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The Sims

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The Sims, life-simulator game, originally designed by American Will Wright for personal computers and released on February 4, 2000. The Sims was published and distributed by the American companies Maxis and Electronic Arts and is a division of their SimCity electronic gaming franchise. The Sims was tremendously popular the first two years after its debut, selling more than six million copies. Since then a bevy of expansion packs and sequels have been produced. More than...

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