The Ominous World Of The Sims 1

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Today let's once again dive into the bizarre world of the Sims, this time taking a look at the game that started it all- The Sims (1)! The original game is a standout in the series for it's noticably darker and more mature tone. From creepy clowns to haunting glitches to sim drama to strange lore, let's take a look at the very first instalment of the legendary Sims series and all of it's bizarre and eerie details!
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❤︎❤︎ MUSIC ❤︎❤︎
Petz Catz 2 OST
Out Of Step / Amaranth Cove [Provided By Epidemic Sound]
A New Earth / Ealot [Provided By Epidemic Sound]
Dreams In Color / Casey Wilcox [Provided By Epidemic Sound]
The Grey Winds / Heath Cantu [Provided By Epidemic Sound]
Intoxicating Mist / DEX 1200 [Provided By Epidemic Sound]
❤︎❤︎ TIMESTAMPS ❤︎❤︎
0:00 - Introduction
1:50 - History And Development
9:51 - Eerie Gameplay
27:04 - The Bizarre Lore
35:13 - That's Life!
38:03 - Conclusion [inscrutable emojis]
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All credit goes to the musicians and composers! This video is not meant to target or harass any person. This video does not condone or encourage anyone to harass or contact any person or persons discussed in this video. This video is purely for entertainment and informational purposes.

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@strawbebbycat Год назад

Later sims games: we can't kill kids, or even have significant harm come to them Sims 1: if you don't do well enough in school you will be presumably killed in war

@lilautieunicorn6632 Год назад

Also the sims is apparently the only game where cats and dogs can die from things other than old age like fires.

@Schnort Год назад

You can drown children in the Sims 2. It's actually quite unnerving since they don't have animations, so they will just teleport around aimlessly, leaving puddles everywhere. What's worse is that when they die, they are put in the Universal NPC family folder. Because children aren't allowed to be out late at night (the only time ghosts appear), an adult sim from the child's family is supposed to come get then. Thus, dead kids summon universal NPCs and make them do things they aren't meant to, potentially causing game corruption. Edit: you can also burn them

@lilautieunicorn6632 Год назад

@@Schnort And I'm pretty sure in the sims 4 kids can also drown and die from emotion based deaths.

@coolkiddo3110 Год назад

@@lilautieunicorn6632 only teens i believe

@kittypink Год назад

@Cool Kiddo teens and children cannot die from emotional deaths (teens can die from emotional deaths if Parenthood isn't installed) but children can drown, burn to death, overheat, freeze and more. Kids have never been invincible in any game.

@raelogan Год назад

One time, in the Pets expansion, I had an orange cat that died from old age and the Grim Reaper came and I was able to plead with him and the cat came back as a green cat with permanently green meters that was basically immortal, so I basically had a zombie cat

@adiidi Год назад

That's amazing!

@wingdingdoes6687 Год назад

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

@user-j19382skak Год назад

That’s awesome! I don’t play pets expansion or the sims but if that happened to me that would be amazing!

@ItoHiyori Год назад

Wtf? !

@anusername8350 Год назад

@@wingdingdoes6687 💕death💕

@LordLicoriceDerp Год назад

The "we're working on your phone lines, don't pick up the next call" is a two-part prank. The prankster calls back a few minutes later and when the person picks up (out of habit) the prankster screams like he's being electrocuted. A classic and one of my favorites!

@Ambipie Год назад

That's really dumb lmao

@w1u4 Год назад

@@Ambipieits hilarious

@bazilette Год назад

@@w1u4 yes, ambiepie is a party foul

@ketaminepoptarts Год назад

@@Ambipie no u

@duchessofsurrey8647 9 месяцев назад

@@Ambipieyou seem fun...😐

@the13throse Год назад

The Sims 1 burglar music sounds like the emotion someone breaking into your house in the middle of the night while you're home would actually inspire.

@jmjedi923 Год назад

It legit scares me to this day. I was playing minecraft and watching a sims video and it came up and i legit thought someone was robbing my minecraft house

@doe_fran Год назад

Sims 1 town at night is like a liminal space that is ACTUALLY unsettling and scary.

@kinderkindred Год назад

sometimes when im in a neighborhood thats a little more detached from the city and has more countryside and open space, it makes me think of the sims 1

@TheAmazingSpiderPunk Год назад

@@kinderkindred omg same. used to live in a tiny pre-war town right outside a bigger city and after 7pm the streets were totally empty without cars or people and it totally had sims 1 vibes.

@chillfactory9000 Год назад

Sims 1 and 2 towns at night remind me of where I live at night.

@KennethStokes Год назад

*Salad Fingers theme starts playing*

@missm2925 Год назад

@@kinderkindred specially those neighborhoods with chain-link fences and a few barking dogs

@MechanicWolf85 Год назад

I love how we went from "gamers don't play doll house simulator games" to animal crossing having a hard-core gaming fandom

@kaydenlikescats Год назад

@@woolfishing FRR

@jennyxo18 Год назад

@Woolfish it is quite boring, cute animals can only take you so far.

@Kellyericah0pe Год назад

@Woolfish for me a big part of it is the island/house decorating! i went from spending hours designing houses in the sims to hours terraforming islands lol

@hannah-wf7qe Год назад

@Woolfish a lot of it also depends on the installment you play honestly, from what i hear the gamecube version and wild world had a lot more gameplay features whereas new horizons is almost solely focused on customization. ive been a fan for my whole life and even i can admit the games could use a little something else.

@gvirusqueen3559 Год назад

@@hannah-wf7qe And the villagers in those games had deeper personalities and conversations.

@alyssamccormick6452 Год назад

I used to always buy the heart bed because I thought it was cute when I was a kid. I now understand why my mom and sister kept asking me why I was choosing that bed.

