The Sims 1 No Money Challenge Broke Me 

Some people will argue that the Sims 1 is horribly balanced but I think it's a perfect representation of real life: the only way to get ahead is to start off with tens of thousands of dollars.

I do this challenge everyday even though I don’t own the sims

Sims 1 had that difficulty curve that other sims games haven't really achieved, even with mods. It's great for chaotic playthroughs

Mickey’s early game was unironically the perfect analogy for gambling addiction. Working your best, barely able to live - experiencing gruelling pain to slowly build a home. But things collapse, left in squalor as you descend into just getting “that one hit.” Gambling your life away for just one lucky break from a genie that just takes, takes and leaves you destitute. Jesus Christ.

I like how he keeps getting things that can increase his characters happiness which will help for work, but instead he immediately sells it to buy another genie lamp.

Sims 1: “RU-vid treating their content creators” challenge

This is actually pretty doable. Here are the steps: 1. Wait for a newspaper to be delivered 2. Get a job in military. Do not settle for anything else, because the other jobs don't pay enough 3. Greet a Sim that comes to your lot and socialize with them as much as possible before they have to leave. Try to make friends, if you can. 4. Read the newspaper as much as you can. This will sustain your fun levels for a while 5. Pass out/pee yourself. This is normal 6. Go to work 7. Come home, buy a single line of drywall, buy a phone and put it on the wall, and order pizza 8. Let Pizza Delivery Guy walk up as close as possible to receive pizza. Eat whole pizza From here, you just need to keep passing out, peeing, socializing, ordering pizza, and working until you gradually earn enough money to buy things. I recommend getting either a cheap loveseat that you can nap on, or a shower. Wait for phone calls to give you free money from the government (welfare). Eventually, you can buy enough furniture to get promoted. And voila: peak masculinity.

The way that genie immediately set your meth lab on fire had me in tears

The fact that you chose the Slacker career path in a no money challenge convinces me that you want pain and only pain.

bout shit myself laughing when the chemistry set burnt down before jman could even use it

Fun fact! In The Sims 1 & 2, you aren't charged for the pizza until you receive the delivery. In TS2, the pizza delivery guy would just auto charge you and place the pizza on your doorstep if it wasn't accepted in time. In TS1, I feel like it was... quirkier about not having a pizza accepted? I distinctly remember there being a way to get free pizza, but that could have been via cheating.

Micky d makes me wanna move back into my parents basement

Love how Micky complained that one pizza costed 40 simoleans but was willing to spend near 100 for popcorn

Callmekevin's voice has changed.

Lol I laughed so hard when you went: “Don’t burn down my house! Don’t yell at it! Don’t piss in your …*sigh* The skunk? I don’t care! HNNNNGH, the carpool!” Omg had be dying back to back.

Literally died when Mortimer pestered the J man, man likes living life on the edge I guess. Sims 1 is so wonderfully hectic.

What I liked about the genie was that if you haven't put any point in your personality, the genie can reverse your personality in total, so 0 becomes 10.

I quit smoking one week ago and I was having a really bad day today. You made me laugh so hard... Thank you Micky D, you have no idea how much you helped me today with this video! If you make the t-shirt, I would buy it

Playing Sims 1 as a five year old I imagine this is how I played. I used to dream about having the DLC.

At first I thought it was a coincidence that irish people on RU-vid liked the sim games, but I just moved here and I can confirm your entire country loves the sim games. Went to CEX and one of the lads picked up the Urbz for a couple quid

It's like watching your bud double down in blackjack knowing he's got Yu-Gi-Oh cards in his hands. Edit: Third lantern triple down break all the rules

This is the most true to life I think the Sims has ever been.

For a man who can make bread and wine appear out of nowhere, j man is certainly needy

Darks Souls should be called thee Sims 1 of Soulslikes

Hey, this was actually a great video, with a lot of humor and twists. Was genuinely sad when it ended and very excited for the next iteration of J's adventure into stardom!

Brings back memories of late nights playing The Sims, while listening to the first Gorillaz album. Absolutely loved this game. I had a blast messing with those poor sims, my favorite being the one where I had a lonely sim on lot with just a small shack for a home, and couch by the mailbox. He'd sit there often waiting for visitors.

