Obsession with Playing God

While lazing around at my mom’s place last two weekends back due to that botched weekend plans - I accidentally stumbled upon a pile of PS (Playstation) games in my bro’s room (yeah, I do that sometimes… nosing around my bro’s pad sometimes :D). While flipping through it absent mindedly, I found to my delight, the love of my life staring right back at me. Yay! *jumps up and down with joy*
What am I rambling about??

…. I was talking about The Sims i.e. the hottest life simulation game released in the year 2000 . I was pretty caught up with it when it was first released and I was fortunate enough to own a PC at that particular period of time (bought it using my hard earned bonus – my first very own PC. Can’t even remember if it was a Pentium or some lower version).

I was so crazed with this game that I would trawl the net for hours just to look for stuffs to download for my Sims – and I could only do it on my bro’s PC back at mom’s place as I don’t have an internet connection at my place . I took the pain of downloading tons & tons of fashionable attires to play dress up with my Sims, large houses mansions for my them to live in style and comfort, multitude of furniture and other little items to décor and furnish my mansions.

What is alarming is that… I did all this only via a dial-up connection! Epp! Yes, this was the extent of my obsession, I confessed . Moreover, it was a real pain to transfer all that downloaded stuffs from my bro’s PC to mine – had to do it using floppies too. Bummer . With its (floppy disks) mere 1.44MB space, I ended up with stacks of em' even though the files are normally zipped up before the transfer. What to do, there aren’t any CD burners back then. Even if there is, which I doubt so, it would be freaking expensive to own one. Heh, even the flash drive is still unheard of back then.

So, what’s the main draw of this game? Let’s just say I love being a control freak… well, for gameplay at least. I love the fact that I could manipulate my Sims anyhow I want . I can refrain them from taking a leak and let them pee-pee in their pants, I can starve them to death if I want, just to lure the Death out to collect their souls or even flirt with other’s partner and kissing them just to get into a cat fight with the jealous partner. In short, do things we can’t or wouldn’t do in real life! How quaint is that .

Now back to the game I found in bro’s stash, it was called The Urbz: Sims in the City – it’s a video game for the PlayStation 2 platform therefore, there aren’t any downloading attractions unlike its PC platform counterpart. Whew, I am safe.

The gameplay was not as smooth as it was on a PC, as it was not easy to maneuver around this game using a joystick. Ha-ha, so much for joy. I felt so disorientated at the beginning, which almost got me to abandon ship. Well, almost but not quite, yet *grin*. Man aged to master it after a few rounds – letting the geek in me take control and iron out the trouble areas. Hence, here I am, engine all fired up and ready to GO! *eyes glazes over staring intently at the screen*

All in all, playing Sims on PS2 was as just as addictive as on a PC... although this time I don’t get to load external stuffs into the game inventory. Hehehehe… already downloaded the cheat codes and walkthroughs (yeap, I play with cheats. I am a cheater *evil grin*) to ace this game. It’s a pity there’s no money cheat code for this game – I’ll have to earn it the honest and hard way... work for it. Oh well…