The Sims 1: Vanilla Gameplay (No Commentary) 

People say it all the time, but youtube is truly the closest thing we'll get to a time machine.

These games were made with so much passion. I'll never forget the day I was 6 years old and my sister came home with The Sims game. Playing this on a big ass chunky monitor, a mouse with a ball inside it and some clunky keyboard, those are memories Ill never forget.

The music for this game is, by definition, iconic. For me, no other game's soundtrack has come close to capturing what it felt like to grow up in the late 90's - early 2000's. It is abrasively nostalgic.

There is something about the elegance and simplicity of the first game combined to its lonely, sunday afternoon atmosphere that makes it an incredibly enjoyable and memorable experience for me. I just got back to the Sims 1 a few days ago after almost a decade not playing it, and the moment I heard the music from the launcher I was hooked like my 12 years old self was back in the days. I sometimes miss when games used to be more simple and your imagination was filling the gap.

I play this game when I was 8 years old. Now I'm 28 years old. Time Flies.

This brings back the happiest memories.

I still believe that The Sims has one of the best soundtracks in gaming. It's just sublime.

As a kid my mind was literally blown away that you could build your own house in a game and just living through a virtual live. Sims 1 might not have the best graphics but I think the older 3D graphics mixed with the 2D furniture just looks really unique and timeless

Selling the fire alarm to be able to afford a pizza was a classic move.

sims 1 will forever be top tier of the franchise. Literally carrying the whole franchise on its back!!! I spent TONS of HOURS playing this game as a kid and as an adult still cant get over it lmao

Of all people, my grandma introduced me to The Sims when it first released in 2000. 23 years ago... wow... I remember falling in love with it. Just a 10 year old boy. She also let me play Turok on the N64 and introduced me to South Park... lmao looking back what a bad ass grandma I had. She passed in 2015. How time flies. Miss you Mimi. Love you

I am 48 years old, and I go to sleep almost every night listening to The Sims, Stronghold, Neverwinter Nights, and Zelda: Ocarina of time soundtracks. They take me back to a better time in my life.

I miss this game so much! I used to play it until like 4 or 5 in the morning. Time flew by while playing this.

Something about the game graphics in that time... You'd think that today's kids are luckier but I don't feel like that's true. You really didn't need the full 3d environment to feel immersed in the game. The games gave your mind just the right amount of information it needs to fill in the blanks with your imagination and you using that imagination is probably what made these games so enjoyable. Maybe it's similar to reading comic books. Also games like The Sims 1 and Red Alert allowed themselves to have more realistic looking elements than the current ones which is something that helped with the immersion, just look at the furniture and character design in Sims 1.

Sims 1 gives me the Sunday afternoon vibe haha :D

I have to admit It is so relaxing and better watching sims without blabbing in background

The music in buy mode is just so relaxing 😎

I swear, the best thing that my sister's horrible ex-fiance did was introduce us younger siblings to this game! I'm 30 and still playing 20 years later... (and my sister has a nice husband now)

Everything about Sims 1 gives me the most intense wave of nostalgia. Takes me right back to the simplicity of childhood.

even when you play this game as an adult, you'll never have that feeling you did as a kid while playing this.. aaah I miss the late 1990s

Best soundtrack 😊

Ahhhhhhh...childhood. It's also so interesting to see the changes in technology. The wall-mounted phone, CD/tape stereo on the kitchen table, etc.

I remember I made a tiny little 1x2 pool with a ladder, and then once my character got in to swim, I quickly deleted the ladder, and then he died, and the music that plays when a character dies scared me and I would turn the game off.. ahh where does time go

I genuinely almost cried watching this, so much nostalgia, omg, I wish I could go back in time

This game is every thing i remember playing so long i had to pull myself off because of having to go to work the next morning. And I had to play responsibly because I could easily play all day and half the nights What happened to a game like this.

I started playing this when I was 4. I remember I had a dream once that they added dogs to the game, and when "Unleashed" came out I lost my mind. I used to play this on my dad's computer in his den. I was always jealous because his family lived in a castle with a maid, and mine had a grill and a bed outside with no walls hahaha

I was 10 years old in 2000. A friend came by and told me: "You gotta see this". We went over to his house, sat in front of his PC and this was the exact moment, i fell so in love with The Sims.

There's such a comfort in falling asleep with this in the background. I first played this game when I was a child going through a very difficult time in 2002-2003. This game was my escape.

