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The Sims Unleashed! 
Add a pet to your Sims family! Expanded neighborhood with 15 new residential lots and five community lots featuring parks, a cafe, shops and market! Fifty new jobs in five new careers: Animal Care, Culinary, Circus, Fashion, or Education! 150 new objects: grow a harvest of vegetables in the Vegetable Garden or get soaked trying to wash your pet in the Pet Bath! What's been missing in your Sims' family life? Pets, of course! For the first time ever, The Sims Unleashed will give your Sims the chance to add a furry friend to the family. Visit the pet store to pick a dog or cat for your Sims. Then run their pet lives and fulfill their pet needs as you increase the fun and social life of the whole Sim household. Housebreak your pets; train them to do tricks; play with them; buy them toys, treats, and accessories; and do your best to keep them from destroying the whole house! Your Sims will have plenty to do while taking care of their pets. An expanded neighborhood with 15 additional residential lots and five community lots featuring parks, cafιs, and a vegetable market will give your Sims and their pets a variety of places to meet their neighbors. This expansion pack requires full The Sims game to play. Liz from Pittsburgh writes: "In my opinion, this is the best expansion pack yet (I have all 5)... The addition of community lots to the game is really neat ... a great deal of complexity has been added with this expansion pack, especially for longtime players. Some of my oldest families had run out of new things to do, but raising pets is very challenging, and forces the player to really focus on the game. The gardening aspect is fun too, as is training your pets to help with various household activities. Hours of fun." © Amazon.com Click the Box!
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The Sims Deluxe Edition
Includes The Sims, The Sims Livin' Large, and a host of all-new exclusive features in one Deluxe package! Create any Sim you can imagine with the powerful Sims Creator! Furnish your homes with two completely new design sets with over 25 new objects! Deck out your Sims with over 50 new modern and extreme fashion choices! |
The Sims Livin' Large Expansion Pack 
Sex and aliens. That's really all that was missing from the amazing original edition of The Sims, and the expansion Livin' Large delivers these new treats to liven up your beloved Sims existence. New characters (including a gladiator and Xena-like warriors), and, more impressively, new decorations are the reasons to buy this game. The furnishings are mostly grouped by theme, with the medieval dungeon option the most authoritative of the bunch. (Little Cassandra Goth has been longing to read by torch light all along.) Our personal favorite is the futuristic theme, with an optional, but expensive, maid/gardener robot to take care of the fabulous modern furnishings. Clearly the Sims team has been doing its research over at Herman Miller, and you'll have a bright red, flowing-foam sofa to show for it. But it wouldn't be The Sims if only good taste prevailed. Bring on the mai tais with a tiki-heavy islander theme. There's also a startling collection of carpeting and objects best grouped under the design ideal we call "demented clown." The attention-getting rarities include: a lame fortune-telling ball (our advice mostly centered around hiring a maid), a voodoo doll for hexing roommates, and a genie who delivers as much bad as good (dead plants, anyone?). And, yes, there's a vibrating bed to give your Sims the spice they've been missing! © Amazon.com |
The Sims House PartyExpansion Pack
Toga party, anyone? Now your Sims can do that and more with House Party, which makes it easier than ever for characters from The Sims to make friends and quickly rise to the top ranks of their professions. They'll need all the extra money they make to pay for all the cool goodies included in this expansion. Party themes range from Wild West campfire cookouts to Hawaiian luaus and room-shaking raves, with plenty of objects provided to keep guests entertained. There's a costume trunk to guarantee everyone will be dressed for the occasion, and it's even possible to hire a caterer to keep the food and drink flowing. If you're really lucky, a famous star may pop in for a guest appearance. Every party is packed with surprises, and the inclusion of extra neighborhoods ensures there's always a bash to plan. This is one expansion that no fan of The Sims should be without! It's an add-on pack, so you will still need The Sims to play. © Amazon.com |
The Sims Hot DateExpansion Pack
