User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/How did you first wind up playing The Sims?/@comment-480886-20120307150308

I was familiar with the idea of Sims from the original SimCity (at which I was no good whatsoever). I liked the idea of The Sims, but I would have had to get a new computer to run it, and I couldn't afford that then. (Besides, in 2000, I was still one of the.Last DOS Holdouts.) Fast-forward to 2006: I'd made my peace with Windows some years back, finally had a computer that could run TS1, and could still find it. I got Deluxe and the HD/MM EP pack, and was hooked, especially by the open-ended nature of play. I got into TS2 through serendipity. My second Sims computer had on-board graphics, which Superstar didn't like, so I got a video card. When I saw the original TS2 on CD at a Circuit City liquidation sale, I knew I'd probably never see it again, so I picked it up. Turned out that I had one of the supported video cards, so I tried it and liked it.