Completely forgot you could only do one action at a time! Wow some nostalgia here. I'm now 33 and still a sims 4 fan but doesn't give me the same joy I got from sims 1. Oh the late nights I had on the family computer playing this 😂

I remember the first time I was introduced to this game. I was around 10 yr old visiting a friend. She showed me that game and I was hooked. I immediately asked her to let me borrow her CD and ran home and asked my big brother to install it on our PC. 18 years passed by and I still play TS1 sometimes

One of the most vivid things I remeber from Sims 1 was how CHALLENGING it was to keep their needs up and fulfilled. Like they would literally sink the second you MOVED. FKN HeLL. Edit: the sound effects are top tier ngl.

I got hooked again playing TS1 during the start of the pandemic playing almost everyday non-stop. Last 3 months, I have decided to re-install TS4 to play it but I wasn´t as hooked. This video made me miss TS1 again. TS1 just has a different impact on me.

Oh Christ the music got me all nostalgic

Ahh the nostalgia hits so hard right now! God I'm old as shit! ROSEBUD ;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;

when my biggest problem in life was deciding whether to play Sims, Disney Magic Artist, Detective Barbie, Dogz, Catz, or Babiez and hopefully the cd has no scratches

One thing I'll apprecdiate the Sims 3 for is how they brought back the classical-music vibe to build/buy mode (and inside the rabbit hole buildings like the spa one for instance, actual Sims 1 soundtracks play in there!) Was hoping Sims 4 would have had some sort of nod towards Sims 1 but if anything it's got a lot of nods to Sims 2's wackiness (which isn't bad!). I remember when the Sims 2 came out and it was a complete game changer I think EA killed it with the Sims 2 and it started to go a little downhill from there. Sims 1 was certainly a treat. Thank you for sharing the very first game!!

I remember waking up at the crack of dawn just so I could get my Sims fix in before school. I miss the early 2000s 💜

I weirdly needed this, I spent a large part of my childhood/teen years GLUED to the original sims so this is like core memories for me

I remember how blown away I was the first time playing this game. Never ending possibilities, a true sandbox

Thank you for posting this. As someone that played this daily growing up as a kid, it’s nice to take a break from adult life and reminisce the memories.

I usually put a few choice tracks from this game while I'm cooking. It just always puts me in such a happy place, and I think it shows in my food.

The Sims is such a masterpiece, none of the sequels got me hours playing it, the expansions pack were amazing, this game soundtrack lives rent free on my mind.

That extasy hearing this intro music after waiting 100000000000000 hours for this game to install :) and praying your PC is not crashing on it :D

Man I've been playing this game for 21 years lol

So much nostalgia! I often listen to the music when relaxing

I was 6 years old. I went to my neighbours house to hangout and she had the Sims 1. We’d play it together. Two years later, she moved out. When I was 15, I bought my very first Sims game - The Sims 2 Deluxe Edition. And I can’t stop playing it since. 😄

I miss this game so much

My childhood friend received this game in the mail for free. She popped it in and we started playing it. I was so hooked that I ended up getting my mom to buy me one from Walmart. I lost so much sleep staying up all night playing this game. My childhood ❤

The Newbies are just the best people I know

I could fall asleep with these sounds, the memory of my childhood... I remember my mother playing and I would watch her for hours

this is exactly what i was looking for, thanks

I was in college when this came out and it literally destroyed my body clock coz I will be playing it for hours until the morning... 🤣

One minute I’m spending hundreds of hours playing this and buying all the EPs as they get released, and the next I’m 37 finding this on RU-vid and kinda wanting to cry. Nostalgia is putting it lightly. Thanks for this ❤

When Bob gets up from bed super slowly even though there's a BURGLAR and then the police gets mad at him for 'prank' calling hahaha. That Sims 1 magic...

I remember how I was introduced to The Sims. My family had a big family party at one of my cousins house and when my sister and I got there my cousins where all playing in one computer creating each other. We got there just on time to make ourselves and we played the entire day and we fell in love with the game. Days later we beg our mom to buy the sims for us until we went out and bought it. Surprisingly my sister didn’t played crazy hours of the sims like I did, staying up until 4am playing this game. 💚

i would play sims 1 in a heartbeat, playing 3 and 4, but the charm of the first is gold

I remember playing this game on Gamecube for hours. So addictive.

Omg i spent so much time on this game when i was a kid 😯 now I'm 23 and still playing with sims 4. Best game ever. Thanks for sharing so good memories.

I grew up playing with dolls, when this game came out I was hooked, the ultimate virtual dollhouse! I have grown to love this franchise but still remember how I felt playing the first game for the first time, golden years for me with this game.

My dad used to play this in the early 2000s -- he thought it was a building game (because he likes architecting and floor planning). He only began to play it and later realized that it's a life simulation game. He got addicted into it and had fun in his early days.

I love love love this game. It just has that “something”, that none of the sequels have. Maybe the “something” was that due to the (cute and well done) graphics, we had to rely on our imagination and had to fill the gaps since not everything was catered to us. And oh, don’t get me started about the nostalgia… And the music!