The Sims Hot Date Expansion Pack represents an entirely new experience for your Sims -- dating! With exciting new characters, interests, romance objects, and an all-new downtown area filled with restaurants, shops, and parks, Hot Date will get your Sims off the couch and into the singles scene. Play matchmaker for your Sims and watch them become Casanovas or Casa-nevers. Players can have their Sims ask each other out on a date, or they can try their luck with an in-game dating service. Arrange to meet another Sim downtown at exciting and romantic locations that the player can create. Everything from a candlelit dinner, a drink at the bar, or a rendezvous in the park is possible as your Sim attempts to orchestrate an evening to remember. Once your Sim is out with that special someone, additional interests and new interactions keep the conversation flowing and chemistry clicking. Sims can now flirt, play footsie, engage in a little tonsil hockey, or converse in Simlish about new and diverse interests. Being a fun and fascinating date gets your Sim one step closer to a goodnight kiss, or more! Players can watch sparks fly or fizzle as their Sims meet and date a host of new characters. Sims can spurn the advances of the Jock, welcome the overtures of the Femme Fatale, find true lust with Mr. Medallion, or strike out with the Blonde Bombshell. More than 100 new objects, including the Picnic Basket, Cuddle Couch, and Love Tub, allow players to set the mood for their Sims. Find your Sim a soul mate... or just have fun looking with The Sims: Hot Date Expansion Pack! Note: this expansion pack requires the full version of The Sims. © Amazon.com |
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The Sims Vacation Expansion Pack
Take your Sims on a family vacation for the first time! A fully-customizable luxury island destination delivers a wide range of beach, snow, and camping activities! Hit the beach for an 8-person volleyball game, go fishing off the pier, hurl snowballs, ride the snow slide, and much more! Buy, win, or find (and then bring home) the ultimate vacation souvenir, including the fertility god, penguin stuffed animal, quartz skull, and many more memorable items! Crazy hazards include a pickpocket, out-of-control children, or a case of Montezumas Revenge! © Amazon.com |
The Sims Online lets you take your Sims to a multiplayer online world where you get to be yourself or whoever you want to be. In this world, you have your own piece of land to do with as you please. Create a house, coffee bar, dance club, museum, or whatever else you can imagine. Explore the neighborhoods around you and meet scores of Sims along the way. Build a network of friends from around the world to enhance your power, wealth, reputation, and social standing. Be a peacemaker or pest, a recluse or rabble-rouser. In this open-ended online world, you choose your role, your attitude, and your destiny. Note: This game requires an Internet connection and charges a monthly fee payable by credit card or pre-paid game card (sold separately). © Amazon.com |
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The Sims Online Game Time Card
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The Sims Online Play Test
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Add-Ons for The Sims
Face Factory For The Sims by Abacus With Face Factory you can become the main character in the virtual world of The Sims. Face Factory creates a 3-D version of your features from your front and side (digital) photographs. Within minutes you will see yourself (or any other face you choose) acting in The Sims community. Face Factory puts a virtual bionic lab at your command. You can monitor all operations and easily load your digital self for both you and your Sims friends to see! Requires front and side photographs, and The Sims.
Nina Williams writes: "Worth EVERY Penny. I have been creating Sims for online friends for years now, and this is the easiest program I have ever come across to help. In the beginning I had to simply find meshes to work with, but this program creates them for you. You need 2 photos of a persons face (one facing the camera and the other facing the side) and then you cut the background out, add the mesh points to the body (there is a guide for this) and simply click finish and there you go, your own Sim! I have the face lift program and this is NOTHING like it. These DO look like REAL people... VERY easy to use. You CAN re-edit your saved heads, so you aren't stuck with horrid looking Sims. This is DEFINITELY worth the money." © Amazon.com |
Blueprint Pro for The Sims Abacus Blueprint Pro is an object utility that allows you to import or create original objects for use with The Sims. You can make sure your object has the right textures and size, set the name, price, and description as well as set the room values and flags. Through a simple wizard, you export the object and it's ready to use in the game. You can preview your object in real time inside the program, showing you what your object looks like in the game. There are hundreds of free objects available on the net for use with Blueprint Pro or you can create your own with many popular 3-D programs. Also includes a suite of 3-D tools you can use to create your own complex shapes. Requires The Sims. © Amazon.com |
Career Creator Pro for The Sims Abacus Bobilo from London writes: "An excellent add-on for an excellent game. I have used the original version of Career Creator and I think Career Creator Pro is a brilliant add-on for those of us you like to customize our games. With this program you can change every aspect of a Sim's working life, salary, hours, workwear (skins) -- even the car that picks them up in the morning can be changed to something more glamorous! You can even exchange careers with friends and import their careers into your game -- give your Sims the dream career that you've always wanted." Requires The Sims. © Amazon.com |
