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#26
5th Feb 2019 at 4:03 AM
5th Feb 2019 at 4:03 AM
#27
5th Feb 2019 at 5:47 AM
5th Feb 2019 at 5:47 AM
Whenever somebody remarks about the game's former function of being more like a "build-a-home-and-watch-them-reacting-to-the-environment" type of game instead of our usual "build-a-home-and-control-them-in" kinda, it summons the thought of those cool "What's This?!" interactions, a potential vestige of the mentioned former style of gameplay, even though we're these days conscious of the the fact that what makes them to hate or love one new piece of furniture is their price, not their... let's say... personality-influenced style, or anything else
An explicit 1997 pigeonholing time - Everything above the UI is only for illustrative purposes since it's originally an UI-free screenshot from the Press Guide's disk
An explicit 1997 pigeonholing time - Everything above the UI is only for illustrative purposes since it's originally an UI-free screenshot from the Press Guide's disk
#28
5th Feb 2019 at 8:56 AM
5th Feb 2019 at 8:56 AM
The game has strings that refer to objects having 'styles.' Such as "classic"-- I don't recall the other ones. Trailer, maybe? I think at one point sims were going to have a sense of "taste" and the player would have to balance what the sim liked with what they needed. That kind of depth would be nice if the focus was more on the balancing of needs and wants while managing resources. I'm tempted to try and make a game similar to that. Maybe if my programming ever improves...
Also I'm attaching the object I made to test the calendar. I have tested that days and months advance. I seem to recall from other tests that all months have 30 days, but I could be wrong. I also think some of the Old Town lots are in year 1998-- but it's possible that I just played them enough to advance.
Also I'm attaching the object I made to test the calendar. I have tested that days and months advance. I seem to recall from other tests that all months have 30 days, but I could be wrong. I also think some of the Old Town lots are in year 1998-- but it's possible that I just played them enough to advance.
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#29
12th Feb 2019 at 5:20 AM
Last edited by LUCPIX : 12th Feb 2019 at 6:43 PM.
12th Feb 2019 at 5:20 AM
Last edited by LUCPIX : 12th Feb 2019 at 6:43 PM.
>>If it is your first visit to this thread, you'll want to start your Sims 1 Pre-release media browsing at THIS post, as you open the blue spoilers and have fun with the supercool contributions and discussion that's developed afterwards.<<
New Discoveries:
<07/22/1999>
One of the several images included in these "Graphics Packs" (briefly, zipped sneak peek images) leaked to the public at the extinct site specifically dedicated to the first Sims. What's worthy of taking note right here is the aspect of several unreleased objects on this list, including the color of the thumbnails itself: These items were eventually evolved ("evolved") in the name of a bigger universal appearance, per say, while a handful of them weren't continued at all. Can you identify them?
- We have only one example of a soccer ball in a beta picture, stationary, visualized by a medium bird-eye vision. So far it is unknown how exactly the characters would interact with them
- For the major audience, small tables were only seen with the release of the first expansion packs. However, one of them actively played an important role since Sims 1's Vanilla, just for the purpose of being an icon to a controller object; CHECK 'UNUSED OBJECTS'
- "Empress" Diner Room Chair used to have a reddish seat;
- Making my former point wrong, the second (of 3) known Doll House's design had a silver roof! And, even before it, the older version with the medieval-esque, spiky roofs; CHECK 'UNUSED OBJECTS'
- First known picture with a thumbnail of the straightforward Pink Flamingo;
- Thumbnail of an unused chair;
- The cheaper Train Simulator when it was absent of a sandy platform;
- Iconized Corner and Straight versions of the beta's more detailed green counter;
- The traditional fountain when its liquid was darker and we could insert Build Mode's plants on it;
- Prototype's omnipresent coffee table, salvaged a few expansion packs later, and present on The Sims Online as well as another fancier coffee table, also from the beta;
- B&W tube before 2000;
- Curious fusion of an unused vase with a regular Vanilla's flower;
- Thumbnail of the beta sink, weirdly already combined with a sink;
- First occurrence we can take note of over a thumbnail for the former §§ of §§§ TV, in spite of how glitched it is;
- §§§ TV
- Last but not least, a common vase filled with... things;
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
<Images dated around 12/08/1999>, images from another collection of graphics formerly available at The Sims 1's extinct website, called Webmaster Pack, for all your pre-release Sims 1 advertising needs:
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The claimed Graphics Pack 2, whose Sims/Vehicles pictures, according to Windows, were last edited on late September 1999, offers us a little addition to the history of this morphing skin in particular:
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Extra Renders, mostly bigger/colored equivalents of those seen in the boxart/manual:
- Something's awkward on his body modelling;
Source (And the comprehensive collection from the extinct Sims website's "Graphic Packs"!