Ah to be a kid again playing the original sims.

I remember being excited to come home after kindergarten back in the early 2000s to play this game on the family computer. Those really were the days..

Sims 1 is a true gem. Yeah, it still had DLC like most Sims games, but it was special. It was beginning of one of the most famous "person" simulators in the world. It's from a time when Maxis was still a relatively unknown company; really only known for generic Sim games.

Omg the sims Latin music just hits different 😖❤️ I've had some of the songs as my ringtone during school! That was a good 10+ years ago

What a nostalgia! 🥺The Sims 1 had the best soundtrack! And that rush of adrenaline when the burglar came! 🤣

This is exactly what I wanted in my life at this exact moment ugh thank you

5:28 'choose a chair that Bob might like'... 6:03 that's a funny looking chair

Wowww, the music brings my youth back

Wow time flies!! 20 years ! I miss this feeling so muchhhh

So many memories. The only thing that's missing is the 2-3 minute load times, and the game randomly corrupting itself every so often forcing a complete reinstall.

The sims 1 was pretty wild back in the day. Anyone remember the cake dancers?

OMG from the sounds and the music…..takes me all the way back to simpler times

I LOVE the bossa nova jazz music in The Sims 1. Especially the song at 8:57.

The dialogues are the best 🤣 as disturbing 😂😂

My favorite trick in this game was that you could put your own mp3s into the folder where the radio files were and you could play your own music in game.

The police coming to scold u, after the burglar already left and proceeding to do nothing about the stolen items. Ah just like real life 😂

This video has given me the best nostalgic memories so far for games.

There is an Easter egg on the neighborhood screen where the Loch Ness monster is in the river briefly

It's 2022 and I still fkcing play and love this game on my modern PC.

You know a game is good when it uses Comic Sans and nobody cares.

The buy mode music brings back so many memories

I remember when my mom randomly came home one day with a huge Sims boxset which included Hot Date and Vacation. I spent HOURS and DAYS on this game. I remember when you could take the music files and copy them to your computer. I burnt a CD with some of the Vacation songs and my ex let me have his copy of Makin Magic (which I still have) and there were so many good tunes on that, that I burned it to a CD as well. I even remember being able to take music of your own and put it in the music files so the Sims could turn on their stereo and jam to Rob Zombie or Marilyn Manson or Britney Spears, whatever you wanted. lmao. Once newer Sims games came out, I downloaded them to my laptop and the job I used to have was a 12hr job where sometimes I could stay in the office and have downtime to play this to let the time pass. It was such a great time waster and I loved it. I play the Sims 4 now and I know I've dished out hundreds of dollars for all the expansion packs and kits....and I don't regret it. EDIT: Forgot to add, I'll never forget Drew Carey coming to my house after having a banging good party. I called my mom in to see it (we watched Whose Line Is It Anyway? a lot) and that was definitely one of the more fond memories I have of the game being unique to me.

It's been 20 years since ive played this and the music alone brings comfort to my soul❤ sims 1 and sims 2 are forever a huge part of my childhood.

this is my cat's favorite video

The original PC sims will never top any other sim game! You just had to be there! My fave expansion was Makin Magic and Hot Date !

I still do all the sims whistles, and no other melody. Such fond memories of my childhood 😊

Oof. The nostalgia. It hurts. But a good kind of hurt. I remember wasting several hours on this when i was a kid. Although... I did not like the danger music at all at the time when I was younger. I bought a cappuccino machine to keep my Sims awake to avoid getting burglars so I wouldn't have to hear it.

Oh dear lord I'm having so many traumatic flashbacks rn😳 I lowkey forgot this is what the game looked like, I'm just so used to the Sims 4 now...

This video brings a lot of good memories playing Sims 1 with my sister. It was such a good time then together, one was playing and the other watching and giving tips. Always money cheating (Klapaucius). Oh that time we didn't knew the copy paste combination, typing it one million times. Thanks for the upload.

28:00 unbelievable music. I want to cry from nostalgia.

So much great childhood memories kicks in while watching this! I spent so much hours playing this game!

Oh my god............my childhood 🥺 Anyone remember *rosebud* the cheat code? Man I miss this

I've been listening to this at work the past few days. So relaxing and nostalgic. Love the old build & buy music 😊

The nostalgia I get from this is insane! Ahh the good old days...

God! The music is still so magical ❤

800x600 in 2020 - it's an instant LIKE !

Man, I spent hours building houses in this game, I remember playing this on summer vacations until 5 am. The best times ever

Thast building music

I used to exclusively play this game and Sim City 2 everyday for many many months. Then, eventually, Sim Coasters. Loved it.