I remember thinking that someone had simply ripped-off LCP when she first told me about it, but when I sat down at her computer and played it for the first time I instantly understood three important things: the first was that it was not a rip-off of LCP, but a new and special game in its own right the second was that I very much liked it the third was that if I was not careful it could easily disrupt my life in very negative ways because it was (and remains) a highly addictive hard-to-stop-playing game. There was no end-game, it was an ongoing thing, and while he certainly had a regular daily routing, each day was different. Welcome to The Sims 3: World Adventures! Will Wright, in writing about what motivated him to create The Sims as a game series, refers to Little Computer People as part of the inspiration, though clearly he took the entire concept of simulated life inside of computer games to a whole new level - even a whole new universe for that matter - but still what you had was a game in which you interacted with a little man who lived in your computer in a house that was warm and comfy, and who would often communicate with you by writing notes and acting out his emotions. It was created by David Crane and Rich Gold (legends in the game design community of the 1980's) and published by Activision - you have heard of Activision, right? A lot of my mates who owned other computers also played it, so it was a popular topic of conversation among us and, considering that there were versions for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, and ZX Spectrum as well as the C=64/CBM64, it got wide play and a lot of attention at the time. Little Computer People was, in essence, partly what I had wished for when I thought about how neat it would be to have a more personal simulated people experience ala SimCity. At that time while I had access to PC's in addition to the Mini-and-Mainframe computers at school, at home my personal computer of choice was a very heavily modified Commodore C=64 upon which I played Little Computer People.
At that time I was still in University, the world (and I) were much younger, and I distinctly recall thinking at the time how neat it would be if we could play that game on a more personal level, interacting with the simulated population in a group fashion or, even better, one-on-one.
The first time I played a Sims game it was not actually a Sims game at all, it was a game from the very successful Sim-series that came before The Sims - SimCity to be precise. The Sims 3 World Adventures Walkthrough The Sims 3 World Adventures Unofficial Guide by CM Boots-Faubert for Before we get to the proper Introduction to the game in which we discuss its history and the wonderful nature of its expanded sim-ply fun elements I want to address the matter of the game itself and what it means to the writer who created this Unofficial SuperCheats Guide and Walkthrough for The Sims 3: World Adventures - me.
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