1, 10 and 18

1) 

Back in the winter of 2002 my dad got TS1 + the Vacation EP from a family friend. I was immediately hooked and played for about 1 year and a half, maybe two… but eventually got frustrated by the fact that my sims never aged up! I thought I just had to play a household for long enough, but when I reached 200 in-game days and nothing happened, I uninstalled the game 😛

The TS2 came out, and it seemed perfect! Sims’ faces can be modified, instead of having to use presets! More than 4 camera angles! Wants and fears! Limited lifespans, so time actually matters!

Really makes me think about how big a leap TS2 was from TS1, gameplay-wise. Didn’t really feel the same for TS3 or 4.

10) Do you play with challenges? If so, which is your favourite?

I play my households by legacy-like rules, but they’re not super strict and I end up creating sim-specific challenges, like the fortune sim I mentioned earlier, selling robots in her run-down garage ‘till she got super rich, or my romance sim who wanted to reach level 10 on the Artist career track, so I made him only gain creativity points by painting pictures of his lovers.