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EA's Legendary SimCity Series
| Stevcarls from Kansas City writes: "Maxis Does It Again! Once again, Maxis has far outdone its previous version of Sim City. Sim City 4 looks to be one of the top selling games of the year, along with The Sims Online. The graphics for this game are absolutely incredible. You can edit the terrain almost any way that you please. You can add mountains and cliffs and lagoons and even volcanoes! Maxis is taking full advantage of its unprecedented sucess of The Sims game by incorporating them into Sim City 4. You can import your Sims into Sim City 4 and they will talk to you and complain about how bad your city is or compliment you about what a great mayor you are. As your Sims move away or die or something, their kids will grow up and continue to live in your city so you can have multi-generation families living in your city. This game is much more complex than even Sim City 3000. The RCI meter is replaced with a meter with about 12 different things. The programmers have updated the game with even more complex algorithms for city growth and etc. From the looks of the amazing graphics and other things I have heard about this game, I imagine it will have pretty steep PC requirements, but I can assure you, this game will be the most amazing Sim City game to date." |
SimCity 3000 Unlimited
All-new Asian and European building sets with hundreds of new buildings! 13 challenging scenarios or create your own custom, goal-based adventure! 4 new disasters: locusts, toxic cloud, space junk, and a whirlpool! 23 new landmarks! Customizable terrain with scores of new options, such as snow, rolling hills, and desert! |
SimCity 3000
Realistic 3-D environment! View cities from up to 50,000 feet! Detailed control over businesses and other facilities! Everything and everyone moves! Optional load-in sets for customization and enhancements! |
SimCity 2000 Special Edition
Play a classic and more with the Special Edition! Revamp your city with the Urban Revewal Kit! Shake things up with Scenarios Vol. 1: Great Disasters! Choose from over 100 new buildings! Learn more in an interview with Will Wright! © Amazon.com |
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More Bestselling Games from Electronic Arts!
SimMania Series
SimCity Classic: The original city simulator. A true classic in computer entertainment, SimCity dares you to design and build the city of your dreams. SimCity took the computer world by storm (well, by earthquake anyway), stretched the bounds of entertainment software, and tore down the wall between fun and learning. With its simple interface and the ability to run on almost any computer, SimCity Classic is the best introduction to both simulation games and city planning on this or any other planet. SimTower: The vertical empire. Start by building a small office complex: a lobby, a few offices, and a cafι. Expand by adding more floors, more offices, and elevators. Then diversify to hotel rooms, shops, theaters, restaurants, condos, and more as you build your way to the top. Success in SimTower requires design talent, management skills, business acumen, and the ability to keep your customers happy. Be on the lookout for fires, insect infestations, terrorists, and -- you'll find out soon enough. Streets of SimCity: It's your city to cruise through or bruise through. Check out one of over 50 built-in cities, or take on opponents in an urban free-for-all while skidding, bootlegging, and blasting away. Speed through a sprawling metropolis or tackle one of Streets's rim-rattling missions. On the Streets of SimCity, you set the road rules. Combat up to seven other players in network mode over LAN, Internet, or modem. SimCopter: Fly missions in the metropolis. Attention SimCopter pilot: you're cleared for a rooftop landing, where the local temperature is a balmy 678. That's because there's a five-alarm fire in progress, not to mention rampant riots and SimCitizens running for their SimLives. So soar through 30 built-in cities in hyper-realistic 3-D and perform death-defying missions. Complete your heroics and receive your rewards: a snazzier copter, a tougher mission, and more near-death experiences. SimIsle: Missions in the rain forest. OK, so you're the king of the forest--make that rain forest. Now what are you going to do? You'd better decide fast because there are miners, poachers, petrochemical companies, endangered species, tourists, polluters, ecologists, natural disasters, and even UFOs, all vying for your attention--and for your resources. With teams of agents at your command, you'll embark on missions to determine the fate of a series of island rain forests. SimSafari: Create and explore your own African safari park and camp. SimSafari brings Africa to you! Imagine yourself in rugged bush country, peering through binoculars at vast herds of elephants, zebras, and lions. Choose from exotic plants and wildlife to create your own safari park. Team with a neighboring village and build a flourishing safari camp. © Amazon.com |
 Sid Meier's SimGolf
Design your dream course! Create your very own golf resort! Manage all aspects of your resort! Hit the links with your Sims! Host tournaments! © Amazon.com