Source's Source (1999 articles and media)
Source of Source's Source [Archived]
1995-2000 Pre-Release Sims 1 Media ([Re]Start your Beta Appreciation Here)
New Discoveries:
<07/22/1999>
One of the several images included in these "Graphics Packs" (briefly, zipped sneak peek images) leaked to the public at the extinct site specifically dedicated to the first Sims. What's worthy of taking note right here is the aspect of several unreleased objects on this list, including the color of the thumbnails itself: These items were eventually evolved ("evolved") in the name of a bigger universal appearance, per say, while a handful of them weren't continued at all. Can you identify them?
- We have only one example of a soccer ball in a beta picture, stationary, visualized by a medium bird-eye vision. So far it is unknown how exactly the characters would interact with them
- For the major audience, small tables were only seen with the release of the first expansion packs. However, one of them actively played an important role since Sims 1's Vanilla, just for the purpose of being an icon to a controller object; CHECK 'UNUSED OBJECTS'
- "Empress" Diner Room Chair used to have a reddish seat;
- Making my former point wrong, the second (of 3) known Doll House's design had a silver roof! And, even before it, the older version with the medieval-esque, spiky roofs; CHECK 'UNUSED OBJECTS'
- First known picture with a thumbnail of the straightforward Pink Flamingo;
- Thumbnail of an unused chair;
- The cheaper Train Simulator when it was absent of a sandy platform;
- Iconized Corner and Straight versions of the beta's more detailed green counter;
- The traditional fountain when its liquid was darker and we could insert Build Mode's plants on it;
- Prototype's omnipresent coffee table, salvaged a few expansion packs later, and present on The Sims Online as well as another fancier coffee table, also from the beta;
- B&W tube before 2000;
- Curious fusion of an unused vase with a regular Vanilla's flower;
- Thumbnail of the beta sink, weirdly already combined with a sink;
- First occurrence we can take note of over a thumbnail for the former §§ of §§§ TV, in spite of how glitched it is;
- §§§ TV
- Last but not least, a common vase filled with... things;
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
<Images dated around 12/08/1999>, images from another collection of graphics formerly available at The Sims 1's extinct website, called Webmaster Pack, for all your pre-release Sims 1 advertising needs:
**
**
**
**
**
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The claimed Graphics Pack 2, whose Sims/Vehicles pictures, according to Windows, were last edited on late September 1999, offers us a little addition to the history of this morphing skin in particular:
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Extra Renders, mostly bigger/colored equivalents of those seen in the boxart/manual:
- Something's awkward on his body modelling;
Source (And the comprehensive collection from the extinct Sims website's "Graphic Packs"!
Source's Source (1999 articles and media)
Source of Source's Source [Archived]
1995-2000 Pre-Release Sims 1 Media ([Re]Start your Beta Appreciation Here)
#30
12th Feb 2019 at 3:16 PM
12th Feb 2019 at 3:16 PM
#31
12th Feb 2019 at 5:03 PM
12th Feb 2019 at 5:03 PM
Here's some RE:'s about the above thumbnail images comments:
(1) Yes - "NPCController.IFF", for example -- correctly called as Doll House at the Buy Mode; Curiously, this is the step stool's name, too
preview_anims cheat code unveils these animations as the ones associated to NPCController
(2) Definitely not - also, hasn't it another channel besides this omnipresent supernova documentary?