@genericname2747 Год назад

It is cute though

@past3lgh0st Год назад

i remember the first time my sims had sex. i was like 7 and they were a married couple. i wanted them to have a baby so naturally i pressed the try for baby button. safe to say that wen they got under the sheets i panicked and ran as far away from the computer that i could

@remycat1108 Год назад

I never got to play the sims 1 but MY GOD the idea of your sim waking up in the middle of the night to a burgler shoving their baby (basinet and all) into a sack is kind of funny lol

@Sleepy_cherry 6 месяцев назад

Real

@twilightgeneral777 Год назад

That anti-homophobia message from Don Hopkins was awesome, what a legend!

@Miramiyami Год назад

I was looking for a comment like this! it was seriously very cool!

@SlamDunkPyro Год назад

yeah he's a real one for that lol

@sofiacch355 Год назад

Incredibly based

@Lakadaizical Год назад

Ikr!

@20000dino Год назад

And I'm so happy that Izzy not only even addressed it in the first place, but dedicated a good few minutes to the matter. It technically wasn't necessary to the topic at hand, but, as a queer person (and, beyond that, as someone who simply cares about social injustices in general), stuff like that always feels like the elephant in the room. This is the reason why I'm not into most regular gaming analysis youtubers - most are privileged cis het white men who absolutely don't give a sh*t about this stuff and would've certainly skipped it.

@frankiehealey4674 Год назад

The fact that the devs made a point to include same sex relationships is really touching, especially considering all of the testimonies I’ve heard from queer people who’s first experience outside of heteronormative and cisnormative world was through playing the sims and living out their true ideal lives

@DrSwazz Год назад

Translation: more gay = yay

@thegaymothman Год назад

I felt a similar way, yeah!

@DrSwazz Год назад

@@thegaymothman name checks out

@vampyreankh Год назад

i was a very sheltered kid who had a *very* homophobic family, and i knew little to nothing about the lgbtq+ community for quite a while. playing the sims helped me find my gender identity and sexuality, so it meant so much to me the way the devs added that in :)

@notaperson9831 Год назад

This was exactly my experience!!

@bubbles2215 Год назад

After putting at least 100 hours into The Sims, I got that upside down face glitch on an entire family. Not only did it scare the hell out of me, I thought my whole game was corrupted and it might hurt my computer so I literally never played it again. So that’s how my time with The Sims 1 ended.

@Anasims45 4 месяца назад

🤣🤣I think your profile face resembles that feeling. Sorry If I offended you.

@coolkiddo3110 Год назад

It's so crazy seeing how hard same sex relationships were fought for in the sims because I remember a huge part of me coming to terms with my sexuality as a kid was having my girl sims date girls and my boy sims date boys practically exclusively. Even when I didn't, my m/f couples overtime always warped into lavender marriages

@AlexLococo Год назад

that's why they fought for it

@hannah-6080 11 месяцев назад

Word I remember having my Sim make out with Marisa Bendett and feeling so guilty about it but also I just watched amazed and continued to have them get married and adopt kids. Just prayed my parents would never look at my game bc I there was just something that pulled me to test out these scenarios. Turns out I'm a lesbian ✌️ still to this day I usually only make female sims who marry each other.

@kasumiyamato7540 7 месяцев назад

People are really lost nowadays my god especially this generation

@konako-uwu 7 месяцев назад

@@kasumiyamato7540???

@nessie-from-earthbound1601 7 месяцев назад

@@kasumiyamato7540 Damn somebody can't keep up with the times it seems

@mmarceau Год назад

i love izzy's sims series

@Afeeder Год назад

Same it’s how I was introduced to her

@KanadaJin Год назад

Me too they're my favorite!!

@lavaght Год назад

these videos got me into the sims^^

@Duvelle_ Год назад

Same!

@nary-a-care9368 Год назад

Me too, never played the Sims but these videos are super relaxing

@riccardoleone4265 Год назад

The description of the vibrating bed killed me. "The vibration engine is Swedish of course, but we have done a lot of testing with a pair of 300 pound dummies."

@Rippertear Год назад

@@Correctical No I don't think so

@NOTDeezy. Год назад

Am I too much of a puritan or why do I not get the joke?

@ademsari2151 Год назад

@@NOTDeezy. I think it’s supposed to be a joke about Americans being fat.

@NOTDeezy. Год назад

@@ademsari2151 ohhhhhhh

@WeebishSwed Год назад

@@NOTDeezy. I think it is also a play on the Austin Powers joke about a Swedish "pump"

@breadcrumbhoarder Год назад

That note from Don Hopkins tho, so pivotal to the success of the sims in my opinion (I know many a gay who played it for that reason, myself included) and just generally really wonderful to see. One of those moments that makes me have faith in humanity

@user-xf8hw1zb4e Год назад

Oh my GOD that upside down lady scared the absolute shit out of me as a child! I remember calling my dad into the room screaming and crying because that wasn't my Sim and I was so scared lmfao

@RhysezPieces Год назад

The fact that he even mentioned asexuality (under a different name) in the 90s makes me happy. He didn't have to bring us up since the issue was the aggressive reaction to gay interactions, and now you can be openly gay and bi and aroace in-game. Oh how times have changed

@thegaymothman Год назад

i find myself bracing to see asexual erasure alot as an aroace person, so knowing a developer stood up for us aces (albeit under a different name) back then makes me so happy. not to get to sappy but the sims has often felt like a safe haven for me, as disclosing my identity is often really scary when you don't know how someone is going to react. but in comes the sims, where you can make custom pronouns, and openly celebrate the community you're a part of.

@elvishkat Год назад

Bisexuality as well !!!

@JustKelso1993 Год назад

Asexuality doesn't exist.

@estherstreet4582 Год назад

The fact that he understands asexuality exists but his only example is "mother theresa, I guess" is both funny and also very charming, they're a little confused but they understand that asexuality exists.

@gothgirl2412 Год назад

Same! It was such a comforting thing to read, especially knowing the statement was made back in the 90s. It really shows how much he cared about including everyone in the community

@IveeTheVoodooDoll Год назад

I played TS1 religiously as a child and I had the upside down head glitch happen to me once. I was terrified, that head looked demonic to me. Years later I even tried looking it up online a couple of times and I could never find anything about it, so after wondering about this glitch, this video finally brought me closure, 20 years later.

