“I don't have the time to play it properly,” I told my wife, “and anyway, I haven't been following things closely enough to appreciate the finer points.”Įxplanations came quickly that day. So it is that when The Sims 2: Apartment Life showed up at our door-the latest in a long line of expansions for the second 'main' installment in the beloved series-I was ready to send it out to someone else to review. Throughout the years, she has been the one who eagerly followed the EA cash cow to the watering each time it felt thirsty. buying every expansion, checking the aisle to see what 'stuff' is available for her Sims. Sometimes I'll get word of an expansion before she sniffs it out-I do, after all, field press releases from hundreds of contacts-but usually she's only minutes or days behind.

Over the years, she has continued to know about The Sims before I even thought to think about it.

If being the first in our little household to find something new and exciting were a competition-and sometimes it is, because we're just that bored-then she would have won that particular round. Maybe she saw some commercials for it on television? Either way, she introduced me to a series that has gone on to make Electronic Arts a bunch of money. I'm not even sure how she knew about it, really. That was my introduction to The Sims, a franchise that I hadn't even known existed. She bought it and we both wound up playing it. “I mean The Sims,” she said, and it wasn't long before she was holding up a box with cartoony characters spread across it.

I looked at her for just a moment, then said “You mean SimCity?” Several years back, my wife and I were standing in the electronics aisle of our local Wal-Mart when she turned to me and said “I want to buy The Sims.” Instead, you can focus on the usual things that have for so long been a staple of the series: interior decorating.' If you've moved into someone's apartment, they're not going to look kindly on you knocking down walls or making major renovations, so put such thoughts out of your head. 'Once you're happily-or unhappily, if art imitates life-dwelling within your humble abode, the differences don't necessarily stop.

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