As the name implies, my first neighbourhood, built between the PC (The Sims Deluxe) and the Mac (Livin' Large) during which I discovered that Deluxe was more than a simple combination of the first two game editions.
21-09-2003: all houses updated to get rid of the hand problem.
Lot 1: the Bison gang
The first house built from the ground up, this was meant to be an
adolescent's heaven (it's tough that Sims have the choice of being 9 or 27)
for five youths born on the wrong side of the track in the novel/film
Ai no Kusabi, which is situated in a kind of space colony led
by androids. Apart from Sid, the SimBison kids resemble the originals
fairly closely. The house is Livin' Large-compatible, but two
skins were used from Deluxe. They can easily be replaced. This
family needs some kid-friendly hacks.
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Lot 2: the Unpleasants
How I hate families with two point four children, a wage-earning
pappy and a homemaking mammy. This family was put in the biggest house
on the block and provided with telescopes to get them abducted and
chemistry sets to explode in their faces. This luxury-laden house is
only compatible with Deluxe and will crash in Livin' Large.
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Lot 4: Michael Angelo
Well, I couldn't in all seriousness call him Bachelor, could I?
This dull, drab character was given a career as eccentric architect and
a house that uses many Deluxe objects, but at least won't crash in
Livin' Large. The lot contains: the Round House, the Minimal House
and a maze (which Sims have no problem finding their way around in) leading
to the Stairway to Heaven (and as the photo album says, if you don't think
this stairway leads to heaven, you've never been dying for a crap ^_^)
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Lot 5: the Goths
No family has known as many crashes and bugs as this one; is it that
ominous graveyard? After an unexpected addition to the family - the
adopted Pyrrhus, a suitable name to go with Cassandra - the house was
extended somewhat, and the grownups had a tower constructed to assure
them some privacy. This definitely made the house compatible with
Deluxe only.
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Lot 6: the Zunis
A single-parent family, and one of the few to struggle along without the
money cheat, until, to spice up their dull home, I provided them with a
special balcony. (Supposedly, they won a prize in a designing competition
and used the prize money to build it...) Originally a character experiment:
the grownup is a friendly slob, the kid a mean clean-freak. The surname is
that of an ancient neighbour of the Aztecs and has to do with Scylla
being a time traveller, which is why he wears a Greek tunic, from the
Deluxe pack; the kid wears the overall with catapult which
also exists only in Deluxe (although it was shown on the cover of
the original Sims game). Object-wise, their house is LL-compatible.
Updated 30-11-2003 to fix a hole in the balcony that was getting
Sims stuck trying to get around it.
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Lot 7: The Newbies
The sweet but boring Newbies. Not only has this version of the
family amassed quite a fortune and built a larger house, they now have
a somewhat original garden that accentuates the lie of the land. The
least spectacular neighbours of the hood, nevertheless. LL-compatible.
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Lot 8: Julie Angelo
An experiment to see if two families with the same surname could live
in one neighbourhood, Michael's "artsy friend" house-sits his creations
that didn't fit on the first lot: the Castelette, the floating temple
and the H2O, named for the way it imitates a water molecule. The angular
building style of the Sims doesn't allow a very accurate imitation,
unfortunately. Both the skin and many objects are from Deluxe,
but the house won't crash in LL.
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Lot 10: the Roomies
My first good experience with the Sims; fulfilling a wish of my
own, I bought the bachelorettes a house and furnished it in such a way
that I would have liked to live there myself. They rewarded me by living
happily and autonomously together, dancing, hugging and giving each
other gifts. LL-compatible.
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