Happy birthday to The Sims

25 years after the first game was launched, the series is still going strong.

Your house being destroyed would be a disaster for most people, but for Will Wright it gave him the idea for what would become one of the most popular series of games in history. Wright lost his home in 1991 in a fire, at a time when he was already famous for making a city-building game called SimCity. As he rebuilt his house and bought new things, Wright told a US news website that he thought about “all the things we have and how we purchased them for a reason”. Those thoughts inspired him to create The Sims, which came out in February 2000 as a game where players managed the lives of digital characters, learning skills, decorating their homes and even finding jobs. That means this month (February) is…

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