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A screenshot from The Sims showing the Grim Reaper sitting at a wooden picnic table. The figure wears a long black hooded cloak and holds a small object in their hand.

Ever played The Sims? You gotta see this blog – Sims Gone Wrong

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Date
30 April 2013

If, like me, you spent your teenage years holed up in a dark room playing The Sims for a minimum of two hours a day, you might enjoy this. Did you use the cheats to remove the hot tub while they were “playing?” Did you ever lock them in a room and take away the doors or make them go swimming and take away the ladders? Course you bloody did. We all did. So here’s a blog that highlights the beautiful, glitchy moments in The Sims when things go unpredictably wrong, weird, or broken. What I can predict, however, is that if you never played The Sims this will probably be entirely lost on you. Sorry.

A 3D render of a person lying across a white bed in a sparsely furnished room. They are wearing a green top and dark shorts, with their legs hanging off both sides of the mattress.
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Sims Gone Wrong

A 3D render of a tan horse with a white face and grey mane standing inside a wooden barn. Through the open barn door, a rural landscape is visible under a pale purple sky.
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Sims Gone Wrong

A 3D render of a white horse standing on a stage in front of a drum kit and keyboard. A large, glowing star sign behind the horse reads “VITS”.
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Sims Gone Wrong

A 3D render of a green-skinned figure with red hair standing in a living room. They wear a striped T-shirt and blue trousers, positioned between a brown sofa and a wooden staircase.
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Sims Gone Wrong

A screenshot from The Sims showing two characters in a room with a parquet floor. One person sits on a brown sofa holding a game controller, while another figure in yellow underwear sits on the floor.
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Sims Gone Wrong

A screenshot from The Sims showing a person in a black dress reaching out to a child in a blue dress. They are in a room with several white baby cots, and a notification in the corner reads “Adamina just grew up from a baby to a toddler!”.
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Sims Gone Wrong

A 3D render from a video game shows a person with teal hair leaning over a high chair. They wear a beige dress and black high heels in a room with wooden floors.
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Sims Gone Wrong

A 3D render from a video game shows a person with long blue hair wearing a floor-length brown gown. To the left, an open “Formal” clothing menu displays various dress and suit options.
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Sims Gone Wrong

A 3D render of a swimming pool area featuring a brown horse standing on the water's surface. Three figures stand around the pool, each with a white thought bubble floating above their head.
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Sims Gone Wrong

A 3D render of two figures embracing on a red carpet. In the background, police cars with flashing lights are parked near a row of potted plants.
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Sims Gone Wrong

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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