@amaryllisbelladonna3619 Год назад

Jesus Christ this glitch!!!! I remember it 20+ years later as if it had happened yesterday. WOW. 9 year old me was so freaked out

@ClownNikolaii Год назад

I love your profile picture :)

@kitty0chan444 Год назад

You were in a real life creepy pasta lmao

@batguy39 Год назад

Bless your soul 🥺

@RayvenLunaNite 7 месяцев назад

For kids who had bad homes, this game was a blissful escape. I love this franchise! I have all copies on my EA origin account, downloaded, and ready to play.

@XxBlackAngel141 4 месяца назад

I agree! My first sims game I played was TS2 and it was a really pivotal part of my childhood. I had a really shitty childhood but holy shit I love how it took me away from it all for even just a moment 😍

@mrsshayful 4 месяца назад

I wish I could download ts1

@SydySue Год назад

I was playing around in The Sims recently and found a painting that hints towards the guinea pig disease. Its called "The Forgotten Guinea Pig" and has a little poem that suggests its a curse from a resentful pet!

@soonsims 7 месяцев назад

how did you get the game

@heathershangovercure 5 месяцев назад

@@soonsimsit's online to purchase but it only works on really old computers

@Isaacandjed 13 дней назад

@@soonsimsIt's twenty-something years old, you can just get it off the Internet

@anerrorhasoccurred8727 Год назад

This is the only sims game where my family actually _drove_ me to murder. I’d made a nice little family with biographies and everything, but they somehow managed to blow all their money and the house started to look like a crackden. The kids were in danger of being repossessed by the Big Orphan industry. So I ordered the adults to go read the newspaper bc they could get a legit good job (it took them _3 sims-hours_ to get across the living room btw) only to get this message: “I’m too depressed to work.” _They were depressed because they were POOR._ Little me got a taste for the indoor fireworks death that day 💀

@fieratheproud Год назад

That's one hell of a vicious cycle, refusing to work because you're depressed and you're depressed because you're poor. Which will only make you more poor and then more depressed and so on.

@anerrorhasoccurred8727 Год назад

@@fieratheproud it’s a surprisingly dark mirror to real life, but ngl I’m still too salty to appreciate the nuance.

@laraalvarezzz2 Год назад

@@anerrorhasoccurred8727 I never player the sims but I feel your pain.

@bugzy_brain Год назад

theyre just like me fr (welcome to capitalism)

@ReptilianTeaDrinker Год назад

I spent more time on designing cursed clothes and face paint. lol But I had some families that I was happy about playing at first, then later, I wanted to kill them all horrifically, because some of them were just being assholes to other sims or being mean to their own family members and I was like "I'm just going to let them fall to their own doom and see what happens from there. Just watch the chaos unfold." lol Honestly, the fact that sims mirrors some real life shit is a little scary to me. I discovered early on how dark sims games could get, but damn, some of that shit haunts me to this day.

@violetslit Год назад

9:26 If a sim named Brad told me as a kid that I was a socially challenged moron I would have logged off forever 💀

@atanaZion Год назад

Lmaooo

@ricebun4669 Год назад

Got introduced to the Sims by my mom when I was 4-6 since she loved the sims and she taught me how to use the computer so I could play while she was at nursing school. The noises were all so much more jarring than they were today and I cried when the burglar broke in because the music was so loud and I was sad they took so much of my mom's stuff from the house. Traumatizing but also had a sweet moment with my mom :")

@wilaugh8688 3 месяца назад

Poor thing, being sad because s bad guy came to rob your mom’s stuff, i can’t help but feel empathic for your little young child you, so adorable

@CelestialHart Год назад

I can't not say "a game theory" in my head whenever i hear "it's just a theory" or some version of. It's honestly amazing what gets stuck to our brains.

@writetoaprisoner Год назад

Many fans have said that the Tragic Clown is supposed to represent depression in a way. He’s a pest that makes you miserable until you call for help. Although it’s not this simple in real life, I can see it

@DuskPShermanWallaby123 Год назад

I've heard that and I definitely believe it. It makes sense considering in real life people try to block out depression but it always finds a way back in. Just like the Tragic Clown did when he jumped through that hole in the ground.

@papaelf420 Год назад

kind of glad my depression doesn't physically manifest past the locked doors in my house as a clown

@ReptilianTeaDrinker Год назад

For me, I just absolutely despise clowns and fear them. But, I see what a lot of the fans are saying. It's an interesting theory and seems plausible and I can see it for sure. Though for me, my depression always makes me do regrettable and fucked up things to myself. Like, yeah, it's my actions, but I'm driven by it in my darker days. Even though I'm older now, I still have a hard time "dealing" with it and "managing" it. I interpret the clown as using humour to conceal your pain and to laugh, so you don't end up crying instead. Though, it's similar to what other fans are saying, I suppose.

@KaruuxiOldAcc Год назад

@@papaelf420 LMAO i think my life would be significantly worse

@v.k.rt.m.6030 Год назад

Then again, that painting though.

@InazumaDash Год назад

Memory unlocked. My first Sim family was a single father with two sons. One day the kitchen was set on fire and the father and one brother dies while the youngest son cleaned up their ashes while crying.

@bunnycrofts8127 Год назад

I had a similar experience and didn't know you could move the memorial marker. my sims would have breakdowns every time they went into the kitchen because they were constantly reminded of their loss.

@ShallowVA Год назад

The Sims was the first thing I ever had on a computer that made me try to hide the screen when an adult walked in the room. Not that anything in the game is actually that visually shocking, but playing it felt like I was doing something seedy and transgressive.

@MajkaSrajka 3 месяца назад

HIDE YO DOLLHOUSE lmao

@jorxcore Год назад

I was all like " I was not scared at all" but then "the end is near. Make preparations." OMG did it hit me hard.

@Flameclaw123 Год назад

"In The Sims 1, you can create an evil clone of your sim that will go around performing mean actions on your friends and family and lowering your relationships with them" Ah, the Changeling route

@crunchcmacmillan Год назад

holy shit i fould a pathologic reference in the wild

@xo7336 Год назад

Rare patho fan in the wild, nice nice nice!

