Mod The Sims - Is this new? What did you like best about TS1 then?

VerDeTerre

9th Jul 2012, 11:58 AM

Oh, Maxon! This is too funny: we must have started threads at the same time. I played with the idea of moving my post over here, but I think the topic is different enough that I'm going to leave it.

Isn't it wonderful to have a place to post about The Sims again?

The music was the best, especially the music from Unleashed and Makin' Magic. The build music was wonderful as was that happy little shopping tune that played as you perused the buy catalog. I always turn my Sims 2 radio to "shopping". It just makes me happy.

The Sims makes me think of the 50s and the "ideal" family life everyone believed they had or should have. It makes me think of sunny California with its odd fashions, endless sunshine, and emphasis on socializing.

I loved the humor in the game and how open the possibilities were for how you played or what you played.

maxon

9th Jul 2012, 12:04 PM

Oh no, VerdeTerre - yours is a different question. That's fine. I'm sure this place will be full up soon enough. The only thing to say is that this is perhaps an indication that we spend too much time on here.

VerDeTerre

9th Jul 2012, 12:06 PM

:) Too funny. Yes, I reconsidered and rewrote the post.

katya_stevens

9th Jul 2012, 01:05 PM

The music is the number one item on my list, followed by the magic system in MM and the pets in Unleased (no lie, when I reinstalled TS1 I found the pets in Unleased so much better). I've never touched the roller coaster, never actually seen it in game and had no idea it existed until people started talking about it -- I really need to find it and test it out myself.

VerDeTerre

9th Jul 2012, 01:45 PM

I loved the grim reaper - you could play rock, paper, scissors with him.

Remember that your Sims could die from getting a disease from playing with their guinea pigs?

I loved that I could end up with a household of just children, if I wanted, without their being taken away by the social worker. That lead to some interesting game play.

shoo_flee

9th Jul 2012, 02:25 PM

The music gives me such nostalgia! The game just reminds me of my childhood, many fond memories of playing it with my best friend.

Makin' Magic and Unleashed where just hands down the best EPs and in my opionion the best examples of the Simming World ever made! Obvs sims 2 is a lot better, but the whole feel of them just sums up Sims for me.

I also loved the dragons <3

lorinsv60

9th Jul 2012, 02:50 PM

I had all the Sims 1 EPs but didn't play it to its full extent before Sims 2 came out. What sticks out for me, though, is the humor in it. Heck, I used to like flipping through the buy-mode catalog just to read all the funny and clever descriptions, which was about every object! I also liked the crank calls from psychics in the middle of the night and their "huh?" in response, and that they whistled while they washed dishes. :) TS2 has humor too, but not to the same extent, and that's what I've missed most from TS1.

revit

9th Jul 2012, 02:54 PM

I played the original one without any expansion pack. I found it addictive and challenging since career in the sims is harder than career in the sims 2. I remember when my sims in the sims only reach scholar in science track while Cassandra Goth in the sims 2 easily reach mad scientist in science track. The sims made me so addict to play it but the sims 2 didn't. Maybe, the sensation is different.

Sof_m9

9th Jul 2012, 04:03 PM

A new forum about The Sims 1!! That's awesome!!
There's a lot I don't remember from TS1 because I haven't played it since TS2 came out. So looking forward to read all you have to say! :D

IzzyBess

9th Jul 2012, 05:12 PM

Music of course, I still listen to it while building houses in TS3 :D And many many small things that you sim could do, so many possibilities with all add-ons. And plants looked like real plants would do! lol And and and... parties! That's right, it might be unrealistic that you were able to invite complete strangers but I loved the parties with house full of different sims, especially making them all use costume box. Amazing game really.

revit

9th Jul 2012, 05:19 PM

oh i remember when i played at midnight, that burglar and fired message sound really freak me out. fortunately, they don't use it in TS2 and TS3.

Tempscire

9th Jul 2012, 07:44 PM

Ooooooh.

I loved the theme completionism! Different sub-hoods had different janitors and pay phones and such. Other cars would pass by on the streets of Downtown. All kinds of quirky NPCs. Such a little thing, but it makes such a difference. And by extension, the wonderful music, which also was closely tied to the themes of the game. *sigh* Having real-life artists record tracks of their songs in Simlish is a fun idea, but... There were different host stands for restaurants, too, which determined what clothes the waiters would wear and what food was served...so annoying that they couldn't have included such a thing in TS2!

