that the marriage was probably doomed from the start. GrimReaperOK

hard kraken Jan 28, 2025, 11:12 PM

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When i was young my first experience modding a game was with ts2 body shop, I'm proud now for it to give me the opportunities it has !!
My sister and i would constantly fight over the sims disks we had to share (ts2 freetime)
I think without the sims id be nothing like i am today and i owe a lot of my upbringing to the series i love so much

drowsy drift Jan 28, 2025, 11:16 PM

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How I miss the memories of my days exploring the corners of The Sims! It all started way back, in The Sims 2, on an old computer that could barely handle the emotion of each click. And guess who was always with me on this journey? My incredible mother, my partner in adventures and laughter forever. Our game sessions were pure fun and complicity, building memories that became treasures. And I remember well the time on PlayStation 3, playing the expansion "The Sims 3 Pets". My dog Dara, always with her adventurous soul, ran away without stopping and made me chase her across the map. And guess where I always found it? Close to the ghosts on the docks! It was a laugh every time. May these memories that The Sims provide us continue to brighten our days and bring us closer to the people we love Hearts

robust plaza Jan 28, 2025, 11:21 PM

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My impressive moment: how I managed to get a child looking like this. In all my years of playing this game I have no idea how this happened. This is Marceline Gavigan right as she’s born - missing her skin textures on all but her face. I haven’t fixed it. All babies born after her were born completely normally - but Marceline just had to be different. To be honest, I love this. I love that this game isn’t perfect. I love that it just grants you glitched out babies with no skin. I love Marceline, and I love The Sims 2

south burrow Jan 28, 2025, 11:22 PM

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This is one of my favourite Sims moments, one of the few times I managed to get my family to all eat together. This is the beginning of my legacy family, I started with the Mum, and slowly added on, I am now playing the grandkids.
I used to only make sims and houses, this is my first full family 🖤

sage temple Jan 28, 2025, 11:23 PM

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Here is a little GIF of my favorite memory 🙂

gentle spire Jan 28, 2025, 11:24 PM

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I don't have a photo of this because it was SO long ago, but my little sister and I would play the sims 3 like a lifeline. One easter we got generations, and raced to play it. We played allllll day and at night. While playing, our sims father died from drowning in the pool and we FREAKED OUT! It was our sims birthday and totally crashed the party. The sim then proceeded to age up with the hydrophobic trait!!!!!!

lethal rune Jan 28, 2025, 11:38 PM

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the most fun memory I have with The Sims is definitely with my first family. I was about 6 years old, and my first and only sims games was The Sims Pets Stories (I miss it so much), I create a family with a couple, a kid and a dog, and wanted to make my Sim pregnant, and my mom would do this part for me because I was to young to understand what Woohoo was about. So, both my Sims were in the bed in the second floor, ready to get pregnant and I realized there was something red in the floor, when I get down to the kitchen the house was on fire. Nothing like that has ever happened to me, so I didn't have any fire alarm, and send my Sims to put out the fire. After a very long 5 minutes, both my sims were d3ad, the kid was taken by the social worker, and the dog was running around the house infinitely. I also accidentally save before quit because I didn't pay mych attention in what I was clicking, and that's how I lost my entire first ever family in The Sims
unfortunately I don't have any photo or video from this time, because was almost 18 years ago... But, I did find the photo from the house were my sims shortly lived, and I love this house from Harbor Falls untill this day
(Curiosity: this house was a slidly diferent version from a house of The Sims 2's house catalog

ashen robin Jan 28, 2025, 11:42 PM

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my favorite sims memory was being introduced to it by my stepmom like a decade ago now and i create this sim and the first thing that happens in that save was my stove catching fire along with the sim (who ofc died) i just had to look at my stepmom like what the heck and laugh bc i spent so much time in CAS it was kinda hilarious that it died so fast

tacit hound Jan 28, 2025, 11:46 PM

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My favorite sims memory is when I was first introduced to the sims. I went over to my friend’s house and she said she had the sims 3. We got on and made a character and played late into the night. That started my love of the sims and I’m so grateful for that ❤️

harsh ibex Jan 28, 2025, 11:47 PM

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my favorite things in sims 4 is that you have so much fun play it and my memories is the game is based on real life and when my first twin was born in the sims and see the story of other youtuber them sims,but i wish that everyone a goodluck

crimson pumice Jan 28, 2025, 11:54 PM

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Cannot brag more how much I love family gameplay or story ones ❤️ I love when my sims can celebrate together, I love when they are actually feeling in-game feelings, just chill gameplay an stories. This is my favorite so far:

slow knot Jan 28, 2025, 11:59 PM

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Oh man, this is where my journey started. I was a young teen and instead of being with friends and doing all sorts of teenage mischief, I found happiness in playing this all weekend. It took me to a great place mentally while my parent were splitting up, I experienced my first breakup, and life just seemed a bit easier then.

warm owl Jan 29, 2025, 12:11 AM

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One of my favourite memories is of a recent Sims 4 save where I had one of my sims romance Father Winter, aka Clement Frost. They moved in together and had twins (named Noel and Carole, of course), and the next Winterfest a second Father Winter—also Clement Frost—showed up to give them presents 😂 Twins must run in the family, I guess...

grand cape Jan 29, 2025, 12:12 AM

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My fondest memory is 2 years ago after one of the hardest periods of my life I got back into the sims again. I realized how badly I needed this game to bring back some happiness in my life and I'll be forever grateful for the sims for being my biggest source of comfort. (Pictured is my founding legacy sim Daisy and her husband on their wedding day at their little cottage)

urban cargo Jan 29, 2025, 12:24 AM

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As a kid I grew up playing a lot of Sims 2 and that was kind of my introduction to the franchise. The whole lore behind it has always fascinated me and I have so many fond memories playing the Sims. The endless creativity and individuality. Pretty sure it helped me discover some things about myself as well lol. Here is a picture of my little mother-daughter duo having a wholesome moment ❤️ Definitely one of my fave families and pictures!

last panther Jan 29, 2025, 12:37 AM

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You know you're a true Simmer when a tiny USB keychain becomes a prized possession. 💚 Back when The Sims 3 collector's edition dropped, I was living for that Plumbob USB keychain. It wasn’t just a USB—it was a beacon of Simlish pride. For over 15 years, that little green gem went everywhere with me, dangling off my keyring like the crown jewel it was. ✨

It wasn't just a USB—it was a conversation starter! Fellow Simmers would immediately recognize it and we’d geek out about our Sims’ lives, questionable design choices, or who forgot to put a pool ladder back. For those unfamiliar with the franchise? Oh, the confused looks when they’d ask, "What’s that weird green thing?" 😅 It was the perfect excuse to dive into a mini Sims TED talk. 🎤✨

That keychain survived it all: countless drops, a dip in coffee, and at least one overly curious cat. 🐾 It was my ride-or-die gaming companion—until, of course, it met its final boss: my toddler. 💥 After years of loyalty, the Plumbob finally cracked (literally 😭) under tiny hands, and now it’s been retired to the Great USB Farm in the sky.

I miss it so much, but I’m also weirdly proud it lasted that long. Here’s to the tiny trinkets that make our Simmer hearts happy. 🥂 Plumbob USB, you were iconic. 💚

I would 1000% buy that keychain again! #bringbackmyplumbobusbkeychain

elfin pilot Jan 29, 2025, 12:45 AM

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I think my favorite moment from the sims has got to be the time I first started using mods for the sims 4 and found out children can indeed die. I was playing as the Villareal family and Max got invited out to a study group via Kawaii Stacie's Slice Of Life mod and a fire had started at this random child's home in which poor Max burned to death just trying to get his homework done. I was STUNNED and had to cheat him back to life thanks to Mc Command Center 😭

halcyon pasture Jan 29, 2025, 12:51 AM

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I’m about to be really cringe but the sims is what led me to embrace selfshipping 🙏
It was September 2023 and I decided to open Strangetown in sims 2 after a long time of not playing. I noticed I had sent Ripp to college. I didn’t think much about Ripp, he was just some guy to me. Until I started playing him, then I became the most attached I’ve ever been to a sim. Eventually, I made a self insert sim to be his girlfriend.
I have married him in multiple sims games. We have various families across them too. I am waiting patiently in the hope that one day he will be in a sims 4 pack (do it for me please 🤭) This man is the love of my life and I believe he is my soulmate. So Ripp Grunt, is my greatest memory from the sims 😍

half parcel Jan 29, 2025, 12:57 AM

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Despite playing The Sims from the first game, what actually comes to mind is the particular brand of weirdness that was prevalent in some of the GBA and DS games, especially that version of Urbz. Honestly that game takes so many twists and turns that I wouldn't want to spoil here, but it's a wonderful time! From the mainline games I have fewer concrete memories; more just a general warm comfortable vibe that has engulfed me again after coming back to the series after over a decade. Tweaking a house to be perfect, working your way up the ladder of careers, stumbling into strange and sometime supernatural interactions; all of it is what initially drew me to the series and what continues to keep me coming back

low mauve Jan 29, 2025, 12:57 AM

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The Sims Castaway on ps2 stole about a year of my life.

ebon tapir Jan 29, 2025, 1:05 AM

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I used the Sims 4 in one of my architecture classes in high school.
I had to build a contemporary home and develop a schematic for it
I ended up getting an A on my presentation I had done with it!! ❤

stark jackal Jan 29, 2025, 1:11 AM

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It's not easy to choose a memory when you've played the sims since the first opus, then played The Sims 2 and The Sims 4. But I’ll choose the day I was a teen in a flea market and I saw Sims 2 expansions on a stand at ridiculous prices. I was already playing The Sims, so I was so excited and decided to buy them all with my own money. What a great time of excitement and joy buying a game you love and you know you're going to have a great time with new expansions. I’ll never forget this moment.

karmic sandal Jan 29, 2025, 1:18 AM

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I don't have The Sims 1 anymore, but that was the game that started it all. One of my favorite memories with The Sims is having sleep overs with my friends as a kid. We would stay up all night sat in front of the computer typing in rosebud so many times until we would max out the household funds.

novel crane Jan 29, 2025, 1:26 AM

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My two favorite sisters, Gabby and Tate, graduating college were the first to get a degree. Been a simmer since 2000, and my absolute favorite sim is years back when I lost all my content on a computer issue. These two became a "newer" version represent her.

nocturne fox Jan 29, 2025, 1:46 AM

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My memory of the franchise as a whole really starts when Hot Date was published. I was in a low point of my life, alone and miserable. I saw a TV ad for Hot Date and decided to try the game, bought the bundle of The Sims and the expansion pack. It actually helped me through that rough patch, as I could finally feel I was in control of something, even if just a game. I continued playing, sometimes even obsessively. I have continued playing since, through all the versions. I even created some CC for Sims 2, paintings and wallpapers. I remember loving the Sims Medieval and wishing I could still play that. For me, The Sims is a way to escape my dull life and create storylines. It has been a major part of my life since forever, and most likely saved my sanity a time or two.

austere arch Jan 29, 2025, 1:49 AM

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Not necessarily one of my favorite Sims memories, but definitely one I haven't forgotten. The year was 2007, and I was away from home on a college internship -- it was a paid internship, but like many paid internships, it didn't pay much. One day I was grocery shopping at the local Super Walmart, and I decided to drop by the entertainment section to see if I could treat myself to a DVD on sale. I found a clearance rack of computer games, and on that rack there was a copy of The Sims 2 Deluxe. Before I went to college, I used to play Sims 2 from time to time by borrowing my younger brother's copy of the game and playing on the family computer, so I knew I'd enjoy Sims 2 Deluxe. I bought the game, but I only had time to play it a little bit before my internship ended and I had to pack up and go home for winter break. While I was at home during winter break, my copy of The Sims 2 Deluxe mysteriously vanished. I figured I'd probably just misplaced it and it would turn up eventually.
About 10 1/2 years later, I was puttering around the house doing chores while my mom was helping my brother go through some of his old stuff. At one point I happened to look over in their direction while they were going through a box of my brother's old video games, and there was my copy of Sims 2 Deluxe right next to my brother's copy of Sims 2. Now, I wonder, how could my Sims 2 Deluxe have mysteriously vanished only to turn up over 10 years later in a box of my brother's old games? 🤔
I don't think my brother is on this server, but just in case -- bro, if you're reading this, I know you stole my Sims 2 Deluxe. I figure you probably still have that box of old games around somewhere. I'd like my Sims 2 Deluxe back. I know my current computer won't run it, but it's the principle of the thing.

slate hare Jan 29, 2025, 2:01 AM

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My sims memory is getting the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection when I was homeless. A very kind EA support worker granted me access to the game on Origin because I sent him a picture of some discs. I left my computer on all night to install the game (I was living at a hotel at the time), and I had so much fun playing when it finally installed. I was 11 at the time.

sly glacier Jan 29, 2025, 2:16 AM

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Can anyone help me they have the nostalgia now reward event and it’s not showing up on my console. Is it only for PC or have I done something wrong but it’s not showing up at all

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I’m so confused about this because I haven’t had any problems with the log in rewards or the reaper rewards events but this one isn’t showing up for me , so I’m very confused and don’t understand why it isn’t showing up on my console since I can’t afford to get a computer so I play every single day on my ps4

latent hollow Jan 29, 2025, 2:22 AM

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I fell in love with the Smith family from the sims 2! I had lots of Alien sims best memories ever! Another memory would be the random sims that would ring you’re doorbell and light a bag of poo on fire and run away lol 😂

balmy fractal Jan 29, 2025, 2:33 AM

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Been a Sims Vet since Day one... I even managed to be lucky to get a addon for sims 1 with face factory besides the limited Katy Perry pack.

I started playing the sims when I was Pregnant with my First (now adult) child Played thru all 4 pregnanices and Got my daughters also in to Sims when they where around 5/6yrs of age and because we all played my Mum wanted in on the Simming world. Sadly she pasted away in July of 2023 and All her collection of teh Sims On Digital Purchases is still sitting on a computer here "untouched"

However Aside from teh sims I have also Simcity, Sim Farm (yes am old) My plans now is to corrupt teh grandkids to play ^.~

random heron Jan 29, 2025, 2:47 AM

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#ts4-memorylane-entries Sims has been part of my life for so long, but during Sims 3 - I ran a lot of contests on the Sims 3 Store forms, under the names Mystik and Skymyst and I loved seeing all of the creations people would enter. I often had big prize pools which got bigger and bigger with other people volunteering their points and/or judging so people who won could win Sims 3 store stuff. It was a ton of fun and I remember spending hours thinking up storylines and contests for people to enter. I would link to an old one on the EA forums but it is currently down while they switch EA Help there, but I have so many memories of all types of fun in the Sims 3 forums. Then when Sims 4 came out, my very first sim I ever uploaded to the gallery was Raven Mystik .....

sinful raptor Jan 29, 2025, 2:55 AM

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Favourite Sim memory has definitely got be the first time I tried making sims YT videos
I remember having to stream on mixer and then download those streams to edit those lol
I remember being so proud of the thumbnails I made for the 100 baby challenge
And the fact making those sims video made me realise that this is what I want to do in the future.

bold merlin Jan 29, 2025, 3:00 AM

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I still remember the first time I played The Sims, it was Sims FreePlay back in middle school, and even though it was a mobile game with timers for everything, I was hooked. I loved the idea of controlling little people, decorating their houses, and making up stories for them. Then in high school (2016), I got The Sims 4, and that’s when my obsession really took off. I’ve spent over 1,000 hours in that game, building dream homes, creating families, and playing out endless storylines. But even though Sims 4 became my main game, I’ve always appreciated the Sims 3 open world, the detailed traits, the little moments that made my Sims feel real. And then there’s Sims Medieval, which is completely different but so much fun when I want something with a fantasy twist. Now, with Sims 1 and Sims 2 possibly getting rereleased, I feel like I’m about to rediscover the roots of it all. I’m proud to say that I own all Sims 3 packs as well as all Sims 4 Expansion packs and Game packs, as well as most Stuff packs and Kits! I also got the Plumbob Ring from the Sims Shop for my 22nd birthday and I wear it all the time! It’s crazy to think how long The Sims has been part of my life, and no matter how many times I start fresh, I always come back to it💚

twin niche Jan 29, 2025, 3:41 AM

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Literally just these two being my favourite thing on this planet + seeing my OCs as people doing people things, but actively these two are my main legacy family right now til i get the rest of the packs i need 💔

upper lark Jan 29, 2025, 4:56 AM

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I remember being 16 and getting The Sims 1 with my first pc. I installed it, and spent the night playing it almost obsessively. My mom came into my room at 6am and just looked at me crazy then went "Were you playing sims all night? Go to bed!" I went to be shortly after and then without meaning to, did it again the next night.

fervent wave Jan 29, 2025, 5:20 AM

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I remember my moms girlfriend coming home with a brand new computer, she worked at circuit city and got it on discount and the first game my mom bought me was The sims 🥹 I remember playing it for hours on end....(even at 33 I still do) Building was always my favorite thing to do and still is of course! I play console now so it's a little different then PC but I still enjoy it just as much! 💚💚

random ridge Jan 29, 2025, 6:02 AM

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I love the old loading screen

soft salmon Jan 29, 2025, 7:11 AM

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I used to play the og sims on the GameCube when I was like 4. When I was 9 I moved on to the Sims 2 Vet DS game. I played sims 3 with my friends until after my first job where I bought a laptop and bought the sims 3 bundle on disk. About two weeks later the sims 4 got announced and I got it for my birthday. I'm now 22 and still playing.

twin niche Jan 29, 2025, 7:19 AM

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do NOT click this any of you
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chrome veldt Jan 29, 2025, 7:31 AM

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Tbh i cant choose , which experience i had is the most memorable. I remember playing Sims 1 Back in i guess it was 2004 or Something Like that. All Expansion were already out, and once i installed them i Played almost every day. Sims was changing my Teenage years for real. It was and is still a safeplace, creating Sims, building Houses, playing with the Life of my Sims. Be whoever i want to be, doing anything in life. Making my own Safe cozy world.
I had all physical Versions of Sims 1 and 2. Sadly they were gone at one day and i dont know why. My Heart is still broken.. but Sims is almost my age at all (me is 31) so i really grow with it, and can Not even Tell how much time i spent . Sims is live 💚

karmic sandal Jan 29, 2025, 7:36 AM

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A great memory of the sims for me is when I created a mother's day party for my sims' family, where the children gave their mother homemade gifts 😌

mint knoll Jan 29, 2025, 7:40 AM

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My favorite memory is actually the 1st time I played the sims 4, I had always dreamed of playing the sims but was never able to before I got a console & I still remember the happiness I felt opening & playing the sims 4 for the 1st time. I was finally able to play my dream game & I'm so grateful that I could achieve that dream ❤️🥹

knotty stratus Jan 29, 2025, 8:04 AM

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I'll post what I put on fb and a condensed version on x....

I dabbled with the sims 1 when I was young, I liked to build. I didn't get invested until I got sims 2 and was able to have a baby that actually grew up. I was obsessed either the astrology being part of their personality and I always wanted to play the best mom ever for my sim kids as a teenager. This was my go to game and helped me de-stress when dealing with bullying and the loss of my mother. My favorite memory was when I got my first sims 2 toddler to learn to walk. The interactions between the family sims were so heartwarming and the memory system made me feel like it wasn't just me who will remember but the sims I made also. Such a great game. I unfortunately do not have a screencap.

velvet raft Jan 29, 2025, 8:21 AM

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I remember when I first played the sims, I was like 11 and I was over at my friends house for a sleepover and she had a family computer and she told me there was games on there. I saw Sims 4 and asked her what it was, she told me I could play it if I wanted. When I did I immediately fell in love with the game. After that every time I would visit her we would play sims together, and when I wasn’t at her house I would watch loads of videos about other people playing the sims. I think the first person I ever watched play the sims was LaurenZside. After about 3 years of asking for the game my Mum finallly gave me it for Christmas as well as an Xbox for the whole family.

delicate bolt Jan 29, 2025, 8:53 AM

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My first time ever playing sims was around 13 years ago. It was the sims 3 on a dinosaur of a laptop, during the summer, in the back of an suv with no ac on the way to Palm Springs with my new friend and her little sister. We played the entire 3-4 hour car ride and were having so much fun we didn’t care the laptop was making the already 100° car hotter and sweatier! I’m still friends with them and to this day we still all game together! Thank you Sims for the special memory Fabulous

thin trench Jan 29, 2025, 9:41 AM

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For me, my memories of the sims are massive. Whether it was speedrunning the game (various WRs on Speedrun.com (http://speedrun.com/Nightwish), Discovering the glitchiness of the games - TS1 and the Skills Glitch is a good example and Bust Out with Napping is faster than sleeping in a bed) or playing casually whether as a kid or an adult... to getting my collection physically in order completely (All TS1 (including various packs and collecotrs), All TS2 (including the collectors Tin), All TS3 (Limited Edition and Collectors), TS4 Collectors, All The Side Games - Urbz, Bust Out, Castaway, Stories - See the photos Below, and yes that is a Display Pack Only version cause the store I got it from, messed up and gave me the wrong box)

For me, this journey started when I was 5 - which is around the time The Sims 1 launched on PC and I have been here since. I have loved every single moment of it and will continue as long as the series lasts. THank you Maxis, The Sims Team and everyone who has worked on this project. You have given this 30/31 year old something that is worth more than words.

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blazing ridge Jan 29, 2025, 10:12 AM

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The Sims has been such a big part of my life, whereas it was even an inspiration of my name, my cousin using the name ‘Phebe’ for her sims and my parents using that as inspiration for my real name. But it also played a big part in my childhood where i would get home from elementary and play Sims 3 pets on the PlayStation 3 (which was my first ever game i got). I would always make up stories and sometimes accidentally set the house on fire. I would also play so much MySims on the Wii or Nintendo DS where most of the times it would be MySims Agents on the wii.
I spent the most of my childhood just enjoying every Sims ever Hearts

gilded grove Jan 29, 2025, 10:51 AM

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My favourite sims memory was the first time I managed to build and furnish a whole house. I was 11, and posted it on Facebook, also gave extensive tours to every single person who entered my bedroom for the next month. I only had base game and a very poor sense of colour etc so looking back it was probably awful! But I was so so proud of myself!! I love the sims so much.

outer cedar Jan 29, 2025, 10:53 AM

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A rainbow kitten I made when I first got Cats and Dogs. (my first pack)

formal cradle Jan 29, 2025, 11:03 AM

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I have been playing the sims since I was about 7, I have had pretty much every pack of every one. My favourite memories of the sims is knowing that I would get expansions for Christmas and one used to get put by my bed to open first, I used to wake up in the night open the wrapping and slide it out to see which one it was before I carefully slide it back in the wrapping so nobody would know I’ve already opened it! I used to spend the whole day of my birthday glued to the computer playing the new expansion that I got 💕 it has been such a staple for me even now i have kids I’m still trying my best to find the time to play as much as I can! I’ve only just managed to get the collectors edition of the sims 4 and make myself a little set up in the corner to play so I have a space to use the little light that came with it 💕

hollow panther Jan 29, 2025, 11:48 AM

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First game I ever played was sims 2 and I don’t even think I ever used live mode. I used to build tall big box houses and put basically all items in. And I have physical copies of sims 4 and cats and dogs (with no cd, only sold with a code from game stop) I also have a really old cd of sim city.😅🥰

cerulean prism Jan 29, 2025, 1:40 PM

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Thanks for the contest!
My favorite memory with The Sims is when I used to go to flea markets with my dad, hoping to find The Sims 1 and 2.
Whenever I found some, I couldn’t wait to get home to discover them and play all evening long!
I’m sharing my collection with you 🙂

terse shard Jan 29, 2025, 1:54 PM

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My first memory of playing the Sims was on the original Xbox, I was a young kid and was sitting on my bedroom floor playing and my sim lived in the trailer that was in Sims 2. My sim died so many times I got so mad. I have loved the game ever sense. Thank you all for an awesome 25 years!

dull solar Jan 29, 2025, 2:12 PM

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This is a screenshot from my legacy save where everything changed for the family. It was a dark night in 2020, still in the beginning of the pandemic and I threw myself into the sims to escape the darkness. That’s what these sims were doing as well. Bennett (the father) with the help of his sister and brother in law, escaped his toxic marriage to Judith Ward, bringing their daughter with him. Off they went to the quiet town of Brindleton Bay to start their new, calm life together. But Bennett couldn’t stay, he wasn’t fit to be a father to Angel. So this is him saying goodbye, sending her to live with his sister and start a new hopeful life, changing the course of the legacy save.

high current Jan 29, 2025, 2:59 PM

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I’d say my fondest memory is in the sims 4 creating a family and just creating stories with the lineage and continuing it for generations. I have one sim that continuously makes potions to keep herself young despite the lineage progressing still. I think it’s fun to have kind of an immortal sim who has a lot of power and skills and helps others develop. I also fondly remember particular hairstyles and furnitures from sims 1 and love recreating them in further iterations. So much fun to see things develop further!

meager meadow Jan 29, 2025, 3:06 PM

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Honestly its nothing special, but my sis and i started playing about 3 years ago, we shared an account for the longest time. Our poor sims were put through a lot lol, we would test out hacks, have them cheat for plot, or have them drown in pools so we could sleep have our other sim sleep with the grim reaper lol.
To be honest it started when we were watching laruenzside and that's how we discovered sims4 and have been hooked ever since. It works out good sharing an account because she likes building the houses and i love creating the sims.
I love sims and now have my own account now since I've moved and I'm so excited to see the growth and to continue playing!

glacial mural Jan 29, 2025, 3:16 PM

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Love the Sims so here is my sims collection on both cd/dvd disc and on my ea accont and my first memory was the sims 1 back in the early 2000 and then when the other games come bougth as many as i could and i still love the sims 1 until today and of course i fell in love with the newer sims games and i have almost collected every sims 4 game except a few kits i am still missing but planning to buy the mysims cozy bundle when it realeses and i will buy the sims 1 and sims 2 when ea rerealease them on friday

open hatch Jan 29, 2025, 4:20 PM

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playing the sims for almost 17 years. it always reminds me of my dad who died early in 2013. i played the sims 2 with him whenever i visited him :) so thank you for being around! this franchise makes me truly happy.