@--R-U-SLAPPIN Год назад

i’ve found my people

@awfulusername1465 Год назад

Holy fuck pathologic

@sinnamonshoggoth2928 Год назад

Well I mean now I have to download Sims 1 and make a Pathologic household. Fill it with guinea pigs.

@64B_ Год назад

An interesting fact about the SimCopter incident that Izzzyzzz left out: the Maxis employee responsible for the himbo easter egg was actually Jacques Servin, one of the founders of the Yes Men - an activist group that tries to raise awareness about important issues through pranks and viral stunts -, most known for causing a 2 billion dollar drop in Dow Chemical's market value after one of their members went on BBC, claiming to be a spokesman for Dow, and made a fake announcement that the company was going to liquidate Union Carbide, one of their subsidiaries, and use those profits to make restitutions for the victims of the Bhopal disaster. The Bhopal disaster was the worst industrial disaster in history, and Union Carbide were the ones responsible.

@YungMoomin Год назад

unfathomably based

@swaughyft5uhcbyjfhity580 Год назад

hell yeah prankt

@houraisheperd9721 Год назад

The hero we need.

@sinceremoose Год назад

Yes Men are my gender

@xthemightygoatx Год назад

How coincidental, I just watched a video on Bhopal and learned about it for the first time. Absolutely horrifying situation, it made me cry my eyes out.

@bilinasmini3480 Год назад

You will never understand how much of a comfort RU-vidr you are for me. Like. The nostalgia, your soft voice, your jokes. Really helps me when my depression is bad

@mind-of-neo Год назад

The aesthetics of this game are absolutely magical

@CappyRose Год назад

When I was younger I played a lot of the Sims 1. And I vividly remember the horrifying musical stings, but the thing that scared me the most was the alien abductions. I remember making a particular family that I really liked, and after seeing one of my mothers sims being abducted I was shook so bad that I chose to delete every outside door in their house, locking them inside because I was scared that aliens would take them away and never bring them back.

@marynoble9464 Год назад

what a lovely lovecraftian horror for that family

@NiCoNiCoNiCola Год назад

This is like that one thing about "is it better to live inside, safe, but not free? or better to embrace your freedom and risk it all"

@informitas0117 Год назад

A sibling had the "they are coming" prank call follow by "they are here" then the power of the irl house she was in, went out. She just wandered around the house too scared to know what to do. Ofc she was home alone.

@meganormaybenot Год назад

Is there a way to super-like a comment? If there was, I would definitely do that on this comment. This is hilarious.

@plebeianpleasant3561 Год назад

Dude, I would have lost it, it was creepy enough to get those crank calls

@69Satan69 Год назад

@@plebeianpleasant3561 Ah yes, crank calls 🍷🧐

@NiCoNiCoNiCola Год назад

I'd like to imagine someone wanted to rob the place, but he saw the poor girl walking around all scared and thought "Darn, I don't wanna traumatize this kid" and left

@genericname2747 Год назад

That's the beginning of a creepypasta

@Cristyface Год назад

That Sims 1 burglar music unlocked a core memory hidden away... being a child, just enjoying, playing at night near bedtime and then this music blasts and my heart starts pounding and I CAN'T STOP THE BURGLAR OH GOD

@bogperson Год назад

Makin' Magic is one of the fondest memories of my childhood. Sure, my family was constantly attacked by raccoons and termites, they were so poor everybody was depressed and my child was sent to military school, so often it was very creepy, but I loooved jumping into that hole to visit Magic town. Ah, the nostalgia.

@shoganza8616 Год назад

I can't tell you how validating it is to see that the head glitch is a REAL THING. When a baby suddenly got sprite swapped in my save when I played the Sims 1 (I want to say I was like 8 years old) I emphatically told all my friends that the baby had been changed into an upside down 'vampire' that smiled at me when it was happy, and presumably because children routinely make up this kind of spooky bullshit, not a single one believed me. I thought about it periodically over the years, but for some reason never googled it.

@themovienurd Год назад

I just would like to mention a unique feature that I was surprised you didn't talk about! It was only in the first sims and it really fascinates me and that's the fact that if you have both the unleashed (pets) and makin' magic expansions installed it would unlock the "a friend indeed" spell which turns your pet into a human sim. Its such a strange storyline for gameplay that was very memorable from when I would play growing up! Also love the sims videos! I'm a lifelong fan too and fascinated with the lore so these videos have been a real treat!

@perfectpomegranate8193 Год назад

That's a feature too in the Console release of The Sims 3! That was my first Sims game and I always missed that feature.

@rinna6575 Год назад

@@perfectpomegranate8193 There's actually a mod that adds karma powers to the PC version of the Sims 3, including that.

@beguiling_ Год назад

This scares me. What if someone marries their now human pet? Oh no.

@nailinthefashion Год назад

It's not strange there was just a furry or two in that cauldron

@kore3919 Год назад

I never like using that spell, or the spell that ages children into adults. Because in Sims 1 it randomizes what head and body they’d get and you’d be stuck with it. This applies to the babies aging into kids. The only work-around is to save the lot before doing the transition so that you can keep going back to do it again until you get something you like. Plus I like my pets staying pets. 😂

@ericadams973 Год назад

I never realized how deep the lore of the prebuilt characters was. As soon as I got the game, I began building my own sims and they carried on through to the sims 3. I never played with any of the prebuilt ones.

@Turbuggy Год назад

That last prank call sent shivers through me!! It makes me think of Subnautica’s “are you sure whatever you think you’re doing here is worth it?”

@justpassingthrough7728 Год назад

Wow, what Don Hopkins wrote was incredible. He specifically made sure not to erase bisexual and asexual people, and this was over 20 years ago! Also, I'm really (oddly) loving this series and looking forward to the 4th one!

@xi6969 Год назад

@@JustKelso1993 it does

@NoxDolore Год назад

@@JustKelso1993 I found a nice well you can step into and never step out of. Please step into it - the asexual community

@JustKelso1993 Год назад

@@NoxDolore I highly doubt the well exists, not unlike your community namesake.

