A guide for playing The Sims 1 on Intel and ARM Macs
Omg. My childhood is back. The Sims was one of my favorite games of all time. I would spend so many nights playing this game until 4 or 5am, using the free money cheat to trick out my houses and to set my Sims up in horrific situations. I would then have to be up to leave for school at 7:30am and try to explain to my mom why I was so tired, not dare telling her the real reason, lest she remove my PC from my bedroom.<p>I even used to use my miniDV camera and the FireWire card on my computer to capture game footage to edit it with funny voice overs and edits, similar to the style later known as Machinima. But it was the year 2000 and I didn’t know anyone else doing anything like that.<p>The subsequent games have been varying degrees of great or meh — Sims 2 was a disappointment to me and while it took me a while to embrace it, Sims 4 is pretty dope (I had very few complaints about Sims 3). But the first game, I remember reading a preview of it in Next Generation magazine in August of 1999 and getting a preorder at my local video game store that week. Six months later, I left school early to get it early.<p>I can’t wait to play this when I get back home tomorrow.