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 Sim Theme Park
You're in charge of your own theme park! Four themes to build from: Space Zone, Lost Kingdom, Wonder Land, and Halloween! Explore rides, shops, and sideshows from the visitor's perspective! Design your own rides, using a simple and intuitive user interface! Receive instant feedback from an adviser! Publish your park on the Sim Theme Park Web site and compare it to others! © Amazon.com |
 SimAnt
Fight for queen and colony! Defend your home from deadly predators! Face menacing hordes of enemy ants! Invade the homes of humans! Endure the dangers of insecticide poisoning! © Amazon.com
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Electronic Arts Top Ten Family Fun Pack
The Electronic Arts Top Ten Family Fun Pack features 10 of the best family-friendly games from EA. SimAntSimAnt puts you directly in charge of an ant colony out to conquer a suburban backyard. By directly controlling one ant and manipulating ant caste and behavior, you can help your ant colony overcome insect and human obstacles and lead your fellow ants to victory -- invasion of the human's house. Theme Park: Think you can design and build the greatest amusement park in the world? You select the site and lay out the rides. In fact, you control every aspect of running a profitable amusement park. Marble Drop is a fiendishly fun puzzle game that'll send your mind on twists, turns, spirals, and swings. In Marble Drop, you devise the smartest way to get your colored marbles into their correct bins. Outsmart each puzzle and wrap your mind around an ever-more-challenging kinetic contraption. Power Poker is easy to play, making it ideal for a quick, casual hand of poker. But if you want to hone your skills to a professional level, Power Poker is your ace in the hole. SimLife is an advanced biological simulation that allows you to design plants and animals from the genetic level to influence how they look, act, and eventually evolve. Test your creations' adaptive abilities by turning their environment into either a paradise where life is easy or a wasteland where only the strongest survive. Play with genetics, food webs, mutation, extinction, and natural disasters to witness the effects on the gene pool, the ecosystem, and life itself. Theme Hospital From the creators of Theme Park comes the most unrealistic and humorous hospital sim ever! Complex, realistic AI, detailed SVGA graphics, and wacky bullfrog humor abound. In SimEarth, you manipulate atmospheric, geologic, climatic, and life processes while watching your planet evolve. As you advance in skill, you can design, modify, manage, and nurture a planet. Create and form the oceans to your specifications. When life first appears, you are there to watch and help it evolve in its development of intelligence and technology. Be the guiding hand of this new technology as civilization extends itself into the universe in search of new homes. SimCity 2000: The ultimate city simulator and more. Now you can design, build, and customize any city you can imagine, and SimCity 2000 will bring it--and its resident Sims--to life. If this game were any more realistic, it'd be illegal to turn it off. SimSafari brings Africa to you! Imagine yourself in rugged bush country, peering through binoculars at vast herds of elephants, zebras, and lions. Choose from exotic plants and wildlife to create your own safari park. Build a flourishing safari camp, keep your eye on the budget, and run a successful camp business. Learn about Africa's endangered and fiercest animals. Extreme Pinball: By offering four distinct contemporary tables complete with video boards, Extreme Pinball allows you to take the arcade home with you. The gameplay is impressive, the graphics are fantastic, and the experience is authentic. © Amazon.com |
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Electronic Arts Top Ten Pack
Robgerds from Cincinnati writes: "Well worth the money! Ten games for a really cheap price... Tiger Woods 99 is a great golf game... Theme Hospital kept me glued at the monitor for hours... Patients come in with the most outrages diseases and you come up with the must hilarious ways of curing them." Edward Park from San Antonio writes: "Although these games are quite dated, if you haven't played any of these games, this top ten pack is worth the buy. Strategy, simulation, and sports these are some of the best games to hit the market in the 90's... Overall, a nice combo pack at a nice price." © Amazon.com |
Family Mega Hits from Encore Software
This collection includes these bestselling games: Myst, Monopoly, Asteroids, SimCity 2000, and 3-D Ultra Minigolf. A gamer from North Carolina writes: "BEST COLLECTION OF GAMES EVER! I was a little bit doutbful when I first bought these games because I only knew about SimCity 2000. But now I am totally addicted to this great value pack! Especially Monopoly and SimCity 2000. But don't get me wrong, the other games are absolutely wonderful too. I definitely recommend these games to anyone with a sense of adventure." © Amazon.com |
SimFarm