tawdry tide Jan 29, 2025, 4:33 PM

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My favorite thing I have ever done in the sims will def have to be creating all my friends and putting us in a chaotic little world. Seeing them do things they wouldn't do like befriending a dolphin or cooking in the sea 👀 To actually dying..... And of course we also have a Sims 3 version. Kissing the bouncer to get into the club, crying over the new windows, Bonehilda clapping because my friend took a bath, and lastly, our beloved unicorn that loves to start fires.

plucky compass Jan 29, 2025, 4:38 PM

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The Sims has been a part of my life for 25 years and I'm 33.
I can't choose one favorite thing or a specific memory to share, but I did get it tattooed on my arm to show how important this franchise has been to me.
Also, I've been working really hard on getting my collection in physical so I can display it in my office 🥰

void pecan Jan 29, 2025, 5:14 PM

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Too many memories, it’s so hard to choose. Sims 2 is where my heart is at and journey started when I was 6 years old watching my sister play! Many arguments over whose turn it is on the computer. This loading screen always makes me feel so nostalgic. So many memories, my first alien abduction and alien baby 😅😂 Then the ultimate joy of Sims 3 being announced and the free world omg, colour palettes, the whole lot. And then of course, sims 4 being released and all new the features, building my collection of sims 4! Now with a full time job and I still manage to find the time to play between sims 3, 4 and medieval!

nova plover Jan 29, 2025, 5:40 PM

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Too many memories to count but my main memory was playing sims to keep calm while delivering my daughter in the hospital on the bed with my laptop just making sims wondering what my daughter would look like 🫣🥰

dire cave Jan 29, 2025, 5:49 PM

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Making the alpaca spa, with only the spa pack and base game and play with it and it works! 🤍 is fun to see it got some downloads. made me feel like i did something right 🤍 I playd The Sims 4, 1, 2 and 3. my favorite thing to do was fixing junk cars and owning a fashion store 😆 hahaha sims 4 ever 🤩

royal atlas Jan 29, 2025, 6:04 PM

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When The Sims Bustin’ out came out, it was the only thing I asked for Christmas that year. I wanted it so bad. So I formed a deal with my little brother. I would peak at his gift and tell him what it was and he would peak at mine. And so that’s what we did. I have so many fond memories of The Sims Bustin’ out. The locations were all so iconic too. Never forget those pink canopy beds. Mimi’s house was always my fav but I’d always move back into moms house to get my friendships up and I’d build my own room on and make it all pink and cute!

ocean geyser Jan 29, 2025, 6:17 PM

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My very first "Sims" game came with my Compaq Presario Desktop computer. It was Christmas of 1995 and our first family computer. My favorite game on that ancient computer was a game called Sim Town. I played that game so much that I can still remember the music from it. After that, I graduated to the Sim City franchise. Then in the early 2000's, I began seeing commercials for The Sims. By 2002, I finally purchased The Sims and within a few months, I had all of the expansions. I completed my collection before The Sims Superstar came out and was so excited. I believe that was around the time that we started getting teasers for The Sims 2. When TS2 came out, I was blown away. I already loved The Sims but TS2 was when I became a superfan. Though we were long past the old Compaq, we still didn't have a computer at home that could handle TS2 so I installed it at work. On the weekends, I would take the 20 minute drive to work just so that I could play. There has never been a game that has captured me like The Sims franchise and I have played TS1, TS2, TS3 and have 8,296 hours of playtime on TS4. I love the series so much and hope to see it continue another 25+ years.

dawn bolt Jan 29, 2025, 6:18 PM

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In Sims Bustin Out. I had a sim eaten by the cow plant 5 plus times. I didn't feed her and set her on fire multiple times. She still lived.

slow gate Jan 29, 2025, 6:22 PM

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Look at this

tame kayak Jan 29, 2025, 6:27 PM

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When I was little (like 4 yo), a friend of my family introduced my sister and I to the Sims 1. The game has been an obsession ever since. I remember the soundtracks, the lore, the houses, the sounds, everything, even though I was too little to understand everything.
When the Sims 2 came out, we just HAD to have it. It became my favorite game of all time, and like the first one, a real obsession. My first pay went on buying all the expansion packs for the Sims 2, to make sure I didn't miss anything.
I was so into the Sims 2 that I didn't want to play on the Sims 3 (also because my computer couldn't handle it at the time 🤣 )
The Sims has been a part of my life ever since I was a little girl, and no matter what people say, I still truly love this game so much. ❤️ Plumbob

vernal iris Jan 29, 2025, 6:32 PM

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my simself and my irl partner having a pillow fight, the guy in mint pummeled my simselfs face 😂

edgy harbor Jan 29, 2025, 7:24 PM

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The first time I ever played sims was The Sims 2 on DS and PC when I got the sims 2 for the DS and Sims Life Stories for PC back in 2009. I loved it. I was 5 years old at the time and I’m now 21 and the sims is the best game I ever played growing up. Back in 2017 when I had a seizure and was getting tested for epilepsy, my parents got me a lot of the sims 2 games from base game to apartment life as a good luck to my test and thankfully I didn’t have Epilepsy (I could not find my base game disk) and I’ve been playing a lot of more sims ever since and still play sims to this day! I spent like 10 minutes setting this up to make sure nothing fell over

deep kayak Jan 29, 2025, 7:30 PM

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I've had a ton of birthdays asking for Sims stuff, and I truly fell in love with the DS games, then I needed all the rest! One of my favorite memories is playing Sims 1 with my brother on the Xbox. We would take turns on the story mode, but didn't understand what we were meant to do. So we never got out of the Mom's house. We just would live there and get mad that she wouldn't help clean up and say we should do all the cleaning! We still laugh about that. And I'm still obessed, life long Simmer! (Photo of some of the physical stuff I have, and I booted up the Sims 2 on my old DS to take some pictures of my Sim in her Manager's Suite!)

sweet zodiac Jan 29, 2025, 8:01 PM

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The first time I had contact with the sims franchise was probably around 12 years ago; I used to go to my older neighbours house to play videogames (shoutout Club Penguin), though of course I didn't even have my own computer at the time. So, while one of us was playing on the computer, the other would play on her PS2 - that's where I fell in love with The Sims2: Castaways. I have very vague memories of the game, but I remember being so in love with it! Fast forward to now, I haven't played Castaways since then, but have fallen in love with The Sims4, and it brings me so many memories from simpler times. Shoutout neighbour who now has a kid of her own lol.

sweet wadi Jan 29, 2025, 8:02 PM

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My favorite memory is when my dad bought me the Sims 2 and the pack Open for Business. It started my love for the franchise. Since then, I’ll always cherish the hours spent in the Sims3’s open world. I used to pick a horse and go everywhere with it. 🐎

austere tendon Jan 29, 2025, 8:35 PM

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I started off with Sims 2 and some of my wildest memories of the game included using the move objects cheat to pick Sims up and create funny pictures. But the strongest memory has to be of my very first family. The wife got pregnant and went to work, starved, came home and promptly died. It didn't traumatize me, but led me to just create a better scenario (with a new family) and simply let my little deranged mind create... interesting scenarios further on down the road. I also fell in love with the Cowplant (Laganaphyllis Simnivorii??) back then and loved it in every iteration of the game moving forward. About fifteen years later I finally got a Sims/Cowplant themed tattoo! Also I can't exactly remember the context, but I took my favorite picture ever of the Grim Reaper in the Sims 2. I used lots of CC, so I don't think I can use many of my old photos that I uploaded to Facebook for some reason??

young mist Jan 29, 2025, 8:35 PM

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I was 5 years old when I first played The Sims. That’s how old I was when the game released! My dad worked for Psygnosis at the time (later bought by Sony) so we always had all the scoop on the latest games - and one day he brought home The Sims 1. He told me “it’s like real life… in a video game!” 😂 I booted it up, played the tutorial with Bob and Betty, quickly decided I hated them both (sorry) and moved on to Michael Bachelor. I accidentally killed Michael so fast, I was mortified. My dad came and told me off, saying I’m supposed to feed them 🤔 🤷‍♀️
Anyway, 1 week later I was a master at the gameplay and using cheats. I would rush home after school every day to carry on my family (even though I was terrified half the time, of the fire alarm, prank calls & the robber). And I never stopped playing. I grew up with the Sims. My virtual families were a huge comfort for me. Throughout all the versions - but also Sims 2 Stories, Urbz, Bustin Out and more. This game was the reason I ended up going to University to study Game Development, I’ve worked in the games industry for the past 8 years, and I owe it all to The Sims. I’m almost 30 now, and I still boot up The Sims when I get home from work. Some things never change 😄

quaint remnant Jan 29, 2025, 8:36 PM

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When did I discovered the Sims ?
I was probably 5 or 6 back to 2006, when my sister came home with a game her friend lend her. It was the sims 2, and I was obsessed with it, it was like playing with my dolls but more real ! I started watching my sister play and sometimes she made me play by asking what would i wanted my sim to do. Years after years, I continued to play when my sister got bored, and when the sims 3 came out… I was so excited and ran every day of new dlc in my local game shop to see if they had the new expansion pack. Now, i’m writing scenarios in order to be a filmmaker and i think the sims played a big role in this. So thank you 💚 (also im a big fan of the sims lore so when i saw that Bella goth milk bottle … 💳💥💳💥💳)

kind kestrel Jan 29, 2025, 8:39 PM

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If I’m being completely honest I’ve loved the Sims since I was about 4 years old but I wasn’t allowed to play due to it being considered too graphic for my age My mom wouldn’t let me play it, so I’d take every opportunity given to me to enjoy the Sims from my friends that were allowed to play the Sims. One friend in particular wasn’t very accommodating since the game was a one player game and she had grown very attached to her sims and the fear of me messing up her game was not on the table, I was only allowed to watch her play but to me that was enough fun, for years I’ve watched people play the sims 1, 2, and 3 but finally in 2017 My family were going through a rough time in our lives. I randomly had watched a sims 4 creator playing the sims 4 Vampires game pack and was so intrigued I begged my mom for the Sims 4 she said no at first but when I explained how much fun it would be to play this game even with the hard things we were going through time, and how the sims would take my mind off of it she hurried away to Walmart and bought me the physical copy for the sims 4 I was So happy I cried and put the Disk into my computer downloaded the game made a Origin account from that day on I haven’t stopped playing the Sims I used to play on a HP computer but because I love the sims so much I worked hard to buy a MacBook Pro so I could buy the Sims 2 Super Collection on that one I am so Obsessed with the sims and I thank EA for creating a game so influentially ahead of its time that even now as a 25 year old woman I can say I don’t see myself ever leaving the Sims franchise I even want to become a bigger part of the Sims community and become a sims Streamer.

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tender shoal Jan 29, 2025, 8:59 PM

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When the Sims 1 came out I was spending a lot of time at my aunties flat, above the pub she was a landlady for.
This meant spending a lot of time with my cousins, and particularly my older cousin at the time! I was a young teen and she was older and she showed me a couple of other franchises that didn’t grab me, then one day she showed me ✨ the sims ✨

I remember sitting and watching her play, I have autism and adhd, so this was normal for me to sit and watch as I did the same with my older brothers when playing Lara Croft/prince of Persia etc!

But the sims intrigued me, I’d never seen anything like it, and there was so many dynamics to it (even then!!!)
I remember us taking it in turn to trap her sims in fences & pools, and often coming back from lunch to discover one of my brothers had been on the pc in the attic and set the house on fire that we’d spent so long on designing (even if it was a 54x54 square box)

This game particularly helped me, as I spent many school holidays with my cousins during a difficult time within my immediate family and I was grateful for the distraction!

My absolute favourite DLC is makin’ magic, I was obsessed with the fair and all the excitement that the pack bought to the game!

25 years later and I’m still playing and enjoying the mechanics that are coming through the game as it develops 🙏

rapid pumice Jan 29, 2025, 9:11 PM

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Way back in the mid 00s, I was playing with the Goth Seniors household in the OG sims. I didn’t know how imperative it was to pause one’s game when you won’t be there to play, and made the tactical error of leaving the game unpaused when my mum took me grocery shopping. Welp, I come back home, to the family computer, to see the two adults dead, their two cats meowing in the front lawn, and flames just everywhere. I was traumatized and paused and saved any time I turned my back for even a second.

Another favourite memory is for the sims 2; loading into the Beaker household and almost immediately Circe got swarmed by flies, it was so unexpected I was stunned.

I love the unexpected accidents, and those are almost all my core memories from this series lol

brittle vessel Jan 29, 2025, 11:41 PM

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My first time playing the sims was with my childhood best friend. Every time I went to their house they would make me watch as they played the Sims 3, but never let me play myself. I was so mad at them for not letting me play, that I begged my mom to buy me TS3 and that is how my obession began.

fresh shell Jan 30, 2025, 12:05 AM

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I came to know The Sims for the first time when I was introduced by a coworker when I was 20 and I was hooked. Not me buying all the expansions and xbox and ds games...lol. 23 years later and I am still a big fan. I always enjoyed the building aspect and I remember making my first home in the game. I still have all my games including the how to books. Obviously, the internet wasn't a thing yet, except for straight research., so coming about tips and tricks was a little harder. Anyway...all my Sim families are the cutest and I am so glad the sims are still around. Happy Anniversary!!!!!

rough summit Jan 30, 2025, 12:43 AM

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Back in 2000 my dad had come home with the Sims 1 from one of his coworkers. They had bought it but weren't really into it so decided to pass it on. I was fairly young and instantly hooked by the little "doll house" style game with all the zany things that happened. I used to ask for expansion packs for any holiday.

Then when the Sims 2 came out I became obsessed. Loved all the upgrades from the original game (ageing, aspirations, customization etc). I slowly collected most of the expansion packs, some off eBay second hand, but couldn't get enough of the game.

My personal life growing up wasn't always great so this game gave me an escape to a virtual world where it could be as good or as bad as I wanted that day. To a world where my sims could have exactly what they wanted and that I could build silly little houses that were beautiful. The series as a whole holds a special place in my heart for that alone.

timid birch Jan 30, 2025, 6:30 AM

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The Sims has always been a bonding point between my mom and I. She'd played the original Sims in college, and had introduced me to the Sims 2 and 3 when I was a kid. I best remember playing the Sims 3 Supernatural, in which my mom would help me make our entire family as fairies, and then I'd make big box houses with all the necessities (see: claw machines). Now I'm in college, and I'm still playing the Sims (only, the Sims 4 this time. I've yet to purchase the Sims 3 now that I have my own EA account). My mom and I have a great relationship as-is, but I think the Sims has made it even more special.

wise valve Jan 30, 2025, 10:16 AM

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I spent hours and hours on the sims, I really played sims 4 and I just love building and spending hours on a build and looking for the tiniest details! So playing in a Home that I really put my heart into is such a great feeling !

untold wharf Jan 30, 2025, 10:19 AM

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my favourite memory of the Sims would be getting into it as a young girl due to my dad. he was the one who introduced me into games and i started playing the sims 3 consistently when we would watch videos of it together and when we would go the store and pick out cards to get expansion packs with. i will always be grateful for my parents for connecting with me through it and for the sims being a comforting game for me!

indigo dragon Jan 30, 2025, 1:03 PM

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There have been many for me over the years. ive been playing since sims 1 came out for console. I remember going to my best friends house and playing and having no clue what we were doing but having fun with it. few years down the line playing sims 2 with my friends, trying to make each other in the game and collaborating with the 4 of us in one room hovering over 1 small laptop. The Urbz (gameboy version) was a shared cartridge my cousin and i passed back and forth and when we'd meet up showing off our progress to each other. Sims 3 was there for me when i hit college and really realized how introverted i was. it kept me sane many weekends, but also gave me a bonding point when i did find my cubby of friends. the sims 4 served as the same point as sims 3 when i moved in with my dad while he was sick. i knew noone in the area but the game was there to keep me sane. It has also been there over the years since giving my brain something to focus on when id feel anxious and proving as an outlet for my creativity.

brave quail Jan 30, 2025, 2:13 PM

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J'ai le souvenir d'avoir toujours pris beaucoup de plaisir à jouer aux jeux Les Sims. Je joue depuis le premier opus et n'ai jamais cessé de jouer depuis 25 ans !
Le jeu me permet de développer ma créativité et de m'évader dans un univers original, plaisant et parfois complètement loufoque !
Je me souviens combien les danseurs du gâteau d'anniversaire me faisait rire, des magasins que j'ai géré dans les sims 2, des loisirs poterie et couture. Des véhicules qui venaient chercher nos sims et qu'on pouvait acheter.
De l'aurore boréale qui indiquait qu'une Licorne était en ville.

austere phoenix Jan 30, 2025, 3:37 PM

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I remember when, in order to play The Sims (the very first one), my big sister and I had to install the game secretly on my mother's work computers. We'd wait for my mother to finish work while playing the best game in the world. The time it took to install it was much longer than the time we spent playing. Then we had to uninstall it before leaving work each time! It was the first video game I ever played, and the memory is eternal.

brazen kindle Jan 30, 2025, 6:15 PM

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I remember the first sim that i ever made in the sims 2, i made her the meanest person possible, i was kinda an evil kid, here is her remade in the sims 4 😭

frosty zealot Jan 30, 2025, 6:28 PM

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My favorite memory from the sims is when I first started playing "My Sims" on the DSi XL. I had the Sims 3 on my dads laptop, but obviously I was only able to play it when he let me, so I was able to buy the game cartridge and I just fell in love with the game. I loved growing the little town and fishing and trading and making Leis, even now it's one of my favorite games! I recently found out how to play "My Sims" on my ipad, and I haven't stopped playing since!!

livid igloo Jan 30, 2025, 6:35 PM

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when i was a child i searched and searched thrift stores for years looking for mainly sims 2 expansions- i have a few more, but these are the games on my shelf. i loved the urbz!

pale fox Jan 30, 2025, 7:42 PM

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My favourite memory of playing the sims 2 is not actually playing it but borrowing the expansions packs that I did not have from a good friend of mine whenever I had go reinstall the game. And I had to a lot, because of computer issues XD

atomic nimbus Jan 30, 2025, 8:33 PM

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I discovered the sims when I was a little girl and my parents used to play sims 2 on the old white pcs and I used to watch my mum build the houses and my dad make the people…it was a fond memory of my parents because sadly they are no longer with us and the sad fact is that i create myself and my family and do all my let’s plays with them as sims instead of irl
How my mother would do it was that she always used to empty the homes and have the sims start with absolutely nothing and then slowly buy them furniture, my father used to absolutely hate the way she did it because he was a “motherlode” man🤣

lament oyster Jan 30, 2025, 9:25 PM

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The Sims series has brought me a lot of joy and support throughout my life. It allowed me to create my own representations and taught me that nothing is impossible. Through the game, I was able to experiment and gain the courage to pursue those experiences in real life.

Thanks to The Sims, I’ve been inspired to dive into game development. I’m also beginning to share my second passion with the world: music. The creativity and possibilities in The Sims encouraged me to dream bigger and take action.

Thank you for this incredible journey and for continuously inspiring players like me. ❤️

karmic sandal Jan 30, 2025, 10:31 PM

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The Sims 2 is my childhood game, and I spent countless hours on it. I played on a very old, slow computer that made me rage. I didn’t even know what "charisma" meant, and my first family died in a fire. 😂

Seeing my love for the game, my parents got me The Sims 3 on Nintendo DS. I still play The Sims 2, 3, and 4 on PC and console today.

My passion lives on, I collect everything The Sims! So proud to share my collection. Thank you, The Sims! 💚

dull badger Jan 30, 2025, 10:53 PM

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The Sims were my life when it first came out in 2000 I finally got my PC and I played Sims 1 till 3:00am and when I kept up on updates on the second installment of the Sims I bought it like a kid in a candy store. I also got the PlayStation version of sims2. I also bought Sims2 gameplay books then came Sims3 I went from PC desktop to laptop and it was my Virtual dollhouse and my escape from everyday dilemmas! And when the Sims Midevil came along I waited till payday and I downloaded it and played to my heart's desire until finally the Sims4 was introduced now I play every single day at age 52 and I feel like this franchise is like the best game ever made by sim gurus! I'm not an expert builder but I love to decorate refurbish and make human sims and wish I was them with mother-load cheats and being a rich sim with a big family. God bless the Sims franchise and I'm looking forward to buying more Sims games .

minor pollen Jan 31, 2025, 12:13 AM

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Back in The Sims days, I would sneak into the computer room late and play. I got this prank call and it freaked me out so much I just ran back into my bed and forgot to turn off the family computer. The music was so unnerving for a small child and these calls were always so scary!

forest egret Jan 31, 2025, 12:17 AM

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My first sims was actually TS3 for the PS3 and I remember that for cheats in TS3 Pets, you had to place this weird llama thing?? But my favourite memory will have to be from TS2 when I first started playing it. I knew NOTHING of the lore, so I got with Don Lothario. HUGE mistake. Dina showed up to my house, ate my food, insulted me, and then knocked over my trashcan?? So as revenge, I got with and then killed her sister by locking her in a room. She escaped twice, but I definitely won in the end 😋 Then Don disappeared??? Still no clue what happened to him

errant finch Jan 31, 2025, 12:22 AM

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I first started playing the Sims around 3-4 years old with The Sims 2 on PlayStation 2. My sister was 16 and she would let me play with her, even though I never was able to reeeeally play, you know? Once she moved out, I kept playing, working away from huge wallpaper-less boxes with 10 showers and 3 fridges, towards cuter, smaller houses, albeit still silly. I remember how fun it was running around in the fastest time speed while Paramore’s Pressure played! I still love Paramore and that started with TS2! Soon, I started playing Urbz, Sims Bustin’ Out, and Sims Castaways (I love these sooo much) and I spent so. much. time playing these - it was literally the majority of my childhood! I learned the word miscellaneous from the series! Eventually my Dad let me play on his computer and one day he surprised me with a copy of The Sims 3! I was never able to have any DLCs or Expansions, so for years I played TS3 base game all day. every day. as soon as I got home to as late as I could get. My first favorite Sims came from TS3, my first legacy challenge, and my first favorite build! I was so proud of that game and myself and how far I’d grown. When TS4 released, I played on my PlayStation 4 since my dad’s computer stopped working, and I accrued 800 hours before getting a laptop from a friend and my first ever Steam account! Now I have over 1500 hours in TS4, and probably 10’s of thousands for The Sims overall! Thank you for growing up alongside me, Sims. I owe you so much and you’ve been my world! Happy birthday! Plumbob

fluid glacier Jan 31, 2025, 12:25 AM

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I first started playing The Sims 15 years ago, in the days of The Sims 3. This game has been such an important part of my life, seeing me through both happy and sad times. One of my favorite ways to play the game is to create my family as sims. Pictured is my partner and I, and our 3 dogs, as sims

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peak storm Jan 31, 2025, 12:37 AM

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My fav memory is when I first started playing at about 12 years old. Me and my best friend would play sims 4 together taking it in turns to each play a day. Our sim had twins and we accidentally named them the same name because we didn't know twins were even possible!

crimson sun Jan 31, 2025, 12:38 AM

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My prized possessions freezerbunnylove

They’ve survived countless moves and still hold all the pixelated nostalgia. Who else remembers the joy of loading up these classics? Happy anniversary, Sims!

languid kiln Jan 31, 2025, 12:46 AM

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My favorite memory of the sims is actively planning what to do next when I got to play again at home while in the lunch line in high school.

violet tapir Jan 31, 2025, 12:55 AM

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A favorite group activity I do with sims games is I make the characters from ttrpg’s I play with my gaming friends and our campaigns so they can all coexist in the same universe together and socialize. I used to ask my friends to describe their characters in great detail and fancast them as actors to base facial features on, this helped me visualize them for character art I made for stories about our adventures. Been doing this for decades as a way to connect my sims gaming with ttrpg, pictured is my latest ttrpg character from a game I’m currently playing online with friends.

leaden plover Jan 31, 2025, 1:09 AM

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raw notch Jan 31, 2025, 1:11 AM

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My mom would NOT let me have recreational games on our PC so my first interaction with the sims was from my best friend in college who had Bustin’ Out. I remember on quiet, boring nights just sitting in her room trying to find something to do, and we always ended up on Bustin’ Out. We would do that and listen to music. Laugh, eat, watch movies, play Bustin Out, rinse and repeat lol. Such fun!

Fast forward 15 years later and I’m bored and scared once again because there is a pandemic. And my husband is trying to keep my anxiety at bay. He remembered the Sims helped me cope with feeling alone and sad in college, so he suggested it again. Sims 4 helped. I played, and now I stream and create content. It’s still my go to stress reliever.

wise solar Jan 31, 2025, 1:13 AM

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**Time to Play with Life!!! **Playing the Sims since the beginning. I have played every iteration to date, Sims, Sims 2, Sims Medieval, SimsCity, MySims wii, Sims 3 wii & pc, Sims Mobile and now Sims 4. There are several favorite memories that kept me playing the Sims 2 specifically. Driving my car, taking vacations, flying in the helicopter when you reached the highest career level and . . . . all time favorite memory was sending my sims to college because the family would go with them and the mom would cry when it was time to leave. Then the family would visit periodically. It reminds me of when I went off to college. My Sims 4 disks are somewhere around my house (must find that box). Sims 1 is missing. Also loved introducing my family to The Sims with MySims. My baby sister and three of my nieces have been Simmers ever since.

near ravine Jan 31, 2025, 2:07 AM

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One of my favorite Sims memories involves a family I created in The Sims 2. I had a Sim named Sarah who was an American chef. She spent countless hours perfecting her cooking skills, and I loved watching her cooking. One day, I decided to throw a grand dinner party to celebrate her promotion to head chef.
The party was going great until the stove caught fire! In the chaos that developed, Sarah's best friend tried to put out the fire, but ended up catching fire herself. It was a disaster, but somehow, among the panic, Sarah managed to save her friend and the party continued. The evening ended with everyone laughing and dancing.

craggy tulip Jan 31, 2025, 2:24 AM

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Been playing the sims for quite some time. I couldnt' find my Sims Bustin' Out copy and all my sims 2 games (must be in another box somewhere). Being able to go through a full life completing all the different missions is one of my favorite parts. In sims 3 supernatural I remade Sam and Dean Winchester and made them ghost hunters, and that was so fun. Just being able to put different characters into your own story. So Fun.

woeful orchid Jan 31, 2025, 4:06 AM

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This isn't one memory, but it is a lovely story. I sadly don't have a picture as everything's in storage, so my words will have to do.
My Granddad lived overseas, so I can count the number of times I saw him on one hand. However, Granddad was very tech savvy, so we got lots of emails from him, but it also means his favourite gifts to us were tech (normally sent in boxes labelled with something that wasn't Customs-safe: one time he sent DVDs in a box marked "live snakes". The Mischief skill was strong in that one).
What this meant is when I was about 6, Granddad provided us with The Sims and The Sims: Unleashed. I was 10 when he sent us Sims 2 Double Deluxe - and then I got my friends to give me their expansion packs while they upgraded to Sims 3. Granddad sent us Sims 3 eventually, but we didn't have a computer good enough to play it until after he passed. He was the one who sent me a Nintendo DS for my birthday, and later the Sims 3 Nintendo game.
It was 2014 when Granddad passed, and I spent my teen years on Sims 2 and 3, and built friendships off it. Years later, I was at uni and living away from my friends, and a bit lonely. Sims 4 was being given away for free and I hadn't played any Sims in a long time, so I did it. It reminded me of Granddad, and it helped me feel a little less alone, a little more connected. The magic of the Sims and the connections it represents for me never fades.

light meadow Jan 31, 2025, 4:21 AM

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My favourite memory would have to be in my legacy save in the sims 3. So to start, one of my teens were having a bday party. It was going fine until the meteor came, causing all of my teens to die.

