EA celebrates The Sims' 25th anniversary with a hilariously accurate Y2K-style website mirroring the early 2000s internet experience. Featuring Comic Sans, loading bars, and clunky animations, the site includes a 'Sim Urself' feature and a 'Meme Jacuzzi' filled with surprisingly accurate Sims-related memes.
The Sims turns 25 in just a few days, and EA is out to make sure I feel old as hell about it. As part of its ongoing celebrations, which started earlier this month with a rather lackluster Behind the Sims presentation but has slowly been ramping up the goodies, the developer just dropped an atrociously accurate Y2K -style website dedicated to the first two games. Comic Sans and all.early 2000s at me, but the thing I love the most is the fact that you quite literally have to type the"www.
The website itself is an absolute visual nightmare which, again, how perfect is that? There's a loading bar when you first punch in the address, each asset on the page slowly transitions in from the sides—remember when old-ass websites would cram every animation and soundbite into them like a 10-year-old's PowerPoint presentation?—and every icon makes a wee noise as you hover over it.As for the features contained within the site, they're fine.
Slightly more atrocious is the"Meme Jacuzzi," which feeds a random selection of pretty appalling memes. They're more modern than the top text/bottom text of old, and for the most part I regret to say they're pretty naff. Except the one about my sims making out with other people's wives. That one is pretty accurate.
Finally, no old-school website would be complete without downloadable wallpapers, and The Sims Y2K has two of them—one for the original game, and one for The Sims 2. There's an option for both desktop and mobile wallpapers, depending on how you like your nostalgia fed to you these days. It's rather… interesting how much of a focus is being put on the first two games in particular here, consideringswirling around. Whatever the connection is, I'll be over here enjoying my ridiculous Comic Sans text and funky little easter egg that appears if you spend a little too long idling on any one page. I won't spoil it, go and find out for yourself.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
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