@lotus7576 Год назад

@@JustKelso1993reason is lost on people like you, i can’t imagine facing the world with such anger and closed-mindedness just because i simply don’t relate to or understand a community or individual .. well, my condolences 😸 let’s divide ourselves even more over shallow and trivial things, yeah?? that’s always done us good👍😸

@NoxDolore Год назад

First comment didn't post or whatever so. Take your bigotry somewhere else please and thank you. Nobody cares. But also fix yourself :)

@ectobeing Год назад

This was one of the only PC games I owned as a kid, with the vacation expansion pack. I liked playing it until I got a burglar and the sound terrified me, and I got that "They will come soon" prank phone call. I became so terrified, being like, 6, that I would only play the vacation mode from then on because those events couldn't happen ... I'd just buy the cheapest house on the map, put a phone in, and immediately call a cab for the vacation world.💀Still a game I have amazing memories from.

@gemwolfz2860 Год назад

big brain move honestly

@Bluebadgerxoxo Год назад

Good to know I wasn't the only one completely terrified of these stuff LOL. In my case I didn't have the vacation expansion pack so what I would do was every night I would pretty much remove the doors leading outside so incase anyone popped up there was no chance at all for a burglar to come in.. I also remember a phone call scaring the shit out of me and I don't even remember the message itself, just the fact that super eerie music started to play so after that moment I basically removed all phones and only put them if I wanted to order food.

@lillidaisyASMR Год назад

🤣 I hardly remember this, but my friends who had computers at home used to play it all the time

Год назад

The first time I saw a ghost I stopped playing for a while because it spooked me so much haha

@od-vn9ws Год назад

"A featureless cube" is exactly what my sim houses looked like. An absolutely giant square divided into 4 equal rooms. I didn't even know what to fill them with. Blew my goddamn mind when I found out last year that there's an entire community based around building houses in the Sims 4.

@degeneratemilkhater5696 Год назад

Begging you to never stop making the game theory joke in my eyes it's funny every single time and I am forever grateful to be able to finish it with you

@GenieVillain26 Год назад

Sort of on the topic of burglars stealing babies. Either my sister or her friend made a family in The Sims 1 where her sims were not properly taking care of the baby. After enough notifications came up telling her to look after it, the CPS lady came. She surrounded the crib with tall pillars used for architecture so the lady wouldn't take the baby away. However, that flimsy lady managed to pick up one of the pillars as if it was made of Styrofoam and took the baby away.

@xXAcidBathXx Год назад

I-💀

@SwedishBs Год назад

I REMEMBER DOING SIMILAR THINGS 😂

@ketaminepoptarts Год назад

since the pillars dont actually support anything when theyre inside then maybe it was a fake one made of styrofoam lmao

@tillytakestallys Год назад

I love that each of the games are getting their own video! I could watch a 20 hour video of Izzy talking about the sims and not get bored!

@SweetPotatoe14 Год назад

Honestly I can say the same!

@michelledo6645 Год назад

Agreed

@lifewasawillow Год назад

honestly the amount of times i've watched these 4 videos is.... concerning 😅

@rita8274 Год назад

I didn't know that someone championed for LGBTQ so heavily for Sims. I love it even more.

@dougla517 Год назад

So, when I was young I was VERY bad at keeping my Sims in good moods in the Sims 1; big surprise, right? It's still difficult when I go back to it as an adult - the game is so punishing sometimes. Anyways, we had just gotten the Magic expansion, and I was SO excited to make my Sim into a wizard that I sent them down the magical looney tunes hole. No one in our family had any idea what we were doing, and it didn't take long until his moodlets dropped massively (if they were even any good to begin with), and I desperately tried to keep him in the magic world and make him a wizard. My sister and mother knew more about the game, but there wasn't a way to fix his mood.. And then he kept getting this Action prompt (the ones that appear to show what the Sim is doing/going to do) of "Leave World" or something similar, with an image of a park bench. That felt ominous as heck to me as a kid, and even MORE so now, though it probably just meant "return to home lot". Remember no matter how many times I cancelled it, it kept popping up. I don't remember what happened, what I did or anything after that point. Honestly sounds like a terrible CreepyPasta, reading through that ahaha.. apparently it was an action related to leaving Lots, but wouldn't normally be shown to the player? Either way, eerie as heck

@cheaminh Год назад

I'm in love with the Sims timeline despite how confusing and messy it can be to beginners! It makes absolute perfect sense and the base game families are total icons! The Sims 4's "alternate universe" timeline could never. 💔

@askwhateverlol Год назад

Isn't it like 312 the way the Sims timeline goes?

@cheaminh Год назад

@@askwhateverlol correct, and they're 25 years apart from each other, but the sims ages could be wonky, for example bella's brother.

@markgoldby6502 Год назад

Betty and Bob tutorial

@Ranixo286 Год назад

I think some of the original Townies are fun though but the au versions of the old ones do feel off

@sophiathefurbst Год назад

@@Ranixo286I switched from sims 4 to sims 3 and oh my god the townies just…feel..more human? like they feel more like actual people.

@AutocraticAnarchy Год назад

Social Bunny is basically the Cooler(TM) Tragic Clown. Social Bunny *always* succeeds in their mission to make the desolate Sim feel less lonely.

@sourgreendolly7685 Год назад

And I hated the them so much 😂 Introversion intensifies

@hannibalspectre637 Год назад

I had the upside down face glitch, I was playing when I was maybe 12? With my sister and we were on the newbies, made them had a child and when it grew up it had that icon and was stuck completely nude. We were terrible at the game so we deleted them to reset their motives pretty often, I’m sure that’s where the corruption came from, but holy shit was it terrifying as a child 😂😂😂

@hannibalspectre637 Год назад

Also, had a glitch where the ‘on holiday’ woman would show up to walk around the lot but she was just hands. Also one time a giant model of will wright asleep appeared in the garden and when you clicked on him it said ‘thank you for playing the sims’. All very frightening to my kid self ahaha

@aquabluerose7734 5 месяцев назад

@@hannibalspectre637 I've read that you're supposed to see Will Wright after climbing the beanstalk so something must've glitched in that part of the Makin Magic pack.

