Expansion packs began to be introduced, with Livin’ It Up being released that same year, and each one brought new career paths along with many new items, skins and locations. Gaining skill points would help your Sims further their careers as some promotions could be obtained with the more they studied. The first evening within any household would typically show a Sim with their head buried in a book to learn some new skills - as accidents could get pretty expensive.
Cooking without any of the appropriate skill points would soon set the entire kitchen ablaze, while repairing the TV without the mechanical skill could send them into a flurry of sparks. We quickly learned that even the most basic of tasks posed a threat. With public enemy number one typically being a pesky burglar wanting that flatscreen TV, other adversaries could simply be put down to your Sims’ lack of skills. The Sims introduced a few antagonists from the get-go and they weren’t always human. Of course, needs weren’t the only danger within the neighborhood. A glance at the needs bar would illustrate what your Sim required whilst the ‘Bladder’ bar could bring both incontinence and embarrassment, abusing the ‘Hunger’ bar could lead your Sim to an early grave just two of many elements that can still be found within the franchise today. If your Sim’s Plumbob, the icon above their head, changed from green to red, there was a specific reason. Yet playing without a helping hand offered a challenge if you had an expensive taste suits of armour to adorn your halls weren’t exactly cheap in this game.įor younger players, The Sims demonstrated responsibility and consequence. How the word of The Sims cheats swept through schools with minimal access to dial-up internet at that time, we’ll never know, however we’ve been eternally grateful ever since. Ten points to you if you can remember the original cheat and no, it’s not ‘Rosebud’ - you’ve all been lied to.
If there wasn’t enough in the kitty for you to buy that heart-shaped hot tub, everyone’s favourite cash-grabbing cheat could be entered by pressing Ctrl + Shift + C with a smug smile. §20,000 Simoleons (the in-game currency) were given to every player for you to either buy or build and furnish the house of your dreams. You move through the tutorial by following the instructions, while you command both him and his wife Betty to perform various tasks in their home. You’re somewhat welcomed with a belch from Bob Newie, patting his stomach as he stands in his kitchen.
A glowing red arrow pulses over 7 Sim Lane at The Newbies abode, inviting you ‘to learn how to play the game’.