Meanwhile the parents decided to woohoo instead and tried using the Murphy Bed, causing a death. After that, the living parent decided to eat a jelly bean autonomously, resulting in another death. All this happened within a few minutes of each other and has got to be the unluckiest moment I’ve ever had

hearty karma Jan 31, 2025, 6:21 AM

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My favourite memory has to when I got my first expansion pack for The Sims 4, Get Together and I built a house and totally forgot the bathroom and didn't realize it till the next day.

frigid badge Jan 31, 2025, 8:00 AM

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My favourite memory is the first time I tried to host a wedding in The Sims 4 - the groom wouldn't head to the altar because he was feeling energised and wouldn't stop doing push-ups! I ended up incorporating it into my story and got the bride to leave him at the altar and run away!

trim basin Jan 31, 2025, 10:27 AM

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When I was a child, I spent vacations at my aunt’s house. One day her son showed me The Sims and I was enchanted! I mostly made Cassandra Goth play on the playground and feed Mortimer’s fish
A few years later my uncle showed The Sims 2 and finally I got it for my birthday. My aunt inspired by our stories started playing too and we shared our Sims adventures
A few years ago my aunt passed away, I miss her. The Sims will always remind me of those vacations, our laughter and the stories we created.

jovial imp Jan 31, 2025, 10:40 AM

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One of the best memories I have with the sims is when I was at the place of one my mom's friend. I was playing the sims with her daughter in her bedroom. I was struggling with the mother, and my mom called me so we could leave, but I really didn't want to, so I litteraly negotiated with her so I could stay longer and I succeed, i stayed while she doing groceries 😌

soft seal Jan 31, 2025, 10:50 AM

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Mon meilleur souvenir sur les Sims c’est d’avoir passé toutes nos vacances scolaires sur les Sims3 avec ma sœur à se rejoindre la nuit en cachette pour jouer alors qu’on était supposées dormir 🤭

Mais en jeu le plus marquant c’est à la sortie des Sims 3 Université quand en 10minutes de jeux ma sim est décédée par le lot escamotable, que j’ai quitté sans sauvegarder pour qu’elle meurt de nouveau sous un distributeur 😭

stable valley Jan 31, 2025, 11:34 AM

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I started playing The Sims two years ago, and about a year later, I created a family with myself, my partner, two dogs, and two cats. I built them an ideal home in a world where no one ages and moved them in.

Now, in real life, all of my pets are over ten years old. One of my dogs has heart disease, and one of my cats is in stage 3 kidney failure. I don’t know when they’ll leave me.

But in The Sims, my partner sometimes takes the dog to the park for a coffee break. When other players visit our home, the cats welcome them. Sometimes, they go to the vet, but they always recover quickly and come back home. Even when my real pets eventually leave me, I can still visit them in this way.

This game holds my memories—of the past, the present, and even the future. I hope The Sims lasts forever.

visual thorn Jan 31, 2025, 1:48 PM

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My mom used to work at a... I don't know what those places were called... a store where you could "rent" a computer per hour. I remember PC 1 had the sims 1 installed. I always played with the Goths and kept starting a new game every day because the computer would delete all data when your time was over. Eventually a friend from school bought the games and we would play every time I visited her. Funny enough when Mortimer and Bella had a baby boy I named him Alejandro (which is my brother's name). When the sims 2 was released and I saw Alex in their unit I was like WHAT. Eventually my dad bought a computer and they got me the Sims 2 for my birthday but I wasn't able to play much due to compatibility issues. Then memory issues. I didn't get to play until I grew up and moved out, got my own stuff and all, but by then Sims 4 was already out ssssoooo... I missed a lot, but it has always been my favorite game.

Someone just said Internet cafe... I guess it was something like that except that instead of coffee they rented movies. We called it videoclub or cyber. You know....spanish stuff.

cosmic sedge Jan 31, 2025, 2:24 PM

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I was obsessed with the sims 4 and played with my own sim self when I was 18/19 and I also met my boyfriend during that time, but we didn’t start dating until later. Fast forward a bunch of years and it is last year and I suddenly started getting into the sims again, after almost 10 years of not touching it. And I blow the dust off my save file from back then and boot up and find my sim self living in an ugly house….with an exact copy of my boyfriend who I hadn’t started dating yet when I stopped playing the sims. It felt very Netflix You to see that; also we had a kid.

pliant heart Jan 31, 2025, 3:09 PM

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sulsul the Simmers, I share my little collection with you ☺️

sims fan since 2010. I knew the sims on PSP console. with the sims shipwreck stories, then the sims 2 on ds with the challenge of saving a hotel in zarbville (if I'm not mistaken 🤔) then the sims 3 in 2011. then the sims 4 in 2014. I didn't know the sims 1 despite my age.. thank you. and long live the sims

edgy sandal Jan 31, 2025, 3:14 PM

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The sims 3 was my first sims game and second game ever, back when I had an old work station pc on windows xp. I remember playing it when ever I could as I made buildings and sims of all kinds. My father would also buy me expansions from time to time because of how much I loved it and how loved me. As I grew older and got consoles, I tried other sims games and still loved the openness to it along with how each one felt different. I would even get my cousin into it, or show family recreations of themselves or homes to them. The sims was always a part of my life and import to my development as it gave me opportunities to see if I knew myself, or just discover who I was. My gender identify and sexuality took years to find out, yet I feel the sims series helped me experiment or test scenarios as such to see what really made me happy or that I wish I had in life. Even to this day I still play the sims to do stories or play with original characters to see what happens or mess around, like a living doll house that you can make anything happen.

modern meteor Jan 31, 2025, 3:23 PM

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My fist sims was the sims 3 cats and dogs for PlayStation 3 I loved it and I started playing in 2016 ever since I’ve been hooked in the sims and one thing I do miss is burglars that was a good experience to have in the game

boreal shard Jan 31, 2025, 3:36 PM

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First pic is of my old setup. Believe that was when City Living came out.
2nd is my heir in my Sims 3 legacy bugging out in CAS Laughter
3rd and 4th is from my old legacy family in sims 3 and a random house I was so proud of back in the days 😂
And the last one is my Legacy founder, Honey Champagne that I started when Get Famous came out and it's still going strong, on generation 121!!

I wish I had my Sims 2&3 collection at my new apartment. But until I get those back, I’ll happily enjoy yours!

coral vector Jan 31, 2025, 3:41 PM

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The Sims 2 was my first sims game. While everyone was playing the sims 3, I was going to the local game store every week to see if they had used sims 2 packs to add to my collection.

spice kestrel Jan 31, 2025, 4:00 PM

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The Sims 1 was my first Sims game, it came out when I was 2.5 years old and some of my fondest memories were my siblings and I (I have a brother that is 7 years older and a sister that is 5 years older than me) sitting in our basement around the desktop playing together, and them letting me instruct them on how to play, I would eventually play by myself but shortly after that, The Sims 2 came out, and I was a Make a Wish child, and for my wish I wished for a laptop, soon after my wish was granted I got the Sims 2 and it was the first Sims game I ever played completely solo, I was a HUGE fan of playing specifically in Veronaville with the Capps and Montys who knew I would grow up to be an adult who still loves the Sims AND is really into Shakespeare

royal sky Jan 31, 2025, 4:12 PM

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My first sims game was the OG Sims! I remember being a kid, pulling up a kitchen chair to watch my dad play for hours! (Which looking back on...dad you let me play this game??) Then I got my own computer! Getting to play the sims with my brother are some of the happiest memories from my childhood. I had so many sims expansions (Making Magic was the best one!!) And ever since I've been hooked. I remember buying all of these sims 3 games with my own money and being so excited to play! Now that I'm almost 30, I still play the sims all the time! I think I'll still play it when I'm 70 🥰 (If you couldn't tell, these were my top 3 favorite expansions, and sims 3 deluxe was a MUST)

sage ember Jan 31, 2025, 5:38 PM

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I’ll never forget my introduction to The Sims franchise. It’s my 14th birthday & I’ve got a gift card for Best Buy 🥳 So what do I spend it on…. The Sims 2 base game. And because it was my birthday my mom also threw in Glamour Life SP for me. I ended up staying up all night that night to play (a school night btw 😅). And now here we are celebrating 25 years of The Sims franchise that I’ve had the pleasure of being apart of for almost 19 years. Happy Anniversary Sims! Here’s to 25 more 🥳

radiant ether Jan 31, 2025, 5:57 PM

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I’ve had so many happy memories with the sims, some silly ones too.
I would set a little old camera up my parents had, stack it on top of the cd cases and make little videos. Recording myself having fun with the game and talking as if the whole world could hear. Not that anyone ever saw them, they were simply for my enjoyment. I wish i still had them now.

Or when I would play the sims 3 on the wii. Setting houses on fire and running out the lots and coming back later to see if the building was still ablaze. Thankfully, i don’t think it was and the sim inside was SOMETIMES safe from my malicious actions. Karma sortve did get me back however, for the first time i heard the death music on the wii it instilled so much terror into me that ran out of the room covering my ears. Happy_Daniel

crimson cove Jan 31, 2025, 7:18 PM

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karmic sandal The Sims 2 is my childhood game, and I spent countless hours on it. I played on ...

this collection is amazing!! thank you for sharing

crimson cove Jan 31, 2025, 7:18 PM

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radiant ether I’ve had so many happy memories with the sims, some silly ones too. I would set...

that is a STACK 👏

crimson cove Jan 31, 2025, 7:19 PM

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sage ember I’ll never forget my introduction to The Sims franchise. It’s my 14th birthday &...

love that so much!! Sims on a school night 🫣

crimson cove Jan 31, 2025, 7:19 PM

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coral vector The Sims 2 was my first sims game. While everyone was playing the sims 3, I was ...

that font freezerbunnylove

crimson cove Jan 31, 2025, 7:20 PM

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pliant heart sulsul the Simmers, I share my little collection with you ☺️ sims fan since ...

ooo you've got some things I've always wanted! love the plumbob collection

noble depot Jan 31, 2025, 8:12 PM

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The Sims 1 was the very first game I played as a child. The universe, the stories of the sims, the creativity we must have to create our characters was truly revolutionary!

I remember all those hours playing and Wow ! It was truly amazing. But I also remember those scary moments when my sim missed work and I had to make sure he didn't answer the phone because of the really scary music 😂

The Sims 2 and these gentlemen who could get pregnant with aliens (Curious Family), these mythical families (Goth, Caliente, Pleasant Family, Specter Family, etc.) Monty and Capp Family which takes up the story of Romeo and Juliet. I was lucky to get the code in 2014 for the ultimate collection! I forgot to mention the sims 2 music! Banger! Trophy

And what about the sims 3? It was so perfect! revisit our adult sims 2 (Sonia and Vladimir) to recreate their relationship, this open world, these incredible jobs! (Burglar 😏 ) The Vampires, fairies, werewolves... Seeing your neighbors in their backyards.

So much fun with The Sims 3 animals 🥰

Happy anniversary !! Balloons

tawdry sparrow Jan 31, 2025, 9:23 PM

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Le souvenir qui m’a le plus marqué est dans les sims 3 quand j’ai forcé mon sims à nager dans la piscine, je ne savais vraiment pas qu’il pouvait mourir et il est mort 💀 ça m’a traumatisée 😇.

fallen valve Jan 31, 2025, 10:54 PM

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The Sims 1 on ps2 and pc were some of my first games I ever played. I used to be fascinated by running the life of your own little family that you created, and I remember I played hours of the Sims 2, especially when I discovered mods and cc, which essentially destroyed the family windows xp computer 💀 I’ve been playing the Sims for over 20 years, and it’s been fun seeing where it had led, and will always be my favorite video game! Here is my collection of physical releases I have collected over the years (most of my Sims 3 collection got donated 😔)

sudden tundra Feb 1, 2025, 12:31 AM

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In 2017, Sims content was all my 10 year old eyes saw online. From not so berry, to the Disney princess challenge, even the extreme mods or custom content hauls grabbed my attention with a grib so firm not even my mother reaching 3 could break my trance. I was obsessed from a distance, my birthday money could never afford to purchase my own copy, let alone any expansions, be it the few out at the time, I saw. I'm not certain how it came to be, but my father some how caught on to this obsession of mine, and revealed to me a secret of his: he not only owned the game, but two packs as well. He gave me his log in, and I played for hours. I managed over 500 hours by the time I was 13 and able to make my own account and start collecting packs. Now, 8 years later, I own nearly every expansion and game pack, a handful of stuff packs and kits, and well over 2000 hours on my own account. The Sims shaped my childhood, and soon it'll shape my adulthood too. It's what helped me realize I love interior design and helped me to figure out my gender identity. The free dome and inclusivity of the Sims helped me through rough times where I felt I was never seen. Sure, it's just a bunch of pixels, glitchy ones at times, but they hold a special place in my heart, now and forever.

unreal python Feb 1, 2025, 4:00 AM

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Playing The Sims for hours as a kid on Xbox 360 sparked my creativity in so many ways. I'd build intricate homes (albeit ugly), struggle with Sims families, and immerse myself in the Goth family's stories. As I grew older, my passion for The Sims only deepened. Saving up to buy The Sims 4 was a big milestone for me! I played it until my laptop couldn’t work anymore, and it led me to getting my own pc and I got over 1,600 hours in The Sims 4! It will always be my most beloved and favorite game.

hushed coral Feb 1, 2025, 5:18 AM

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I remember convincing my dad to buy me the original game. I spent all night on the family computer grinding to get a promotion for my sim lol!
I was going through my old things and found a few of my disks.

molten cradle Feb 1, 2025, 8:42 AM

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When i was around 10 years old, my friend introduced me to The Sims. We played hours and hours at her house everyday. The time i was at home, all i could think about was the game. I drew blueprints of the houses i wanted to build next time we would be playing. Still a builder, still a simmer🖤

mighty bloom Feb 1, 2025, 9:43 AM

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Been a sims girlie since I was -2 years old
My earliest memory is watching my mom play the game, and also her building castles in sims 2 for me.

My earliest memories of me playing alone is thinking my sims died of bad names cause I couldn’t spell XD
And also running away from the pc when grim reaper appeared cause he horrified me.

Another memory I have is of me playing as a kid for about 17 hours or something lol

Also I’m now as an adult, buying all dvds I find if the sims 2 and down for a collection, since I as a kid bought all sims 3 packs.
These aren’t all the dvds I own, it’s just the ones I had at my moms.

I also remember stories I got from my dad and mom about the older instalments.
Dad told me about how sims could leave the lot in the first game if you made them angry enough and they’d be gone from the household

He also told me about how in sims 2 a babysitter made pumpkin pie all the time, cause they want to have more work (pumpkin pie made you have higher chance for twins)

(I have all the base games, even a dvd for sims 1 somewhere)

edgy tree Feb 1, 2025, 9:53 AM

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In The Sims 2, I made a rich father and son for my poor teen sim to date. I cheated their money, built a mansion, and planned to give the father a job before switching back. I had him sit on the grass to wait for the newspaper—then a satellite fell and killed him. Now the household was just the teen. Instead of returning to my original sim, I started playing from his perspective, watching him navigate his new life alone in a huge house meant for two. It completely changed my game’s storyline.

honest umbra Feb 1, 2025, 10:21 AM

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In a certain gaming session, around 2010, I was messing with cheats in The Sims 2, and I hired 2 butlers to my home, and in a certain moment, both of them went to take care of the garden, but I don't know if it was because there was a small fence around the garden or both of their functions got messed up, but was one of the funniest things I've seen in my entire simmer career: both of them were walking left and right repeatedly in front of the garden crossing ways with each other, infinitely!

dapper summit Feb 1, 2025, 11:16 AM

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The Sims has been a big part of my life, my older sister introduced it to me when Sims 2 first came out. Since then I always find myself crawling back to playing either the Sims 2 or Sims 3. My favourite game in the entire sims universe, must be the Sims Medieval! Crown My favourite memory in Sims Medieval is when I accidentally killed my Queen by making her jump into the pit, as I didn't realise it could kill your sim, as all I wanted was the pit jumping achievement! 😨 My second favourite memory is when I first played the Sims 3 World Adventures! I constantly got destroyed by the mummies as my sim was very weak (I wanted to play as a weak and lazy character who over time evolves into a professional Lara Croft type of person). It was terrifying the first time I got cursed by the mummy, I was panicking thinking I killed off my sim. Honorable mention to the Sims 3 Generations trailer that I kept watching for months and months when it first came out! Even to this day I will cry if I watch it - It was the best trailer for a game I have ever seen Hearts

stark stone Feb 1, 2025, 11:46 AM

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My whole TS2 collection. 😄

tawny hinge Feb 1, 2025, 2:05 PM

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One of my favorite memories in The Sims is from The Sims 4 with the Growing Together pack. I loved exploring the infant life stage with this pack. I enjoyed the milestones. In my opinion, the Growing Together pack helped make the infant life stage even more precious and realistic. Exploring the infant milestones and quirks, along with other gameplay this pack offers was some of the most fun I've had in The Sims 4. I love family gameplay.

green fog Feb 1, 2025, 2:27 PM

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My 3 favourite expansions (nothing personal ts3). After 25 years I have tooooooo many good memories to share. But here goes.. playing TS1 every day after school and every weekend with my best friend, we still speak despite a 300 mile distance, always about the sims. Playing TS2, university was my favourite, getting told off for still playing at 3am during my exams. In short, the sims franchise has gotten me through times too dark to speak of. It's been such an outlet for me throughout the last 25 years, so thank you for creating these games ✌🏼

cobalt harness Feb 1, 2025, 2:54 PM

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Still have all of my original copies for The Sims, Sims 2, and Sims 3 games. I have such fond memories of staying up late secretly playing The Sims, and how absolutely mind-blown we all were by Makin' Magic when it came out—arguably one of the best expansions of the entire Sims franchise to this day ✨

robust lantern Feb 1, 2025, 3:03 PM

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Sulsul Sims Team Plumbob . My first memory of Sims is playing Sims on my cousins computer with her. It was my first time playing with it and she showed me how to cheat for simoleons . Next thing i did was building a big room and started placing stuff :D. This was the beginning of hours spent with Sims. I am feeling very old now Awkward . I started playing on the Playstation, like you see on my Foto, and the journey continued on the PC till today. I tried several times to play my old sims copies but it sadly crashes every time Question_Think - so i am very happy that you published the old games now for newer hardware FreezerBunny_Excited LoveBunny Thanks for that Handshake . Happy Birthday Sims Balloons birthdaycake AND: i miss the burglar!!!! 🦝

undone igloo Feb 1, 2025, 3:40 PM

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I was about a year before highschool when I first was introduced to the sims. This was when me and my friends would make one save and we would take turns playing. It was the most fun I had and it was so cool that we could have a nightlife and turn into a vampire at the age of 12-13. These friends and memories will always hold a special place in my 20yr old heart. I love creating various versions of myself and creating a family to play with. The sims is my all time favourite and always will be💚

lusty obsidian Feb 2, 2025, 1:38 AM

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It was 2003-2004 at the earliest I can recall of The Sims series, though at the time I only know those games from the PS2 because of my cousin, but I truly began my Sims journey when my brother bought The Sims 3 in 2010 one summer day and was among one of the Windows staples that has been with me since then. In recent months, I have decided to partake in collecting Sims and some titles from Maxis’ storied history as a means to show my appreciation of how far we have come and would want to know where the next 25 years will take us.

vestal ridge Feb 2, 2025, 2:01 AM

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TW: cancer!! please scroll I’m just showing my appreciation for my favourite game in the entire world 💚

I was first introduced to The Sims by my older brother when he gifted me The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection when he moved out for University. I fell in love with it instantly. When The Sims 3 was released, my addiction for Sims grew even stronger, and I was completely hooked!

Then, in 2014, at 14 years old, I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. It was the darkest and most terrifying time of my life—I truly didn’t think I would make it. I had to spend a year living in the hospital, I was allowed outside, I had to undergo intense chemotherapy, and lose all of my hair. I’d lost my love for everything, even gaming. But then, as if it was released just for me, The Sims 4 was released. For the first time that year, I felt excitement. I felt happy. I felt hopeful. It became my escape, bringing light to the darkest time of my life. Whenever I felt well enough, I played, as much as I possibly could, from my old HP laptop from my hospital bed. I was determined to get better to see what the Sims 4 had in store for its future, and in so many ways, The Sims 4 is the reason I got to see what was in store for my future too. I met a ‘cancer bestfriend’ who was a simmer, and together we spoke about how we’d love pets for the Sims 4. I got to see the release of Sims 4 Cats and Dogs - she didn’t make it. I cried with happiness and sadness when I saw the trailer, and since then I post every trailer onto her social media’s so she can see them too. 💔

Seventeen years later, I’m still just as in love with the game as I was when I very first played it.

Thank you , Sims. 💚

empty swift Feb 2, 2025, 6:47 AM

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Well, I don’t have a collection to show, but I remember being a kid when The Sims 3 was out, and going over to see my nana just so I could play it. It was my favorite thing to do. I could never build, but I enjoyed going to see my nana and do arts and crafts and check on my sims. She had every single expansion pack and it was best memories with her. Once I got older and got my own computer, The Sims 4 was out. I started playing it and also fell in love. The Sims was a big part of my childhood and I am so glad I got to carry it into adulthood. It proves that the joy of being a kid doesn’t have to be gone forever just because you are an adult.

vapid condor Feb 2, 2025, 10:32 AM

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You could say I kept it like a treasure. These books I've had since playing consoles. And I read them very seriously even though I was a child who didn't like studying and reading. But these books are one of the books that I read the most 😂

supple niche Feb 2, 2025, 4:01 PM

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My journey with The Sims started with The Sims 2 on PSP. I remember how strange the game was, but something drew me to it. I eventually understood why it was named Strangetown. From seeing Bella Goth acting crazy and selling me her mansion to the mechanic disappearing with my car, 9-year-old me had no idea what else was waiting for me ahead in the game.

From PSP, I went to playing The Sims on PS2, then Xbox 360, and lo and behold, I got The Sims 3 on PC! I remember how my first Sim died in The Sims 3. Poor guy was starving in a house in Sunset Valley, and 11-year-old me didn't know how to feed him. The next household was much bigger, and I realized how difficult it was to run a family, but hey… at least I didn't remove the ladder to the pool! (I did that in The Sims 2.)

I have played The Sims on every platform, but not Nintendo, sadly. That day may yet come!

reef nova Feb 2, 2025, 5:32 PM

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Here is my little collection that I’ve gathered over my 26 years of life (I’m almost the same age as The Sims). I grew up with this game. How did I start? Simply thanks to a colleague of my dad, who gave him his entire collection of The Sims 1, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Thank you for entertaining me all these years!

unreal marsh Feb 2, 2025, 7:18 PM

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As someone who grew up with the sims 3/sims 3 pets (specifically on Xbox 360!) the first time getting my hands on The sims 2 for pc was an amazing experience, for years I had watched a YouTuber called “LifeSimmer” and her sims 2 let’s play sparked the love I had for the older version. Despite growing up with the sims 3, I can honestly say the sims 2 has my heart!❤️ I have every single pack for The Sims 2 on pc on disc!(Ik my pic is missing Christmas party pack but this is an old pic😭)

next blade Feb 2, 2025, 8:47 PM

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I don't have a collection to show but I got introduced to Sims by my parents I got to play My Sims on the Wii and The Sims 3 on the PS3 and I have memories with both of them. Thanks to the Sims I got interested in other life simulation games. So this series holds a special place in my heart. I also love Sims 4. My other memory was the Sims 3 expansion with the pets honestly that's probably my favorite one.

devout dock Feb 3, 2025, 12:22 AM

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My favorite memory in The Sims 2 is of the first family I made in that game, the Carpenters. They were also the first sims I had go on vacation in any sims game! It was really fun getting a feel for the game through playing this one family for so long.

kind rune Feb 3, 2025, 4:45 AM

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So I saw this piece of concept art for the Sims 4 and I remembered the big dinosaur in debug, I felt really proud of how I recreated it in the game!

manic gale Feb 3, 2025, 12:25 PM

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I can't pick just one memory—The Sims has been with me all my life. I remember playing the first Sims back when I was a kid at my cousins’ house. We’d crowd around the family computer, playing for hours every time I visited. Later, The Sims 2 was a whole thing with my friends—we’d share expansion packs, each of us buying different ones so we could have them all. I didn’t play much of The Sims 3, but The Sims 4 has been with me since day one. I take breaks sometimes, but I always come back.

frail vector Feb 3, 2025, 5:31 PM

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Myself and my family have been playing the sims for as long as I can remember, and I mean that very literally. The sims 2 came out the year I was born and I still have a vague memory of being on my mom’s lap and applying wallpaper. As soon as I was old enough I started playing the sims 3, for ages I used my moms computer which only had the base game and ambitious, but the first time I got to play on my dads computer with all expansion it was amazing. I still remember being able to play with supernatural sims which was and still is my favorite thing to do. When my parents were on their computers I used to read the little manuals that came with the discs on the game, coming up with storylines for the next time I could play. Shortly before the sims 4 came out I got to play the sims 2 for the first time since that wallpaper application as a baby and I’ve played the sims 4 since launch. The sims has been a consistent game series for me throughout my entire life and I’m sure it will continue to be.

tiny helm Feb 3, 2025, 8:02 PM

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iron quest Feb 3, 2025, 9:18 PM

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The Sims 2 was literally my whole childhood! I recently looked at my physical copy again and felt so nostalgic! I love that it came with 4 CD Roms in different colors and a whole booklet that told you how to play! So many childhood memories!

karmic sandal Feb 4, 2025, 6:41 AM

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My first sims memory was when I got a copy of MySims from the Taco Bell kids meal. I didn’t have a computer at the time so I went to my cousin’s house to try the game and it took a while to install lol. My cousin and I only played it a few times and after we kind of lost the copy sadly -

mortal sky Feb 4, 2025, 2:47 PM

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My favorite memory with The Sims is when I first played it. I found out about it from a cousin, who used to have a poster from The Sims 1. I was so intrigued with what she told me about the game, and she promised to install it on my PC. After I launched The Sims, everything was so exciting. I built a big dream house with the most expensive furniture after repeatedly using 'klapaucius' cheat. Since that day, it's been my favorite video game.

opaque reef Feb 4, 2025, 3:47 PM

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A moment that stands out for me is when I made a castle using only the Sims 4 base game. This lead me to realise that I really enjoy the building side of the game!

civic schooner Feb 4, 2025, 4:03 PM

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I would say that my favorite memory I have with the Sims, is when I actually played the Sims 4 for the first time! I remember hearing about this game and seeing other youtubers making gameplays, but at that time, I didn't afford to buy the game. Later on, in 2017, I finally bought the physical copy of it and, since then, I have never stopped playing it! I remember how my laptop was struggling to run it, since it was a very old one, but in the end, I managed to play it, even though I had to sacrifice for the graphics and shadows! And since that moment, I now have at around 1500 hours in game, what can I say, I just love it!♥️

worldly ibex Feb 4, 2025, 4:26 PM

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There's a photograph somewhere of me kneeling on the floor, with the keyboard and mouse on the PC tower playing The Sims 2...