Other little details that really helped round out the game and add some interest: neighbors bringing over gifts! And houseplants needing watering occasionally! And lightbulbs burning out! Though those last two + the prank calls I think are definitely a little nostalgia filtered for me, since I'm pretty sure that by the time I switched to TS2 I was annoyed by those things. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all. :)

Also, the food carts-- sooo useful and fun! Much more realistic for street food options than the giant food counters in BV and AL. TS3 is a bit better with the inclusion of the food truck, but it's still not the same. I used to love putting together fairground lots using the Vacation carnival games ( :lovestruc siiigh....) and the food carts (I tended to leave the roller coasters to Magic Town). Plus, TS1 is the only game to properly offer an ice cream parlor, thanks to one of the little food stands.

There are very lovely objects in TS1, too, that would be more like what Adele made for TS2: beautiful textures on fairly simple objects. I love the big fountain that came in Hot Date and how perfectly stone/cement-like it looked or the candle displays in Unleashed stores or that green velvety loveseat and the white wrought iron cafe tables (also from UL) or the flour and honey stands in MM...

I'll just stop there and say that I would totally buy a TS1 reproduction for an updated game engine, even if it were identical right down to the typo in the stray cat's name (Fluffly). Nuts to the whole argument about rebuying the same features! :jest:

DigitalSympathies

9th Jul 2012, 08:43 PM

I loved the music, I listen to it all the time when I'm working on computers, it keeps everybody cheerful! The customers like it too. (We play music from LA Noire and Heavy Rain too. Beats the radio.)

What I loved about The Sims 1 was how zany and . . . so very 90's it was. It embodied culture and even still makes you feel at home with it. I miss the food carts and Landgraab Mall, but luckily I still have it installed so maybe later on today I'll give it a whirl after packing up stuff (we're moving)! The towns were so detailed and I absolutely ADORED Downtown (if you look at the edges of it, you can see construction sites, power lines, etc!) and Magic Town, Vacation Island was so cool, I miss the snowboarding and ahhhhh I'm having a nostalgia attack!

I love making cool hangouts and places for my sims to go and do EVERYTHING on that lot, I remember I have this house with three college rejects who constantly party.

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At EVERY party, there'd be a secret meeting or something in the loo, because the same people would go in there EVERY. FREAKING. TIME. and talk for HOURS.

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I love the little detailings of the game, like the bags of chips on the cheap buffet table.

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2691/blarne20001.jpg

soylentfiend

9th Jul 2012, 08:59 PM

I actually just found all my old Sims discs, and I reinstalled them a few hours ago. Man, keeping sims happy is so tough in TS1! pretty much all my sims did was eat, sleep, watch tv, then repeat with some toileting and showering mixed in. I love how quirky and campy it is, like someone above me said it's just so 90's and embodies it well. Magic Town is a hoot, Downtown is awesome looking. I think a lot of my feelings are nostalgia too. I thought "oh ts1 has crappy graphics and limited gameplay" a few days ago, but now that I play it again, wowzers! There's actually a lot to do and it brings back a lot of fond memories.

MrUntuckable

9th Jul 2012, 10:03 PM

Yes, the humor is the original Sims was to die for! It was very cheeky, appealed to the younger crowd, yet still adult and serious enough. Just think about the messages you would get if you called somebody and they didn't want to talk to you.

Bella says, "On my list of things to do, seeing you is at the bottom."

ChickieTeeta

9th Jul 2012, 10:38 PM

I've always had TS1 on my computer, and still have all my downloads for it (was so addicted to downloading during TS1)

Can't say I've ever played it again with any seriousness though, I tried to once, but didn't last long which saddened me. I do like to start it up once a year or so and get all nostalgic about some of those objects that never made it to other versions, which totally should have. I don't miss the loveheart bed but it is iconic of TS1 none-the-less.

Glad to see they're bringing back the skeleton maid in TS3 in the upcoming EP.

I liked the skydiving and scuba diving units, the dance cage, the campfire that they actually sang at...the way they'd just drop a plate on the floor if they couldn't put it anywhere, a handful of sims would walk all over it or stand in it while having a conversation and then another sim would come along and eat it....yummy lol
.....I seem to recall being able to use the move objects cheat and then selling the cockroaches for a silly amount of cash. I loved the rollercoasters from MM that someone else mentioned....and the puzzle with the tombstones in magic town. Loved the homely looking oven etc from MM, plus the recipe book.

