Archive for September, 2009

The Sims

Don’t diss the Sims

Let me set the scene. The year was 2000, I’ve just finished my selective school test so my life for the next 6 years was set.

I was visiting China for the first time in 4 years, it’s been so long that I hardly remember anything any more. The place where we lived which I thought was huge turned out to be this tiny 3 bedroom apartment. In fact, even now I still picture it to be rather spacious, maybe it’s just the 8 year old me picturing how things were then.

Anyway, I was quite excited. I had a pocket full of cash and back then the conversion rate between AUD to RMB was 1:6. You could buy a decent breakfast for 2 RMB, a decent lunch for 10 RMB, but that’s ignoring the high possibility of catching food poisoning. So I was visiting this local book shop. It wasn’t one of those tiny book shops…it was sorta like the Dymocks equivalent, except they sold all these other random things on the side, such as electronics and video games.

So naturally I was going through the video games section as happy as a fat kid in a candy shop.

I bought three games that day, and of those three games, only one remained till today.

The Sims

Games from Aus usually cost around $100, but I managed to get a legit copy for only $10AUD.

So what does a 12 year old kid do when he gets his hands on a copy of the Sims?

Well…it’s obvious isn’t it?

Sim Bathing

This is promptly followed by going on the toilet which I must say wasn’t as “exciting”. I also managed to find a “nude patch” on the internet that removed the blur. YES I KNOW, I am extremely sad. But come on, the censor gets pretty annoying after a while AND it’s not like Maxis decided to add detailed textures of the human body into the Sims.

To date, I have legit copies of The Sims, Livin’ Large, House Party and Hot Date. Hot Date made and broke me. When I bought Hot Date I was pretty excited. Installed it straight away. It added lots of additional features to the game. For one, there’s more than one type of making out. So naturally I went through every single one of them. It also allowed you to “have fun” in various other locations such as the change room of a clothing shop. Eventually after playing hours and hours on end of the Sims, I eventually got sick of it and didn’t touch it…until yesterday.

So 8 years on, they’ve released the Sims 3. I skipped Sim 2 for some reason, I felt unclean playing it. Also my computer was way to slow to run it well. My current comp struggles slights with the Sims 3, but it’s still playable. No matter what people say about the Sims, it’s still the world’s best selling game of all time. I mean, I tend to play it mostly for the building features, who doesn’t want to build their dream home?

I started to reminisce last night, so I downloaded all the in game music files :)

I’m sure those who’s ever played Sims will remember this song.