I think my favourite memory from The Sims would have to be playing the spin-offs:The Sims, Bustin Out', The Sims 2 and Urbz. There's very few, if any Sims games that I haven't played, but the console versions were my foray into the series, beginning with Bustin Out'. Being able to play split-screen with my siblings on those console versions is something near and dear to me. If it wasn't for my sister who told my mother about the sims, I probably wouldn't be playing it still all these years later... 💚

tiny cloud Feb 4, 2025, 5:47 PM

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There has been so many memories with this franchise. In the first game I remember making the plates tower that you could see from the neighborhood view. In The Sims 2 me and my siblings would fight over who got to play in the family computer so I'd miss school just so I could have more time. The Sims 3 made it so I always had friends over since I was the only one who had it, they would even come with me right after school and sleep in. Now with The Sims 4 I'm making memories with my nieces FreezerBunny_Excited

crimson cove Feb 4, 2025, 5:59 PM

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worldly ibex *There's a photograph somewhere of me kneeling on the floor, with the keyboard a...

oh my gosh! I hope you can find that photo

crimson cove Feb 4, 2025, 5:59 PM

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opaque reef A moment that stands out for me is when I made a castle using only the Sims 4 ba...

those turrets are epic!

crimson cove Feb 4, 2025, 6:00 PM

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manic gale I can't pick just one memory—The Sims has been with me all my life. I remember p...

The Sims is always there for you!

viscid finch Feb 4, 2025, 6:25 PM

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My 1st memory of the Sims was from playing the original console version. It was one of my favorite games from the start. I think my 1st memory of it was from the beginning of the console mode story version the hot tub scene was so scandalous for my little brain lol.

frigid turret Feb 4, 2025, 6:47 PM

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My favorite memory of playing the sims was when I first started the game, I originally started with The Sims 2 and my aunt introduced me to the game, she let me play on her PC enough when I visited that my Mum purchased me the game for my very old family computer. I remember launching the game and starting the Broke family (still my favorite family to date). During my first time on my own computer I discovered the keyboard was broken! This lead to a save of dozens of "baby girl [surname]" or "baby boy [surname] to fill up my town. Poor Brandy had 3 other boys all called "Baby Boy Broke" 😂😭
Don't worry, after a week I got a new keyboard, but there was plenty of Babies in Pleasantview to last generations 😂

After a while the family PC broke and I resorted to The Sims on PS2 as well as The Sims Castaway! Both games I still cherish to this day. The Sims is a big part of my life, I am an avid collector of all things Sims 2, so any chance I get ill buy what I can! I'm so pleased The Sims 2 has been revitalised so others can make many more cherished memories on my favorite game 🫶✨️

Pictures attached of my current collection, and a Tattoo!

bright sparrow Feb 4, 2025, 9:30 PM

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My favorite memory was when I was around 9 years old I would go to my cousins house and we would play for hours on the family computer wreaking havoc in our sims family lives Fire

fathom elm Feb 4, 2025, 9:36 PM

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My favourite memory was when i was like 7 years old and i played for the first time the ps2 sims 2 and i only wanted to get enough simoleons to buy the red grand piano which was expensive and i always choose the military or law career to get it

lilac barn Feb 4, 2025, 9:47 PM

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i remember the only sims 3 packs me and my brother ever had were university and supernatural so all the sims i ever made would just be different types of fairies that would go to university and that was all i did everyday

zealous basalt Feb 4, 2025, 10:03 PM

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Not really a memory - but it will be! Projector on the wall for the livestream while I play. It’s 10pm here and it’s going to be a long 25 hours. And when the 50th birthday comes round I’ll remember this night. 🥳

ancient kiln Feb 4, 2025, 10:56 PM

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When I was a kid I would always watch and rewatch laurenzside do play throughs like “raising my friends as dogs in the sims 4” and “sims:4 meme theme” that is what encouraged me to play the sims 4 ( rip to Dexter)

modern apex Feb 4, 2025, 11:07 PM

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When I was younger i was never allowed to play Sims 2. So i went to my friend that had it and not tell my mum 🤣🤣 I have so much fun memories of Sims 2. I would love to relive those and feel the nostalgia!! 💚

zinc hare Feb 4, 2025, 11:09 PM

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I got this with the preorder of sims 4 in 2014. It’s been on my keychain ever since. You can tell it’s very worn out but the light still has some shine to it. I would love a new one but this has a special place in my heart. I’ve played all the sims but sims 4 was the first one I was able to buy with my own money and I have all the packs ❤️❤️

autumn osprey Feb 4, 2025, 11:12 PM

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I remember first seeing the sims 2 open for business play book from one of my friends back in grade 7 later in grade 9 I got the sims 2 deluxe and fun with pets packs when I gotten my first laptop for Christmas and been a crazy dimmer since then. Tell you I was in shock when I saw my sim have twins but sadly I lost them because I didn’t know how to take care of them at the time since about 2010 I been a summer which has helped me majorly with my anxiety

shadow lichen Feb 4, 2025, 11:13 PM

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When I was 6, I played The Sims all the time on my PS2. Innocent me, I didn't know they could die. My sim caught on fire from a carpet too close to her fireplace and died for the first time introducing me to the trauma of the Grim Reaper. My dad needed to lock the game in the cabinet above the fridge because of my night terrors. Grim is now my favourite Sim, but it was a rocky start.

fallen chasm Feb 4, 2025, 11:13 PM

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Waiting for the Sims 2 pets to release and watching every announcement/trailer/bts videos ya'll would release. 13 year old me was very hype. I lived my life on that sims 2 official forum haha.

devout pebble Feb 4, 2025, 11:15 PM

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I've used The Sims to recreate my childhood home from memory, including the computer corner where I grew up playing TS2. It was such a cool exercise and it reawakened so many memories of a home that I no longer have access to and the memories attached to that space, where I can go and visit any time I want. I even made high school versions of myself and my sister, and younger Sim versions of my parents. I made my current partner, who I met in high school, who I now have a toddler with in real life who is named after the Sim baby we had together when we first started dating. It's been such a weirdly therapeutic game for me, that allows me to preserve people in time, relieve memories, feel in control in an out-of-control world, build stories and flex creative muscles. Picture of my cat, as remade in the Sims 4.

chrome summit Feb 4, 2025, 11:16 PM

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This is my very small, but growing Sims collection! If you look closely, you'll see that the rest of the copies are PAL.. apart from my random NTSC deluxe edition I got from a charity shop!! (Amazing find freezerbunnylove !!)

My most favourite memory in the Sims is when I was recreating Don Lothario's telescope memory w/ Bella from The Sims 2 in TS4.. when all of a sudden a meteor fell and killed don 😂😂 I have a bunch of screenshots somewhere of the impact over a series of frames 😭😭

gritty relic Feb 4, 2025, 11:17 PM

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My first time playing sims was when i was around 5 years old. I was at my cousins and he showed me the game on his computer. Sims 1 in front of my eyes completly got me and from that moment i started loving the game. Sadly i didnt had a computer at my house so i couldnt play much. Years later i got my first pc and a CD with The Sims 8 in 1. Started playing since then and maaaaan i love it! Sims 3 is my fav and now its my first time playing sims 2 thanks to the re-release Plumbob ❤️

dry ore Feb 4, 2025, 11:20 PM

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Where do we start... my first introduction to sims was when I was over at my babysitters... she showed me sims 1 and i was HOOKED. then she showed me her sims 2 expansions .... BOOM that was me for HOURS! She used to show me all the tips and tricks and we haf the best memories playing together. Ill always remmeber her and her house and her sims collection! such good times. Now as a near 30 year old adult, i have all sms and building up on my expansions! ❤️ Thankyou sims. Your more than a game, your a bonding experience, an escape, your a creative outlet for so many people! Thankyou sims. Its been a great 25 yeras so far! i look forward to playing into my old age! ❤️ happy simming yall!

paper swallow Feb 5, 2025, 12:01 AM

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2005, pregnant at 40, interrupted work, 3 teenage children, mandatory rest, I discovered The Sims. Virtual generations created and I took care of a premature baby. 20 years later, she is passionate the game (6 thousand hours) and dreams of studying fashion through the game. We share stories, adventures, unique characters in worlds where there is freedom to come and go, work dressed as a hotdog, negotiate with Death, Woo-Woo for love, vampires, aliens and people who can't cook but paint the Girl with the Pearl Earring live together in peace.

weary kelp Feb 5, 2025, 12:32 AM

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The first time I ever played The Sims was way back in the early 2000s with The Sims 1. I had only just started elementary school, so I was still learning how to read, a lot of my early understanding of words/phrases and their context came from playing the game. My family owned all of the DLC for the game and I remember having all of them stacked up in our 2000s computer shelf with the CD slots.

My next game was The Sims 2: Castaway on the Wii. I remember watching my mom play while my cousin and I watched, we were fascinated by the chimps around the island, we decided on naming one of them Bubbles after Michael Jackson's chimpanzee. I played the game quite a bit on my own as well, and even revisited the game a few years ago. Definitely an underrated game!

I also played The Sims 3 on the Wii. I played this game the most when I didn't own the Sims 4, but wanted to feel like I was playing alongside the rest of the community. I remember I played so much with the radio playing in my bedroom I would hear repeats of songs a few times every day that played on the local station. I also played so much with my sims playing the radio, I could sing along to the Simlish versions of the songs that would play.

Finally, I got the Sims 4 in 2016 and have been playing (off and on) ever since. The jump from The Sims 3 on the Wii to playing The Sims 4 on the computer felt like gaming had advanced 10 years into the future, I was so excited to play along with the various lets plays I used to watch. I remember when the Cats and Dogs DLC came out and nearly begging my mom to buy it for me, I was ecstatic when she did. To this day it's still one of my favourite packs, I may try to recreate my childhood pets with the pack so they can live on in my sims games.

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weary kelp The first time I ever played The Sims was way back in the early 2000s with The S...

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what a dream collection!!

true merlin Feb 5, 2025, 2:03 AM

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As I walk down memory lane the memory of my first time playing The Sims 4 shines brightest. When the game first came out I didn’t have a way to play it myself so I lived vicariously through YouTubers as I watched them play. For Christmas of 2016 I got my very first laptop. It was a pretty basic HP not meant for gaming but the first thing I did after booting it up was install Origin and get The Sims 4. I was so excited when it finally downloaded. I didn’t care that my laptop wasn’t able to run it on the best settings at the time. As long as I got to play. I spent the rest of winter break playing on the same save file, finally playing out all the stories I had dreamt of. I never realized how poorly my old laptop ran sims until I upgraded last year. When downloading it on my new laptop I couldn’t help but remember that pure joy of watching it load up that very first time. I felt like a kid all over again.

ashen salmon Feb 5, 2025, 2:29 AM

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The clock - i was terrified of the clock since looking at the time would literally kill my sims - then figuratively too when I realized how long i was playing!! I don't see this one referenced online, but I remember it.

white sequoia Feb 5, 2025, 2:45 AM

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I remember playing The Sims 2 with one of my friends when we were around 10-13 years old (we are still great friends today at 32). Both of us sat in front of the MASSIVE home computer in my parents house lol. We had maybe 30-60 minutes, each, to play the game, and we never let the other person go over the time limit😂 «My turn now!!!»
Eventually when my parents felt like we’d been infront of the computer for too long they’d say we’d have to go and do something else (go outside or whatever).
We’d always get on my bike and then ride all the way to her house, and then get infront of THEIR home computer to play some more, hahaha. We did the same thing with The Sims 3. Really, really fond memories. I’m so glad we’re still friends to this day.

hard charm Feb 5, 2025, 3:41 AM

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I have been playing the sims since the sims one. My first memory of the sims was at about 6 years old, and this would’ve been in 2006. So it had been out for a couple of years. I remember asking my parents to play sims and I could read it well enough to understand the concept of what I was doing due to my parents explaining it to me. I would start a new family every time I loaded up the game and ask my parents to put in “rosebud” a ton of times because the sims one made you open the cheat command each time and type it in each time. I would do it maybe 5 times and get tired of it and beg one of them to do it. I then moved on to sims 2 and sims 3. My parents would sit down and play sims 3 together every single night. My dad passed in 2018 and I lost access to his account. I tried recovering it from ea but they were unable to since I couldn’t access his email. I have all of his physical sims 3 games with the codes still. I have played nearly every spin off sims game and console version of the game and I own a lot of the old console versions of the game still 🙂

last mural Feb 5, 2025, 5:03 AM

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I've been playing sims since sims 2 was released, i was pretty young. I remember being on vacation and becoming so utterly addicted to it. I remember hating sending my sims to work, so I would have my cousin constantly doing the "motherlode" cheat for me because I was quite too young to figure it out. So, I guess my first memory of the sims will always be playing it on vacation and always needing the money cheat! 😄

crimson cove Feb 5, 2025, 5:18 AM

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hard charm I have been playing the sims since the sims one. My first memory of the sims was...

this is beautiful, thank you for sharing ❤️

crimson cove Feb 5, 2025, 5:19 AM

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white sequoia I remember playing The Sims 2 with one of my friends when we were around 10-13 y...

this is so real! I love that you're still friends to this day and can connect over those Sims memories

crimson cove Feb 5, 2025, 5:20 AM

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true merlin As I walk down memory lane the memory of my first time playing The Sims 4 shines...

I used to go and make a cup of tea when waiting for The Sims 1 to load on my family computer! playing The Sims 4 on a gaming laptop is always a fun surprise for me haha

hard charm Feb 5, 2025, 5:20 AM

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crimson cove this is beautiful, thank you for sharing ❤️

Thank you for the opportunity

crimson cove Feb 5, 2025, 5:34 AM

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hard charm Thank you for the opportunity

my Mum really got into The Sims when she had an operation; I would leave for school with her playing, and get home and she would still be playing!

shell forge Feb 5, 2025, 5:47 AM

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Playing Sims used to also be cuddle time with my boy Indiana. I would say "Sims time," and he knew it meant we would be cuddling up together on the couch for an afternoon of snuggles. As you can see here, I'd grab the pillows and make the couch a cozy spot, and that's where we often spent our Sunday afternoons. Indiana crossed the rainbow bridge April 2024, and while it's not the same without him, my little pup has taken up the "responsibility" and has started to snuggle in for "Sims time," too ♥️

shell forge Feb 5, 2025, 5:48 AM

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shell forge Playing Sims used to also be cuddle time with my boy Indiana. I would say "Sims ...

my little guy is joining in on today's stream too ❤️ This is Lucifer, my current pup

merry sage Feb 5, 2025, 6:09 AM

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My earliest memory of playing The Sims was my sister and I would build a house, put a few Sims inside, then remove the door and bathroom. Just to see the chaos! We used to take bets on whose Sim would be the last one standing. 😂

full cloak Feb 5, 2025, 6:12 AM

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Where do I start with this memory! It means so much to me. I remember being around 7-9 and I was at my childhood best friend’s home spending the night (she recently passed away a couple of years ago on her 25th birthday during a freak accident💔) and we both had our Nintendo Ds’s out and she goes “hey Lex look at this new game my parents bought me.” She grabs the case and it was the sims 2. No joke we stayed up playing it all night. And from that moment forward I played all the sims games. I went home after we woke up the next day and begged my parents to buy me the DS version as well as the PC versions. Ever since that day I was hooked! I started with the sims 2, then I got the sims 3, then finally got the original sims, and then when sims 4 came out of course I had to get it on launch. I will forever be grateful to my best friend Hannah for introducing me to the sims and making me smile. She will always be a huge part of my life and I miss her everyday! I will forever honor her memory with our love of the sims that night and forever. I am 25 now soon to be 26 and the sims has forever changed me. Thank you for letting me share this memory with you as I tear up typing this. 💜❤️‍🩹

velvet nymph Feb 5, 2025, 7:56 AM

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My earliest memory of the Sims was purely by coincidence and it has been in my life since, when I was a kid I never played a lot of videogames at all, but once I did I got a Nintendo (it was a shared one for me and my sibling) and played mario kart religiously, I loved mario kart so much that I think in 2015 I wanted the newest one so badly so I'm there
collecting money so I can go to the game store and buy it for my Nintendo , I enter the story, I look for mario kart 8 and guess what, it's no longer for Nintendo, exclusively for Nintendo switch, I cry a bit probably , I was young and there with my mom, my mom suggested maybe I could buy a different game instead, and there I bought the Sims 4 😂 I never wanted the sims but I quite quickly grew to love it, thanks for the memories but please fix your games ❤️ I'm 21 now and graduating and Sims remains a great de-stress life simulation to get lost into sometimes

sturdy wren Feb 5, 2025, 8:18 AM

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My earliest memory with the Sims was in elementary school. The library of our town had the super deluxe edition of The Sims 1 and I got it without knowing what it is. Later at home I created my first save file and I was hooked ever since. I still remember spending hours online looking at Mods and CC and how difficult it was back then to take care of your sims. I loved it so much. And I still do to this day. It is by far my most favourite video game in the world.

limber oasis Feb 5, 2025, 9:12 AM

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Ahh down memory lane of mine I take y'all. The year be 2000s. I am 5 years old sitting on my mom's lap, she is a gamer. Playing final fantasy and tomb raider. Of all the games the one game that stood out the most for me, was The Sims. It was a different type of game she got that year. And wed sit at the computer playing it for HOURS. I think it was her little escape from reality, her husband was in the Military and always deployed. She was basically a single mom taking care of two kids. So getting away in a virtual simulation is where it was at. Well I don't think she realized how much of an obsession it would become for me. We ended up getting all the packs for the Sims 1. All the Sims 2. And when it came out on the console; sure as hell started getting all of them as well. Even got all of them on gameboy. I remember staying up late playing the Sims 2 on Gameboy. Fast-forward to high school I have a computer in my room now. Weekends I stay up till the crack of dawn playing, go to bed and wake up at 9am get a coffee and play all day again. I have my own money now from a job and start buying my own Sims games. (Insert Sims 3games picture here 😊) Let's fast-forward to today I still play the Sims. (Sadly adult money is scarce, so I can't exactly buy all the Sims 4 games.) But I do have quite a bit. But here I am almost 30 with a 14 month old of my own and one on the way, still playing the Sims (while yes she is a little bit younger than what I was) I put her on my lap In hopes she has amazing fond memories like I do of the Sims when she gets older 😭😭. I love how it has come full circle ⭕. When I heard they were re releasing the Sims 1 and 2 I might've teared up, thinking of those days sitting on my mom's lap watching her play.

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crisp palm Feb 5, 2025, 11:29 AM

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The first time I ever played The Sims, I was at a friend’s house. I was eleven years old and I nearly got sent home from her PC because I could barely...stop...playing! It was the start of a 24-year romance with the franchise.
I adored The Sims 1. For every Christmas or birthday, I’d ask Santa for a new expansion pack. I would ask for Sims games until I could eventually buy them myself. The Sims 2 Stories: a memento of simpler times I remember when The Sims 2 Stories came out I love that it was giving you missions to complete, it was something really new to me and I played all the time.
In general my weekends were playing until my mom would be like ‘It’s way too late, you’re going to bed.’ Then I would wake up at 5 or 6 in the morning, because my brain wouldn’t let me sleep, I would be thinking of all the things I could do with my Sims families.
I was never really a builder, I loved making stories, making challenges, etc.
Thats why When The Sims 3 came out, I considered it the absolute coolest thing ever. The opportunities, the open world — I really miss that. I recall on World Adventures how I’d want to see every tomb in a Sim day, starving them under the pyramids, ruining their lives, but my objective was just to see if we could get all the rewards. To me, The Sims 4 just always felt too easy compared to the rest of the franchise. And the truth is, after reinstalling The Sims 1 and 2 (I grabbed both as soon as they were rereleased), I completely agree. To be a little specific, The Sims 4 is fantastic, but Live Mode is lacking a challenge, and things to do.

Still, I’d be delighted if you were to carry on developing the sims 1, 2, and 3 and give us fresh expansions for them, or a new Stories game would be amazing!!!

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dusky solstice Feb 5, 2025, 12:21 PM

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One of my fondest memories of The Sims 1 begins with a special gift: my sister gave me the game, not knowing that it would become a lifelong passion. I still remember the moment I inserted the CD-ROM, the iconic intro music played, and an entirely new world opened up before me.
Even back then, I had a unique way of building—houses that were way too big with ridiculously oversized kitchens. While my Sims were busy trying to build a life, I was more focused on designing extravagant dining areas where no one actually ate. Bedrooms? An afterthought. But a massive kitchen with at least three dining tables? Absolutely essential!
And then there was the Genie Lamp. Every time I bought one, I couldn’t resist—I had to try my luck. Sometimes it granted me Simoleons, sometimes it brought chaos. But that thrill, that tiny moment of anticipation before making a wish, was always worth it.
Since then, I’ve played every Sims game, but that first feeling—the joy of discovery, the accidental kitchen fires in my oversized mansions—will always be one of my dearest memories. Fire Hearts

past star Feb 5, 2025, 1:51 PM

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I guess my fav memory was back when i was little and my trusted adult let me play Sims 2 with no supervision trusting that I would go to sleep by 10pm. It was past midnight and the grim reaper appeared for the first time in one of my games, I screamed and ran away to my mom who got mad because why was I still away at such hours of the night.
The sims 2 grim reaper was way scarier than the sims 4 one, unfortunately when I moved country I wasn't able to bring with me the physical copies of the sims 2 and had to leave them behind and unfortunately I cannot buy it online no more 🙁
I will never be able to make my cousins experience the fear of the sims 2 grim reaper 😔
I love sims 3 and 4 but nothing like playing the one game that started it all for me 😔
And playing with the kids kitchen toy lol, that was fun
I wrote this late at night couple of days ago, and just saw the post about the re-release
The evil laugh of joy I left out at work because I will now be able to make my little cousins go through the trauma of respect for this franchise
Oooh, it was a good laugh in the middle of a stressful day
And it made me stay an extra hour at my job just to discuss with this co-worker who's daughter also plays the sims, I ended up explaining how there's 4 generations and each one has something we all missed
And he laugh when I said "after years we got toddlers, and then infants - playable babies- AND finally horses"
This man just laughed and said "damn, you must really have wanted the horses"
And I just "yeah, but I forgot to buy them when they were in sale" 😭😩

lyric parcel Feb 5, 2025, 2:05 PM

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My mom had been playing the sims since before I could remember. My first memory of the sims is when I was 5 years old, watching my mom play the sims, help her name them. It's still one of my favorite memory and bonding times. I think I didn't begin playing the sims until the sims 2 which remains my favorite game, and I'm so happy to have it back. Now I play the sims more than my mom does, and it's become such a major part of my life. The sims even brought friends into my life that I could bond with over this game. It's always remained one of my favorite games in the world from the sims, to the sims on GameCube, my sims on the Wii, to sims 4. I will forever love this game ❤️

neat dagger Feb 5, 2025, 3:04 PM

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I started playing The Sims Online in 2003 when my son was a baby. I worked evenings, and when I got home, he’d wake up for a midnight feeding. To pass the time, I’d play Sims while watching The Famous Jett Jackson on Disney. It was my escape, and I poured my love for the occult and ancient Egypt into my Sims' lives. Over time, I began adding my favorite music, like Papa Roach and Avenged Sevenfold, making it my own world. Those late nights with my son shaped my journey.

wicked delta Feb 5, 2025, 3:10 PM

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I was 15-6, I believe, when TS1 came out. I remember getting the discs as they released, and admittedly downloaded one of the expansions for either 1 or 2 to see if I'd be willing to actually buy it (this is before demos). I liked it enough to continue buying the packs. I even pre-ordered the CE for TS3 but got disappointed when I went in on the supposed RD to find out it had been delayed, I started getting out of it at that point and wouldn't return until TS4

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mystic rivet Feb 5, 2025, 3:21 PM

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I discovered The Sims when I was 6. We lived in a small house, and the only computer we had seemed straight out of the Stone Age 🤣 It was my mother’s old PC, where she played the first game with the complete collection 😍 That’s how I fell in love with this universe. I still remember myself as a child, sometimes playing with my mom, sometimes alone, spending endless hours playing The Sims on that ancient machine 😊

In middle school, I started playing The Sims 4 on my sister’s PS4. My houses were ugly, my Sims poorly dressed, but the joy remained intact. Two years ago, I discovered The Sims 3 and The Sims Medieval and I can proudly say that these are my favorites ! Passionate about medieval worlds, I almost cried with joy when I found out The Sims Medieval was still available 🤧 and begged my parents to get it for Christmas.