@Roitame Год назад

25:05 Oh god, military school XD That shit was a very unpleasant surprise for me as a kid. I tried to make my family in the sims, only for my mother to promptly marry someone else, my father to get so depressed he refused to do anything at all, and me to get sent off to military school. It was like... holy shit, game, dark much? XD

@flora9866 Год назад

Homophobia by proxy is such a perfect term. Love this video

@cococock2418 Год назад

except it's such a dumb term because there's no proxy, aint nobody was hiding their homophobia (as they shouldn't)

@ClowncoreisCool Год назад

@@cococock2418 If you want to troll, you at least gotta be funny. 😐

@flora9866 Год назад

@@cococock2418 you know, once i killed a dude in Florida for saying the same kinda bullshit

@sporeham1674 Год назад

@@cococock2418 shut

@JustKelso1993 Год назад

So stunning, so brave lmao stop acting like gays are in a rough spot.

@maxaroni39 Год назад

My mom was *obsessed* with the original Sims when she was pregnant with me. Once I was born though, she stopped. I remember trying to play it as a kid and being scared away by the creepy atmosphere. My sister and I got into Sims 3 and 4 though, and loved to cause havoc with our Sims! My mom thought we were monsters for locking them in doorless rooms with no toilet 🤣 She's got back into gaming recently with Animal Crossing, but that's about it. I wish she had more free time so she could enjoy the newer entries. I know she loves the decorating mode, so I'm hoping I can get her to play Paralives when it comes out!

@NiCoNiCoNiCola Год назад

I like to think that she stopped playing the Sims because she had her own Sims at home:)

@marxmarxmarxmarxmarx Год назад

awh that’s sweet, I hope she enjoys animal crossing :) ♥️

@brigade7678 Год назад

thats sweet... and also voices the fear of so many people I know that are nervous to get pregnant and have a baby. To lose all your hobbies and just have to hope to get them back ~15 - 20 years later is really bleak 😰

@NiCoNiCoNiCola Год назад

@@brigade7678 or you could just do both things when the kid is like atleast 5? Unless your kid is gonna wind up being autistic. In this case yeah, fair enough

@brigade7678 Год назад

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola no I agree, and I think there is a slow shift happening for moms getting to keep a bit more of themselves and not be "just mom" for near 18 years. I have a sister that LOVES to be mom & still takes time for nature walks & painting. The other sister works a LOT and spends a ton of time taking the kids to swim/soccer/skating/scouts/church etc etc etc and I have no idea how she stays standing. Point being we all have different needs & ability to give lol I think when you have a couple and both parents give up a little, then both parents also get to keep a little! Vs in my culture at least its more the mom gives everything and loses herself. ((really not dissing moms as a whole nor saying kids are bad!))

@sascha3135 11 месяцев назад

Thanks to you I just realised that I have in fact played the sims (1). I had this really early childhood memory, which up until this point I swore was the sims 2, where I played the game. Problem is I was still very young and did not understand the game at all. So all I ended up doing was jump in that whole to this "amusement park world", where I'd make my sim ride all the rollercoasters and stuff until they inevitably end up dieing. (I did not understand they had needs that I needed to take care of) Remember crying for a looooong time when I realised I killed my sim and my dad having to console me, for torturing this sim to death.

@ParadigmDreamspace Год назад

Izzzyzzz is so stylish, I envy their style every video

@thekneesbee Год назад

It might be annoying to people who haven't also been infected with the need to complete every theory with that phrase but to the rest of us it's a welcome reminder we aren't alone. Also love this video and this series thank you!

@grimreapergal Год назад

agreed!

@Arealdragonfruit Год назад

I wanted to draw fanart of you but I just can’t because I can’t decide on my favorite look you’ve had. Like you look so drastically different from video to video and it adds so much personality and it’s so fun but it makes it incredibly difficult to draw fanart of you because oh my gosh which one do I choose?

@cheiftainvulpix Год назад

Nothing more terrifying than hearing Sims 1 horror-like sound effect back then.

@at-citie Год назад

The sims has such an odd feeling to it, no horror game has ever replicated that feeling

@phonybeautrain6520 Год назад

It's probably because of the realism roots of the Sims, Having your house burned down or being burgled are more tangible fear than being hunted by a giant plush with teeths.

@ohworm3c413 Год назад

I think your problem is that you haven't played horror video games that aren't Poppy Playtime or Bendy and the Ink Machine

@writershard5065 Год назад

There are horror games that are able to replicate that feeling, but a part of it is just the aesthetics of the visuals and sound design.

@avery4818 Год назад

@@ohworm3c413 orrrr it could be that the feeling is attached to the fact that it ISNT a horror game. no need to be rude.

@PondScummer Год назад

@@ohworm3c413 I don't think most people who's played the first sims would even know what those games are considering the 20 year age gap...

@AgentBoobimus Год назад

I can’t believe you didn’t mention the garden gnomes! Those sods moved on their own.

@genericname2747 Год назад

They're a part of all sims games, not just the first

@BeJeweled28 9 месяцев назад

She does mention them? They can turn on the tv

@MeTheMayo Год назад

I have played Sims 1 for like 5 years but only experienced the upside down glitch once. I was super confused and freaked out for sure, I thought my sim was cursed 😂

@strawberrylemonadelioness Год назад

The burgular sting never scared me as a kid because it played when raccoons and skunks showed up too, and I liked trapping raccoons and skunks and pretending they were my pets in the game. I was a weird kid. Now I like making raccoons as pets in Sims 4 though.

@jbear3478 6 месяцев назад

Not as weird as the guy above you who burned his neighbors to death

@snoops5171 Год назад

I remember playing the game for the first time with my sister when we were about 9 years old. We stole it from my dad's CD collection and played it when my parents were asleep. We recreated our whole family in the game and decorated the house. When buying furniture, we saw that there was a firework launcher. Of course we didn't know any better and we put it inside the house. We made one of our sims launch the firework, and then all of a sudden it started a fire in the house. The music was absolutely TERRIFYING, like something out of the Psycho suite, especially hearing it at 11pm at night. My sister started screaming and crying and I had to unplug the computer because our dad's sim caught on fire and was dying. Never played it again lol. This game was absolutely traumatic as a child and I'm glad I'm not the only one with these memories.

