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The Sims Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

Posted by Zonk on from the so-many-toilets-left-unflushed dept.

Voodoo Extreme has a small piece on EA Games celebrating The Sims' fifth anniversary. They have apparently sold over 54 million units in the lifetime of the series. From the article "The very first The Sims videogame for the PC began shipping to stores this week in February 2000 and took the nation by storm by becoming the #1 selling PC game in four out of the last five years."

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  1. 5th anniversary? by joshsnow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    celebrating The Sims' fifth anniversary.

    DNF is celebrating its seventh anniversary this year too. That's Seven years since it was announced.

    What has this got to do with the Sims? Simply that I recall being very excited by screenshots of both upcoming products back in 2000...