(3) Both the sandy platform and trains are part of a same sprite, with two different layers whose size is big enough to fill a single tile!
(4) Can be - present on many beta pictures, maybe just for the sake of illustration, never having it connected with another counter of the same kind
https://i.imgur.com/bu77bW1.png
(5) Second that
(6) The flickering effect caused by engine's attempt of prioritizing some of texture's smallest standing-out pixels has been taken used in its favor if we take into consideration that blue female dress with tiny little details that glitter whenever the sim makes the smallest move??
Roger
(1) Yes - "NPCController.IFF", for example -- correctly called as Doll House at the Buy Mode; Curiously, this is the step stool's name, too
preview_anims cheat code unveils these animations as the ones associated to NPCController
(2) Definitely not - also, hasn't it another channel besides this omnipresent supernova documentary?
(3) Both the sandy platform and trains are part of a same sprite, with two different layers whose size is big enough to fill a single tile!
(4) Can be - present on many beta pictures, maybe just for the sake of illustration, never having it connected with another counter of the same kind
https://i.imgur.com/bu77bW1.png
(5) Second that
(6) The flickering effect caused by engine's attempt of prioritizing some of texture's smallest standing-out pixels has been taken used in its favor if we take into consideration that blue female dress with tiny little details that glitter whenever the sim makes the smallest move??
Roger
#32
12th Feb 2019 at 10:15 PM
12th Feb 2019 at 10:15 PM
#33
13th Feb 2019 at 5:27 AM
Last edited by LUCPIX : 13th Feb 2019 at 5:56 AM.
13th Feb 2019 at 5:27 AM
Last edited by LUCPIX : 13th Feb 2019 at 5:56 AM.
It is - Ideally, those coffee tables are decent to be bought and placed anywhere they might look good at, even if, in practice it plays a role other kinds of tables generally do similarly or better - back in the time of the base game, all of the objects (surfaces, in this case) had at least one way of being interacted with which'd make it indispensable for an X task-- it doesn't seem like these coffee tables have a certain standing out purpose, and that's prob the motive of its deleting until the period of time it was, let's say, fine for the EPs go attempt producing any types of items that could be minimally "redundant", just for the sake of the design? But, come on, I digress
Very well recalled - We know how it's not problematic to let the engine to accept any changes we happen to cause; Yet, to press Build Mode's Undo button after moving that layered piece of land/bush somewhere also will cause the moved object to VANISH instead of returning to its previous position
Stars aligning here: That empty pot acts in-game, but filled with a beautiful buried cactus. Although those animated sprites from the cheapest train toy bond the sandy platform with the rails, we gladly manage to extract the plants' pots, totally free of leaves and branches!
Here it is, to save more or less 3 minutes of your life:
Just for illustration! Safer to get the integral, pure .bmp images HERE
FUN FACT----- There's one Beta screenshot (1999, former Roomies household) on which it happens the opposite: Cacti sprites... potless!
#34
14th Feb 2019 at 7:42 PM
14th Feb 2019 at 7:42 PM
#35
17th Feb 2019 at 3:56 PM
Last edited by LUCPIX : 17th Feb 2019 at 4:08 PM.
17th Feb 2019 at 3:56 PM
Last edited by LUCPIX : 17th Feb 2019 at 4:08 PM.
>>If it is your first visit to this thread, you'll want to start your Sims 1 Pre-release media browsing at THIS post, as you open the blue spoilers and have fun with the supercool contributions and discussion that's developed afterwards.<<
>Weekly Discoveries<
VIDEO: The Sims 1 (Potentially) Unused Animations 
You've been suggested, somewhere at this thread's first post, to use the cheat code "preview_anims ON" to witness in your own game the Sims reproducing a few animations, listed and generally able to be played it at the click of the object its meant to be used on.