@PEWEHHS Год назад

I had a similar experience. I made my family and built a mansion for them. It was fun until the fireplace started a fire. When my mom's Sim and my own Sim caught fire I turned the computer off and had to just sit there trying to calm myself down for a while. Never played the sims 1 again and never created a Sim of anyone I knew in real life in either sims 2 or 3.

@DEFxRECON Год назад

I love how on the surface the sims is just the “silly goofy people can’t get out of swimming pool” game, but there’s like deep and dark lore lol

@MaruMaruPoyo 4 месяца назад

The sims 1 burglar music got me goosebumps twice 😢

@xarenanotmyrealname4134 9 месяцев назад

Dude the music for a robbery in Sims 1 is straight up horror movie worthy of it was me I'd be thinking my sim was about to be murdered. Ever thought of doing a video on Sims medieval?

@GeoMusic99 Год назад

One fascinating fact about Simmers during the Sims 1 era was that once they found out a Sims 2 was gonna release and was gonna be 3D, many hated the idea, wanting to stay with the Sims 1 and simply keep expanding it with expansion packs (there are many forum threads from the time stating that). Can you imagine where we would be if EA listened to the fans and never released the Sims 2?

@BierBart12 Год назад

That's really interesting, with how people say the exact same thing about Sims 5 now. But more about the torturous thought that they'll have to leave this game they've already spent 800 bucks on to spend double that money on the next one.

@christophernoneya4635 Год назад

I just wish new sims games tried innovating a little. 3 and 4 felt largely the same tbh. My dream is for one that doesnt have loadscreens. Like the towns just there and you can just watch the sims do stuff, even if it is only a few blocks

@Isaacandjed Год назад

@@christophernoneya4635 You're describing 3 LMAO

@christophernoneya4635 Год назад

@@Isaacandjed wait actually? I remember some social areas, nothing connected to your house. I need to give it a replay 😭 i must have forgotten so much now

@carrot7868 Год назад

That's very interesting...

@GloomyFish Год назад

I remember when I was about 8 or 9, I re-created my family in the sims and the sim of me kept missing the school bus and was sent off to military school as a result. messed me up pretty bad

@vivivoli Год назад

your hair and makeup in this is so pretty aaah

@ashessakura7518 4 месяца назад

I came across the upside down head aka ‘the Duchess’ glitch once as a kid and after realising it was a lady upside down I was more confused than scared, still scared enough to delete the save after realising her mouth moved which is what actually freaked me out 😂

@InedibleMuffin Год назад

Back in the Sims 1 and Sims 2, it got the point where death was almost lurking around every corner. You never know when you'd die to a hamster, satellite falling from the sky or flies on a plate on the ground. In a way, it's nice to not have to stress about losing an hour's worth of progress anymore, but the overly sanitized Sims 4 has really made me miss the higher death risks.

@beekid5167 Год назад

There should be some kind of "risk" setting in the sims 4 that just enable these unhinged deaths

@NiCoNiCoNiCola Год назад

@@beekid5167 a difficulty switch maybe? Like, "Easy: No deaths, autosaves before important decisions, etc. Medium: Sims 4 as it is. Hard: closer to Sims 2 and 1" Difference being with harder difficulties it's easier to get those bonus points for life goals and stuff

@beekid5167 Год назад

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola yes exactly like that! You explained it very well

@lilautieunicorn6632 Год назад

Also not to mention I swear motives drop so much quicker in the sims 2 than they do in the sims 4. It takes like 3 days for a sim to die of starvation in the sims 4 but in the sims 2 it could probably kill them in 24 sim hours (not that I’ve ever tried with a single save file I’m very controlling over what happens my sims 2 game).

@NiCoNiCoNiCola Год назад

@@lilautieunicorn6632 it is actually like this, in Sims 1 and 2 everything drop very quickly and IMO Sims 3 was the best with the decay of moodlets and etc

@NixityNullt Год назад

Ngl the whole "sad clown comes to cheer you up when your happiness is too low" thing is funny as hell, and a very creative counterpart to other bars getting too low. I wish it was in all the games and I'm so glad that it was referenced in the Jerma dollhouse stream

@annieellison7128 Год назад

I never experienced greater fear than when the burglar popped onto the screen with that creepy, horror movie-esque music starts playing. This game truly was such a trip as a kid 😂

@Rainygirl3100 Год назад

The only experiences with The Sims 1 I remember from my childhood are sobbing because my sim didn't have any cooking skills and burned her house down trying not to starve, and also me being scared shitless over the burglar music (it still sends me into fight or flight mode). Fun times

@vickyger254 Год назад

I remember the upside down glitch, but my dad was a early adopter of tech and we had a understanding of glitches. So it happened and we were like "it's a glitch" and just kept playing.

@bagandbroad Год назад

I remember getting the sims after learning about it in a lesbian magazine in college (I’m ancient). I’d heard the same sex option was an accident that ended up getting a positive reaction, so hearing about Don made me so happy

@kushclarkkent6669 6 месяцев назад

When she said "rosebud" I got hit with a crushing wave of nostalgia😂 Best cheat ever.

@streetpilot4098 Год назад

Ordering a pizza and getting The Sims 2, Battlefield 2, or Need For Speed Most Wanted with it? What a time to be alive! I remember those games being out, but I was too young to remember that glorious bundle lol

@twocheeky Год назад

it makes me so emotional to hear how hard same sex relationships were fought for. My first little dive into living a life as a lesbian was through the sims 2 pets i had on ps2. I was able to live this life i wanted to live but was way too scared to be outwardly. It was so affirming for lil 10-13 year old me

@gothiccfurby Год назад

I did this too! The Sims games for the PS2 were a key part in me realizing my bisexuality as a preteen, it’s nice to see the console versions getting some love and it warms my heart to see that the developers actively fought to keep same sex relationships in the game

@oiytd5wugho Год назад

Not me spending hours making female sims in CAS like "I just think they're neat". Doing queer things in the sims when your parents aren't looking is like a rite of passage or something

@brigade7678 Год назад

@@oiytd5wugho lmao absolutely! I remember being nervous /hiding my sims in gay relationships when my parents walked by the family pc - "hello mother, just sitting here enjoying a nice Normal Hetero sims game!"