"I'm gonna be a husk of myself" oh you mean like greystillplays

Hey, you havent uploaded as frequent as you did did prior. Your quality is unmatched and when you upload it brings a sunray to my day.

Imagine just meeting a new neighbor, and they pull out a puppet and chase you down with it

"I've never had a game hate me so much, and I'm a Morrowind fan." Sir, you have no right to be that relatable.

Sims 1 is truly masochistic, a true masterpiece.

Went and started this challenge for myself and went through some realisations. a) you got so unlucky with your first job option only giving 90$ simoleans, my first job starting pay was 240$ b) instead of eating lots of cotton candy or ordering pizza you could probably have brought cake and eaten that (lots of slices) though you'd need a table/bedside table for it vs a wall and phone (cake costs 30$ as opposed to 40$ for pizza) saves you on the cost of the phone and i suppose the table can later be used for genie lamps although i suppose when you do get lucky enough for a phone call for money it makes the phone worth it (not sure about the probability of that happening hmm ) theres also 10$ cookies but those don't do much at all. edit: nevermind both the cake and cookies can go on the ground! and the cake has 12 slices, enough to go to full hunger with only 30$ spent and no phone call required! c) wash hands wash hands wash hands. easier to buy a shower or sink vs buying a toilet as bladder can be cleaned up... and can wash hands at the magic town places too. d) reading the magazine for fun keeps you up a little bit vs complete sadness first thing i bought with my windfall of a paycheck (thank god i got lucky) was a couch to nap on and sort out comfort, meaning my character could sleep easier rather than having to wait for it to deplete the whole way otherwise man this was a series of unfortnate events huh XD so much chaotic things in the sims 1

"Do I have to buy a door just so I can get a pizza." What a time to be alive.

So much easier to do in Sims 3. My current household started that way, used testing cheats and fixed up a starter home rather than build a home on my sims empty lot then raided the neighbors garbage cans. Got $500 from scrap, a teddy bear, and bubble bath. harvested some other sims garden for food then raided another trash can and got a space rock that was worth $1400. After that my sim explored the catacombs in hopes of a genie lamp.. got a book instead and even more need of a shower. And then built a 4 tile by 4 tile home included the cheapest table, chair, shower, toilet, ceiling light, and fridge. Outside went an easel and my sim was broke again... Now it's a year later in the game and she owns all but two of the businesses in town and is pushing 2 million simoleans. She still lives in the tiny house, has just the painting skill and being a Diva and a loner she keeps her social up by herself and her social tab is empty except for her car which she became friends with somehow. And so many genie lamps sitting on the lot from exploring the catacombs.

If you cry in the pee puddle, no one will know its pee

The nostalgia critic line sent me. Doug really does be sounding like that.

Well, I learned from this video that the genie lamp is pretty bad idea if you're poor

This was a fantastic stream and the video turned out great! I now have the urge to play the Sims again for the first time in ~20 years

Mortimer sounds like he used to be a damn fine detective, so happy with his mouth open

man i need like 5 more hours of this lol, great content as always 👍

A complementary roof ! It’s on the house . *chefs kiss*

Finally a playthrough we can relate to

I was going to comment about the pets being op for social but you found it out yourself. You should spam create potions with the chem set for the love potions and sell/rebuy the set if you get crappy potions (you can tell by the colour). Good way to make longish lasting friends for promotions.

Ngl, hearing that music again brought tears to my eyes. Lost my brother last year and him and I spent 1000s of hours playing The Sims on PC and Sims 2 on GC together. Damnit man....

Sorry honey, Micky D just uploaded, Sex can wait…

It's 1 a.m and I'm laughing way too hard because "toilet seems like a bit of a luxury" 😂

Definitely one of my favourite videos, nothing like watching someone come into a challenge all bright and full of hope before slowly being crushed under the weight of bad luck. Good video 10/10 looking forward to the next instalment.

9:56 Breaking Bread

Need some Assassin’s Creed 2 gameplay so you can rectify your younger self’s most brutal mistake. Hug Leonardo da Vinci, Micky. He’s waiting with open arms.