I still have my mother’s Sims 1 collection. I haven’t played since middle school, but I might take that little yellow box out soon. I LOVE The Sims, from The Sims 1 to 4, these games are a part of me, and I can't imagine life without them! 🥰❤️

jaunty ridge Feb 5, 2025, 3:47 PM

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Hi guys I got my first computer when I was 11 and that actually coincides when the Sims 1 came out, year 2000. I'm now 36 and still going strong with the sims 4 since it came out as well. This game is a milestone in my life, when I was little I remember spending hours playing to a point where I'd lose track of time and space and being hungry, nothing matter lol 😂 My mom had to like "wake me up" or come talk to me cause I was so into this, she couldn't believe it that I was so obsessed with the game and had a great time playing everyday!
Now in my 30's I still spend a considerate amount of time playin and loosing track of time, since the pandemic I kinda wanted to have a different experience with the game so I became a builder and tried to maximize my moment building great houses - small and big - and my favourite part of it is actually interior design, so it's safe to say that pack was the best it could ever happen to me.
I don't want to bore you, so to sum up, thank you The Sims franchise for being the longest and stable relationship with presence in my life, you gave so much joy over the years and challenge myself to be a better sim. I hope we have many more years to come and to rediscover things. Happy 25th birthday!!!! 🩷

signal pasture Feb 5, 2025, 4:21 PM

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My favorite mememories were going to Walmart and EB games as a kid to get the newest games, then it was pinball and when little ol' me found the sims in 2000. I was like WHAT IS THIS! and got so excited. I remember (and even now when I have time) asking my mom to play which at the time, families only had 1 pc if any, and it was normally in their room (lol) and as long as my chores were done, and had good grades, I was golden 😄 Spending 8 hours was gone int he blink of an eye which was so sad, but countless of saves and homes have made me whom I am today. I love decorating, and designing architecture. I'm def not as well depth into the CAS life, but I do a decent job! Thank you EA/Origin for giving me a safe space with The Sims franchise as I will always know this is my home and can keep coming back! Plumbob 💚

autumn path Feb 5, 2025, 7:11 PM

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I remember playing sims 2 pets almost all the time growing up. I played on the gamecube....which is crazy to say because its so old but I still have it! I haven't tried turning on my wii since i moved again in 2022 but I have that as well! I also have mysims for wii that i totally forgot all about! I do remember asking for the sims for our family computer but we went through a few rough patches that caused me not to be able to get it for the computer. Today I have all of the sims 4 packs, I purchased sims and sims 2, and I enjoy every aspect of the sims franchise! birthdaycake plumbobspin Thank you so much EA for creating such an amazing community with your games and I look forward to see what the future of the sims will hold freezerbunnyhappy Hoopla Blorpna!!!

vapid wyvern Feb 5, 2025, 7:24 PM

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I first started playing Sims 1 on Game Cube 22 years ago 💚 My favorite memory is getting takeout after work and playing The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2 with my boyfriend (now husband). We now play Sims 4 side by side, it's like our thing. And one of the things we bond over and create more memories 20 years later 🥰 Happy 25th Birthday to a game that has let my imagination run wild for 22 years! Here's to many more!

white minnow Feb 5, 2025, 8:01 PM

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Recently, my friends were over to watch the Chiefs game and we were all really rooting for the Bills (sorry Chiefs we just wanted a new team in the Superbowl lol) but when it became more likely that the Bills would lose, I started to play the Sims. Without realizing, I often speak phrases out loud when playing. Well to my friends amusement, they thought it was hilarious when I would mumble things like "maybe I should just lock him in the pool surrounded by walls" or "OH NO YOU CAUGHT THE KITCHEN ON FIRE AGAIN OMG". Needless to say they were equally amused and horrified since they know nothing about the Sims lol

novel raptor Feb 5, 2025, 9:02 PM

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I created a sim to play through the reapers rewards event, and they've quickly become my favourite sim to play. When the next two events started i used them for that as well and now they've got a christmas, reaper and time travel themed house
i imagine they're obsessed with these strange happenings around them
i'm usually more of a builder but i've loved getting to expand upon their life story and plan to use them for all events going forward!

stone furnace Feb 5, 2025, 9:23 PM

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My biggest sims memory is when one of The Sims 2 EPs, I believe it to be Free Time, was just released and I decided that I would bus to Future Shop to get it after school. It was just a single transfer on a route that I had taken plenty of times before.
The reason this memory sticks out is because we were let out early from school due to a snow warning. I just figured, well it's not that far, I could probably get there and back before anything bad happens. How wrong was I. 😂
The bus I has to transfer to was already notorious for being one of the most inconsistent with buses sometimes appears 3 or 4 at a time after waiting a half hour instead of a single bus every 5-10 min like they were supposed to. So I decided, well I'm just going to walk, it's not that far.
Yeah, it's not that far but it was especially harder to walk when I had snow up past my knees because the sidewalks weren't plowed.
But did I let my 5'3" self be deterred and turn back even though every step I took was half my height in snow? No. I was getting my dang sims expansion!
When I finally left the shop with my expansion in hand, the snow was falling heavy now and so I trudged to the closest bus stop (still on the notorious route) and waited an hour+ before finally giving up and hailing down a passing cab who was in service.
I was cold and just wanted to get home quick to warm back up and play.

But yes, that is my major sims-related memory. Happy 25th birthday! birthdaycake plumbobspin

lunar notch Feb 5, 2025, 10:22 PM

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I found some of my original Sims 1, 2, & 3 games and a plumbob USB flash drive. It came with a matching mouse that’s probably still in a box somewhere with The Sims Online. On the back of that first Sims disc, it teases Sims 2 coming in 2004 & has a preview disc. I have been playing The Sims for 25 years.

uneven spindle Feb 5, 2025, 10:25 PM

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Hi everyone! 👋🏻 I will share with you my most rare achievement! Trophy
I won the lottery Love Simoleon
It was 4 years ago and I remember jumping up from my chair and staring my screen TheWilltoResist I couldn't believe my eyes!!! I thought that it wasn't possible to win the lottery because I was playing for many years and had many playthroughs but never won before. And I have never won again since... so I guess the chances for that are pretty realistic!!!
This is the only thing I can't redo in The Sims and I am glad because it really feels like a life achievement Hearts

pastel pewter Feb 5, 2025, 10:29 PM

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We play The Sims over and over, trying out new scenarios, building exciting new places to visit and a lot of times we start over on saves when a fresh idea hits.... But sometimes, just sometimes we make that one experience, so engaging so endearing that we instantly fall in love with it and can't move on to the next thing... For me this was a save I put a lot of time into when I was streaming. I started playing with one Sim and I told myself I was going to play the long game, set the lifespan to the longest it can be and really take my time crafting and evolving her story as we explored the world together with her. I became obsessed with this sim, her friends, her revolving door of love interests as well as the entire world she lived in and the story grew and became more and more elaborate over time with my viewers. Here are just some snippets of that save and the stories we told together 🥳🎉😍

coarse fjord Feb 5, 2025, 10:59 PM

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I remember getting so exited to finally get sims 3 world adventures! i played for hours upon hours!

sonic crystal Feb 5, 2025, 11:02 PM

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The first time I got to play the Sims was shortly after The Sims was released. I had a friend and her family loved PC games, so they always had the new games. I used to stay at her house as often as I could so I could stay up all night playing The Sims after everyone else at the sleepover had gone to bed. I would play until her parents woke up and I'd sneak back to her room. Sneaking around meant I could never save my game, so every few weekends I would start my adventures all over. From then on I would play ANY Sims game I could get my hands on. The Urbz, Castaway and Bustin' Out I spent countless hours in each of those before I got the chance to have a PC of my own to Sim on. In high school I would play Sims Life Stories all night long and I preordered Sims 3 expecting to meet fellow simmers at the game store for the release day only to find out I was the lone simmer to pre-order the game. I started to seek out finding simmers and fell in love with Simstagram and Tumblr leading me into watching YouTube and starting my content creation adventure. I'm forever grateful for Sims for giving me a way to express myself through the good and the bad. Here is a bit of my collection, I've lost some along the way in life, but I will forever bring these with me wherever life takes me. Fabulous

calm dagger Feb 6, 2025, 6:22 AM

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I personally don't have a physical cop of the sims because growing up poor did not really help it but regardless I am blessed to be able to play The Sims 4 now and thank you for providing it for free. I have bought some dlc whenever I was able to and enjoyed the content mixed together. I personally loved redecorating the whole sims world by updating the buildings and even charcaters. Making many different sims and with them their personalities. I was able to feel in control about every aspect in my sims life (without tryna sound like a control freak hehe) but regardless I had fun seeing the sims come this far with their journey and you guys seeing us with our own sim journeys. Happy 25th Birthday!

languid barn Feb 6, 2025, 8:55 AM

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Really so many happy memories in this game, ive been playing since i got sims 1 for christmas, we didnt have internet yet so pretty much all my computer was used for is sims and burning CD's for like the first 3 years i had it. I've met so many friends and had so much fun making stories and creating my own little happy worlds. I think my absolute fav memory would have to be when my friend first found out she was pregnant, she and her boyfriend came over to tell me and I taught her to play sims so she could make a sim of her and her boyfriend and made them have a baby to see if it would be a girl or boy, and sims was right!! It was a girl, she even named it the same as her lil Sim baby ❤️

clever quiver Feb 6, 2025, 10:55 AM

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In Sweden we don't go around ringing doorbells and sell cookies as children, no we sell Christmas magazines. The more you sell, the better prize you get. I got the Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Seasons. After that I was hooked. I never managed to get every Sims 2 pack but by sharing my discs with a neighbor we got together most packs.

The Sims 3 was when I really started collecting everything. It was a tradition of driving to the mall, visiting GameStop and if there was a new expansion coming out, I would pre order it and write down the date.

gentle loom Feb 6, 2025, 3:01 PM

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My earliest memory of playing The Sims was at my cousin's house. I had to wait for The Sims 2 to get my own, and by then I was preparing to go to university, and I knew I was going to have a laptop, so I bought The Sims 2 before I got the laptop. Now here I am 20 years later, still having fun and trying new things with, and through, the game.
I also remember making a big house and filling it with my friends who lived far from me and being able to have them close in that way (in addition to MSN, since we're in a ~~"feeling old"~~ "nostalgia" moment).
I remember remaking most of the Teen Wolf cast with TS3 Supernatural.
(Going through old screenshots, I realize my Simselves always seem to have twins... 🤔)
TS4 also gave me so many memories and several families I love(d) playing. I made comics characters several times, made my own writing projects' characters, made a fav household out of a "playtest couple", and watched all those people interact and live their lives, and when they die, I just do it again.
I also notably leveled up in building/decorating during those years thanks to the community Hearts , which makes me enjoy my game even more freezerbunnyhappy .

So a big thank you to the Sims team through the years, and a very happy birthday to the game and to all of us Simmers Balloons birthdaycake !

keen egret Feb 6, 2025, 4:03 PM

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My collection on the discs, I have played on/off since the sims 2 release and remember fondly my and my sister building together with the Ikea pack and h&m pack. We love the the sims and I got the sims 3 for Christmas one year! Now I play mainly the sims 4 on my computer and I have about 20 expansions! For me the sims is my childhood, just remembering the old times with family and friends to play together. I would like to own every sims game there is hopefully someday! This is my relaxing game and will also be that! ☺️♥️

scarlet mica Feb 6, 2025, 5:45 PM

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The first sims game I got to play when I was little was the sims 3, I remember getting the disc and a couple of expansions from my dad for Christmas when I went to his house on weekends and I would install them on the pc me and him built together sadly a lot happens in my life with moving around so much that my old pc and sims 3 discs was put in storage and I’ve never seen them again, but now I’ve gotten to play the sims 4 and pretty much have all the packs besides some of the kits, and I do also play the sims 3 with all the packs that I had from when I was little too for when I want to remember that time of my life.

wheat hornet Feb 6, 2025, 8:02 PM

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I think a funny memory that came to mind, was “The Sims 3DS”, where I was a Master Thief - married to the Chief of Police. And she never caught on….

undone igloo Feb 6, 2025, 8:03 PM

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One of my fondest memories is playing the games with other people. Whether it was around the home computer with my friends as a teenager, or separately on laptops as a young adult. Whether we were making people we knew or talking about the interesting goings on in the game, it was always fun. I love sharing the game with other.

karmic talon Feb 6, 2025, 8:03 PM

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my favorite sims memory comes from watching my big sister play TS2 in 2007. i watched her play so much that she put a sheet over her monitor and covered herself with it so i couldn't see what she was doing.

she eventually gave me her copies of seasons and double deluxe and i played them TO DEATH.

when the uc came out in 2014, it was like reliving that all over again and more, playing with expansions i didn't have for the first time. the sims is a huge part of my life, thanks to my sister, who begrudgingly let me watch her play, sometimes.

karmic sandal Feb 6, 2025, 8:03 PM

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My first The Sims (yes I'm old). Love having the same as The Sims 4.

hasty bronze Feb 6, 2025, 8:03 PM

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My favorite memory was hitting $1000000 in my rags to riches after trapping Katrina in the backyard with my hungry cow plant. Good times

ashen bridge Feb 6, 2025, 8:04 PM

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One of my most favourite saves I’ve had is my sim, Maziee, moved out to Sel Dol Valley to persue her internet influencer dreams! There she met and fell in love with her husband Tom, no relation to Tom Holland but they do look alike 😉 together they had two beautiful girls and a very spoiled kitty. Even tho it’s been years since I’ve had this save I think of it often

crystal wharf Feb 6, 2025, 8:04 PM

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My favorite memory of growing up playing The Sims (specifically Sims 3) was when I played for so long in one sitting that I ended up semi burning the menu bar into the computer monitor screen 🤪🎉

jaunty turret Feb 6, 2025, 8:04 PM

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I come from a big family, and when I was younger my brother had leukaemia. Growing up I always had a special connection with him, even when he got sick. When the Sims 4 was released, and I wasn't yet 10 years old, my brother bought me the game whilst I was visiting him in the hosital. Since then, I've always associated the game with him, and felt like a piece of him is always there with me when I play. He's better now, but I still make his and my simself, and last month I finally had the time to give them our dream jobs - a chef for him, and a doctor for me, so I can help people like him be there for their families.

odd schooner Feb 6, 2025, 8:05 PM

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Funny Memory: I've always been a Sims player since I was like 5 or 6 years old. When I was in elementary school, I was in bed playing Sims 2, then I fell asleep & woke up to my family aged up but still alive! Lol.

compact fulcrum Feb 6, 2025, 8:05 PM

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When I was a teenager I was playing the sims 3 and my child sim who needed to age up invited all the other kids in town to have a birthday party. The candles on the cake caught fire and it literally burnt up every single child in town and half my family. It was hilarious and the first time I realized birthday cakes can catch fire 🔥 🎂

shrewd birch Feb 6, 2025, 8:06 PM

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When cats & dogs just released, I was so eager to play as I'm allergic to cats and I really wanted to live out my dream of having one. So I created my sim-self and a kitten and started playing in a new save.

To my surprise, I started a fire. But even worse; my kitten was in said fire. The biggest panic, as I didn't know if they could die. Thankfully, my kitten was a warrior and survived!

karmic sandal Feb 6, 2025, 8:06 PM

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My first sims memory was when I got MySims from the Taco Bell kids meal. I didn’t have a computer at the time so I took it to my cousin’s house so we can both try it. It took a majority of my designated computer time to download but when it finally did I got down to designing the character and the house (although it was tough for me not gonna lie haha) - anyway both my cousin and I played the game a few times after that until the cd somehow got lost around the house. I think once it was found I gave it to him to keep (my regrets lol considering how he doesn’t really care about the sims) but yeah - it was a pretty interesting sims memory that got me into the franchise

plucky oracle Feb 6, 2025, 8:06 PM

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My first love ❤️

crystal wharf Feb 6, 2025, 8:06 PM

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crystal wharf My favorite memory of growing up playing The Sims (specifically Sims 3) was when...

Honorable mention to the first time I ever played - my cousin created myself, two of my sisters, and one of our other cousins. He made my one sister the designated chef, my other sister run on a treadmill 24/7, and my cousin and I twins who got sent to boarding school. I can still picture the watermelon bucket hats we thought were the pinnacle of fashion for our twin outfits 😌

dusk hatch Feb 6, 2025, 8:07 PM

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One of the first times I played the Sims 4, I tried dating J Huntington III. I had married him and stuff and then realized he was non-committal, but I think I stayed with him anyway, sorry J

jolly prawn Feb 6, 2025, 8:07 PM

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My favorite memory are the random calls asking to go downtown in the sims 2 through the landline.
The fact we now have the landlines back in the sims 4 is so nostalgic, I'm absolutely loving it!
And of course the hot lap of playing the sims on a laptop haha 😄

sage galleon Feb 6, 2025, 8:07 PM

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I remember when I was really young, over a decade ago now (ouch) I was with my mum picking up my brother from his friend's house. That friend had a younger brother, around my age, and he introduced me to TS3 on the Xbox and I was ENAMOURED, truthfully. I asked for a copy from my parents and they bought me it, resulting in many hilarious memories (Such as my parents walking on two of my sims woohooing on the family TV, Me losing a save file because I couldn't figure out how to unpause, the karma system making me morally wrong and the time I threw this great party only for one of the guests to steal the limelight by dying of old age.)

ocean trout Feb 6, 2025, 8:07 PM

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One of my favorite memories in the Sims franchise I just made in TS4 the other day! I reentered my 100 baby challenge save after over a year and got to age my oldest child into a young adult. I figured he was overdue to stop sharing a room with his little sister, so I spent all our money doing a truly terrible renovation to give him a pathetic upstairs living space. I could only afford windows on one wall 😭 it's hilariously bad imo. This is the only picture I have and I think it captures the bleakness of it well

feral geyser Feb 6, 2025, 8:08 PM

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My sims collection. I was never old enough to play TS1 but was always intrigued when my sister would play. When TS2 arrived, I was head over heels in love with the game. And my love for the sims has grown significantly! I’ve been a simmer since I was 12. 18 years!!

round oar Feb 6, 2025, 8:08 PM

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I've been playing the sims since the sims 3 pets came out on console and I played it nonstop every single day. I dont think I even went outside that first summer I had it 💀 but these photos are my favorite memory. This past fall I took some cute fall themed photos of two of my sims and I really love them 💕

misty sage Feb 6, 2025, 8:08 PM

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I grew up loving The Sims 2 Plumbob and when I was super young I got into a fight with my sister and she smashed my Sims 2 disk, back when you needed the disk to play. 💿 My parents didn't have the money to go out and buy another game. So I, heartbroken, did the only thing I could think of. I got an envelope and wrote a letter to EA Games, explained the situation and enclosed pieces of the shattered disk as proof of purchase. Imagine how surprised I was, a few weeks later, when they sent me a new Sims 2 base game so I could finally play again. 🥹🥹 I'll never forget that.

frank mantle Feb 6, 2025, 8:08 PM

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I'm an older simmer! I remember when I first started playing the sims and I was decorating my kids room so I hung the tragic clown painting not knowing what was about to go down. Lol long story short, chaos happened and the clown appeared. He scared 😱 me so bad and followed my sims for days and kept coming back. I didn't know what caused him to pop up or where he came from. It took me a long time to figure what was going on. I never put the tragic clown artwork up again 🤣 after that moment I got roaches and the flu from spraying the bugs and I was hooked on the sims since 😅 unreal life got real fast!

winged kelp Feb 6, 2025, 8:09 PM

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I remember when a friend told me about this fun new game she got: the sims. We had so much fun playing and building. Her style for interior design was different than mine, but that made things more interesting. Together the game was even more fun than playing alone.

silk phoenix Feb 6, 2025, 8:09 PM

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When I was 11 years old I read a tiny article about The Sims in a computer magazine. I got so exited and it even had a picture of the starter house in the lower left corner of the base game. I decided that day that I would buy and play this game no matter what and I was so exited about possibly building a pool if I ever made enough money in game! I was so heartbroken when I realized, that our family computer could not run the game but my mother owned a small business which had a better computer for all the business stuff. I negotiated with her that I could play on that computer if I helped out in the business so for the next two years I voluntarily got up at 4.30 AM to help out before school so I could play in the afternoon! At the same time, any money I got was saved until I finally bought my first computer, all just so I could play The Sims at home as well. With the new pack I am really exited to have things come full circle because now I can create the business that helped me play The Sims in the first place in game as well!

sly sapphire Feb 6, 2025, 8:09 PM

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A classic sims memory I have is when I was a kid and played the Sims 1 the fireplace was on fire and my sim died so i just closed the game without saving

In the Sims 3 I remember my first family wasn't an actual family as I didn't know I had to relate the kids to the adults if I've premade them and without the genetics button so it just 2 kidnaped children roleplaying family LOL

somber sapphire Feb 6, 2025, 8:09 PM

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My earliest memory of the Sims is playing on my old pc that had no internet connection 🤣 I think I was around 11 years old. I remember I just got Open for Business and made a toy shop!

rose moss Feb 6, 2025, 8:09 PM

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starting the not so berry challenge and starting to post on simblr is a memorable sims moment for me 🩵🥦 👩‍🔬 🚀 i'd been playing the sims long before this but this was the first challenge i'd ever tried. i spent ages writing the storyline for generations im still yet to play today (but will eventually return to!), made some amazing online friends, and it ultimately got me thru a really tough time in my life

atomic fulcrum Feb 6, 2025, 8:10 PM

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I started playing with TS1 when I visited my dad and my stepbrother was playing it. I've never wanted a game so much as I wanted that one and I bought it ASAP. But my favorite was TS2. I loved the stories on the gallery and all of the writing communities that spawned from it. I created a series called The Mansion and making those stories pulled me out of a 6 month long depression. Writing it, building the lots, making the Sims and taking all of the pictures gave me a project to focus on and some of the friends I made during that time are still my friends to this day.

solid juniper Feb 6, 2025, 8:10 PM

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I'm definitely dating myself by saying I played the original The Sims as a kid. If I remember correctly, I received the original copy as a birthday gift and from that point I was HOOKED and wanted every expansion pack naturally, haha; I did end up with almost all the expansion packs, except for Hot Date and House Party, which were deemed a bit too "adult" for me to be playing.

The Sims was everything I'd wanted but never found in playing with dolls and pretending, and I prided myself on making them the FANCIEST houses with everything they could ever want (mostly a whole lot of spamming the !; cheat with plenty of copy pasting). If I remember correctly, celebrity let your Sims eat sushi which I was also STOKED about since that was and still is one of my favorite foods. From looking up tips online on text guides and also learning how to install mods off fan sites - the Sims was absolutely a big part of my childhood, and now I feel so old knowing the series is turning 25.

I wish I had screenshots or knew where the original discs were but I think they're lost in all my moving, so enjoy this picture-less text post of me reminiscing.

rocky void Feb 6, 2025, 8:10 PM

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A short one with no image but my childhood is RIDDLED with hours spent watching people create music videos to My Chemical Romance songs using Sims 2 🙈
I remember my favourite being one someone made for Helena and trying my utmost best to make my own (gods knows where that footage is now).
Its stamped in my brain and I forever love the creative videos people still make using Sims 🖤🖤🖤

ionic surge Feb 6, 2025, 8:10 PM

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I’ve been playing sims for as long as I can remember, sims 2 was my bread and butter I played it on this really old computer that my dad built for me and I remember it being the best thing ever, the game brought me so much joy through my darker days and even with the sims, sims3 and sims 4, it was my getaway from everything, sims wasn’t just a game for me it helped me so much, but watching my sister play sims hurt me , she use to put no walls in her house and had a toilet in her kitchen, I also remember making graveyards just by unaliveing all the sims in the game to make a massive grave yard 🤣

frail meadow Feb 6, 2025, 8:10 PM

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My best memory was actually what my mum reminded me of a few days ago when I told her it's been 25 years since the game was released.

Her best friend came over around two days after the game was released and said to my mum she'd found a game my mum would like. I asked if I could check it out as I was intrigued as kids are and hopped straight on to my dad's computer, after around half hour of installing it ect I was in and started of playing bob newbie it was super fun and that was it, I was hooked, I remember making Mortimer and Bella kiss and cuddle loads so they'd have a baby. I ended up getting every single Sims pack from then on.
From Sims 1/2/3 & 4. Although my all time favourite pack will always be makin magic. That pack really holds a place in my heart.
One thing I love about Sims. Is that even after 25 years of playing this game nearly every single day, I don't think I'll ever get bored. ❤️
Happy 25th Birthday!

grizzled moth Feb 6, 2025, 8:11 PM

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Growing up, my family lived out in the country and we were just out of reach of the available internet providers, so movies and pc games were my life as our closest neighbors were several miles away. My dad got me hooked on The Sims, and of course we followed suit with Sims 2, but Sims 3… Sims 3 was MY game.
Any extra money I came across as a kid was immediately followed with begging my mom to take us to Walmart so I could pick out a new expansion pack. I’m partial to the Sweet Treats pack, but I loved the Pets pack the most, always making a girl sim with lots of horses and dreams of being a celebrity.
Nowadays, my story telling skills have progressed, and although I haven’t been able to get the Horse Ranch expansion yet, it’s on my next-buy list for sure. Forever a fan of these SIMulation games 😉

uneven badger Feb 6, 2025, 8:11 PM

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My favorite and funniest memories has to be with my very first family in sims 4. I grew my sims family for months so it became a huge family. The mom passed and the dad left the family right after (he was noncommittal apparently), then the oldest son became the caretaker for his 5 younger siblings. It took me a bit but he finally grew an attachment to a lady (i was excited cause i was gonna get him a kid finally) but the lady turned him into a vampire (just bought the pack so didn't know that was going to happen or how it worked). A long time later he adapted and got married to a human girl where he then passed right after the wedding. I didn't even get to give him kids which he had always dreamed of!! After the wedding and the death the second oldest (an artist) went home and painted this- I legit don't know why...

