User blog comment:LostInRiverview/The Sims turns 12!/@comment-3466295-20120204102620

Ah, the memories. I remember getting The Sims: Deluxe Edition with an ep for my 7th birthday... something like 9 years ago and accidentally killing Mortimer Goth with the Fireworks launcher and killing Michael Bachelor with the infamous Guinea Pig (lol), and getting TS2 for Christmas a couple of years ago. It kind of says something in that I'm 15 and still have all these memories of playing The Sims from god knows how many years ago when I was younger. I have to say, nothing with the new games and their 3D crap and "social features" will get near the sheer simplicity of controlling a couple of poorly rendered by today's standards 2D people living their lives.