Fave EPs were unleashed and MM

joandsarah77

9th Jul 2012, 10:59 PM

If I had more space on my computer I would install all my Sims 1 disks again. I don't think I fully explored it before Sims 2 came out as quite a few things people mention I don't seem to remember and I had all Ep’s except Making magic which was probably a mistake on my part. I know just before I got Sims 2 being rather taken with the snow holiday place. I seem to recall a bear skin rug and some sims getting 'frisky' on it. :lol:

I've had Sims 2 sims walk on a plate and then eat it too!

simsample

9th Jul 2012, 11:05 PM

Is this a new forum for discussing the first game? Well, I guess that's good for completionism.
Yes, we noticed that there were several threads about Sims 1 recently, so thought it would be good to start a forum for them. :)

The thing I liked best about Sims 1 was the simple complexity of it all. For example, the Makin Magic expansion gave you the duels, the games that the vendors played (the tombstone game, the cloud game, the mushroom game etc)., the purchaseable items, the charms, the spells... there was a lot in that EP! The same with vacations and fame, they really were able to pack a lot of things to do into the game, because of course they weren't developing the sims themselves to the same extent as they have done with Sims 2 and 3 (wants, traits, lifestages etc.). So the Sims 1 seems a lot simpler to build and play (vanilla, anyway), and yet in places it seemed a lot more complex that its successors.

jhd1189

10th Jul 2012, 01:08 AM

The very first Sims games really felt like the people putting them together loved them a whole lot, and I think that came through in all of the quirky details. "Simple complexity" is a good way to describe it, simsample. The games were witty and charming and wacky, and I feel like they pulled you in in a way that the more recent games have never quite been able to capture. The awesome soundtrack and neighborhoods were a really important part of that, I think. Man... I still go back and listen to the music from Hot Date and Makin' Magic all the time.

Maybe this is just nostalgia making everything seem more spectacular than it actually was, but exploring the neighborhoods in Sims 2 and Sims 3 has never quite lived up to my memories of the first games.

Saturnfly

10th Jul 2012, 03:25 AM

Ohmagawd, thanks for making a sims 1 section!!! :DDDD Now all we need is a Sims 1 download section, then the website will be complete! ;D

But seriously, this is awesome! ^^
Will there be a Sims 1 picture thread in Creativity? *bats eyelashes* Or can we have a thread here? :D

BloodyScholastic

10th Jul 2012, 12:25 PM

OMG!!! SIMS 1 forum!! :jest: :jest: :jest: *sorry for super-excited expression* after I left the internet for 1 day.. my life is now complete :giggler:

Haha sims 1 voice, I still remember exactly what they're saying, their rant... they constantly complaints for every actions with their funny voice, that made me really laugh, the part of the most memorable the Sims was.
I've played different varieties on that game until now, play for the success and rich without cheats, build fabulous house, play "Hunger Games" mode, experimenting, burn burn and burn more sims... never get bored of them :)

The sims look silly, "lego"-ed people, but somehow the gameplay is more challenging and simulation wise. The best challenge for me, playing the memory test mini-game "choose 3 chances" without taking any notes when the sims are trying to record on studio, photo-shoot, act in Superstar Studio.
Also the music, the fun, interactive objects, the gameplay, much much much much much better compared the new Sims series now.

Artimis

10th Jul 2012, 12:36 PM

At the time I first I was adout ... 4 or younger mayde even older when I frist played it, at the time I had never played a game liked it. I loved it but then .... sims 2 came and I loved that more. Years later I brought Makin' Magic for it but it did'nt work now :cry: . This could have been the end of sims 1 for me but then I got the entire collection with everything sims 1 expanison pack in. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!! Makin' Magic is my favorite expanison for sims 1.

WooHoo31

10th Jul 2012, 05:41 PM

SingleClawDesigns

11th Jul 2012, 04:03 AM

The building I would say. From my little bit of time with sims I realized that while I love sims 2 for the story telling and family dynamics the sims was for building to my lil hearts content. That and the million CC my cousin had made me really see I could do some mad interior designing. Sims is for extravagance and sims 2 is for normalcy and functionality when it comes to the homes.