Let me highlight that all of those events that I highlighted were not my doing I just witnessed all of it. I'm still upset but it's my favorite memory 😭 they just did my boy wrong

amber mason Feb 6, 2025, 8:11 PM

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I first started playing the sims 3 when I was in middle school on my Xbox 360. I remember being terrified to play it on my living room TV but I continued to make my sims and started creating my small family. As my sims got older and I began loving them more and more, something huge happened. My sim, a girl, had a crush on another female sim. This was the first game I had ever played where queer people existed on purpose. I was so scared of being queer then and then to see my sim and her wife die together and fall back in love as ghosts, while very weird, was so incredibly inspiring. Now all of my sims are queer and I couldn't be more proud of them! Thank you sims for letting queer kids make their sims very gay.

ripe willow Feb 6, 2025, 8:11 PM

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I remember when I was around 2 years old in 2004, my mum use to play Bustin out on the GameCube. She was looking into The Sims 2 after really enjoying BO. On the UK launch date: me and my family went down PC World to get a computer and a copy of The Sims 2. Iirc the computer was either a Compaq or Advent but I remember what felt like hours for my mum to buy both the computer and the game. I remember when my mum first booted the PC, XP needed to sort itself out before she could play the game so she was sorting that out while I went to bed. Fast forward within a few weeks; me and my mum played TS2 on there and I remember her remaking The Wiggles house (I’m not kidding lol) and I was ecstatic. I played a lot of sims games since but the one I sunk a lot of hours towards was The Sims Bustin Out on the GBA.

swift idol Feb 6, 2025, 8:11 PM

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My memorable moment would be when I was introduced to The Sims Bodyshop with my copy of TS2. It opened up a whole new world of creativity for me, allowing me to create my own outfit and object recolours. I eventually began sharing my creations with the community and increased my skills so that I could make entirely new outfits and object meshes. It introduced me to the world of 3D modelling and modding. I've been making content for the games now ever since then.

vital spindle Feb 6, 2025, 8:12 PM

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This game is my earliest memory of the sims, and it's one of my first video games. It didn't come with fully built expansions, but it had bits and pieces added from the best ones. I loved trying to do the achievements for rewards, especially trying to do the "dance for 3 days straight " to become a Werewolf. It was so fun playing to be goofy with my sister as well.

brisk acorn Feb 6, 2025, 8:13 PM

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My favorite memory about The Sims I just talked about with my brother the other day... A friend from school told me he was getting rid of some of his expansions for TS2 and me and my younger brother were absolutely obsessed with the game so we walked 40 minutes to his place just to come pick them up and then walk 40 minutes back in absolute excitement of all the new content we'll get to experience!

storm moth Feb 6, 2025, 8:13 PM

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my favourite memory of the sims is watching my cousins play sims 3 world adventures as a kid! i was super obsessed with al simhara because of my ancient egypt obsession and was soo jealous of her.... now that im older with my own job ive bought the sims 3 AND world adventures and am having the time of my life exploring tombs!!!

vocal tapir Feb 6, 2025, 8:13 PM

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My favorite memory I have is when my sims were getting married in the game.. As soon as they were about to tie the knot a bunch of people died and interrupted my wedding! 😂

glass smelt Feb 6, 2025, 8:13 PM

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I was playing with an alien in my household with my main sim and she kept setting fires. Now I didn't mind the fires but she eventually kept picking up my sim cat and wouldn't put it down so I kicked her out into a horse full of kids and a house. Two sim days later they had a fire when I was visiting and the alien died. RIP Alien Girl Sim

tired oriole Feb 6, 2025, 8:14 PM

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My favorite Sims memory that I will never forget is my poor legacy sim dying from being hysterical and too playful at her own wedding…..then it happened to her new husband too. Leaving me with a completely dead household….needless to say I quit without saving.

Another one is opening up TS3 on Christmas 2010 with my sister and SCREAMING. That was where my addiction first started. We made an appx 70000 sq ft house with cabinet’s lining the entire back wall 🥰 I never stopped playing after that, been obsessed ever since. I had every single ep and pack for tS3, I was devastated when they switched to Sims 4, but now I love it.

tranquil pewter Feb 6, 2025, 8:15 PM

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I clearly remember the day, walking into a Best Buy, and little 12 year old me seeing a brand new copy of The Sims on their white shelves.
A brand new game where I could build the homes , and play the people essentially from my already beloved game Sim City. I didn't have very many games on PC then, but it didn't matter because I was glued to The Sims.
Fast forward to college when I had the absolute pleasure to meet the creator, Will Wright, when he visited our school. I rarely ever get star struck but I remember when I was asking him questions, I absolutely was.

silk trail Feb 6, 2025, 8:15 PM

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My favourite memory of the sims is when I was first introduced to the game. My older brother introduced me to the sims 3 on Xbox when I was a kid. I never really used consoles as a kid as my brothers would hog them so I never got a chance unless we played together and they’d never give me a go by myself. However this day my brother called me in and said for me to play this game. I’d never heard of it before and I was so entranced and my brother was so happy to have me play it, he taught me all the controls and tips on how to play, I don’t think I’ve had an interaction like this with him before and since then. I’ve loved the game since! I got the Sims 2 pets on ds, for sims 3 pets on Xbox when it came out and my mum got me sims 4 not long after it came out on pc (disk version) as a surprise bc she knew how much I loved it. I have all the disks still. Without my brother introducing me I’d never of played the game, so yeah that’s my favourite memory!

paper depot Feb 6, 2025, 8:15 PM

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my favorite sims memory is anything that has to do with glitches or mass of cc the sims put on without me doing it for them...this is little faye....she wanted a to try on everything and what better way to honor her choices in cc than to enter it here

stone bone Feb 6, 2025, 8:15 PM

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I have a super Sim named Dayton Ott. And the purpose of him is trying to do every single thing every single Sims game available to me. So far he has over 20 traits, 5degrees, six children, and one amazing wife. I have countless memories with him that I count back on constantly and playing him in every game from the Sims four all the way down to the sims one and bustin out on game boy advance makes me feel like he is more than a Sim and more like a character. I’m creating in a story. I’ve played him for about six years so far and can’t wait to play him for six more in every game I accumulate..

gray nexus Feb 6, 2025, 8:15 PM

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La primera vez que jugué de sims castaway no pude pasar ni la primer parte ya que no entendía nada de nada de inglés😂 y ya hace un año lo descargue en la versión español en pc y lo AMEEE😻 ES QUE JAMAS HUBIERA imaginado lo bonito y la historia que traía de fondo... Fue el mejor juego de mi vida, ahora no me separo de los sims ni un día 💕 Gracias por crear algo tan maravilloso

lavish jetty Feb 6, 2025, 8:15 PM

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One of my favorite memories was when I was doing my sims 3 playthrough and my son married his imaginary friend, the wedding was in the homes back yard and from the yard you could see the road and down the road was just like ... Three werewolves running down the street AS they did the little kiss, I don't have the screenshot anymore unfortunately since that was three computers ago

pseudo needle Feb 6, 2025, 8:15 PM

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I started playing the Sims with 4 when it first came out. One family ended up being pretty exciting, ex. I had a sim become impregnated by aliens resulting in my first (and to date only) natural triplet birth. Overall, I've loved watching storylines progress naturally and it's been such a fun, emotional, wholesome experience. Image: one of my sims decided to take a photo after he'd just had an accident, game glitched, result: hardest this game has ever made me laugh in all the time i played it

fathom grotto Feb 6, 2025, 8:16 PM

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When I was a kid I used to play MySims on the Wii and it was my FAVORITE game. I especially loved seeing the sims sitting having a picnic, or playing in the fountain, and just interacting in general. My favorite thing about the game was definitely the range of the sims you could invite to live in your town, i LOVED the goth sims and seeing all the different ways they decorated their houses. Ever since my family got rid of our wii, i have YEARNED to play this game again and i am so happy its come out for switch and pc!!

mint escarp Feb 6, 2025, 8:16 PM

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My favourite memory was when I was younger, getting to go to my Grandparents on a Friday night and they were the only household in my family with a computer, and my Grandpa bought me the original Sims game! I used to love getting to go over, and create stories and would then spend dinner telling them all about my Sims adventures!!

limber dragon Feb 6, 2025, 8:17 PM

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My favorate memory is the release of sims 3. It came out shortly after i started college. I had moved away from home and was in a new place that i knew no one. It made me feel like I was at home and safe.

worldly nimbus Feb 6, 2025, 8:17 PM

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My favorite way to play sims is to make as much money as possible without using Motherlode. This save for whatever reason i have unlimited money trees 🌳 I've currently made my dream home, a restaurant, a retail shop and currently creating a vet. Can't wait till the new hobbies pack, definitely gonna expand. To 25 years!!!

bronze orchid Feb 6, 2025, 8:17 PM

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My memory is the most significant I guess, my introduction to the series.
I remember going to my friends house after school and her telling me she wanted to show me this game.
I can still to this day picture her purple bedroom and one of those big chunky pc monitors and sitting down to be told all about this thing that would become so significant to me.
Of all the things I specifically remember being amazed by, it was the little lava lamp and beaded door curtain. It made me get one of my own for my bedroom.
I never dreamed that day would be so significant. I went on to own all the games, expansions, try all the spin offs. Friends used to buy me sims points for the store for special occasions.
Everyone knew I was a simmer. I even had a blog at one point about a legacy.
It’s just been something I’ve loved wholeheartedly. And I’m very grateful to be part of this community 💚

autumn urchin Feb 6, 2025, 8:17 PM

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I have never had the privilege of being able to travel so I get to do this with my Sims. So many beautiful places to visit I wish I had pics of them all so these are a few of my "memories: https://i.imgur.com/6Xdw0Fe.png https://i.imgur.com/P9Yq70c.jpg https://i.imgur.com/yfvTY35.jpg For some reason having a problem with my images. Brain dead or senior moment. Hope okay.

karmic sandal Feb 6, 2025, 8:17 PM

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Id say my whole entire time I’ve played the sims 4 is my favorite memory,I first got the game around earth 2020 and fell in love with it,I pretty much made my sims like tv show characters for example one of my sims named SANJEE,he was inspired by well the other guy named SANJEE from the show named the nutshack,SANJEE has gone on adventures and even learned magic to burns eco inspector for fun,then using one of the premade families which is the landgrabs where im making then have a long and full bloodline,geoffry and Nacy passed away plus they divorced and it was cause Nancy cheated on geoffry with the nanny,then the family I forgot the name of but they where a good one I made expect they lived with a jugglo,then evil Santa in the sims who hates poor kids,the terror tot,the broodlins with the vampire kid,that one warewolf family I made too,and the list goes on for wacky sims I had,tbh when the event releases the cake I’ll have a party in the sims that has all my og sims and such partying and celebrating the anniversary

lone monolith Feb 6, 2025, 8:17 PM

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I’ve been playing the sims 2 recently and it’s taken me back to my childhood! The mix of wackiness and deep gameplay make it such a perfect entry to the sims.

I’ve highlighted two images for my entry… these are the two polar opposite emotions you can feel when playing the sims 😂 atleast my cat is taken care of!😁🥹

stark bridge Feb 6, 2025, 8:17 PM

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My most cherished Sims-related memory, is from 2009, I think. My grandma bought me the MySims physical copy so I could play it when I was visiting my grandparents. I actually spent a lot of time with them since my mom was rasing me on her own (she was in her twenties at the time) and needed the help. I didn't know that I could search information from the internet XD so I had some difficult times finding all the essences etc. But that summer I spent so many hours playing MySims and I'm so happy that I got to experience it as a child. Thank you grandma for letting me game hours on the kitchen table! I still enjoy the game after all this time. <3

violet bison Feb 6, 2025, 8:17 PM

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I first got the Sims 4 when I was a senior in high school and I fell completely in love with it! I couldn’t believe how long it took me to get into the sims. I’ve been playing religiously ever since. My favorite memory is sitting with my sister, both of us on our laptops on the couch, both playing with the Snowy Escape EP when it first came out! It was such a special memory to spend time with her playing our favorite game together

low elk Feb 6, 2025, 8:18 PM

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I did play The Sims a bit when it 1st came out but got more into The Sims 2. The memory that sticks in my head the most was when I first got The Sims 2 and i forgot to pause my game when my mum called me. When I returned both parents had died and the poor kid was on her own and just kept constantly crying. I have no idea what happened but I remember feeling really bad for the little kid

weary token Feb 6, 2025, 8:18 PM

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My favorite memory is the attached picture. I’ve been playing the Sims 3 since its release and never saw one of my pets sploot! My dog in real life lays just like this and it made me so happy.

remote arch Feb 6, 2025, 8:19 PM

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I played TS1 growing up ALL the time! I didn't have any expansion packs, so when I saw the expanded world once I got older, I was in awe that it wasn't just one neighborhood. I still have the disc case, but the disc was lost years ago.
I tried to play TS2 on console, but couldn't figure out how to build so my sims just had 1 wall and a toilet 😆
I mainly made recreations of my home & friends & family in TS3 and now I like doing challenges in TS4!

keen pine Feb 6, 2025, 8:19 PM

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I loved playing Sarah Dolan in Sims 3 in Dragon Valley. She was my most favorite townie ever. It was the most enjoyable experience I've had on the Sims. I hope a town like that will come to the Sims 4. It was so fun having an almost berry themed world on it's own. (with fun hair colors, skin tones!) The dragons were cool as well!

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surreal heart Feb 6, 2025, 8:19 PM

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Super simple this iconic sims meme that floats around gets me all the time lol we love the sims

cerulean ridge Feb 6, 2025, 8:19 PM

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It's hard to find a way to properly word how meaningful sims has been in my life. I spent most of my childhood playing 2 and 3, and even now will spend a ton of time going through and playing the sims 4 whenever I have time. It helped me through my parents divorce, my dad's death, my struggles with anxiety, and even now has been helping me find joy even when my chronic pain keeps me from doing much else. If I had to pick a single sims memory however, it would be back when I was in middle school. I had a friend sleeping over for the night, and we decided that playing sims 3 on my laptop would be the best possible thing to do, despite it being a one person game. We wrote out a complex storyline, created a ton of sims and decided how they'd view and treat each other. We spent hours building the house and deciding each move that the sims would make. The sims would live on a house boat, these two would fall in love and these two would have a breakup. This sim would be a chef while this one an author. We created character motives and backstories and used everything we could to create a story. After hours and hours of gameplay, we fell asleep on the floor of my bedroom, side by side with the laptop still open and the sims 3 still running. We played until we couldn't keep our eyes open. It's not a significant memory, not one filled with funny stories or crazy happenings in the game. That girl is still one of my best friends to this day, and while we would play sims together afterwards, I'll never forget the feeling of happiness as we laid on the floor, backs uncomfortably leaning against the side of my bed frame, and created a story together.

blissful pond Feb 6, 2025, 8:19 PM

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I was first introduced to the sims 2 world in elementary school. It quickly became my new obsession. Everyday after school I would rush home to play. I wasn’t allowed to play until my homework was done though. So everyday at school I would go to the bathroom and create a mental checklist of all the things I needed to do before I could play the sims. I’d work as hard as I could to get all my work done. I’d finish my homework on the bus ride home, get a snack, and start playing. Creating the person I wanted to become and testing out some lifestyles that were far too risky for my taste irl. Trying to become a super sim and learn all of the skills all while cheating my way into fortune. Ah the good ol’ days.
It’s such a fond memory and truly think I have the sims to thank for doing well in school! So thanks Sims!

pearl marlin Feb 6, 2025, 8:20 PM

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I remember as a kid I once had to undergo a minor surgery whilst awake. During that my dad promised me that he'd buy me any game I wanted to make up for the pain. I asked for Sims 2 Pets because I was obsessed with animals at the time. And I can remember from there, getting the game and reading the guide book over and over whilst I waited for it to install. Man. I miss when games came with physical guidebooks with little hints and tricks inside.

limpid mango Feb 6, 2025, 8:22 PM

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Our family wasn't perfect. There were hushed arguments behind closed doors, worries that hung in the air like a persistent draft, but within the pixelated walls of our Sims houses, me and my sister played Sims for hours.
My sister and I were inseparable, partners in virtual crime. She was the architect, meticulously designing sprawling mansions with perfectly manicured gardens. I was the storyteller, crafting intricate narratives for our digital families, often involving unexpected fires and the occasional alien abduction. We’d squabble over who got to play which Sim – she always gravitated towards the glamorous Bella Goth. But even in our disagreements, there was a shared understanding. Sims wasn't just a game; it was our escape, a world where we could control the narrative, where problems, however complex, could usually be solved with a well-placed swimming pool or a visit from the Tragic Clown.
Years flew by, marked by graduations, first jobs, and the bittersweet ache of growing up. Life took us in different directions, scattering us across the miles. But the connection forged over countless hours of Simming remained. Now, the glow of the monitor comes from separate screens, in different time zones. We connect through video calls, sharing screenshots of our virtual families, laughing at the hilarious glitches, and celebrating virtual milestones.
And now, a new generation joins the fold. My niece sits beside me with her eyes wide with wonder. I show her how to build a house, how to plant a garden, how to avoid the Grim Reaper (for now). As she giggles at the silly antics of her Sims, I see a spark ignite within her, the same joy that captivated me and my sister all those years ago.

sand hill Feb 6, 2025, 8:25 PM

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Muted the audio bc it has my voice in it, but this is my absolute fav clip from my time playing. One of my sims having bladder failure at a wedding LOL

I’m a relatively new Sims player, I started with 4 but have a few memories of my sisters playing 2 when I was younger. Even if 4 isn’t very well liked I already have so many memories playing this game and streaming it to friends. It’s helped me grow closer to so many people and it’s helped get me through college so far. I might be new, but I adore this game and hope to make more memories with the other games in the series eventually.

slender raptor Feb 6, 2025, 8:26 PM

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This is probably my absolute favorite memory of The Sims. I spent an insane amount of time on this game and I restarted it over and over again. I love Strangetown / Strangerville in general, it’s my favorite world in the whole franchise.

woeful harness Feb 6, 2025, 8:26 PM

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My favorite memory is on the Sims 3. I remember, I was around 8 years old and I was playing on the family computer. I could spend hours creating my Sims but I'd never renovated my houses at all (not a single change) and I was just scared that someone would catch me making my Sims woohoo. It was just these kind of moments that made me fall in love with the games !

crimson gale Feb 6, 2025, 8:27 PM

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My favorite memory of the Sims is when my mom got the Sims 2 castaway stories for me and her when I was a kid. It was my favorite installment and I cleared the story in a matter of hours. To this day I am still searching for another copy of that game

heady hemlock Feb 6, 2025, 8:30 PM

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Wow, where do I begin? I started playing the Sims when I was around 8 years old. One of my favorite memories was with the Sims 1 while playing with my older sister we would make families, stories and create home and holiday lets. It was truly the best. Then I played Sims 2 In my teens and loved It. I remember making a family and did so many generations and one of my Sims died and I brought her back but she came back as a zombie and It scared me! 😂 Sims means a lot to me and I can't wait for more!

noble atlas Feb 6, 2025, 8:30 PM

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I still vividly remember my first experience with the sims, I was 9 and I had just gotten my first ever laptop for Christmas and my mom ended up pulling out her sims 2 disk she still had. It was kinda late by the time the game got installed so all she did was show me how to make a sim, I made a couple which my dad point out might be too difficult for me to start out with. The next morning I woke up before anyone else and Immediately went into the game, I still remember what lot I moved the sims into in pleasantview, then I had to wake my mom up because I couldn't figure out how to rotate the fridge to be against the wall 😂 When I look back I don't think a 9 year old should of been seeing those woohoo cutscenes lol
One of the more memorable moments I had playing back then was after I got my first expansion which was seasons and I got traumatized when the social worker came and took my child away because he was out in the snow too long making a snow man, but he wasn't even freezing yet I said 😆
To this day the sims 2 is my obsession though I had my fair time with the sims 3 and now I bounce back between sims 2 where playing a ultimate uberhood and sims 4 where I'm playing a random legacy/rags to riches

idle yacht Feb 6, 2025, 8:32 PM

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I just love the general whimsy of the sims games and all those little things that happen that would never happen in real life, that's what makes this life sim more than just a life sim. Just one of my favorite examples of this is when my sims kitchen caught fire (as they often do) and the firefighters arrived but decided to play the violin rather then actually put out the fire! I have been playing the sims for around a decade now and I will never get over these silly things that happen.

opaque cypress Feb 6, 2025, 8:32 PM

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My favorite and most memorable moment for me is the one that started it all: my first Sims family. I was only about 8 years old, and The Sims 3 was the first Sims game I played that kicked off my journey through the rest of the franchise. My first family was a single young adult mom and her toddler daughter. I ignored all the tutorials thinking it couldn’t really be that hard to play, and barely made it to nightfall before all the moodlets were hitting negatives 😂 I panicked with a crying toddler and hungry sim and turned off the game, scared. But I went back, determined to fix everything, and that was what has kicked off an almost 16 year old love of everything The Sims ❤️

grizzled flower Feb 6, 2025, 8:33 PM

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Pictured is my collection of physical copies of sims games. (I have the sims medieval twice because my partner also owns a copy 😂). I have been obsessed with the Sims franchise for as long as i can remember! Fun fact: the sims and i are the same age! I started playing the sims 3 when i’d visit my dad as a kid. My mom bought most of the sims 2 collection (used physical copies) from my uncle when we were hosting a yard sale when i was 10/11 (before the physical copies were tied to EA accounts, now these copies are unplayable) and i spent hourrrrrrs and hours of my life in my own little world. When they released the sims 4 CAS demo i played it so much until i could finally afford to get my own copy of TS4. Ive played the sims mobile and freeplay, sims DS games, ps2 games, the sims medieval (a personal favorite, tied with the sims 2) and even the sims social on facebook! (not many people remember or played this one, but it was a blast!). I have saved up and bought packs i really wanted over the years, and this game has been there for me during the toughest of times and let me express myself freely in a safe space! I had a rough childhood, so this game was my escape. I love to build, create, and design! I can’t imagine my life without the sims, everyone who knows me well knows that i’m obsessed with the sims. I live like an hour from their office in SanFransisco and it’s a dream of mine to tour it someday (i don’t know if that’s even possible but a girl can dream). 💚 It’s crazy how much a game franchise can mean to a person, but this game feels like family. It’s a part of who I am!

lavish widget Feb 6, 2025, 8:33 PM

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Sorry but I’m gonna make it in French!
J’ai tellement de souvenirs avec les sims j’y joue depuis si longtemps ! (15 ans 😱)
Le premier qui me vient en tête c’est quand j’ai joué avec les sœur Caliente des sims 3 et que j’ai eu un belle enchaînement de malheur.
D’abord le classique, la gazière qui prend feu ensuite le voleur qui vole le jacuzzi sur le toit puis l’une des sœurs ce fait enlever par les extraterrestres !
Bien évidemment j’ai quitté le jeu et j’ai plus jamais jouer avec elles 😂
Ensuite deuxième, je me souviens de toute ces fois où j’ai créé des dépenses (parfois plus grande que la maison) seulement pour mes animaux (et j’en avais beaucoup) il y avait les niches les gamelles et tout ce qu’il fallait pour eux 😂

Et aujourd’hui avec les sims 4 c’est d’avoir créé ma meilleure amie et moi et de voire que nos sims nous ressemble dans leurs actions et ce font des câlins à chaque fois qu’elles ce voit 🥰

bronze cargo Feb 6, 2025, 8:34 PM

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Ok this is not exactly the happiest memory but it is kinda funny….

It was either Sims 2 or Sims 3 where cochroaches would swarm if your sim didn’t take out the trash. And one time I had a game where the sim’s entire house had cockroaches.

And then later that night I had a nightmare about a giant cockroach.