WELL, turns out much more can be found with a little help from the program The Sims Character Makeover Studio -- whose context and purpose is very similar to SimShow's, except it allows us to change the heads/bodies of a Sim that has been already dropped to a home and - the good stuff here - also has the thorough catalogue of your game's .cmx files, each one with a very specific type of animation inside, for us to view without major complications!!!
Some of them are somewhere inside the game but not even a single object summons it during gameplay (because, yuppers, as you can probably tell at this point of our road, it's frequent business), although we can't reproduce them via an external source for the sake of observation and I've just published a video displaying and explaining them, for us to ponder about what they once were handy for and, why not, serve as a little suggestion for those who also enjoy producing Custom Contents for "1" and are a bit tired of using the very same animations over and over again.
<DO NOTE: This video contains a fair amount of assumption in spite of the effort took to check whether the pigeonholed Unused animations are eventually summoned during gameplay or not!! Suggestions are gonna be ardently received.>
On this video, we talk about:
+ Animations that have their strings allocated inside certain objects but are never normally displayed
+ Working animations without an object associated with, only visible through third-party previewers (since the "preview_anims" cheat requires an object with at least 1 animation stored within)
==========================>Weekly Discoveries<
VIDEO: The Sims 1 (Potentially) Unused Animations 
You've been suggested, somewhere at this thread's first post, to use the cheat code "preview_anims ON" to witness in your own game the Sims reproducing a few animations, listed and generally able to be played it at the click of the object its meant to be used on.
WELL, turns out much more can be found with a little help from the program The Sims Character Makeover Studio -- whose context and purpose is very similar to SimShow's, except it allows us to change the heads/bodies of a Sim that has been already dropped to a home and - the good stuff here - also has the thorough catalogue of your game's .cmx files, each one with a very specific type of animation inside, for us to view without major complications!!!
Some of them are somewhere inside the game but not even a single object summons it during gameplay (because, yuppers, as you can probably tell at this point of our road, it's frequent business), although we can't reproduce them via an external source for the sake of observation and I've just published a video displaying and explaining them, for us to ponder about what they once were handy for and, why not, serve as a little suggestion for those who also enjoy producing Custom Contents for "1" and are a bit tired of using the very same animations over and over again.
<DO NOTE: This video contains a fair amount of assumption in spite of the effort took to check whether the pigeonholed Unused animations are eventually summoned during gameplay or not!! Suggestions are gonna be ardently received.>
On this video, we talk about:
+ Animations that have their strings allocated inside certain objects but are never normally displayed
+ Working animations without an object associated with, only visible through third-party previewers (since the "preview_anims" cheat requires an object with at least 1 animation stored within)
APPENDIX
Now let's go back to the game a little bit and take note of these very exceptional cases, where the "preview_anims" cheat code mentions that an X object reproduces an Y animation, in spite of the fact these animations no longer exist inside "Animations.far"(where all the base game's cmx files are) and, as a consequence, will cause a "Missing Animation
" thought balloon error in case we attempt playing them:
BOOKSHELF>
a2o-rarm-carry: May be an unused equivalent of the animation which represents a Sim carrying a book with the right hand, as they normally do. There's an animation mentioned in the video above which shows a Sim switching a carriable object from one hand to another.
a2o-bookshelf-clean: There's no necessity of an extra care for the bookshelves in the final game, since the only effect of their aging is its value decrease!
SINKS>
a2o-sink-cheap/bathx-clean: Again, there's no necessity of cleaning the sinks in the final game, since the only effect of their high age is the value decrease and, occasionally, its malfunction!
