User blog comment:LostInRiverview/Happy anniversary!/@comment-1809104-20150201195328

About 7-8 years ago I was playing The Sims 2 for PS2. It was the first The Sims game I ever played. I had (and still have, but nowadays I use it on my PC) an EyeToy camera and it worked with TS2, where the player can take real life pictures and have them painted in the game or hanged on the walls.

I usually took pictures of myself doing goofy things but one day I decided to take a picture with one of my dogs. I put in on a wall in my freeplay lot (I just checked and it was 87 Yamoto Crest in Melbourne).

Fast-forward to 2011, that dog passed away. He was 11 years old and I basically grew up with him... fellow dog owners will probably acknowledge how I felt... anyway, fast-forward again to 2013, I decided to turn on my PS2 on my old CRT TV and play some TS2. I loaded up my freeplay lot and there it was, on the wall, near the game's own television, the painting of me and my dog, half a decade ago, happy... it was bittersweet but I consider this the best memory I had of playing The Sims because it's one of these rare moments when a video game can actually somehow connect with real life. I still have that PS2, that same old TV, and the same saved game with that freeplay lot and the paiting. :')