The Ominous World Of The Sims 1

Today let's once again dive into the bizarre world of the Sims, this time taking a look at the game that started it all- The Sims (1)! The original game is a standout in the series for it's noticably darker and more mature tone. From creepy clowns to haunting glitches to sim drama to strange lore, let's take a look at the very first instalment of the legendary Sims series and all of it's bizarre and eerie details!

❤︎❤︎ SOCIAL MEDIA ❤︎❤︎

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❤︎❤︎ MUSIC ❤︎❤︎
Petz Catz 2 OST
Out Of Step / Amaranth Cove [Provided By Epidemic Sound]
A New Earth / Ealot [Provided By Epidemic Sound]
Dreams In Color / Casey Wilcox [Provided By Epidemic Sound]
The Grey Winds / Heath Cantu [Provided By Epidemic Sound]
Intoxicating Mist / DEX 1200 [Provided By Epidemic Sound]

❤︎❤︎ TIMESTAMPS ❤︎❤︎
0:00 - Introduction
1:50 - History And Development
9:51 - Eerie Gameplay
27:04 - The Bizarre Lore
35:13 - That's Life!
38:03 - Conclusion [inscrutable emojis]

❤︎❤︎ DISCLAIMER ❤︎❤︎
All credit goes to the musicians and composers! This video is not meant to target or harass any person. This video does not condone or encourage anyone to harass or contact any person or persons discussed in this video. This video is purely for entertainment and informational purposes.

[strawbebbycat]

Later sims games: we can't kill kids, or even have significant harm come to them
Sims 1: if you don't do well enough in school you will be presumably killed in war

[MechanicWolf]

I love how we went from "gamers don't play doll house simulator games" to animal crossing having a hard-core gaming fandom

[LordLicoriceDerp]

The "we're working on your phone lines, don't pick up the next call" is a two-part prank. The prankster calls back a few minutes later and when the person picks up (out of habit) the prankster screams like he's being electrocuted. A classic and one of my favorites!

[thethrose]

The Sims 1 burglar music sounds like the emotion someone breaking into your house in the middle of the night while you're home would actually inspire.

[raelogan]

One time, in the Pets expansion, I had an orange cat that died from old age and the Grim Reaper came and I was able to plead with him and the cat came back as a green cat with permanently green meters that was basically immortal, so I basically had a zombie cat

[doe_fran]

Sims 1 town at night is like a liminal space that is ACTUALLY unsettling and scary.

[alyssamccormick]

I used to always buy the heart bed because I thought it was cute when I was a kid. I now understand why my mom and sister kept asking me why I was choosing that bed.

[remycat]

I never got to play the sims 1 but MY GOD the idea of your sim waking up in the middle of the night to a burgler shoving their baby (basinet and all) into a sack is kind of funny lol

[riccardoleone]

The description of the vibrating bed killed me. "The vibration engine is Swedish of course, but we have done a lot of testing with a pair of 300 pound dummies."

[writetoaprisoner]

Many fans have said that the Tragic Clown is supposed to represent depression in a way. He’s a pest that makes you miserable until you call for help. Although it’s not this simple in real life, I can see it

[coolkiddo]

It's so crazy seeing how hard same sex relationships were fought for in the sims because I remember a huge part of me coming to terms with my sexuality as a kid was having my girl sims date girls and my boy sims date boys practically exclusively. Even when I didn't, my m/f couples overtime always warped into lavender marriages

[bubbles]

After putting at least 100 hours into The Sims, I got that upside down face glitch on an entire family. Not only did it scare the hell out of me, I thought my whole game was corrupted and it might hurt my computer so I literally never played it again. So that’s how my time with The Sims 1 ended.

[anerrorhasoccurred]

This is the only sims game where my family actually _drove_ me to murder.

I’d made a nice little family with biographies and everything, but they somehow managed to blow all their money and the house started to look like a crackden. The kids were in danger of being repossessed by the Big Orphan industry. So I ordered the adults to go read the newspaper bc they could get a legit good job (it took them _3 sims-hours_ to get across the living room btw) only to get this message:

“I’m too depressed to work.”

_They were depressed because they were POOR._

Little me got a taste for the indoor fireworks death that day 💀

[Flameclaw]

"In The Sims 1, you can create an evil clone of your sim that will go around performing mean actions on your friends and family and lowering your relationships with them" Ah, the Changeling route

[breadcrumbhoarder]

That note from Don Hopkins tho, so pivotal to the success of the sims in my opinion (I know many a gay who played it for that reason, myself included) and just generally really wonderful to see. One of those moments that makes me have faith in humanity

[xfhwzbe]

Oh my GOD that upside down lady scared the absolute shit out of me as a child! I remember calling my dad into the room screaming and crying because that wasn't my Sim and I was so scared lmfao

[frankiehealey]

The fact that the devs made a point to include same sex relationships is really touching, especially considering all of the testimonies I’ve heard from queer people who’s first experience outside of heteronormative and cisnormative world was through playing the sims and living out their true ideal lives

[InazumaDash]

Memory unlocked. My first Sim family was a single father with two sons. One day the kitchen was set on fire and the father and one brother dies while the youngest son cleaned up their ashes while crying.

[ricebun]

Got introduced to the Sims by my mom when I was 4-6 since she loved the sims and she taught me how to use the computer so I could play while she was at nursing school. The noises were all so much more jarring than they were today and I cried when the burglar broke in because the music was so loud and I was sad they took so much of my mom's stuff from the house. Traumatizing but also had a sweet moment with my mom :")

[winrycarver]

I used to watch my mom play this game a lot. We'd have fun talking about it, strategizing things like how to tackle aesthetically lighting large spaces (ceiling lights did not exist yet), searching for the mushroom stools in Magic Town together, and just generally sharing ideas. It was great to play it together.

The weirdest and most disturbing bug that we ever ran into was when her favourite family had a child. After the baby bassinet exploded, instead of reveling one kid, there were two. My mom was surprised and quickly paused the game, figuring out the logistics of a bedroom for two kids when there had only been space for one. And then we noticed something odd... She couldn't give one of the kids tasks. The child didn't have any way to be controlled. She also was really mean, a slob, and was constantly causing problems. It was like she didn't have any personality points. What was worse, everything that she did, the child with the personality who we could give tasks to took the blame. It was like having the evil clone potion, except that she never despawned.

We tried everything that we could think of to be rid of her. Restarting, moving, etc. Meanwhile she was just causing more messes and getting her sister into more and worse trouble. My mom decided that enough was enough, and walled the evil one into the bathroom. For three days the kid screamed and cried between taking baths until she eventually curled up and died. When Death came that evening, instead of taking away the body, they made a beeline for the children's bedroom and tried to take the wrong girl. She woke up screaming, and Death became alarmed and ran away. They never came back, and we were stuck with the body.

My mom, in a last ditch effort to fix things, moved the family out again, hoping that everything would be okay, but she was really upset when not only did the living family members move into the new house, they took the body with them. She deleted the family and put down the game for a couple of months. The whole situation was, understandably, really disturbing for her.