[BUILD MODE] FLOWERS>
a2o-shakehead: We can find a playable similar that's made for the potted plants, this one being an expression of disapproval, looking down. Those build mode plants are generally quite low so in this animation they'd probably duck or anything like this.
The videos and images were captured from a Sims 1 game with only LL/Livin' it Up and HP installed, which has helped to avoid any kinds of mistakes (which are probably coming along the way, naturally) and to make sure all of the animations listed above belong to the vanilla game, which is (currently) our main focus!
Roger
#36
17th Feb 2019 at 5:38 PM
17th Feb 2019 at 5:38 PM
#37
20th Feb 2019 at 8:05 PM
20th Feb 2019 at 8:05 PM
#38
21st Feb 2019 at 3:50 PM
21st Feb 2019 at 3:50 PM
#39
28th Feb 2019 at 12:29 PM
Last edited by ed95 : 28th Feb 2019 at 12:44 PM.
28th Feb 2019 at 12:29 PM
Last edited by ed95 : 28th Feb 2019 at 12:44 PM.
#40
24th Aug 2019 at 2:20 PM
Last edited by Dorsal Axe : 24th Aug 2019 at 5:48 PM.
24th Aug 2019 at 2:20 PM
Last edited by Dorsal Axe : 24th Aug 2019 at 5:48 PM.
Well this slipped under the radar...Don Hopkins uploaded a long video of him playing an early TS1 prototype as well as demoing Edith! House11 is featured prominently in the video.
There's some really interesting stuff here, including a scenario system in place of the tutorial in the retail game and a good look at all of the old objects (most of which look terrible lol). We also find out the names for all of the beta Sims. Turns out the old balding dude in glasses is Sigmund Silver, and the lady with the earrings is The Duchess.
What strikes me is just how of the much of the game is already in place in this prototype.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC52jE60KjY
There's some really interesting stuff here, including a scenario system in place of the tutorial in the retail game and a good look at all of the old objects (most of which look terrible lol). We also find out the names for all of the beta Sims. Turns out the old balding dude in glasses is Sigmund Silver, and the lady with the earrings is The Duchess.
What strikes me is just how of the much of the game is already in place in this prototype.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC52jE60KjY
#41
29th Aug 2019 at 12:52 AM
29th Aug 2019 at 12:52 AM
#42
25th May 2020 at 1:48 AM
25th May 2020 at 1:48 AM
#43
25th May 2020 at 1:54 PM
25th May 2020 at 1:54 PM
#44
15th Jun 2020 at 1:11 AM
15th Jun 2020 at 1:11 AM
WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR (You, as a Sims 1 Beta Bug, will not want to miss a single info out):1.01 The heart of this thread (1996-2000's media from everything around The Sims 1 before its final version, allegedly at a chronological order, we all can hope: Images to see, sounds to hear, URLs to load and sources so you can't see we are not kidding you!);
1.02 Pre-Release's Velvet Elvis (Tragic clown's "father") as a downloadable CC and a little bit of The Sims in 1995;
1.03 Our comrade Damon shows and explains to you what on Earth is that beautiful eleventh Sims lot all of us have in our games but can't access without a human interference;
1.04 The objects' thumbnails used to be quite odd but they unveil some new items for us! This time in high quality. Ah, and one more proof of the short existence of soccer balls in game/Furthermoer, renders and web-advertisements;
1.05 1997 Genesis: Damon one more time, with a Custom Object that puts The Sims' forgotten calendar system onto the sunlight; Is your children as old as their parents?
1.06 Kill your brain cells with this unused animations video: from simpeople entering cars to the one where they're painted alleviating their bladders next to a tree; What kind of discarded features do those animations hint us?
