Written by: Kieron Gillen · January 18, 2008
In 1993, the Sims was referred to by corporate executives as "The Toilet game". It was the game where you clean the toilet. Will Wright and his small team had a product testing and review meeting at Maxis where the corporation had to decide whether they would publish this "Sims" thing or not… and the executive said "No." So the Sims was over…
Except Will Wright continued to work secretly on the game.
To date, over 70 million copies of the Sims and spin-offs were sold, but the Sims is a game that simply wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Will Wright's faith in the project. The Sims is the ultimate story of a triumph of a game designer: being proved right when almost everyone else thought him wrong.
"If you really believe in what you're doing, don't be discouraged easily," he grins, "otherwise you're in the wrong industry".
Rock, Paper, Shotgun has put up an interview with Will Wright in which he recounts the influences, history and challenges of making the Sims.
TNS: "inZOI has been recently released in Early Access and surprisingly, The Sims welcomed it with open arms and a fruitcake to boot."
The Sims Legacy has been such a mess you just wanna scream "Groble!"
Unfortunately in order to run them properly on modern windows you have to tinker with ini files and mod em. Should've been a remaster, these games are much better than SIMS 4.
Celebrate The Sims' 25th anniversary with legacy editions of The Sims 1 and 2, including all expansion packs and a Sims 4 themed bonus!
Yes. Been downhill since. And Sims 3 is stll better than 4 even after all these years.
These games deserve a remaster tbh, and a console release. I already had em installed on my Deck but I as I've said before, OG SIMS on the Switch would be a match made in heaven.