That sim really did sound like the nostalgia critic

Hearing "circle of friends" was so weird no idea i still had that locked away.

hope to see another episode of this, such a good watch

The pain I felt for him with Le sad sigh 24:47

So uh... we need more of this for sure.

From experience, I can say that this was a remarkably accurate depiction of being homeless

You better follow him on Twitch. That way he can avoid the no money real life challenge as youtube loves to hurt our poor lad.

I'm glad I'm getting recommended so many Sims 1 videos. I especially love seeing the Sims 1 challenges since it's more challenging doing them in the first game due to how harder it is to compared to the other three games.

33:19 Luck of the Irish moment

I need more of this 😂 I laughed, I sighed, then got sad when it ended!!! I would love to see you do this with each of the games!!

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Micky D.

"Eat you f-ing burger son of god" is a quote that now lived in my head

Hahaha the chemistry set 😂 that was genius comedic timing

I like how right at 5:56 you can see my subscription notice for just a split second. I have let everyone in the world know that I am, indeed, a loser.

Wow this is the unluckiest rng I’ve ever seen how did you not just quit or get super frustrated especially when you had good stuff only for it to mess up

Watch this over on Twitch in full absolutely hilarious, showed my partner and now she has set off on her 0-supperstar challenge! Keep up the good work Micky!

Jesus Christ Superstar is a Rock Opera that premiered in 1972, and had a production in 1970, and is still having productions to this day, most recent production was in 2019.

I love ur vids. They always make me laugh. I live in Puerto Rico and with the hurricane and all at least this helps me smile.

Shilly D, a hero is born.

Micky d your content always makes my day even if my day wasn't so great to begin with 😁

The timing on buying the Chemistry set and then instantly burning it....too good. Or bad I guess, from The J's perspective

Jesus didn't cry. HE WEPT.

Jesus truly suffered for our sims...

i like the console versions of the sims especially the ps2 ones just cos they had some sort of story mode

for a second I thought it was project zomboid

Whenever I see “The Sims” I’m reminded I have an unopened copy from ~the time of release. Right about the time I wonder if it’s worth anything I go back to

28:02 : "Neighbours was a show it's cancelled now." Ironically, as an Irishman, your Neighbours are to blame for the cancellation of Neighbours. British TV networks wouldn't fork out the money to extend their deal with the Australian network to air the show.

Because of this video I had to try the no money challenge in Sims 1 myself, except I only have the base game. It has gone...SIGNIFICANTLY better than this run lmao. Can't wait to see the next installment!

You know, it's a pretty decent representation of starting a life without money. Only irl you don't get the genie.

This challenge is super interesting I’m eager for another episode

I’m loving the constant Simpsons references

This feels timely given the Twitch discussion of bans on gambling streams. the Genie is a lesson

PLEASE CONTINUE THIS 😂

I love the whole idea that a flatscreen TV costs about the same as low income housing back in the year 2000

when you rubbed a genie's lamp and now your hole is on fire and you have to visit the clinic

I see Micky D is doing the real life challenge.

The genie...

The genie animation is the tell. . If the genie stumbles the wish is cursed

Flip yeah micky d playing sims 1. my fav morrowind you ever playing sims 😗😗😗

Great video Micky! Loved hanging out in the stream. Both were super entertaining. ^_^

Genuinely adore you playing the sims Micky. This style of content is so enjoyable and the perfect length.

45 minutes of Micky d sims 1 fuck yeah

"if we don't find food, we're gonna have to eat the dog" 🐕

Best video I've watched all the way through in awhile. Currently rewatching

Love your videos Micky! I hope you have a grand ol day

I imagine jesus spends plenty of his time crying looking down on our own world, really

Babe, wake up. Qxir just uploaded

Oh my word. The Sims uses Comic Sans as the default game font? Well, now I have to watch. Ahaha. "I'm confused about the pizza. Do they not deliver to open fields?"

great stream, reminds me of real life. Except the end, that's too unrealistic.

Can't wait to see Mickey play the new Harry Potter Game!!!!!

Love the content 🔥🔥🔥 soon to be a super star