The Sims 1™, as Maxis Intended.

beating a game always seemed like a major accomplishment back when I was a kid and The Sims 1 developed by Maxis and published by eea in 2000 was no exception today I'm going back to revisit the way I experienced it as a youngster so instead of having a hundred babies you're doing a Rags to Riches challenge I'm just gonna see how my adult brain handles trying to beat this game for the most authentic Sims experience so I spawned in as my Sims 1 Alter Ego Mr ambiguous Mr um Kanye ambiguous and before we begin quick shout out to my YouTuber friend call me Kevin who inspired this video meet Kanye ambiguous ten thousand dollars in his pocket and really ten thousand simoleons no job and he's starting off at a little house I purchased a northern Sim Valley maybe later on we'll build our own house but for now we don't have that kind of money a clean slate and no objectives the first thing I did was look for a job in The Sims Maxis starts you off with almost no goals or objectives it's kind of like real life but enough hints to extrapolate what might be a reasonable answer the newspaper you should probably apply for a job visiting neighbors wouldn't it be nice to have some friends maybe a love interest and an empty house fill that up with some nice furniture you Dingus I had a tie on but I also had a long ponytail to show that I'm a professional man with substance but in my time off I'm okay with just letting it flow I tried to prevent Kanye from wasting his time on useless activities like reading and I had him enter the house to take care of his needs and he went doing normal stuff like washing his hands why don't you find a job Kanye oh wait there he goes job in the military yes that's the right idea I get the first job that you read about oh amazing Kanye has joined the military and we went to the house to start spending money to make way for my normal life my movements were completely normal and natural and they didn't make anyone nervous to be around how about burglar alarms for every room in the house because I was paranoid that someone might try to Rob poor Kanye then it was a bid and a barrel for a nightstand good old Barrel to put my alarm clock on top of a landline since this game was made in 2000. before you know it Mortimer and Bella goth arrived to greet me so I waved at them from the door improving my social score eventually that would get me promoted in the military and then I received an unexpected call with a surprise windfall of 1400 Simoleons and so I bought a couch and a TV to entertain the Goths with my unexpected good fortune and I took a trolley to the Old Town to adopt a dog I named it cat and returned home with my first real companion Man's Best Friend more like man's only friend Kat considered my entire house a toilet except the toilet of course which he considered his water dish I spent the night sitting alone at home watching TV trying to get into a good enough mood for a promotion at work I bought an oven I cooked dinner and I retired for slumber when I awoke at 3am and prepared for work a Humvee picked me up for military operations unfortunately I wasn't happy enough to get a promotion in the military on my first day the truth was that I was a lonely man and a poor man I had no time for meeting other people so maybe that was it I made my goal to get as happy as possible so that I could earn that valuable promotion maybe then I'd have enough money to get even happier and then I'd have more time to meet other Sims and make friends that was where the real action was and so I invested my money into ordering a pizza so that I could save the time cooking to do other things that would make me even happier like watching TV or settling in the tub for a nice hot bath that way I could just answer the door when the pizza arrived and focus on eating it and enjoying it instead of cooking it it required days of Labor and the purchase of expensive unnecessary Furniture to cure my depression but I did come out of it and I emerged metamorphosed like a butterfly from a cocoon promoted to Elite Special Forces then drill sergeant I even hired a maid and a gardener since those tasks were now beneath me since I was such an important muscular charismatic army man I even brought a bench press to develop my pectoral muscles and intimidate anyone who walked into my home thus The Sims teaches persistence even if you keep setting your house on fire don't give up trying to cook and soon I was making the big bucks in my cushy government job and before you know it I'd been promoted to Junior officer but the next few promotions required climbing a new ladder the social ladder yes it seemed that my Sigma male grind of lifting weights building Charisma and staring at myself in the mirror were drawing to an end it was time to seek attention and impress other people with how outgoing I was look out world Here Comes Kanye ambiguous I sprang to action and threw a party at my house to meet all the locals I didn't have enough food and I also didn't have enough chairs but I did what I had to and I met Eldon hick the man who had become my very first friend I went to bed that night before my guests left to give them the message that they had overstayed their welcome but before you know it I was spending the next 12 days furiously dialing the phone to keep inviting Eldon ring I mean Eldon hick over to my house so that I could compliment him for four hour words so that he would like me more all until he actually became distraught every night since he hadn't eaten or used the bathroom because there was no time when I was berating him through the evening with a string of unending declarations about how much I admired him at last I had said enough nice things to make Eldon into a permanent friend and I received the promotion shortly thereafter unfortunately when you get promoted you need to make even more friends it was starting to become a lot to sustain at once now life was turning into a Labyrinth of professional check boxes and social dynamics to navigate why did I need three friends just more Alibis to prove that I wasn't crazy alright will right Master game designer I'll play your little game so I made my way up a dizzying array of military ranks flight officer one friend senior officer three friends all the way up to Commander requiring five friends what kind of person has time to be an army commander and and have five friends every night I went to bed dreading the ultimatum that I would usually receive from Eldon hick or Lucas County that our friendship was officially over then to make amends I'd usually just invite him over for a slice of pizza and like that everything was back to normal yuck that would make me fall behind on my weight lifting or my reading and being a bad mood the next day at work further distancing me from the Mirage of promotions the illusion of progress ultimately I decided to hire a butler maybe it would help me catch up on things giving away almost all of the money I was making every day just to sustain my outrageous standard of living an offensive self-improvement then I was promoted to astronaut now I needed to maintain six friendships so being an astronaut was real pain in the astronaut if you know what I mean so much responsibility even General who in their right mind could cultivate eight friendships simply too many and for only six hundred fifty dollars a day so after months of deliberation I decided to abandon my entire career to pursue my real dreams of becoming an Entertainer a musical sensation maybe that was it now I didn't have to dote after Elven hick or Lucas towney calling them every single day to make sure they still liked me as much as the day before now I could throw a party to impress everyone with my musical virtuosity now everyone could gather around see what an amazing pianist had become after only 10 days of training me me me it wasn't enough every day my bills were getting more expensive taking care of my improved home more difficult to maintain and I hardly had any time when I got home from work to pursue any of my personal passions all that was left was this mindless grind toward capital gains social standing anything to get my hands on a trophy that said you did a good job but the target always kept moving until that is I stopped getting promoted how could this be I had maxed out every single skill tree I don't know why it happened but at some point the game just stopped promoting me all together no longer could I sustain an extravagant lifestyle of having a butler clean up after me or pay the wealth tax on owning a golden toilet I mean I was an incredibly talented man but I had been financially severed from the established institutions no job could feed me anymore so I did what I had to and I started selling everything I owned my VR headset my robot Butler my fridge my bed and I used the proceeds to invest in the only ways I could still make a living where the man couldn't stop me painting Landscapes and building garden gnomes and I slept underneath the stars on the ground in a pool of my own urine and I found it warm inviting and agreeable and ladies and gentlemen it's been exactly that way ever since anyway I'm ambiguous amphibian and I'm trying to come up with a catchphrase to end these videos on so I'll just say until next time stay amphibian

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Id: yMgaoBs9Zp8

Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 09 2022