I never understood why child sims couldn't use this. I kind of understand the Hot tub, but this? Every summer camp & rec center I went to growing up as a kid had one of these tables. It was normally beat to shit, we'd screw around with it for 5-10 minutes then never touch it again. But none the less it was there for kids to play with.
Sims Moods are obviously affected based off how clean or Nice the room is. Turns out the wallpaper, Floor have zero affect on the room score. You could literally have sims Sleeping on the lawn and the room would be 100. I always assumed the Carpet, wallpaper played into the sims room need. Apparently that 20K we get could be put towards the nicest items in game, without painting the walls or Putting down flooring. Just make sure the Lot itself stays clean and Room will always be green.
Not only did Sims 1 original neighborhood view Look better at its launch the game had more in it's launch. Than Sims 4. It took years for Sims 4 to get everything Sims 1 had in 2000. I also heard from people Sims 4 has no cars anymore? They're purely set dressing, they don't show up and take sims anywhere sims cannot own them. At least the Last time I heard about 4 they didn't have cars. Sims 2-3 are amazing sure. But Sims 1 it's untouchable.
Older builds of the game had slightly better graphics, and a completely different interface. The game had at least 3 different interfaces before they finally landed on the one we ended up with. As you can see they planned to have the sims Pictures on a wall like family photos. Furthermore they put more detail into the objects shadows And the Sims, with several items in that picture not appearing in the final game. I think they went with the design we have now, because of more of sleek more futuristic look.
The sim with glasses that has more of a Cartoony look, was a very early rendition of the sim characters. That Blue thing above his head was meant to show which sim you had control over. The Plumbob was also going to be the only mood meter we had. He is currently angry, this was cut very early on as seeing only one mood at time wouldn't have worked well. His face was used for an icon that isn't normally encountered. If a sim is talking about something, and the game cannot properly generate a icon during the conversation, this icon takes it place.
In the sims 1, kids cannot cook for themselves they can order pizza have a snack or eat food prepared by an adult sim. Apparently they did plan to allow kids to cook things in the microwave or toaster oven. This was cut late in development, and this animation goes entirely unused.
There was an animation for sims to Open car doors and sit down in the car. Adding more proof Sim's were at some point were going to be allowed to have their own cars. I think the cars would've been added in Hot Date, the cars we see driving through downtown could've been owned by Sim's.
They considered having a babysitter NPC but AI for that NPC didn't work very well. As such the NPC was cut somewhat early. Babies are also treated as Objects, allowing players to move the crib if it spawned in bad places.
The game has no fail safe to keep players from making households with only kids and no adult's. Furthermore you can have a house full of just pets if the Sims living there die. Granted the gameplay is limited and very boring.
Unconfirmed Ive heard rumors they wanted to have weather in the game. Which seems plausible I can't confirm nor deny this as no proof exists for either claim.
The second picture is of the 1998 Build, as you can see it almost looks like the interface we ended up with. But the Sims do have expressions. And the upside-down women's face is an actual sim.
The Upside down Women, is actually part of some cut content. Early on the developers intended for the game to be more realistic. As you can see the Upside down sim, Women appears to be more realistic looking then the sims we can create. You can also not create that sim unless of course your using mods. Furthermore the sims were supposed to have expressions. Data miners found the Upside down Women face had several expressions that go unused. If a sims picture becomes corrupted or the game cannot properly load the picture it replaces the picture with the Upside down Women's head. This became a minor issue for me as a kid because I was running 2003-2004 sims expansion packs on a Windows 95 which had enough problems running the base sims game. It was creepy as Hell to go into the family bin, see all my families had the creepy Upside sim head lady. Instead of their normal pictures. Considering this was 2003, I was only 8 using the internet to figure it out wasn't much of an option. 😅
They changed it to the Sims, because the game was mostly geard towards teenagers and adults. So they figured adults especially males would be turned off to a game called DollHouse simulator. And tactical domestic simulator sounds like some FBI training deal.
I've done the rags to Riches challenges with other sims Earlier today, they are up to 3k right now but it take me an Hour to get them that 3k. The Phone never rings once at Their House to randomly give them Money. I got bored and went to the Opposite end of the spectrum, started playing the richest Family in the game. The Phone has rang 3 times in the last 10 minutes, always to give them money. I guess we know how they got so rich. 🤣
I clicked on this random lot I do not remember making, turns out there's no sims Living here anymore! But the game lets me go into Live mode for some reason. 🤣
That's life, and it's sequel That's Life two was a cheap poorly made add on to the Sims 1 and their EP's. The game was not done by Maxi's or anyone involved with the Sims. The Disc allowed you to download content for the Sims 1. However, all the content had been stolen from fan made sites were you could simply download it for free. Furthermore the community hated it, because here players were giving out their content for free only for a shady company to come in, take it and start selling it. So the disc probably didn't cost very much to produce, as it had no original content. That's life two, added a very Buggy 3D store you could explore with a Sim in 1st person. It also added a few mini games in the store, which barely work. The store was/mini games were obviously put in to try and hide the fact the content was stolen, and make it appear as though they did something original. Ironically, these games if you can call them that are the Only place to get certain fan made content from over 20 years ago. As I am sure a lot of the mods and content from that era are gone.
Before The Sims released in 2000, we had the 1996 game creatures. As an adult I consider this game to be the dinosaur era of the Sims timeline. Mostly because as a child Sims and Creatures were the games I played the most. You control these things called Norns who also have a fictional language, you unfortunately cannot tell them exactly what do but you can encourage them. The game also had life stages, babies and genetics. Creatures could also die, which slowed down Older PC's as the game didn't delete dead creatures from the game. You couldn't build anything but you could interact with them, based off what you did you could make a norn evil by constantly beating it. Yes you could slap ✋️ the creatures nonstop turning them evil. Old 1998-1999 internet forums were full of people talking about the mistreat of these norns. The game spawned 4 sequels, but as time went on more advanced technology games were created. Creatures was no longer of interest.
Throughout the gameplay, the game mentions our sims have stocks, grandparents and all this other stuff despite being created mere minutes earlier. What if our sims, even ones we custom ourselves are sims who have moved out of the big city or Sims city. We the Player are building a new quiet suburban Neighborhood for them.
The house was even in worse shape, but I cheated a little bit and made a few improvements. But not very many 😅
The Irony is the worst house in the game sits on the site of that Mansion.
I can't remember name of it, but I also covered a community lot in water, sent my sims there. I mean they literally spawned into the Community lot swimming there was nowhere else to go. 🤣
I will post a link if anyone wants to see this absolute misery
Well only 99.99% of it. 😅