Sparrow

12th Jul 2012, 09:05 AM

I enjoyed being a celebrity sim and visiting the studio lots to record music and the photo and video shoots. I also miss the interaction where if sims were woo hooing and somebody walked in when they were about to get out of bed they would get embarrassed and get back under the covers and try to pretend they were sleeping.

leo06girl

13th Jul 2012, 04:58 AM

My favorite EPs were Vacation and Unleashed.

I also liked to throw huge parties. 99% of the time my parties were so big, the cops shut them down.

koololdster

13th Jul 2012, 07:08 AM

My favorite part was the messages my Sims would get when they called someone in the middle of the night. I think I'll have to play it tomorrow just to see some of those messages!!!

gelis

13th Jul 2012, 08:30 AM

OMG! Whaat?! When this happened? A whole discussion area for sims 1?! I'm so exited i don't even know what to say so here is a picture of my cat summarizing my feelings:

http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m509/geliss/Mah%20source%20of%20ebilness/thestoryofmyfeelings.jpg

JAYY!

hannahmh87

13th Jul 2012, 08:37 AM

I still love the music, I'll go on YouTube sometimes just to listen to the build and buy music! I also love how random and crazy the whole game was.

One thing that amazes me when I play the Sims 1 compared with 2 & 3 is how much harder the first one is to keep them happy, sociable, and highly skilled without cheats. I can do all that with 2 & 3 but it's almost impossible in 1. They defiantly made the games easier.

koololdster

13th Jul 2012, 06:47 PM

DuskTrooper

13th Jul 2012, 11:31 PM

My favorite thing about the original Sims game is how challenging it was. The game is ridiculously simple, yet unbelievably complex. And I for one believe that balance is one of the key things that makes the original Sims game my favorite one of all, even still to this day.

Nyami

16th Jul 2012, 06:35 AM

The families. I played the Goths and the Newbies, Michael Bachelor, the Roomies and the Pleasants so many times over. I remember even reinstalling the game a lot before I knew about backing up the neighborhood just so I could start over with them. :lol:

leo06girl

19th Jul 2012, 02:06 AM

Elledee

21st Jul 2012, 03:42 PM

Never played TS2 so I don't know how the romance/jealousy system worked with that but I found it so much easier to have a string of affairs and not get caught in TS1. You pretty much had to get caught in the act. I hate how you have a reputation and get busted in TS3 even when there's no witnesses. My main Sim often moved her lovers into the house along with her husband and still went out and still managed to make time for her other romances. Gone are the days, lol.

I love the Hick family too. I used to make them even trashier. I loved making them incredibly broke and have a really difficult time getting promoted or getting hired. It's too easy to get hired with TS3.

I love unleashed. I always took pity on the neighborhood strays and adopted them over buying one in the pet store.

ileeeen

22nd Jul 2012, 10:56 PM

Unleashed and Making Magic were the best. I LOVED the New Orleans-ish shopping area. Loved the stray black kitty named Spork! And I loved how Making Magic had Magic Town including a non-magic carnival area for "muggles."

I had quite a bit of CC, but I was a lot more interested in making my own, which of course was much easier with that game. Most memorably, I had a program to create Sim heads, and I made some really freaky looking ones that were hilarious. Some of my favorite downloads were beds that let them sleep on community lots, a robot maid that actually looked like the maid NPC, female outfits with the "uber" mesh, a download of Fred Durst, the energizer (did Maxis steal this idea for Sims 2?).

My sister and I would joke about how creepy the children were, because they could play classical masterpieces on the piano with no training.

Elledee

23rd Jul 2012, 02:36 AM

Spork the stray was my favorite, then Fluffly :) One of my main Sims, Harry, adopted Spork. They were inseparable. That man loved his cat above all others, lol.

I briefly installed Pets for TS3 (could never get it to run right) and the very first thing I did was make a Spork for my TS3 version of Harry. It was fun for me to see them reunited again even if it was only for a short time when I ended up uninstalling that EP because of all the crashes. I hope that one day I'll be able to reinstall it, get it running right and pair them up again lol.

I never had any CC for TS1. I didn't start using mods until about 7 or 8 months ago. It sounds like I missed out on a lot of good stuff!

Phink

23rd Jul 2012, 06:36 AM

I loved, LOVED Making Magic. The dragon was a handful --but totally worth it --, and I loved all the spells you could get! I used to uninstall my games all the time just so I could continually start over with the premade families. :D

Lezuli

23rd Jul 2012, 09:21 PM

Definitely the quirky and campy 90's feel. Original Sims handles it quite well. Music is probably my favorite out of the series and it's a harder feat than the others. The original game, harder than 2 and 3 (namely 3 with the two removed motive bars and such, but eh.) Loved Hot Date, Vacation, Unleashed, and all those expansions. Added tons of nice junk which complemented the game nicely.

