Bonus: The Sims 20th Anniversary

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Over the past twenty years, The Sims has done its best to keep up with a rapidly changing world, and to be more inclusive in terms of what kind of people you can play as. From the first game's notorious same-sex kiss at E3 that lead to the game including same-sex romance in 2000 to The Sims 4's trans-masc icon Morgyn Embers, the franchise has always tried for a maximalist approach to play, including in customizing your character. Gita sat down to interview The Sims 4's executive producer and general manager, Lyndsay Pearson, and talked all about that, and also about their favorite conspiracy theories regarding the disappeared Bella Goth.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Gita Jackson, writer at Waypoint, and I'm joined here by Kato, who is... he does podcasting.
0:25.4	Yeah.
0:26.4	You know, he's our guy.
0:27.4	I'm a podcast guy.
0:28.4	He's a podcast man.
0:29.4	And we're both joined by, and this is super exciting.
0:32.8	Lindsay Pearson from The Sims 4.
0:35.1	Lindsay, introduce yourself, please.
0:37.1	Yes, hi.
0:37.9	I'm Lindsay Pearson.
0:38.9	I'm the executive producer and general manager for The Sims.
0:42.5	I've been doing Sims forever, so I'm super excited to get to talk about it.
0:46.5	How long have you been working on The Sims?
0:48.9	I'm actually coming up on almost 18 years now.
0:52.0	Oh my god.
0:52.9	I've been here almost the whole time, which is pretty cool.
0:56.2	Yeah, so in case our listeners missed it, which they might have, because I had the flu when this was happening.
1:02.8	This month is The Sims's 20th anniversary, so Lindsay's just two years shy.
1:08.7	That is incredible.
1:09.7	So you must have come on somewhere in the middle of the first Sims game.
1:15.1	Yes, I came in right as the team was finishing up Bomboyage, the vacation pack for Sims 1.
1:21.3	Oh, wow.
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