Sean’s Recommendations:
Marc Snetiker – “An Open Letter to the Families Who Perished During My Reign” – Entertainment Weekly – 2015
https://ew.com/article/2015/02/05/open-letter-families-sims-who-perished-during-my-reign/
Polygon – “How The Sims Made New-Age Jazz Piano the Soundtrack of Our Lives” – 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpVUi9TQ8U
Ludovica Price, University of London – “The Sims: A Retrospective – A Participatory Culture 14 Years On” – 2014
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301927291_The_Sims_A_Retrospective_-_A_Participatory_Culture_14_Years_On
Josh’s Recommendations:
Elise Favis – “The Daunting Task of Designing Language for Video Games” – Game Informer – 2016
https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2016/09/05/the-daunting-task-of-designing-language-for-video-games.aspx
Elise Favis – “How The Sims navigated 20 years of change to become one of the most successful franchises ever” – Washington Post – 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/02/04/how-sims-navigated-20-years-change-become-one-most-successful-franchises-ever/
Reviews from the time:
Jason Samuel – GamePro.com
https://www.simsnetwerk.com/nieuws/2000/02/10/gameprocom-review
Andrew Park – GameSpot
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-sims-review/1900-2533406/
Michael Lafferty and Gil Shef – GameZone
https://www.gamezone.com/news/the_sims_is_gamezone_s_game_of_the_year_2000/amp/
Ben Silverman – Game Revolution
https://www.gamerevolution.com/review/33112-the-sims-review
IGN
https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/02/05/the-sims-6
Nick Stewart – Adrenalin Vault
https://web.archive.org/web/20050324030719/http://avault.com/reviews/review_temp.asp?game=sims
Jason Venter – Honest Gamers – 2005
http://www.honestgamers.com/3651/pc/the-sims/review.html
Console release reviews:
Andrew Park – GameSpot – 2003
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-sims-review/1900-2908753/
Michael Vreeland – GameSpy – 2003
http://cube.gamespy.com/gamecube/the-sims/5784p1.html
Retrospective Reviews:
LGR – “The Sims 1: A Retrospective Review” – 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsob06m9p_4
Sam Ramsden – Metro – 2018
https://metro.co.uk/2018/02/09/5-reasons-why-the-sims-is-the-greatest-video-game-of-all-time-7296620/
Old PC Gaming – 2016
https://oldpcgaming.net/the-sims-review/
Rick Lane – Eurogamer – 2015
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-12-06-the-sims-utopia-is-more-affecting-now-than-it-was-15-years-ago
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