@Paradox_Edge Год назад

That is usually how it starts, yes. An idea at a young age.

@brigade7678 Год назад

@Paradox_Edge for me it was liking a few boys & girls in kindegarden, probably age 4-5! But I really had no concept of that mattering til I was ~10y

@SammyCat27 Год назад

This series is gonna be what breaks me back into my sims hyperfixation Edit: Currently waiting on a very legal download of the full Sims 2 Collection to finish

@thereallifesaiyan Год назад

Sims 2 and 3 are the peak of the series easily

@shannonlee8131 Год назад

Hearing the Sims 1 Burglar sound brought back childhood trauma I wasn’t ready to face. Instant fight or flight.

@feathertailfanspoofs Год назад

In the sims 1 apparently the burglar music was also used for the clown catchers and a sim being fired from work

@nuggetboi3462 Год назад

I’m impressed with how Izzy is able to change her hair so much, I don’t know if it’s wigs, or she just grows it out and dyes it. Major props to the dedication no matter what

@DylanRomanov Год назад

Definitely a wig today lol but it’s gorgeous

@genericname2747 Год назад

Witchcraft probably

@layla707 Год назад

@@genericname2747 nice pfp :))

@genericname2747 Год назад

@@layla707 memento mori

@oiytd5wugho Год назад

does she wear wigs? Has she worn wigs? Will she wear wigs? When will she wear wigs???

@beetothetee Год назад

Those prank calls and burglar music *terrified* me as a child!! Especially because I always played the sims at night- we only had the “family” computer, so I had to wait until my parents were asleep. Lights off, headphones on- pure terror. 😂

@yorrrinn 7 месяцев назад

Izzy i beg of u to make more sims related videos I love watching u talk about sims lore while playing sims 3

@patrik_x86 Год назад

33:21 - This also freaked me out as a kid. I think there's an element of the 'uncanny valley' with the strange faceless oval as a head.

@The_Foxymew Год назад

I vaguely remember a family I had in the sims 1, way back. Many many years ago. Son wound up being sent to military school. Daughter refused to walk down the stairs, so she starved to death, and the husband ran away with someone, I think? Leaving just one super depressed mom. It was really bizarre.

@Youtube.Commen-tater Год назад

Model nuclear family

@Ghostie_Juno Год назад

I remember me and my sister made an orphanage in the sims 1 the kids all lived in one room and weren't allowed out unless they had to go to school the two ladies who ran the orphanage bulled the hell out of those kids 💀

@emmahealy4863 Год назад

Nothing says "The Sims" like locking innocent people in the basement and forcing them to work for money lmao 🤣 I usually attempt to raise as many children as possible really efficiently and I was DISTRAUGHT when they started being taken away by social services in TS4

@Jakesfji Год назад

Once me and my friend who had just learned about sims ghosts, killed our sims so we could see them. It did not work.

@Holgast Год назад

I had 'Big Brother' where after an arbitrary amount of time, the Sim I liked the least would be eliminated

@chalopaseal3455 Год назад

…thanks for the new game idea

@llouie4999 Год назад

Great video! We were horrified when one of our first Sims kept increasingly coughing. We were fortunate we were able to do the sufficient "rest" / high enough motives route that he very slowly got better. We learned the source later on & the painting cure when we found one of those guide books. Still can't believe our character and the hamster managed to survive (and why yes there were much rosebuds ever after!!)!

@Efri3nd Год назад

I played this game religiously back in the day. I was hooked so was my family. This video brought back some great memories

@Maddiedoggie Год назад

The creepy liminal space in The Sims 1 is further exemplified in zombie survival horror game, Project Zomboid. Its visual style is heavily inspired by The Sims 1, but taken to the extreme as your character is instead battling for their life with zombies constantly trying to eat them instead.

@QuailQuests Год назад

YOOOOO zomboid is amazing B) I had no idea the style was inspired by the sims!! the atmosphere matches 100%

@RemusHinata Год назад

oh my god that's exactly it. it's so liminal.

@Julsibelle Год назад

The longer i watch this the more core memories it unlocks for me. That sad crying clown. Those prank calls. Military school... that terrifying buglar music...

@Bellexxlux Год назад

And they had housephones I hate that they take out their cellphone everywhere 😫

@Jakesfji Год назад

Dang, I’m glad I’m a sims 4 kid.

@vectorthigma3780 Год назад

I never really played the Sims series (until the Sims 3 and 4 lol) and more watched my sister play them (younger sibling syndrome) so I recently was digging through boxes and found original copies of the Sims 1 and 2 games for PC so this was so fun to watch :D

@silyknow Год назад

I agree with the statement that ts1 has the best soundtrack. In fact, I have a mod for the sims 3 that replaces all of the loading screen, town view, cas, and build/buy mode music with the sims 1 music instead! It might be my favorite mod for the game

@MagMaybe Год назад

The Tragic Clown has to be reference to the "Crying boy" painting, that was super popular in UK during 80s. it was believed to be cursed and cause fires. It was also bringing bad luck to owners according to owners.

@remiprobably Год назад

I got the upside-down face syndrome thing as a kid and it terrified me. It took maybe another decade before I finally bothered to look it up and confirmed that it wasn't just me!

@silversugar2140 Год назад

Would you consider a deep dive on The Urbz for the DS? It was the only Sims game I ever had and it's a weird one; I think it would be fun to learn more about.

@chardile Год назад

When I got the Pets expansion for The Sims 2, I always got upset when the dog or cat went to "Relieve Self" because you couldn't cancel the action and I thought it was something a lot worse than going to the bathroom