You own a plot of good farmland. Do you want a small family farm or an agricultural profit center? Do you want to produce food for the local town or feed the world's hungry masses? Do you use the latest chemical fertilizers and pesticides or run an organic farm? It's up to you. Plow your fields, sow your seeds, harvest your crops, and sell them at market. Easy? Sure, except for soil depletion, crop rotation, changing markets, and diminishing farmland -- not to mention pests, droughts, dust storms, and other hazards! © Amazon.com |
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Strategy Guides
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The Sims Revised & Expanded Prima
Strategies for housebreaking and obedience training your dog How to put your best paw forward in the pet show Details on what's new in the neighborhood Complete pet interaction tables Learn the secret to growing monster vegetables How to keep bunnies and gophers from devouring your garden New career track tables © Amazon.com |
The Sims Unleashed Prima
All new section on downloadable skins, objects, houses, and families Step-by-step info on creating families and homes, and dealing with disasters Advanced methods for keeping your Sims healthy and happy Cheat codes exposed Complete tables for every Sims career All new Political career diary: tells you how to shake the right hands on your way to the Mayor's mansion © Amazon.com |
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The Sims Official Strategy Guide Prima
Mood-managing hints and tips Learn to create an instant family Covers all 10 possible career tracks Tactics for dealing with disasters Cheats and Easter Eggs revealed Details on moving your Sims to the online community Build a home from the ground up Includes a foreword from game creator Will Wright Altoidellgladiator from Phoenix writes: "Great book to have even if you are an expert! BOY! What was I doing playing without this?" © Amazon.com |
Livin' Large: Official Strategy Guide Prima
Coverage of the original The Sims plus the Livin' Large expansion pack Secrets of Sim personality, mood, and motives revealed Useful Sim cheats and lots of quick-start tips Foreword by Sims creator Will Wright Extensive tables for all new architecture, careers, Sim catalog objects, and more Strategies for overcoming new disastersfrom roach infestations to alien abductions Tips on customizing faces, skins, and textures © Amazon.com |
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House Party Official Strategy Guide Prima
Details on every party theme and guest, from caterers to crashers Advanced methods for keeping your Sims healthy and happy Tips for managing group dynamics, motivation, and personalities The ultimate party checklist included Extensive information on all new objects, skins, and more Cheat codes! © Amazon.com |
Hot Date Official Strategy Guide Prima
Details on each new character, including The Jock, Mr. Medallion, and the Femme Fatale Hints on using all new objects, from the Love Tub to the Cuddle Couch Mood managing hints and tips Details on moving your Sims to the online community How to manage every aspect of your Sim world © Amazon.com |
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Vacation Official Strategy Guide Prima
Comprehensive activity and interaction strategies In-depth strategies for building your own corner of paradise coverage of the new adult and children interactions and interests detailed tables and analysis of every new object, color code and skin Exclusive inside data for finding all the Easter Eggs and maxing out your hidden Vacation Score for special rewards © Amazon.com |
Sims Compendium: Strategy Guide Prima
Sims Online Official Strategy Guide Prima |
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Sim Theme Park Official Strategy Guide Prima Tips for all 72 rides Golden Ticket secrets revealed Make the most of your money Instant Action strategies Upgrade your rides Hire the right staff Keep the kids happy A reader from Canada writes: "GREAT!!!!! This book is the BEST players guide EVER!!!!! Everyone who doesn't have this game and doesn't have the book, MUST BUY IT!!!" Jake from OH writes: "I have SimThemePark and so does my friend. He has the Strategy Guide though. I have seen it! No wonder his park is so much better than mine! This book gives you everything! The tips are easy and you will simply have a wonderful park when you're finished. Everyone who has this game should get this book." © Amazon.com |
SimCity 3000 Unlimited Official Strategy Guide Prima Coverage of both SimCity 3000 Unlimited and SimCity 3000 for PC and Mac Exclusive advice from the Electronic Arts testers Secrets for novices and seasoned mayors alike Detailed instructions for earning all rewards Tips on dealing with natural disasters Strategies for new scenarios A graphic directory of North American, Asian, and European building sets Comprehensive appendices including all buildings and landmarks Kenneth J. Williams from San Diego writes: "The guide... serves to educate users on the principles of real city planning. Considering the length of this volume, the reader may feel qualified to work in city hall after digesting it all. For anyone who loves their SIMCity 3K this book is just the icing on the cake." © Amazon.com |
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