![A domestic scene from the original The Sims base game. In a kitchen/dining room stocked with middle-tier items, an adult male Sim gives a backrub to an adult female Sim, while a female child stands looking at a baby in a bassinet.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-sims-presskit-screenshot-resized.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS | 24 years later, no-one can quite agree on when exactly The Sims actually came out
One year short of the franchise's big quarter-century anniversary, we set out to trace it back to its exact calendar roots.