1.07 The unexpected The-Sims-Steering-Committee gameplay video was unexpected and created many questions in your head, while it kind of answered others - Dorsal Axe recommended this one;
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Hi - It's beyond SimSational to return to the parallel field and see how much the discussion has been developed and broadcasted by you inside and outside this forum!! Good news: maybe we have only seen the tip top of the iceberg. There is so much to be known that the right thing to do, perhaps, is to just say a little at a time, for financial, chronological and most importantly biological reasons:
Hi - It's beyond SimSational to return to the parallel field and see how much the discussion has been developed and broadcasted by you inside and outside this forum!! Good news: maybe we have only seen the tip top of the iceberg. There is so much to be known that the right thing to do, perhaps, is to just say a little at a time, for financial, chronological and most importantly biological reasons:
There are more things to talk about, but that is enough for a day and my fingers a little! Turns out we have never talked about old versions of Expansion Packs, man, there is so much to! As usual, it is also your turn to be part of the discussion. Have an awesome evening, hope it was a fun read to you and happy 20th anniversary, Dollhouse.
Roger
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WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR (In case you CBA scrolling up):1.01 The heart of this thread (1996-2000's media from everything around The Sims 1 before its final version, allegedly at a chronological order, we all can hope: Images to see, sounds to hear, URLs to load and sources so you can't see we are not kidding you!);
1.02 Pre-Release's Velvet Elvis (Tragic clown's "father") as a downloadable CC and a little bit of The Sims in 1995;
1.03 Our comrade Damon shows and explains to you what on Earth is that beautiful eleventh Sims lot all of us have in our games but can't access without a human interference;
1.04 The objects' thumbnails used to be quite odd but they unveil some new items for us! This time in high quality. Ah, and one more proof of the short existence of soccer balls in game/Furthermoer, renders and web-advertisements;
1.05 1997 Genesis: Damon one more time, with a Custom Object that puts The Sims' forgotten calendar system onto the sunlight; Is your children as old as their parents?
1.06 Kill your brain cells with this unused animations video: from simpeople entering cars to the one where they're painted alleviating their bladders next to a tree; What kind of discarded features do those animations hint us?
1.07 The unexpected The-Sims-Steering-Committee gameplay video was unexpected and created many questions in your head, while it kind of answered others - Dorsal Axe recommended this one;
#45
24th Jun 2020 at 2:39 AM
24th Jun 2020 at 2:39 AM
#46
3rd Oct 2020 at 12:44 AM
3rd Oct 2020 at 12:44 AM
#47
12th Nov 2020 at 12:23 PM
12th Nov 2020 at 12:23 PM
#48
18th Nov 2020 at 1:23 AM
Last edited by LUCPIX : 18th Nov 2020 at 1:59 AM.
18th Nov 2020 at 1:23 AM
Last edited by LUCPIX : 18th Nov 2020 at 1:59 AM.
This post is again dedicated to the lovely @ed95; for being the gateway that leaked the inspiration from basically all the stuff that you saw here since the beginning! OK, free time, at last!! Time to become a simmer again. There you go — plenty of stuff to see, so let's leave the verbiage for later! This is most likely a draft as I'll probably elaborate on things more in the future. First off, you must be famished!, try some of these food renders (remember them?) by clicking on their respective thumbnail (except the one with the turkey)
01. UNUSED ANIMATIONS [TINY APPENDIX]
Video: TS1 Unused Animations [Appendix] This is a tiny extra content, a sequel of that previous video over (potentially) unused Sims 1 animations, this time containing a couple of the equivalent of adults' animations by children, some "new" adults' ones and a final segment showing you how 3 of the game's unused walking animations do behave when one Sim is programmed to call them instead of their regular Male/Female walk which you already know! And, this time, in SIXTY FRAMES PER SECOND! And a few graphical glitches...
