The Sims ReVisited
Recently, my husband got The Sims 2, and we played a little whenever there is some time. It simply brought back tonnes of memories. 
My roomies and I used to play The Sims a lot in university. When we first started, our Sims’ lives were really, really messed up. New to the game and eager to explore all aspects of it, I tried all actions there were, which almost always end up in disaster. The first major disaster was getting my Sim family to have a baby, when I can’t even handle themselves yet. The baby needed feeding / soothing very often and would cry until it was given attention. I sent both my adult Sims to work during the day, leaving the poor baby at home, and after several hours of crying, a social worker appeared and took the baby away, leaving me a message which said - "Shame on you for neglecting the child" or something of the sort.
There were also other mishaps such as letting a thief get away (which we later learned can be prevented by buying a burglar alarm, which will alert the police everytime a burglar breaks in, and the burglar would be arrested) and also fires (which we later learned can happen randomly where there is fireplace or stove for cooking, and which damages can be minimised by buying a smoke detector, which will bring a fireman in whenever a fire began)
My first major fire disaster started from two fire places in the living room of a Sims family of 4 Sims. I got the Dad and Mom to "put out" the fires, but soon Mom got overpowered and caught on fire herself. In a while, she turned into an urn of ashes (died!) and Dad immediately went to the urn to "mourn", with the fires still raging. Then, he himself caught on fire and perished too. The family was left with two children, with no means of supporting themselves. Gosh. I didn’t save that game.
Of course, in due time we learned strategies and tricks - even evil ones. Will post more next time.
April 7th, 2006 at 9:31 am
The Sims remind me Sim Siak Poh..haha
April 8th, 2006 at 7:26 am
Yee Lien!!! I find this entry really touching cause I do remember (surprisingly!) seeing those photos….ahh those were the times (when we were much younger and always fooling around) and really bring back fond memories… thank you
April 8th, 2006 at 9:07 am
I played this game too. I set the husband to be in love with a man and a woman, or sometimes two women simultaneously. I made the husband kissed the mistress in front of the wife. the frenship dropped to negative! how fun! Just like you Lien, I made them caught fire and burnt to ashes. I wun allow the lady to go to toilet. she died in her room. I took away the door, the god of death could not leave and started pointing at me! lots of fun!=)
April 8th, 2006 at 9:08 am
Forget to mention! ur character, she is sexy!
April 9th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Nicht - In addition to Sim SP, I know at least two more ppl with surname Sim
Kei - check back in a while, I will post more stories on our Sims days
Yee - wow… you can match us in sadistic skills. Hahah. I will write about those in my next post (with more photos!)