Forgotten Families would be such a fun theme for a Sims 2 custom hood.

I love the progression from psychic phone friend to cult leader 😂

this is some deep sims lore! never heard of any downloadable families for ts1. your content is so entertaining🤧

Omg the psychic phone friend Hick/Mashuga connection never even occurred to me! That's some DEEP Sims lore

The Mashuggas really are PEAK SIms 1 for sure. All the décor and stuff used in the house is just so iconically Sims 1

Absolutely thrilled to see Sims 1 content in 2024! Such an underrated game in the franchise currently that deserves way more attention.

I actually love Claire and Luna Charming. They lived up to their name; a charming little family to play. It was a woman who enjoyed live music and was a nurse living with her dog.

Did you know meshuga means crazy in Hebrew and Yiddish? I wonder if that was on purpose.

Actually I remember on my sims games, I always loved having the Mashuga family with the Goth family in the same neighborhood, I recreated their house only because I didn't wanted to remove the Newbies, the reason I wanted them with the Goth family is because it was so funny and random to have these two families interact with each other, Either Frankie and Mortimer would be mortal enemies and would be hillarious, or they would be best friends and would still be hilarious. You get an insane chaos either these two guys are friends or hate each other lol.

THE MAXIMUS FAMILY! NOBODY EVER TALKS ABOUT THEM 😢❤

I absolutely subscribe to the idea of Ruby Ann Hatfield and Ruby Broke being the same characters. I feel like it works really well without having to be forced. Obviously there's some discrepancies in the personality and appearance, but Maxis wasn't too consistent with this anyhow. I loved the video, and it's so awesome to have someone acknowledge these downloadable families so many years later!

i swear the roomies were the most canonical lesbians as declared by the people. there wasn't one kid in my childhood that didn't just call them "the lesbians".

I am still palying with sims1,2,3,4, medieval and all 3 stories...whatever I have the mood for but never heard about these downloadable families...immediately subscribed.

The only thing I can say is... The Sims 4 could never 💅

I once made a TS2 neighborhood based on TS1 sims (including some forgotten ones and minus the Goths) and my personal headcanon was to make Chris Roomies Bob Newbie's younger sister (based on a console game's default name being Chris Newbie), Melissa being the adopted daughter of a Ruth and Mia, Claire Charming being the middle child with 2 brothers and a single mom, and Ruby Ann Hatfield being Elden Hick's older sister (both with unknown yet separate fathers)

oh watching your video- I just had a memory of how when a Sim couldn’t cook or was poor- they would serve cans of food on a plate

Love this!  I started playing early sims 1 in the early 2000s but I was literally a child and we had dial up internet so I didn’t know about the downloadable families! Remember having to set a timer so my dad could use the phone for work haha these videos are great!

The Roomies are near and dear to my heart because they were the first family I ever played (and, yes, I did have them fall in love and get married lol).

3:34 I love the Hick family!

Kind of obsessed with this proposed lore. Fully accepting that Sylvia scammed Mama.