02. BETA LIVESTREAM VIDEOS
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1 Sims Webcam Archive 7.8.99
2 Sims Webcam Archive 7.22.99
3 Sims Webcam Archive 7.29.99
4 Sims Webcam Archive - "Dana takes a shower, Michael seeks relief" - March 1999
5 Sims Webcam Archive - "Huggin' and Jugglin"' - March 1999
Did you know that before the first Sims' worldwide launch, the Maxis' folks would now and then summon a few hyped Maxis fans (mainly SimCity 3000 players) and show them the game's progress via streaming, hosted mainly by Luc Barthelet, that some of these hyped fans would save the recordings so they would have something cool to show at their pre-Sims Sims fansite? We recovered some of them as they have some interesting pre-release material, specially a small vision of how the beta plumbob would behave on its healthy state.
03. PREVIEWER'S MEDIA
Pre-Sims TheSims.com would take note of most of the websites (being them professional game reviewing pages or fansites of those who were ardent Simmers before the game was even out!) that previewed the life simulator. Let's see a couple of them:
THE ADRENALINE VAULT'S [05/28/99] 
NEXT GENERATION MAGAZINE 56 [AUGUST 1999] 
DAILY RADAR [OCTOBER 1999]
GAMECENTER.COM - SNEAK PEEK [MARCH 1999] 04. THE SIMWATCH MAIL LIST
CLICK HERE TO START
Behold SimWatch, the pre-release Sims discussion maillist brought to you by Peter Naughton. The aforementioned Maxis aficionados would also have a place of their own on which they shared emails and more emails talking with some of The Sims' staffers, asking questions on whether or not a X feature would be present in game, questions about the publication of a new version of a pre-release Sim Program as SimShow and HomeCrafter, spams and more spams... anyway, everything to satiate their thirst of knowing everything about that unknown but yet intriguing game called The Sims
The subjects around this maillist is very similar from what we usually do here in this thread, except that they play the role of the people who wanted to experience the FINAL version of The Sims when all they ever had was the pre-release material in real time, whilst we're about the other way around. The good news is that you can also read those infinite amount of messages and, if you want to, get to know the experience, hype and points of view from Simmers who were producing CC for a game that still hasn't been shipped,, following the development of The Sims during different beta stages, from April 1999 to April 2000, with all of their innocence and oddness! Sadly, not ALL of them will run because they were not archived... Yet, lots of surviving texts to explore!
Three of my favorite ones:
Welcome to SimWatch
RE: 61 questions on THE SIMS by Mr_____X some answers by Luc
^it is said here that one of the pets available in the game is parrot, which isn't a thing in the final;
\/\/\/\..-... MAXIS NEWS FLASH!.......New version of SIMSHOW available.. ..-..-../\/\/\/\/\
^a funny mail announcing a then-new version of the Sim program SimShow
We'll talk again later, that's for sure! It's been a crazy week. :-)
#49
18th Nov 2020 at 11:48 AM
Last edited by ed95 : 18th Nov 2020 at 2:53 PM.
18th Nov 2020 at 11:48 AM
Last edited by ed95 : 18th Nov 2020 at 2:53 PM.
Nice to see you again 'round here, @LUCPIX! I can't start to imagine all the work and care you put into researching all this unused and preview content. I particularly like the Unused Animations; some are certainly uncanny, but some others look pretty well, and it's a pity they didn't include them. Well, they certainly had a good reason to not do it, so maybe it's not so much of a pity. Anyways, I find pretty interesting al the hype and movement around the game, not very much unlike how are indie games followed nowadays. I still remember a lot of pre-release material from TS2 and its (earlier) expansions, but didn't know TS1 itself had that strong of a following before its final release. And with the Internet in its infancy, too! No wonder the game became such a best-seller!
Btw, I didn't know the pre-cooked meals were in a box! I thought it was some kind of platter! And I find very funny that they took the care of making one of the hamburgers be a bit overcooked
Btw, I didn't know the pre-cooked meals were in a box! I thought it was some kind of platter! And I find very funny that they took the care of making one of the hamburgers be a bit overcooked
#50
18th Nov 2020 at 1:11 PM
18th Nov 2020 at 1:11 PM
Wonderful, especially the archived sites! Thanks for sharing @LUCPIX 
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