The Sims 1™, as Maxis Intended.

Today I tried to beat The Sims 1 as Maxis intended it to be beaten. These are the results.
The Will Wright-approved way, if you will.

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Music:
Sims Soundtrack (both by Maxis and EA)
Intro: Gaiety in the Golden Age by Aaron Kenny (YouTube Free Music Library)

[ambiguousamphibian]

Back to the Sims 1- feels nice to be back. Big thanks to nice guy CallMeKevin for getting me in the mood to come back here and give this one another spin. He's been doing these Sims challenges since before you were born!

~Hope you enjoy XOXO AA

[CallMeKevin]

Excellent, I get to watch someone else suffer for once

[silverbeach]

I have yet to see any Youtuber revisit The Sims 1 and not fail. This is the closest to success I've seen yet, simply because no one dies in a fire at any point.

[Nautilli]

I like how there was a dog in the beginning and you never see it ever again after the mid way point in the video. He was so wrapped up in getting promoted he forgot all about his one true best friend

[ProtoMario]

From General to Guitarist to Unemployed Gnome maker.

Art does imitate the ral world.

[vincentbaker]

The reason Sims 1 was so hard was because it didn't have any days of the week. Every single day was a work/school day, so you didn't have a weekend to use to catch your breath and socialize. No calling out of work, either. I remember as a kid hating that if I wanted my Sim family to have a family outing at a community lot, I had to take the grades/work performance hit of skipping a day.

[LordAbsurdum]

Never realized that Sims 1 was that close to real life.

[circuitsalsa]

It took me a long time to realize that trying to do everything with the first generation of sims is setting the difficulty really high. so much of the sims and real life relies on inherited wealth - i bet the friends thing would be way easier with inherited family friends

[Oishii-Somen]

The Sims 1 is the most realistic life simulator ever made
Life is a depressing grind

[muckyesyesindisguise]

A man slowly succumbs to the terrifying monotony of the modern “life” stuck in an endless cycle of working and sleeping until finally he makes a mistake, he doesn’t even know what it was. But it was enough to ruin his life.

[CharlesRedd]

"I made my goal to get as happy as possible" See this is why I love videogames. You can set these outrageous goals that would never be possible in real life!

[gensanitygames]

I can't believe Ambiguous Amphibian just told us the true story of his life and tried to pass it off as fiction.

[ylerD]

Of all the dated, late-90s/early-00s things the original Sims has to offer, nothing quite brings me back in time like that monochrome bedding set covered in (presumably) Japanese Kanji characters.

[Pancreaticdefect]

You know a game is from a past era when you START your adult life as a homeowner. I sure do miss the heady optimism of those days.

[doc.rankin]

As a man in the military myself I'm surprised that you can't just order people to be your friend.

[noname-gphk]

"I went to bed that night before my guests left"

Man I loved this game

[edzact_ly]

That has got to be the most detailed and accurate humvee that I've ever seen for a game released in 2000. Even has the rivets, the engine snorkel, and hood latch visible modeled.

I don't think I've ever seen this level of detail on other games in the same era honestly

[pyrotheevilplatypus]

My uncle retired from the air force as a major. From what I can tell, it's actually beneficial to have NO friends as you get higher in rank. He may have actually been successful in getting that into a negative number.

[Marespeon]

I absolutely love that AA and Kevin are friends now. They would have such a blast playing together!

[Awesomefulrific]

The requirement to maintain friendships through adulthood unfortunately hits hard - you honestly did a better job than I have so far!