I was so happy when Sims 4 didn’t have that feature! Until they did 😅

But hey! No more nightmares about cockroaches anymore!

serene falcon Feb 6, 2025, 8:34 PM

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I started playing the sims with sims 3. One of my favorite memories is shortly after I had gotten the game I came home from elementary school and my mom surprised me with the Pets expansion pack!! I spent the rest of the day playing it and even got yelled at to come for dinner 😅😂. I had attempted one of my first sims challenges which was the 101 Dalmatian challenge. I only got to about 20 puppy’s before I got to stressed from all the barking haha. But it’s still a cherished memory ❤️❤️

thorny bolt Feb 6, 2025, 8:37 PM

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One of my earliest and fondest memories is watching my mom play The Sims 3. It completely sparked my love for the series, and I've been playing for 13 years now! Tomorrow's my big 21st birthday, and it's also the final day of this giveaway! I'm so excited! Attached is a photo of my Sims 3 collection.

static merlin Feb 6, 2025, 8:37 PM

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This might be the best thing I've ever made, we had a contest ar work to create our favorite part of the office in the sims 4, I made the entire building Fabulous no mods and no cc, just a lot of time and love for this game 🩷

abstract garnet Feb 6, 2025, 8:38 PM

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I'll always remember my first Sims experience. I was around 7 years old and my mums friend was taking care of me for the day as I wasn't well enough to go to school and my mum had to go to work. The teenage daughter of my mums friend was on her computer playing the Sims 2 and I watched for hours completely fascinated. Later on in the early afternoon she had planned to go out with some friends, before she left she asked if I wanted to play whilst she was gone which was an obvious yes and she wrote down all of the cheats on a piece of paper for me.
I played this game until my mum came to collect me and cried when I had to leave, I even refused to eat any lunch because I wanted to play for longer.
I then begged and begged my parents to get me this game and was over the moon when I received a second-hand computer on my next birthday and a copy of the Sims 2.
20 years later and I'm still obsessed with the Sims franchise.
Another highlight was The Urbz, I played this on my DS in between this day at my mums friends and my birthday when I could play the Sims 2 again.

patent pollen Feb 6, 2025, 8:38 PM

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I started playing The Sims when I was five years old, the next day after getting my PS2. The game that introduced me to the franchise and mostly into gaming was The Sims 2 Pets for PlayStation 2. I immediately fall in love with being able to control characters, dressing them up, furnishing their homes, and living their lives. My first memory from playing this game and The Sims, in general, was playing the tutorial household. After that, I always enjoyed controlling the lives of one of the premade families - the Mays, always giving them a life full of adventure and chaos. During all of these years since that moment, The Sims became a safe space for me, where there was no judgment and nobody to hurt me; only me and the world of my Sims. I don't have any happy memories from my childhood years, but I always recall playing video games (mostly The Sims franchise) as something positive, that gave me joy. I have played every main The Sims title and many console ones and collected most of the packs and much of the TS3 Store content. The Sims is something more than just a video game to me - it was the thing that gave me hope and I will never be more grateful for that.

acoustic smelt Feb 6, 2025, 8:42 PM

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One of my earliest memories with the sims was playing the gamecube version of bustin' out in the living room! The vibes were immaculate and bustin’ out is peak childhood, imo. I think that bustin' out started my obsession with cozy games/media as a whole. In terms of the sims 4, it's the one sims title that I have the most hours in (over a thousand). The greatest memories I have of the Sims 4 is my first time finishing my legacy challenge! That family is somehow still going (that's not a bad thing tho)!

gaunt jasper Feb 6, 2025, 8:43 PM

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I remember always wanting TS4 and finally getting it in stores! I don't have anything memorable to say and I know I won't win and everyone will bully me for not having a core memory, but I like to make fandom things in TS4. However, my laptop broke and it has been 3 years without it. I hope I can get back to TS4 soon and hopefully it stays on Windows 10. I do know now to immediately use a mirror if a sim gets playful - it's a deadly emotion and while not memorable at all, it was traumatizing to lose a sim over an emotion.

livid ravine Feb 6, 2025, 8:44 PM

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I have two favorite Sim memories. For the Sims 1 me and my best friend were obsessed. We would play together and take turns controlling. We were maybe 10 and we had a sleepover. The PC in her room just got repaired so together we figured out how to plug it all in and set it up. Which for those old heavy monitors and towers from the late 90 was pretty impressive. We ended up playing The Sims all night! Tattoo

In the Sims two I had two families I really loved to play. Both of them were legacy families but very different. The first was a married couple, A man in the military and a stay at home mom who took care of the house and kids. They were a very wholesome family. It was always cozy and nice to see them raise their kids into adults and become grandparents. All the kids could salute because they learned from the dad which was so cool!
The other one was an all female vampire legacy. I called it blood and watermelon because that's all they would eat. They normally didn't keep the father's around or marry them. With the long life span I was able to more easily achieve lifetime wishes and try out different skills I hadn't used before.
The families were very different but they let me enjoy the Sims in different ways. I still like to play that way. Sometimes I want to make a human family and have no supernatural things just live their lives and other times I want supernatural creatures and all sorts of chaos. That's why I love The Sims because it's a game I can make suit what I am in the mood for. Not many other games can do that.

wise sky Feb 6, 2025, 8:44 PM

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years and years ago, my cousins and i would play the sims 3 when i came to visit and she was one of my best friends growing up even though we lived so far apart. she got me into it and now years later i have my own computer than can actually run it LOL. i’m in college now, pretty far away from my friends and partner and playing the sims 4 has helped so much with feeling connected to them. i love taking my sims out for little photoshoots and keeping memory books of my sims doing every day activities. I also love building in the game and it makes me feel so relaxed and also creative! i’m currently working on a ski lodge :) heres one of the houses i’ve made in the game. this one is an apartment building based off of japanese apartments i remember from when i lived there :p the game is so filled with nostalgia, but it also helps me dream and plan for the future <3

candid portal Feb 6, 2025, 8:46 PM

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My favorite memory of the Sims is first playing the Sims 4 on ps4.
I remember making my first sim, her name was Laura Aldridge. I spent hours crafting a perfect life for her, she had a wealthy husband (aka married into the Landgraab family), had a huge mansion, four children, at the highest level of her career.
Not long after she had her fourth child, she was making grilled cheese and proceeded to die in a fire…
She then haunted my sims family and was an absolute menace breaking everything. one of my favorite memories by far!!

pale glacier Feb 6, 2025, 8:48 PM

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I think one of my favorite memories was starting the sims 4 about 5/6 years ago. It was around the time of the 20th anniversary. It was also when tiny living was relatively new and so I decided to bring tiny living to my sims for the Wii. This remains one of my favorite pictures of the sims

fluid fox Feb 6, 2025, 8:53 PM

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The series is very important to me, but the most memorable moment to me will always be my first gameplay. I was visiting my friend, who just happened to have borrowed The Sims 3. It was brandly new game back then, and for my 9 year old me it was an amazing experience. I played the rich family in Sunset Valley- Alto. I especially loved Holly. She became everything I wanted to be. I also related to her a lot. To this day I love this sim dearly, and she is a special character to me.

fickle kernel Feb 6, 2025, 8:54 PM

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I'm the resident Sims nerd in basically all my friend circles and I'm kinda known for that. So a while ago someone reached out to me because he had been tasked with throwing out old video games and among that a whole lot of Sims 2 expansion packs.
He asked me if I wanted to adopt them instead of them going to a landfill.
I already owned a few from my own childhood even if not all of my former physical copies had survived.
Of course I said yes anyway. So now I have a whole lot of Sims 2 discs (and some doubles) added to my collection, saving them from the landfill.
Can't let gaming history go to literal waste after all!

I of course have many Sims games more (some of them shown in the picture) but the fact I could save some makes them my favourite part of my entire collection

(And yes that is the Sims 1 for playstation 2. I'm a connoisseur and have enjoyed the game for all its 25 years and on multiple platforms)

dull cradle Feb 6, 2025, 8:55 PM

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I created my own sculptures inspired by two of the things I love from the Sims. Bunny Gnome and Voodoo doll.

barren plover Feb 6, 2025, 8:55 PM

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I love bringing my friends together with the Sims. We have used the multiplayer mod and we lived together in the Sims, my favorite experience of all time.

viral flax Feb 6, 2025, 8:58 PM

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When i was a kid, every time I would go over to my friends’ houses that had the Sims I would convince them to play it. I didn’t have at home, but then when I turned 11 my mom got a laptop for Christmas and I convinced her to download the game for me. I’ve been playing ever since, moving my download from laptop to laptop. It’s the only game I’ve ever consistently played and i love it so much!!

echo sand Feb 6, 2025, 9:00 PM

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I started playing with the Sims 2, then the Sims 3, including the Sims 3 cats & dogs special edition. I then started playing the Sims. I've bought every pack as it comes out since I started playing the Sims years ago. I can still remember buying my first pack. I bought Get To Work and immediately started building using all the new items from the pack. Making new Sims from the stuff in the pack, etc. I have over several hundred days logged in the Sims from just the last few years and I don't regret a single second of it. I always get so excited seeing the next pack come out, and save the time that it comes out in my area so I can buy it immediately, I've done so since that day all those years ago.

silk estuary Feb 6, 2025, 9:01 PM

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When I was a kid, I loved to make me and my cat as Sims and be able to hunt ghosts together, I loved to be able to play as a cat and catch the ghost, I miss it so much

sinful vault Feb 6, 2025, 9:07 PM

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I had finally made my dream sim with my dream life, he had full skills and finished his career in culinary and I was like "oh his logic skill isn't full" so I got him to look through the telescope outside then BOOM 'take cover and asteroid is heading your sims way' i hasnt noticed that those deaths where in the sims and then bye bye my sim was hit with an asteroid and died...I was so upset. But don't worry he's a ghost now and has maxed his logic skill now :).

solid iris Feb 6, 2025, 9:09 PM

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I started playing the sims 3 when i was 8 or 9 after my brother bought the starter pack (basegame, late night and high end loft stuff) in a ea bundle with a boatload of other games. I was hooked imminently, I always loved to play with my doll houses and this was a video game version of that, but it changed into being so much more for me. I was able to create who I wanted to be in this game (max career rockstar/actor vampire every time lol), I could also explore parts of me that I otherwise wouldn't be able to play with, I made my first lesbian sims when I was little before I even knew what the word was, and it wasn't something to be ashamed of. That meant so much to little me, and still means so much to me now. I love the sims and so much of my childhood is in this game. My favorite memory playing the sims was in the sims 4 with my legacy save when I had two sims who maxed the criminal career (both branches) and when my sims sister died in a freak spa accident they adopted her son and adopted a pet cat, Catastrophy, they raised their nephew to value important things like stealing the moon, which influenced him to get a degree in villainy and enter the astronaut career in the international smugglers branch. He is married now and has triplets but I had to close the save for good because I cant imagine my sims dying. Heres a pic of them celebrating their nephews first birthday with them! and Catastrophy sleeping on the couch :)

slender dagger Feb 6, 2025, 9:15 PM

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I wrote my engineering bachelor's thesis and defended it using The Sims 4. The best part is that time flew by while playing, and I received the highest grade. If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. I'm proud that I dared to do that, even my builing skills are not that great. It's my core memory now. 😄

hidden ferry Feb 6, 2025, 9:17 PM

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My favorite memory is playing with this family for the Joy of Life challenge. This is my longest time playing in one save.

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gaunt loom Feb 6, 2025, 9:19 PM

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my mom has played the sims since it first came out and her love for the game made me love it just as much! i play both sims 3 and 4 and i cant get enough. my goal is to get all the kits and im almost there! thanks to caryn and connie i have learned a lot of tips and tricks nether me or my mom knew about. [i like to say a pretty good at building] my favorites memories[i have two] is 1 when we moved and we had absolutely no wifi so i played the sims like every day! i didn't have my own account then so i was using my moms then something happened and i had to get my own account and restart completely T-T 2 is when i played the sims 3 for the first time. i love both so much! the sims 3 has so much different ways to customize everything. the sims will always be my favorite

plucky kiln Feb 6, 2025, 9:19 PM

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i remember being a kid and discovering the sims 4 on my sisters pc, i immediately got obsessed. i remember creating my family and playing with them! also discovered cc on my sisters pc, which was very exciting for me. it was lots of fun, i wish i still had that save file😞

odd root Feb 6, 2025, 9:21 PM

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I began playing it in the beginning. I was working with my autistic son and other children with special needs at our school as his teacher. My brother had been given the Sims and had no interest in it but gave it to me. I thought I could possibly use it in our classroom to teach kids life skills, so I spent days making our home so I could try it with my son. And he did not want to play with it. But I was hooked!!! I have been playing it ever since! I still have them all, but have loaned Sims 1 to a cousin that loved playing it. I still have all of my creations for it too, as I spent a period of time as a CC Creator for the Sims 1. But each game is addictive, once you get into it, you can't leave it! And I still love the game, even with the bugs in Sims 4, I love this game!

sudden flower Feb 6, 2025, 9:23 PM

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The raccoons from sims 1 are my favorite memory. And of course their human counterparts

lyric mason Feb 6, 2025, 9:26 PM

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My favorite memories playing the sims is playing with my mom when i was a toddler/young child. I watched her play the original, and then when the sims 2 came out I was old enough to play with her. She used to recreate the two of us, and then my stepdad too when she got married. She's mostly given up video games, with the only exception being the sims!

worthy field Feb 6, 2025, 9:28 PM

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My older sisters showed me the first sims when I was pretty young. It was hilarious to play together and we really connected that way. Even used to go to my best friends house so we could create stories together. When it was just me I created my family and pets, and after my parents and pets passed it felt like I could still be connected to them through that way as years went on. With so many memories attached to the previous sims, it's a flood of emotions playing the sims and sims 2 again 🥲

plucky hill Feb 6, 2025, 9:29 PM

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As a longtime Simmer and retro gamer, I have loved and played this game for 25 years! Per my teenagers' suggestions, I have multi-classed into modern gamer by branching out and consuming online Sims content and joining online platforms like this lovely Discord channel.... This game has been instrumental in my life, and I am so happy to celebrate the anniversary of The Sims!

hot dagger Feb 6, 2025, 9:29 PM

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I will never forget the time my sim won the lottery in 2023. Over 11K hours of gameplay in at this point and that has been my only experience with winning. Shame that it was with a family I don’t frequent all that much. At least everyone got some pretty nice room makeovers out of it! FreezerBunny_Excited

rigid basalt Feb 6, 2025, 9:38 PM

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I don’t have a specific story to tell or photo to share, but I remember loving TS3 when I was younger. Every day I would open up the game, and I would have my older sister help me create a sim (I didn’t really know how to 😆) and every time I would either make them a fairy in a wedding dress or a green ghost (I guess death by haunting curse). I loved that game so much and I have really fond memories of it, and that’s why I love the game and its what made me later want to get TS4.

echo lion Feb 6, 2025, 9:40 PM

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I will always remember how happy I was with my first expansion pack I bought with the money I saved up as a child. I played it for hours on end, having the pets I wanted in real life.

wicked flare Feb 6, 2025, 9:44 PM

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Sul sul everyone! Plumbob Hearts

I'm so happy to be able to tell my introduction to The Sims. I've have been playing The Sims games since literally forever, it was one of my first games. I remember going to the store and always being in awe, looking at game boxes, while my parents were doing the weekly grocery shopping. One game really intrigued me though and I started to beg my parents to buy it for me, even offering to do all kinds of chores, just to get my hands on it: It was The Sims 2. The 2nd game of the series was my personal introduction to the franchise, when we got home I slipped the CD into my dad's computer and was disappointed that it had to be installed, my dad who didn't know much about downloading games at the time would spend the entire night trying to set up the game for me. On the next morning I walked up to the desk and the game was running, my dad launched the Goth Household, the first thing I saw was the wedding set up and the graves in their backyard, and that's how it all started for me...

I have been enjoying it ever since to this day and made many memories playing it, from hiding the woohooing cutscene as a child to finally getting to understand the game's lore as I grew older (Yeah, I'm one of those lore nerds, but can you blame me?! 😂🤓). The Sims 2 is favourite game and whenever I get the time to play it, I spend hours infront of that damn screen!!! I am really happy about the fact it got re-released with the fixes, even if they aren't that big, it's something that means a lot to me and I know it means a lot many others too. I've really been wishing to own the Sims 2 digitally for ages!

Oh- and here's a picture of me loading into Veronaville back in the day! Thanks for reading! *Dag dag! *

primal grove Feb 6, 2025, 9:48 PM

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I was 💗 SO IN LOVE 💗 with The Sims when I was younger. So much so that I even added my needs, in Sims style, to my journals. This one is from 2004. Looking back, it probably helped me get through some tough times and unintentionally helped me recognize my own needs.

My journey began with borrowing my friends Sims 1 game for the weekend and then I was hooked. I moved onto some of my favorite console games like The Sims Bustin' Out and then I had to get my hands on every PC release after that (Sims 2, 3 and 4)

All the endless possibilities of gameplay definitely attracted my creative self. I had so much fun escaping into such a cool world. I will always have such a special bond with The Sims. It's been a long super sweet ride and I'm so happy to continue on this road. Happy 25th Anniversary Sims! 🎂 🎉

mystic talon Feb 6, 2025, 9:53 PM

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These two were my most recent favorite couple. Spent hours planning their wedding lot, and story planning their entire life, only for her husband to die (unplanned) after discovering she was pregnant to their first child. He was tragically killed by a meteor shower, when I wasn't paying attention to what he was doing. She then raised her child as a single mother and struggled with the grief unfortunately until she was an elder, only then finding a new person who sparked her interest. Her best accomplishment in her life was being able to send her precious baby girl (the final gift her late husband left her) to university on a full ride scholarship, where she graduated with flying colors to then start a life of her own.

short mica Feb 6, 2025, 9:54 PM

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One of my favorite memories was in the strangers vile area in I made a friend with the plant for a bit but then it ate the sim. My sim 3 memories I did like messing with the fairies but didn't really remember it much

tidal mason Feb 6, 2025, 9:58 PM

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My first memory of the sims (not my happiest) is when my mum allowed me to play the sims for the first time. According to the social services I wasn’t fit to be a parent, they came and whisked my children away. I was then sobbing for the whole night, my mum didn’t actually know this could happen until I got my hands on the game 😮‍💨 However I’ve learned my lesson (kind of) and I still love the sims 💚❇️ This is an image of the negligent parent in question 😮‍💨

glossy siren Feb 6, 2025, 10:05 PM

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My entry is a story; my first ever memory of The Sims (specifically the first game I played; The Sims 2).
My entire childhood I wanted a dad, because I grew up without one. My first birthday after my mom found the guy who became my younger brother's biological father, I got "The Sims 2 Cats & Dogs". I was super excited about it, and immediately started playing it. I made our family; me, my mother and my new dad.
The only thing I remember after this was that on the day my sim was going to turn into a teenager, right when she got home from school, she was taken by CPS for being too hungry... I then reset my game and tried to bring her home, but she was STILL taken by the CPS, this time (I assumed) was because we took her out of school "for no reason" (as she was not super hungry at this point, nor was she sick).
7 year old me, who had no idea what cheat codes were, cried for DAYS after this... xD

I'll also include a picture of a Bullet Journal-page I made back in 2018. I loved it so much I never dared actually using it, haha!

dark plaza Feb 6, 2025, 10:05 PM

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every time we went to a store when i was a cild i would always go to the games and look for the requirements for the computer of the sims games. Unfortunately my parents always said no. A friend of mine had the sims on her computer though so i would always go to her place and play the sims 4. Since she knew a lot more i would ask her about money cheats or build advice. It was the highlight of the day. One day I saw a The Sims game for the Wii so I bought that one. That was my first Sims game. now I'm glad, that is free.

surreal condor Feb 6, 2025, 10:05 PM

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I used to play the sims 3 when I was a teenager and when I was on my second generation, my own sim was now a grandmother to 5 kids and when she passed, her urn wouldn’t move from the house, the other sims were just going around weeping. But then things started to get chaotic because since my sims daughter and her husband was so distraught, they neglected the kids a lot and there was a bowl stuck infront if the fridge so everyone was hungry and then one day the kids got taken off of them ;-; it’s such a weird memory but I laugh at it looking back on it

viscid furnace Feb 6, 2025, 10:07 PM

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Early 2000…. My buddy invites me over to play a new game, had no idea it was a newly released game as opposed to a game he just got. Spent the next four months practically living there… taking turns sleeping while we played the crap out of the Sims. And now, I’m 50, and I’ve spent half my life playing this game. It’s the only game I keep returning to, and I now have about 40k hours on sims 4. Thanks for keeping it interesting and wonderful all these years ❤️

pale elbow Feb 6, 2025, 10:07 PM

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My wife and I have been playing since the beginning and it's the only game she plays. My favorite memory is how the Sims has given us an escape every time we needed it. Struggling in a tiny apartment in our twenties, dealing with illnesses in our thirties, and major injury in our fourties, also COVID. When so much of life is out of our control, at least we can control the worlds of the Sims. Thank you and Happy Birthday!

normal lava Feb 6, 2025, 10:10 PM

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My first memory of The Sims is a little blurry, but I’ll never forget the absolute heartbreak that came with it.

I was around six or seven when I got my hands on The Sims 2. I was obsessed with the idea of making my own little world. I made a family that was basically me, my mom, and a dream version of our life. In this world, we had a big house, a dog (which I desperately wanted in real life), and everything was perfect.

At least, until I accidentally set the kitchen on fire.😳

I had no idea how fire worked in the game, and for some reason, I thought my Sims would just put it out themselves. Spoiler: they did not. The fire spread, and in my panic, I didn't know how to call the fire department. Before I knew it the entire kitchen was gone, and my Sim mom had tragically passed away in the flames.

I completely lost it. I was sobbing. I thought I had ruined the game forever. I didn’t know how to save or reload, so I kept playing, assuming this was just my Sims’ new reality. My Sim-self was taken away by social services, and that’s when I rage quit. I didn’t touch the game again for weeks.

When I finally went back I discovered cheats, and let’s just say that after that my Sims never suffered again. Motherlode and max motives became my best friends.

errant granite Feb 6, 2025, 10:11 PM

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When I accidentally killed Don Lothario who was my husband whilst showing my IRL 4 year old son you can be eaten by a cowplant. Traumatised my sim kids and my IRL son 😅😂 Don came back as a ghost to play with the same cowplant that killed him

fading fox Feb 6, 2025, 10:14 PM

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The very first sims game got me hooked. I was 9 at the time. I remember my older cousin bringing it home . No one was allowed to use the phone in the house because we had dial up lol. We pulled all nighters a lot throughout the week. Nothing like putting hours into making a sim,building a house,getting a job,just to forget to put a burglar alarm in and the house being robbed lol!!! Well that makes a long fun night starting again lol. Now I’m making memories with my kids! So far they love watching me play the sims. I Love showing them how to build and play!! Iv owned TS,TS2,TS3,and TS4.

marsh stirrup Feb 6, 2025, 10:18 PM

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Ever since I got my hands on The Sims 1 I have always been obsessed, my favorite memory is with The Sims 2, I remember once time I was looking through the telescope and out of no where getting the alien abduction cut scene and freaking out about it!

mellow fox Feb 6, 2025, 10:18 PM

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My favoriate thing about the Sims 2 (first Sims game I ever played) was the Plant Sims and Plant Sim children. I loved that they stayed that way throughout their lives. I miss the perma Plant Sims and Plant Sim kids in TS4. Oh them and the fairies/Elves! Let's not forget the cars they could actually drive!

modest wren Feb 6, 2025, 10:21 PM

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I will never forget wanting the Hot Date expansion pack, and my mom not letting me at first because of the oh-so-famous Heart Shaped Bed which now lives in every basement in the Willow Creek (those residents aren’t /that/ prom and proper!). My mom would not let me have it, under any circumstances. Thankfully, I was able to experience this piece of iconic Sims history in the later games, but I will never forget wanting that expansion, and the bed being my downfall. I have kept every expansion they did buy me, and they are now kept safe whenever I need a nostalgia boost.

valid trout Feb 6, 2025, 10:26 PM

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A staple Sims memory for me is from when I was younger and playing The Sims 2 with a few expansion packs, Seasons being one of them. I had been playing for hours and was in deep. It was winter in my game and it had been snowing. When it was time to exit the game and get ready to leave my house, I threw on my winter coat…you know, because it was snowing…only to remember that it was actually the middle of the summer.

craggy onyx Feb 6, 2025, 10:34 PM

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This is the earliest photo I have found from my years of playing the sims. Not long ago I started playing the sims 3 again and went onto the store to find my old store items and spotted this photo.

It may not look like much but it was such a sweet moment and reminded me of how much time I have spent playing the sims over the past 12 years. Starting at 8 years old, The Sims 3 was my introduction to the gaming world and has helped me through many hardships.

I wish I still had my old save files but seeing this photo made all my memories flow back, which is why it is my favourite moment.

neat timber Feb 6, 2025, 10:37 PM

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When I was about 11 or 12 I ordered this new game that had come out called the sims. Every pack that came out, I would look at the back of the box many times just thinking about what I could do with the new items. Just until I was able to play it. One thing I used to do sometimes was plan out houses and floor plans on graph paper. I think this one was going to be a party house for possibly the sims 2. I do have one of a house somewhere using the lime green sofas from sims 1 🙂
I still have all my physical games to this day and plan to display them once I have my office completed

paper dew Feb 6, 2025, 10:43 PM

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I’ll never forget the first time my dad brought home Sims 3 as a kid. I had no idea what it was, but when I started playing it, it took over as one of my favorite game series very quickly. I remade my own family in the Sims and always tried to put a jungle gym in my Simself’s room. I remember the first time the toy oven caught on fire. Lastly, I remember getting robbed by the burglars in the middle of the night, from then on I’d always make sure to put a burglar alarm in my houses.

thin cedar Feb 6, 2025, 10:45 PM

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One of my favorite memories was when I was first introduced to the sims. I was friends with these twin girls and every time we’d go over to their house, they’d pull out three laptops and we’d all play the game. Looking back, I believe they had one version of the each game per laptop. So sims 1, sims 2, and sims 3. When I finally got my parents to cave, I got sims 3 and I was thrilled. That was when I was 7 and I’m turning 22 in a couple months :)

elfin cipher Feb 6, 2025, 10:54 PM

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I've been playing the Sims ever since I can remember because I grew up watching my mom play (I'm 24 now lol). The Sims is the number one thing my mom and I bond over to this day, specifically the Sims 1 (we were super excited for the legacy edition!). I literally built my own PC just for the Sims, I hardly play anything else. Here are some pictures from my custom neighborhood I made in TS2 called Little Lake Peak. I have spreadsheets and spreadsheets and have over twelve thousand hours in all the Sims games combined (mostly 2 and 4). Thus to say I really, really love this game 🙂

somber ice Feb 6, 2025, 11:01 PM

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I started playing The Sims back on the PS2 when I was little, back then I was only young so definitely didn't do know how to play properly, I just used to make new families and build things (very badly). My next Sims game was the Sims 2 for the DS, I loved Strangetown and my little hotel, I'd spend hours on it! All of the characters were so interesting, I couldn't get enough (I especially loved Tristan Legend haha). I collected more on the DS and Playstation throughout my childhood, but my biggest memory (where I really set off on a full blown obsession) was getting my first PC game, the Sims 3. I begged to have it since I saw the advertisement on the TV, and was so excited when I got it for my birthday. I would play it ALL THE TIME, and when I'd get my spence or go out shopping I'd almost always come home with a new expansion for it- so much so that my mum would tell me off for skipping buying myself lunch so I had enough money to buy an expansion, even now I still get jokes from my family about how much I've spent on the Sims 🤣 Nowadays I go between Sims 3 and Sims 4, there's something about them that just never gets old for me, and I still can't resist a new expansion pack. 'The Monotone' and 'Shotgun Style' in the Sims 3 are still my go-to starter homes after all of these years, and I still find all of the characters and quirkiness just as fun as I did back then. I feel like it's always something I'll go back to, I find everything about the games to still be so comforting to me now 🙂

midnight garnet Feb 6, 2025, 11:04 PM

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Mines not really a story but I first started playing the sims ages ago and I bought one random pack with it, over the years I've bought more but I love in every save there is always a couple in love, and recently I've spotted a new one in my latest save called the grovers I think, they were sat on a bench, just watching the stars and I thought It was cute, it amazes me to see that love can happen anywhere in game (and I don't have to force them to love each other!), but this is all I wanted to share as a story, if it's not allowed please delete this

brisk ledge Feb 6, 2025, 11:14 PM

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I've been playing The Sims for 25 years; we used to play Simcity before. Lots of memories from the 1st: the characters, the favorite objects, the crazy interactions, the extensions we bought for Christmas... The 2nd was a revolution - that's perhaps the memory that I retain the most - we created our family and framed a print because it fascinated our mother (and us 😅 ). The truth is my parents looked younger and healthier in the Sims... We still have the print. The 3rd went with the years of study, and the 4th the professional life. I can buy the extensions with (a little) less remorse 😛 The music also marked us a lot, it's great 😍

shy solstice Feb 6, 2025, 11:23 PM

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Winning a Starlight Accolade after owning the pack for 6 years... when I finally managed to remember to show up to the event and my Sim won, I was so happy! A photo from the ceremony 🙂

north grove Feb 6, 2025, 11:30 PM

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Hi✨ I'm Ana and well unlike many of the people here I wasn't able to play the sims in my childhood, it wasn't something affordable at the moment in my family, so when in 2022 it was announced that the basegame of the sims 4 was gonna be free for everyone I was super excited. Since then I've been playing the Sims 4 and I've become a super fan of all the legacy the Sims have, I consider it an important part of my life since it's one of my favorite hobbies ❤️ The game also means a lot to me because I am an architecture student, so building has become my favorite thing to experiment and understand space from within.