KatsuraSyulei

26th Jul 2012, 12:24 AM

TS1 forum!? :D
I started playing that at such a young age! TTwTT This brings back memories man. I still have EVERY EP, and by far MM and Unleashed were my favorite. There are times when I play TS2 where when my sims rant and whine I instead hear the voices from the first game in my head.

"Yoohoo yoohoo yyooooohhhhh!" * Childsim waves at me with hunger bubble over head before holding stomach and pointing to mouth* ...not that I ever starved my sims :P
And then when they would brush their teeth. "Mookie hookie~" Or leave for work! "Soonsoon" (Or something that sounded like all that D: )
Perhaps I'm weird for like knowing this by heart xD
I think by far however, the thing I had fun doing the most was having my Sim who was at bladder desperation get "Extreme tickled" and watch them pee their pants infront of the person who tickled them.. ahh the things I did in that game. :rofl: Just.. those were the days.(:

ttowntallyho

27th Jul 2012, 09:04 PM

Ahh, TS1. I just started replaying it last month after...what? 8 years of playing TS2. Man, I'm getting old. Anyways, the FIRST thing that made grin when I started playing TS1 again, was when my sim answered the phone with "como ans nala" (sp?). Talk abot flooding memories! The "Simlish" was a different and I didn't realize I missed that so much. I didn't have MM so my favorite EP was Superstar. I loved making my sims 5 star celebs and whenever they'd go somewhere, people would freak out and my sim's face would be in a dozen thought bubbles at once.

I also liked how you could hear their footsteps when they walked. Why was that so loud?! LOL

smellincoffee

4th Aug 2012, 12:31 AM

What other game let you build from scratch homes, businesses, vacation lodges, movie studios, etc....and then make the people to use them? With all the various expansion packs installed, it was like my Sims lived in their own little world.Sure, some of it was pretend -- none of my sims could own a restaurant or a movie studio --but the game let me imagine that they did. No other game, including the SimCity series, has that wide open a sandbox. If I wanted to build the Starship Enterprise in my game, then if I bought a big enough lot, I could make it so.

pirate_wolf_12

4th Aug 2012, 03:27 AM

The humour (namely in the phone calls from the pranks to other sims coming up with bad lies to not visit you) and the music (Makin' Magic <3).

Vicki_S

4th Aug 2012, 06:26 AM

Twelve years of addiction :). I love building and buying! I also love the music, though Mom called it elevator music and told me to turn down the volume even when I had my door closed (she particularly disliked the Makin' Magic music, though she's fine with Unleashed's Cajun music). I got every expansion except Hot Date, which Mom said I couldn't have till I was sixteen, only for me to utilize the Vibromatic Heart Bed and get the Sims 2 long before I turned 16. So glad my cousin got me MM for Christmas when it came out :).

All in all, I think building my own custom home and filling it up with stuff that I can't have in real life is my favorite thing in the Sims series as a whole.

Miuki

10th Aug 2012, 10:07 AM

I love the humour and magic system of cause, I also find sims 1 Vacation the best and despite there are no facial animations I "believe" original sims more the sims from third game. I actually become upset when something bad happens to them and overall feel involvement in their life.
Ah, one more thing - the level of difficulty, achieving something in sims 1, ike becoming a 5 star celebrity, feels like an achievement, not like the game did it for you.

The SimWhisperer

15th Aug 2012, 09:02 PM

I remember the town clock, when I made communty lots, I'd always add the clock! I still feel there's something missing in Sims 2, when I build, and I know it's that damn clock! The grandfather clock is not the same! In sims 2, if you go to restaurant, you're seated immediatly, while in Sims 1 you had to wait for a seat to become available. It was also harder to have a Sim move in and/or marry a Sim. The wooer had to literally wine and dine, have some forms of entertainment, and a nice house, before he/she would ever consider a proposal!
Children could die, not that's funny or something I encourage. But, I had a party of some kind, and they had that rocket launcher. I used it for a fun factor, and then suddenly I'm seeing a crowd, and the Grimm Reaper appearing. A little girl was killed by this rocket launcher. I noticed with exception of party favours, that they didn't add a rocket launcher to the game!
I also learned to be careful where my Sims were, when they got the "do you want a baby" option. Early on when I said yes, if they were near a door, or bathroom, anywhere that could be blocked, a phone, the bassinet would go. I never knew about moveobjects.

