The Sims 2: Remaking my family

Many years ago I had a huge Sims family spanning up to five generations in The Sims 2. After Win 10 I could no longer make the old game work on my modern PC (and I no longer had a disc drive) and it wasn't available anywhere at all for digital purchase. I kept my save file until 2019 ish when I finally resigned myself to the fact that I'd never get to play The Sims 2 again. And then last year Legacy edition dropped on Steam. I'm now berating myself for not keeping my save file.

The last weekend of March I got a huge urge to play The Sims 2 again so I loaded it up on Steam and immediately started recreating my family. Here are my current sims:

Bradley and Sayumi are my original progenitors as they were in the olden days. Just like last time I wanted Bradley to be a lot older than Sayumi. So via cheats I aged Bradley to the verge of Elder and then used the Elixir of Life (an aspiration reward) to de-age him until he was about halfway through the adult stage. And then I went about making babies. Last time I got a pretty even spread of boys and girls, but this time around I got five boys and one single girl T_T Six kids (and a dog), but once all the kids had flown the coop to go to college, Sayumi started adopting new children to reach her goal of having 10 kids. She was an Elder at this point and Bradley was end stage of his life. They adopted two girls and two boys. They also adopted one cat and one kitten just as the dog died from old age. Bradley passed from old age the same day their last daughter was adopted. The cat ran away from home because of it. Benjamin came home just to slap and yell at his mother. 

Benjamin, the oldest, was always more interested in robotics, mechanics and tinkering than other Sims from a very young age. His first day at college he made a Servo mech which the rules forbade him from activating on college grounds. Once he graduated college he moved into an apartment and activated the Servo, which he named Tristan. They immediately hit it off and fell in love. However, that same night Benjamin was abducted by aliens and returned pregnant. They adopted a kitten and got married while Benjamin was pregnant. Benjamin later gave birth to twin girls, Akiko and Furuka. After the arrival of the girls, Benjamin and Tristan decided the apartment was too small and they moved into a brand new house right next to Benjamin's childhood home and there they adopted a boy, Nathaniel. Benjamin passed away from old age just after Nathaniel left for college. Rather than live alone Tristan took the cats and moved in with Benjamin's sister Reina and her family. 

Samuel and Ai, our first set of twins, just want to have fun. Samuel is a heartbreaker and Ai is a rulebreaker. They went to college together and in her freshman year Ai got knocked up by a fellow freshman and spent her college time mothering a toddler while keeping up with her classes. While Samuel tried to get it on with every female on campus. After college they moved into a house together and continued having fun. Ai became a vampire and her son Sebastian became and evil warlock as a teenager. Samuel got struck by lightning and killed and Sebastian resurrected him as a zombie. 

Jonathan is a family man. He went to college and afterwards moved back home to help care for his elderly mother and his new adopted siblings. He later got married to Ivy and they had three kids together: Gabriel, Hotaru and Robert. 

Robyn and Kim, our second set of twins, are very different. Robyn is a very feminine gay man with the lifetime aspiration of becoming a military General. Kim is just looking to be famous and make a fortune. They both became best-selling authors while still in college. After they moved out Kim married Marisa and had two daughters: Sakura and Maki. Robyn got married to Sterling and they adopted two children: Risako and Nicholas. Robyn became a plantsim.

Reina, our oldest adopted daughter, moved out into an apartment and went on vacation where she befriended Bigfoot. He moved in with her and (through cheats) and a son with Reina: Felix. Tristan the Servo later moved in with her family. 

Alan, our oldest adopted son, went to college and then moved into a house of his own where he married Orlando. Alan was turned into a werewolf and they adopted a son, James, together.

Roger, our second adopted son, moved into a house and then became a good warlock. He married Yvette and she became a good witch. Together they had two daughters: Ayano and Hikari.

Yuuna, our youngest adopted daughter, got pregnant as a teenager and gave birth to Adam while still living at Sayumi and Bradley's house with Jonathan. When she moved out she kept up her lifestyle similar to her older siblings Ai and Samuel, but she kept getting pregnant. Every one of her kids have different fathers. 

Akiko and Furuka, Benjamin's alien daughters, joined Sebastian, Ai's son, at college. Akiko likes old men and immediately hit it off with the cafeteria man. She got pregnant, but miscarried. 

And that's pretty much how far I got this time :) I'm back to playing RPGs now, but I'll definitely continue Sims 2 later on. Whenever the urge hits.