candid ridge Feb 6, 2025, 11:36 PM

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The first thing that comes to mind when I think of The Sims is the Too Many Toddlers Scenario that I did awhile back. I decided that 3 toddlers wasn't enough of a challenge, so I made it a Rags to Riches challenge on top and started the 4 sims with absolutely nothing - no house, no money - just an empty lot. I actually managed to get the toddlers skilled up to almost finish the scenario. They just needed to finish the potty training skill and it would have been golden. Then my Sim wet himself and became embarrassed. Instead of using the sink to get his hygiene up like I told him to do, he instead decided to ring up his best friend who then came over to visit! My sim literally died from embarrassment and I was frantically trying to get the 3rd toddler fully potty trained before Grim reaped the deceased sim (this was before the Life and Death pack). With only 2 pixels left on the skill bar, Grim swung his scythe and it was GAME OVER Scythe https://youtu.be/fc-a6vQtqio

vale cobalt Feb 6, 2025, 11:45 PM

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My first time playing The Sims, I was nine
Sitting in my divorced dad’s living room with the iPad bribe
Little inquisitive me saw a plumbob icon
It was my brother’s game - he groaned and grumbled and said I was wrong
“You ruined my save!” He insisted
In Kiwi terms: He was absolutely pissed

Freeplay turned into Mobile, childhood into high school
Barbies and Sims were no longer considered “cool”
Friendship breakups, relationship failures
I felt just like a Sim, controlled by outside players

Then came university; woohoo, nectar, lurve
I missed what The Sims had given me - an escape from the truth

The Sims found me again when I was eighteen
Suddenly, I was nine again, filled with hopes and dreams
This little game allowed me the freedom to create with reckless abandon
It gave me thousands of Sims 4 friends; we bonded over Bella Goth canon

Now I’m nearly twenty-two
Obsessed with Taylor Swift and the colour blue
I still write stories and try to journal every day
Finding time for painting and maybe experimenting with clay
But I’ll never forget that little game that let my creativity back in
… Happy birthday to The Sims

dusky trout Feb 6, 2025, 11:46 PM

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When I was little, my aunt had a copy of The Sims Unleashed, and I would play as often as I could. Once with a couple I’d been playing for a while, the husband died in a kitchen fire and the stairs burnt up so the wife was stuck on the 2nd story🫣

opaque linden Feb 6, 2025, 11:46 PM

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My favorite Sims memory was getting to recreate my cats in the sims. That meant so much to me.

acoustic burrow Feb 7, 2025, 12:27 AM

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When I started learning how to build properly and all the hacks when it came to building I would go onto Pinterest and look up floor plans for houses then remake them in the sims for my families. I love building houses, restaurants, schools even event places. It’s like building my dream life I want in the future for myself. I actually did build my dream home and every year I go back and update it with any new packs or kits items that come out. Sims have been my life for 5+ years and hopefully I can continue this gaming relationship with them. ❤️

wary onyx Feb 7, 2025, 12:29 AM

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It is so hard to pick just one memory. I guess I'll go with the first time I ever played The Sims. My technology class had SimCity 3000 available for us to play if we had caught up with all of our assignments. Back then they used to advertise upcoming games on the jewel cases that the CDs were stored in. I flipped the jewel case over and saw an ad for The Sims. I asked my mom to buy it for me, and she did. She brought it home on a Saturday, and I spent that entire day, from early morning until bed time, playing. I started with the Newbies and it was SO MUCH FUN. It was unlike any game I'd ever played before. I remember I didn't know at first that you had to water the flowers, and they all died. I eventually hired a gardener off the phone and she had to replant them all, costing the house a lot of money. I preferred it when Betty and Bob would serve a plate of instant cans of food (because the counter already had plates on it and they couldn't prepare food) because it was faster than them going through the process of actually cooking. Later on I learned about how cooking a meal did much more for their motives than the insta-cans but it saved so much time! It was love that first day and it has been love ever since then ❤️

patent tide Feb 7, 2025, 12:30 AM

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When I was about 11 or 12 I remember all my older cousin use to go crazy over the sims and of course I wanted to just be like them. I remember when the sims free play game out and I couldn’t wait to download it so I can be like my older cousins. Little did I was really missing out. My cousins took me with them to GameStop when the sims 2 came out. The line was soooooooo long and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. To see how excited everyone was over the game. To this day I still call my older cousins and talk about the sims with them and how much it has it has grown. 💖 I really enjoy this game so much. It’s definitely a stress reliever for me when things get hard it’s my go to cozy game 🥰

trail stone Feb 7, 2025, 12:41 AM

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Below, is one of the many captured memories of my 'rags to riches' Sim, Diego Ortiz. It was my first time playing with the 'Jungle Adventure' Game Pack and it instantly became my favourite.

Diego had lost his parents through a terrible tragedy when he was only a wee teenage boy. He tried to remedy the wound of his grievous past by moving to a seaside town called Brindleton Bay. There, he had hoped that the crashing waves would wash away his sorrows and the heavy winds would fill his empty heart. But he knew deep down that to get Satisfaction Points in life, he needed purpose. Diego set out to become just as his father was, an archaeologist. "Knowledge is power" was instilled in Diego from a young age and thanks to his father, Diego was taught all manner of things, digging, dusting, identifying... Papers and maps, however, were nothing compared to real-life. Thus begun, his jungle adventures.

My Sim, Diego, took many trips to Selvadorada, each trip was enriched by new, beautiful memories, from selfies with the statue of Madre Cosecha, learning to dance the Rumbasim, haggling with the natives of Puerto Llamante, digging for treasures and artefacts in the lush temples, and slapping mosquitoes at 2AM.

I often reminisce about Diego's jungle shenanigans. I thought it was ludicrous when he had soiled himself and resorted to scrub-a-dub-dub in the rain. Or that one time when he was cursed by a temple puzzle and chaos was added to what was already a chaotic situation... When he fell asleep head-first in the middle of nowhere due to energy failure.

What has always stuck with me the most are the memories that I was able to create with Diego that was so special and unique to him; for example, he tossed a coin at the Cantina's water fountain & paid respects to the statue of Madre Cosecha upon each arrival to the jungle and prior to departure for home. He often performed his yoga routines by the waterfalls and bathed at the Omiscan Royal Baths whenever he could.

short yew Feb 7, 2025, 12:51 AM

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When I was in 4th grade I begged my parents to get me the original Sims game for our PC. When I finally got it from Sams Club that day, I immediately installed the disc and started to play. I didn't have much of a clue on what I was doing but I had so much fun creating my first home. The next thing I know my dad is asking why I was up so early? He had just gotten up for work. Unbeknownst to me I never went to bed and had just pulled an all nighter on a school night just glued to The Sims. Awkward I'm fine losing some sleep as long as I can keep playing.
FreezerBunny_Excited Plumbob Hearts

sour fern Feb 7, 2025, 12:54 AM

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My first memories of the Sim are, to this day, so memorable to me. My entire childhood I had always dreamed of playing the game. My parents thought it was too raunchy for a child, so they got me the MySims games instead. I loved those to bits, but I still craved the complete Sims experience for years. One day, after I had finally gotten my own job, my own money, and my own laptop, The Sims 3 base game had gone on sale on Steam for $5. I bought it and began to play, wondering if I’d actually like it, or if it would be “too much” like my parents had feared. Happy to say I fell in love! I played for roughly 30 minutes, closed the game, bought Seasons and Pets also for $5 each; and have never looked back! Now—between Sims 3 and 4—I have over 3,000 hours worth of Simming! I can’t even remember all of my MySims hours, lol! I love this game SO much! Thank you all so much for creating such a fantastic experience! ❤️ Plumbob FreezerBunny_Excited

hot nest Feb 7, 2025, 12:56 AM

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There is no way I could pin point just one memory of the Sims. I remember when the Sims first came out 25 years ago I was so excited for it, finally a game that was up my alley. I was 24 and my husband bought it for my kids to give me that year for Mother's day. Every expansion pack throughout Sims, Sims 2, Sims 3 and Sims 4 early years as my kids grew up they would get me one for Mother's day, my birthday. Three years ago my granddaughter Grace 9 at the time was diagnosed with Stage 4 Medulloblastoma brain cancer and couldn't do spend the nights with her cousins any longer. The first night she spent the night just her I was playing the Sims4 when she walked though the door. She got so excited that I had the Sims, we spent all night creating us and my yorkie ins CAS. That we only had an hour to live play, lol. Through her Chemo amd radiation she would come over and play Sims with her NaNa. She loved that I had all the packs. So with that I now buy her the new packs for her birthday and Christmas taking gifting the Sims full circle. For those wondering how my granddaughter is doing she great, just had her most recent scan marking two and half years being NED free. So long story short the Sims has been through all the pivotal times throughout my adult life. My goal is to still play the Sims when my great grandkids 20 years from now come see their Nana.

hot jasper Feb 7, 2025, 1:14 AM

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I first started playing The Sims 2 in 2004 at the age of 3. ‘Playing’ is a term used loosely, as all I would do was get on the family PC for hours every day and fill my older sisters neighborhood up with randomized Sims from CAS.. and then go in to all of her households and place stoves EVERYWHERE (not sure why it was always stoves LOL) As the years passed, I learned the game more, and eventually got a PC of my own. Whenever a new EP would come out, I would get the old disc my sister was using and download that pack, and I just remember being SO excited watching her walk in the house with those big clunky EP disc cases. The Sims has made me who I am today, and I am so grateful for it!!

west kestrel Feb 7, 2025, 1:22 AM

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I've been a Sims fan since day one and I've made many memories/friends along the way (including my hubby). Its hard to pin point of a fave moment but I think making my first house (very square, very ugly, no wallpaper, no flooring) is a good one 😂 We've all come a long way!

merry crown Feb 7, 2025, 1:30 AM

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my pride and joy is my sims 3 legacy family, the aguiars ❤️ i've been playing this household since the summer of 2019 when my family computer got upgraded and it has followed me to my very own gaming laptop. i've played 55 in-game weeks, moved towns several times, and keep memories of my sims' stories in notion. i love them with all my heart 🥲 this is a picture of all 8 of my heirs so far, from top left to bottom right: lynn, dahlia, ambrose, rowen, arthur, iris, bellamy, talia

olive stirrup Feb 7, 2025, 1:31 AM

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I remember every weekend in 4th grade one of my best friends would ride her bike to my house, wake me up at noon, and bring me back to her house to play sims. We were always obsessed with the genie lamp! Such a great memory.

crisp apex Feb 7, 2025, 1:32 AM

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my fondest memory of the sims is building my first "lot" in sims 1, i didnt understand the concept of building a house, so i built exactly 1 wall for every piece of furniture that required it 💀 everything else was sitting outdoors

pulsar wind Feb 7, 2025, 2:01 AM

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I had a saved with the Jang family that went on for about 12 generations. And this save was crazy and cute. One of the memories i have from this save is on one of the generations wedding day a fire broke out because the fireplace was to close to something and one of the new married sims dead. This was one of the sad days in the save as i have this sims life plan out, however this was one of the crazy days in that save. But this is why i fall in love with the as you never know what will happen next. And here are some photo that i saved from this save.

broken anvil Feb 7, 2025, 2:17 AM

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One favorite memory? That’s truly REALLY hard. Because every time we log on, we’re each creating new memories within our sims and their memories. Kinda deep if you really think about it! But I think honestly, my earliest memory of the Sims would have to be being a little girl, 4 years old, having my mom teach me how to play. My mom and I were never really close, still aren’t so much now in that sense, but every time I play I feel like it’s that little girl playing trying to reach for her mom. And then it progressed in to becoming an escape from the hard days of reality (which I think MANY simmers can relate to) so I think THAT has to be my fondest memory of the sims. The safety the game always felt like it brought me, no matter what was going on outside of my virtual world.

Thank you for making this game for all of us. For whatever reason each of us play, it’s brought us all to one place together and that’s pretty dope! Happy birthday Sims, and here’s to MANY more years! 🥳💚

fiery badge Feb 7, 2025, 2:48 AM

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My best sims memory? It had to be during a sims stream when my now Fiancée was streaming the 25th anniversary sims 2 release. Now I may have done some prep work for this stream... I made some purchases and scheduled them... I gifted her every expansion and asked her to marry me while she was streaming knowing her sister and one of her close friends were watching at home... and she said yes!!! An expensive day but very very worth it. As a lifelong simmer she called this the perfect proposal.

pliant zephyr Feb 7, 2025, 2:59 AM

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cyan blaze Feb 7, 2025, 3:00 AM

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My favorite memories with the sims has to be when I would play with my cousin when I was younger. I felt like I knew everything about the sims and how to properly take care of them, but we made our sims live together in a house and we would switch playing with our sims. I feel like the sims 4 has brought us together in a way, and it actually had inspired my cousin to study what she wants to be in her adult life—an architect!
I’ve had many fun memories with sims myself… I will have to say some of the glitches that happen because of broken mods are funny to see! There was one time when infants just came out and the infants would keep getting stuck on my sims’ feet when placing them in their crib. But it was very hilarious to see them being dragged around while their parents did other things like go for a jog! There’s been many great times though! I love the sims so much, and I still haven’t done everything you can do in the sims 4!

candid fjord Feb 7, 2025, 4:07 AM

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A favourite, My Sim was an Astronaut, worked while he studied.
He befriend a robot, would help them when they needed repairs, they got married but the robot died one day while he was at work.
had the robots grave surrounded by plants.
was abducted by aliens, gave birth to twins, but he sent them home
As an Elderly Sim, I remember planning when I was going to have him retire, when home from work, he died outside his house, strangers in the area came to see what was happening and mourn.

smoky otter Feb 7, 2025, 5:57 AM

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One of my earliest memories of Sims 3 was when I was getting used to it and I had the needs cheated so they wouldn’t have to sleep or anything. I put the father on the treadmill and promptly forgot about him for two days 🤣🤣🤣. By the time I remembered, he had nearly maxed fitness!
Once I got going, I loved playing with large households, using cheats to have 23 sims in one house. It was chaotic and I loved it! Now I’m on Sims 4, I don’t have that many but I usually try and have full households of 8 because I love the chaos!

vital kiln Feb 7, 2025, 5:58 AM

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There’s so many memories I could choose from after my friend first introduced me to The Sims 1 in 2001 (shoutout and gratitude to her!).

I’ve connected with others both online and irl over this game. (I was especially active on TS2 forums - benes ftw - and with posting stories on that exchange!) I love that I still get so excited for each and every new trailer! I love all the Gameboy/DS games (I miss the Urbz like there’s no tomorrow 🥹), and all those amazing Simlish music videos we got (“Pocketful of Sunshine” in Simlish was a transformative experience for my creative soul 😍☀️).

I think my favorite memory though is…the feeling of coziness The Sims brings me. The little details, the locations, the weather and lighting… the first time I saw my college Sims look out the window at the rain from the cozy safety within their dorm buildings in TS2, it sparked such a warmth in me that I still hold onto. 🥹 The Seasons EPs (that TS3 Seasons trailer especially!) always get me with this - Sims rain is so soothing and cozy, even during their more intense storms. But yeah, this feeling permeates through so many areas of the game, down to the nitty details, and I love it.

Thank you for being a constant life-long friend, Sims. 🥹💚

median stone Feb 7, 2025, 6:09 AM

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Hiii my best memory of The Sims I have is the first time having The Sims 2 Castaway on my Nintendo DS and playing it with my sisters

long horizon Feb 7, 2025, 6:22 AM

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My fondest memories of the sims are:

The music that is still in my head after so many years without having played it (the music from the holiday sims for example which I love)
At the time, I was very young and my parents were not rich so I looked in clearance or second-hand stores to find games. What joy when I came across the box of the complete sims 🥰
and then what about the Urbz? What an awesome game! unfortunately, I was young and never got to finish it. And then the sounds of this game 🥰 They are in my head as if it were yesterday! I would love to be able to play it again and finally see the end of the game 🤣

In short, the sims have rocked our entire childhood and it can only leave us with lots of beautiful memories in our heads 🥰🥰

Thanks The Sims for all this memories 🫶

pallid jetty Feb 7, 2025, 6:25 AM

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I've had The Sims 4 since around late 2017, and a friend I made online in another game back in 2022 turned out to also enjoy TS4, and since we're both prone to snatch every pack we agreed to call eachother and mess with new packs around the same time. When Growing Together came out and infants arrived, we were both screeching, I for the little bear onesie and he mostly because all his cc broke lol. Overall I love TS4 and it's changed both me and my friendships in many ways, signing off. Dag dag!

minor shore Feb 7, 2025, 7:22 AM

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Sul sul! OG Sim gamer here. First time I played Sims, my sim died and game over. lol. but that didnt stop me. Played lots of rags to riches as well as many various Legacies including 100 Baby which wont do again. lol. I'm currently working on creating my very own new Legacy based on one of my favorite movies. One precious memory amongst many was sharing Sims with my granddaughter after playing Barbies for years together. We re-created our very own "Barbie world" in Sims and had such great precious times together. She still plays Sims too. 💕

cunning stirrup Feb 7, 2025, 7:42 AM

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Hey!! I started playing The Sims 2 really at a really young age when I was like 7. My cousins got both The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 and I always was so jealous of their "beautiful" houses with 65 windows and no actual planning lmao. After annoying my parents for weeks, I finally got my own Sims 2 + my very special and beloved Sims 2-Cup which is still used on a daily basis as I play Sims 2 🥰

distant sun Feb 7, 2025, 9:44 AM

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I remember this chaotic but fun time in The Sims 4 with my sim, Athena, the cool aunt. She lived with three toddler cousins: Timmy, Milo, and Joey. Timmy always escaped his high chair, Milo loved his xylophone, and Joey adored being tossed in the air by Athena. I organized a backyard playdate where Athena taught them walking, talking, and potty training. The highlight was Athena juggling all three toddlers, making it feel like a circus act. That memory always brings a smile to my face.

Here are the screenshots, and the physical copies I own

sonic forge Feb 7, 2025, 9:56 AM

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I remember being 6 years old on a very box type PC, I had gone to my dads to stay for a while whilst my mum was sorting her life out and he and my step mum were struggling to find something I enjoyed. They brought me the sims 1 when it came out and asked me to give it a try and honestly I was hooked straight away. They struggled getting me off of it.. I was so bad at the game at first as I was a small child but they did find it funny and confusing at first when I would ask why I didn’t have a baby sibling everything they had a quick peck kiss… it was only when I said that’s how babies are made and the sims showed me that they buckled with laughter! I soon learned babies were made from an apparent “special cuddle” and that they were happy with just me 😂🙈 ever since I have played the sims and just cannot stop… so many good memories 🫶🏻

vivid canyon Feb 7, 2025, 9:58 AM

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Back in the early 2000s, my best friend had The Sims, and playing together became our favorite after-school ritual. She was a pro at entering the rosebud money cheat, unlocking endless possibilities for us to build the most extravagant houses our imaginations could come up with. I still remember the thrill of running over to her place after school, eager to dream up new homes, families, and stories. It wasn’t just about the game—it was about the joy of creating together, laughing over our pixelated Sims’ antics, and feeling like we had the whole world at our fingertips. FreezerBunny_Excited Plumbob Plumbob

proven perch Feb 7, 2025, 10:20 AM

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I have many fond memories of the Sims. How the Autumn always reminds me of being hunkered down in my brother’s room playing The Sims 2 on his PC while he was at football practice. Or staying up until the early morning playing The Sims 3 and passing my dad on the stairs as he was getting up to go to work.

But my fondest memory of the Sims is also my most harrowing one. Back in the 2000’s, a little 10-year-old me got her first copy of The Sims 1 for her birthday. I was so excited (because all my friends were playing it!) and I spent my entire birthday weekend building and making my perfect family.
But then one of them decided to use the oven to cook while having no cooking skills and started a massive fire. I lost every single member of that household and I was devastated (and legitimately traumatised!!😂 ) by the whole ordeal, but it didn’t stop me from coming back! And as messed up as it sounds, it’s honestly one of my favourite memories and always makes me smile and my family/ friends laugh when I regale them with the story. Plumbob Fabulous Hearts

indigo trail Feb 7, 2025, 10:25 AM

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I had 2 elder twins, Kade and Chloe. Then Kade got abducted and was IMPREGNATED. He and Chloe died a few days after the baby (Zara) was born so Chloe's teen daughter (Sierra) took care of Zara like a mother. Then Sierra was talking to GHOST Chloe and I thought it'd be funny to discuss expanding the family. Chloe got pregnant and Sierra ended up with a sister after her parents had already died and took care of another kid💀 That household is always fun and never ceases to surprise me!

flat meadow Feb 7, 2025, 10:54 AM

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My most important, and fondest, memory is starting Sims 1. It was my first video game and it opened a whole new world for me, but while other game franchises have come and gone Sims has continued and despite many changes and additions it is fundamentally the same realistic yet totally crazy game. Just like life Fabulous Here's a a pic of a classic every day Sim moment

hardy oxide Feb 7, 2025, 11:35 AM

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One of my favourite memories is my first introduction to the Sims, being the second game, which is the same age as me. I remember playing it on my father’s lap until eventually upgrading to playing on my own. Sims 3 was the first game I properly played and sunk hundreds of hours into. I constantly find myself coming back to it.

acoustic scroll Feb 7, 2025, 11:49 AM

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Been a fan since day one. My favourite memories have been collecting the physical cases and merch! If its exclusive, i gotta have it

jagged plaza Feb 7, 2025, 12:51 PM

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My favorite memory from The Sims is when I start playing Sims 1. My niece told me, she has a new really cool game. She showed me The Sims 1 and we've been playing this game almost the whole day. This is the start of my passion for The Sims!!🥰 This game is very special to me. It has helped me through difficult times. And I can always express my creativity in this game. Another great memory is when I started my Simstagram account.
Thanks for this awesome game and congratulations to The Sims 25th birthday!!💚 🎉 Fire
(Picture of my own favorite build)

magic spoke Feb 7, 2025, 1:17 PM

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When I was about 6yo (2006) I used to see my older sister playing The Sims 2 in our family computer on the living room and I used to think she was the coolest person ever for playing it, when I turned 9yo The Sims she gifted me The sims 3 and it was one of the best gifts I ever got, because it was exactly what I wanted 🥹 🫶 thanks to my sister for intruducing me to my favorite game of all times, and thanks the sims for being my favorite game of all time 😆 can't believe it's been almost 20 years Love Plumbob cowplant Hearts

lethal prawn Feb 7, 2025, 2:07 PM

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This collection represents the first five years of my Sims interest. I first got The Sims Double Deluxe in 2003 after seeing it in an Argos catalogue and from then on, I was hooked! One of my earliest memories was having fun with the teleporter to get to the second floor! (The second copy of House Party, despite it being included in Double Deluxe, was because I lost the original extra manual that had the House Party code. Oh, the days of pre-Origin and pre-EA App gameplay…) I also remember my sister giving me The Sims 3 for my 14th birthday in 2009! She couldn’t find the Collector’s Edition but it didn’t matter; I wanted to play the game anyway!

devout heron Feb 7, 2025, 2:28 PM

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My favorite memory is starting my first Legacy and sticking to it. Here's a snippet from their tree (not up to date and missing a few in the early generations)

rancid grove Feb 7, 2025, 2:30 PM

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I remember my sister having Sims (thought it was TS2, but I remember the On Holiday expansion screen I saw) installed on her laptop before the family got a home computer and then her getting TS2 for it not so soon after when I was around 9 or 10 at the time. A favorite out of context memory of a session one day was having my Mum flirt with Santa, considering that I had her married, and then it went south from there right in an instant, no hesitation. I would've spent hours enjoying TS2 a lot and had some great times with it (until the PC died completely whilst mid-session. It was very unexpected). Whilst she did TS3 for the Mac, It wouldn't be until years later that I got it gifted the game along with late night and high-end loft that I really got back into it and I would relive my experience of Enjoying Sims, spending hours on it. I got to thank my sister for introducing me to Sims in the first place

frozen berry Feb 7, 2025, 2:35 PM

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When I first started playing the sims, my parents bought me a new expansion for my birthdays and sometimes when I was feeling down, and it has just been amazing. The Sims cheered me up and then I went and told my parents about it, which made them happy in turn.

outer yacht Feb 7, 2025, 2:48 PM

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I played Sim City 2000, and one where you built a hotel. On The Sims 4, I've enjoyed building a lot and can take hours or even days doing that, lol. My favorite builds so far are as well as this family:

valid island Feb 7, 2025, 3:54 PM

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The Sims was the first video game my sister and I ever played. We were introduced to it by our then baby sitter and it quickly became our favorite. We used to do model walks down the hallway of our home to the Sims 2 Superstar music. Even now my sister and I still play the Sims 4 together and love sharing the experience of getting the next packs and games. It’s the game that introduced us to gaming. It’ll always hold a special place in our hearts.

atomic cypress Feb 7, 2025, 3:59 PM

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I’ll never forget how much I loved playing the sims back in 2000. I didn’t have a computer but my friend did and we rented the base game from our local library! I was instantly addicted and couldn’t get enough. I asked for the game for Christmas that year and 25 years later I’m still addicted. It’s a great source of fun and escape when life just gets to be too much. Thank you Sims 💚

analog bay Feb 7, 2025, 4:27 PM

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When I was younger, I had no clue how to play the sims 3, now I'm sad I no longer have a CD drive in my laptop to play it. But I love the sims 4!

mental marten Feb 7, 2025, 5:32 PM

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i used to play the sims 2 on my dad's sony ericsson, i would be a pain in the ass on him until he handed me the phone for a couple minutes because it really was the first videogame i've ever played, he later bought me the ps2 with the sims 2 pets, and then the sims 3 on pc and 10 years ago he gifted me the sims 4, he really wanted to prevent me from being on his ass ever again and that really encouraged me to love this franchise and its silliness