I loved the dance cage, and the mechanical bull! And the abilty to buy a drink.

maygirl96

15th Aug 2012, 09:10 PM

My favorite part about the sims 1 was the vibrating heart bed :P it was so fun! someone should make one for the sims 2!

Peni Griffin

16th Aug 2012, 01:09 AM

A vibrating heart bed comes with the Sims2 base game. Alas, it isn't as tacky. I bought one for the Ottomases.

Sweeney204

16th Aug 2012, 12:27 PM

I'd have to say the houses overlooking the original part of the neighborhood, the ones on the cliff. That and the makin' magic houses. I loved the mailboxes, and the fact the lots were more gloomy that the main neighborhood.

WooHoo31

18th Aug 2012, 05:05 AM

A vibrating heart bed comes with the Sims2 base game. Alas, it isn't as tacky. I bought one for the Ottomases.

I thought the vibrating heart bed came with Apartment Life?

allyshmally

19th Aug 2012, 02:00 AM

The bed designs! Haha, I loved them.

memy9909

2nd Sep 2012, 04:18 AM

The build mode music! I miss hearing that, it gives me serious nostalgia and MM is still the most awsome ep from ALL the sims games :lovestruc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbqBysWqab8
Here it is :)

Sucks that it's copyrighted now.

VerDeTerre

2nd Sep 2012, 11:55 PM

That was the same music they used when you looked at the village map in The Sims Online. Too many long pauses were spent in that mode as I tried to figure out where I wanted to go.

OhmaniPod

18th Nov 2012, 01:14 PM

I like how in TS1, they made the expansions really standout thematically and content-wise. The subhoods felt really fleshed out and exciting to have as part of my game. I never questioned what content I was interacting with from which expansion pack, like I often still do in the later games. And they all really had character and seemed to be coming from a place of the designers actually wanting to expand the game through inspiration rather than purposefully holding stuff back in anticipation of said expansion.

I haven't played The Sims 1 since back in it's heyday, but I always felt compelled to explore expansion territory because it felt distinct yet cohesive. Now, we have vampires hangin out downtown. Wtf??

kdsaty

18th Nov 2012, 02:46 PM

I also loved the dragons <3

The dragons are definitely top of my list, followed shortly by the music. I loved having a little dragon buddy who could burn down my house. I once had a child living on her own with a dragon in a mansion. That was just awesome.

wayyuay

19th Nov 2012, 10:25 AM

So nice hearing the Build Mode music again ^^ I've uninstalled the game from my laptop but I saved some pictures.

I love the vacation island map XD it starts with a tropical beach area around the foot of the mountain then a wooded area for camping sites around the middle, then on top it's snowing! O_O

aisquared

1st Dec 2012, 11:13 AM

the costume trunk outfits from House Party..how I loved to take pictures of my sims in those different costumes (unfortunately i did not retrieve those pics..aww)

WooHoo31

10th Dec 2012, 05:27 PM

The dozens of bunny rabbits that would multiply all over my lot due to my small garden. :P

killerpoet

11th Dec 2012, 11:12 PM

I loved the fact that your celebrity would get a stalker leaving those creepy flowers and stuff outside your house... and people watching your superstar sing would actually cheer instead of booing and ignoring your singing to dance.
The magic was far more interesting especially the dragon, never could figure out how to get him to stay he always left home.. lol. I like the fact that the magic world you couldn't just buy a house in you needed magic money to be able to live there, so you had to work for it.
I also loved the vacations more there were the tickets you could collect for items that you couldn't buy out of your catalog you needed the tickets to get them.
So much fun, I still play it from time to time.

Java3

10th Jan 2013, 06:24 AM

I'm actually currently playing the game. My favorite EPs were Makin' Magic and Unleashed... Mainly because I've only played those, Livin' Large, and House Party for a few minutes, due to some weird glitch or something.. Only House Party though. I loved the music in Makin' Magic. When I was younger I would do a weird dance to it.

At the moment, I love the prank calls, hate the police coming over when you have people over at night. (I have a mod that has people visiting frequently, although even without it, people visit frequently.) And the sounds irritate me, along with how hard the babies are to care for (Although at the same time, I love how it's so difficult.)

I also love how the original game alone had so many features that can keep you entertained, even when you've played it with EPs, unlike in later games. (Right now, I'm playing the base game alone, due to Unleashed somehow uninstalling itself, and me losing the serial code. :faceslap: )

I like the difficulty. I mean, even with tons of mods, it's harder than later games, without making you scream from how hard it is. I used mods and when my sim got to the top of a career, I still felt accomplished. I can't wait to get the Complete Collection, which will be my last Christmas gift. I think Superstar and Makin' Magic will be my favorite though. Too bad my cousin would only lend me Makin' Magic, Unleashed, Livin' Large, and House Party. (One of which I accidentally kept, whoops.) And this was after Sims 2 came out and she stopped playing the original game.

I love the humor of the game. You can tell a lot of work was put into the game, and yet the game makers didn't get all cranky. I mean, the Guinea Pig disease? That's creative. Along with Poopy Pants. (Also known as Montezuma's Revenge, but Poopy Pants is a more creative name in my opinion.) And the Tragic Clown concept! Annoying, but creative.

TL;DR: My favorite expansions were Unleashed and Makin' Magic. I liked the music in the games. The game is entertaining even without expansions, unlike later games. I like the difficulty. And I like how much humor is in the game.

Ive

3rd Feb 2013, 08:37 PM

Woo, Sims :) I just dreamt about this and had a strong urge to post about it! (God knows I have played it for more hours than I want to admit)

The thing I remember the most was how hard it could be. Those big houses, you pretty much had type ;! for a year if you wanted to see them fast since there was no way to edit them otherwise.

One of my fondest memories was my sim marrying a npc, the cake stripper i think it was, who had so many friends. I then threw a pary and Drew Carey visited!

It was nice t have the game surprise me instead of me reading about it online first.

WooHoo31

6th Feb 2013, 01:42 PM

I actually like how the sims don't age. It's nice knowing you don't have to be rushed into getting your sims married with a good job before it's too late, instead you can just take your time doing whatever you wanted. :)

supersimoholic

23rd Feb 2013, 07:13 PM

The pets. Of all 3 games, having had all 3 pet expansions, the pets on 1 were my favourite. I always had a cat or dog on sims 1, where as I rarely have pets on the latter two games. I think it was showing contests I really liked. They should bring that back.

Ive

23rd Feb 2013, 08:00 PM

The pet contests should be brought back indeed! :)

LaCosaOccidentale

25th Feb 2013, 06:18 AM

I loved the music (especially from Makin' Magic and Unleashed), the dragons, Bonehilda, the skull candle from Unleashed, the masks from Unleashed, the cake dancers, and the prank calls.

VerDeTerre

25th Feb 2013, 11:53 AM

I loved...the prank calls. Didn't just love the Sims' reactions when they got one of those calls, the "huh?" that followed?

SimmiesGal123

19th Apr 2013, 02:37 PM

I thought it was weird when the sims would look right at you and shout and wave their hands around. But it made me giggle! I don't know if they still do that in TS3, though... do they?

kennyinbmore

19th Apr 2013, 03:57 PM

The Bear, I forgot her name

SimmiesGal123

19th Apr 2013, 05:05 PM

The Bear, I forgot her name

Claire the Bear? LOL, I loved her! :rofl:

Pleasantview94

23rd Apr 2013, 07:25 AM

The music (listening to it right now on YouTube), the rather bizarre calls during the night (Do you canoe?), downtown where sims could eat ice cream and pizza and buy lingerie and the overall landscaping of downtown was simply marvelous (seeing old Mrs. Crumplebutt), Houseparty and the dancers that came out of the cake and would sometimes kiss your sims and give them a card (I also enjoyed the campfire object where they would sit around and sing and the costume trunk I simply adored), With Vacation I would work my butt off trying to have my sims get those souveiners. Makin Magic was one of the best Eps and I loved to see my sims ride the little rollercoaster and the music was so great. It really gave it an eerie feel. Superstar when sims finally had enough stars to walk the runway and wear crazy outfits. Unleashed wasn't a favorite but I loved Old Town and the old palm reader. I still play TS1 often. When I was a kid I was so obsessed and would play everyday (well, who am I kidding? I still do. Haha.) You can tell Maxis put their whole heart in those games and that made it so special to me.