Didn't know if people would remember this game - if you enjoy it, let me know so I can do one of the GBA ports by Griptonite which were great. minimme has some great stuff on those
Jesus Christ, you gained a lot subscibers over the last 3 years I subscribed arround the time you started with your roleplaying adventures in kenshi And everytime you made a video, i snacked a whole bag of chips with cheese sauce Oddly enough this made me feel awesome and entertained as f**k Oh btw: you timed your video upload just perfectly for me, because lunch was ready - the best time to enjoy your videos Keep up the good work!
Bustin' Out and Urbz for the GBA/DS are legendary games. They're somewhat connected in story so you should definitely give a playthrough on both even in your spare time.
I've been loving this Sims trip you've been on. I played this game so much when I was younger. Would love to see you tackle the Sims 2 story mode on console, played it all the time on Xbox
Some people didn't realise that in the Industrial District, where the Forge minigame was, the button mashing game didn't work properly, so you could press anything and still get the best score.
I remember Urbz so strongly because of the "pyromanic". You see, my brother and I would always notice this weird dude in sunglasses next to fires. Obviously, he was the one causing them so we always shooed him off and put the fires out ourselves. Fast forward to us now in our penthouse, grilling hot dogs for our guests when we caught ourselves on fire. Suddenly the weird dude jumps down from a helicopter, extinguishes us, does a cool pose, then hops back on the helicopter. And that's how we learned that we were constantly chasing off the firefighter. 😅
@@matthewloscar2893 awful try at a joke, nobody that lives in a first world country or is over 13 thinks racism is funny. I’m sorry you don’t have a lot and need to take out that struggle on strangers.
This was my first real introduction to The Sims. Mid-2000's was a bizarre time for gaming, but it sure beats the microtransaction-filled online-only hellscape we're in right now.
Whatta first Sims game. I kinda envy you. My first Dragon Age game was the second one - I couldn't understand what all the criticism was, I was blown away by it. lol Sometimes no expectations leads to greater rewards.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 my first dragon age was inquisition. Loved it, then played origins and 2 and loved both of those. Can't bring myself back to inquisition. I don't have high hopes for 4 at this point.
Same, I'd say I'd give anything for them to make a new one but for them to butcher it with aggressive microtransactions I'd rather just have this one to hold special.
Ah man I absolutely love The Urbz. Back then I kinda saw it as EA dipping their toes into a more urban style of sims where they're in the city doing cool stuff and out of the suburbs where after a while it gets boring just going to your job with your maxed out skills and the same family over and over again. I remember my 11 year old brain thought that this was how adult life was going to be and how excited I was to have my own apartment and group of friends where we're out late at night and chugging redbull and doing cool stuff. Course the only accurate part of this game was the energy drink addiction I picked up but eh. What a great video. This was such a blast from the past!
Holy cow, the DS version is SO different. That was my jam, so inagine my surprise to see that in the console version there was no time travel, no overthrowing capitalism, no fiddling with the devil in a bayou, no resurrecting ancient beasts from DNA trapped in amber to make them participate in a pageant...
@@OpasgegenLinks The DS Sims games really just went off the rails. Sims 2 was a game about managing a hotel... and in the process you fight off alien invasions, get wrapped up with the mafia, accidentally introduce a cult, and prevent the robot uprising. DS Urbz is... well, everything I said above. They're a time.
I wouldn't say you overthrew Capitalism, but you sure as heck made the richest man ever broke and destitute by winning at the game he rigged for himself
When this game came out I was a pretty young kid and I thought this was the greatest game ever released. I probably logged more hours on URBZ than Elden ring. Oh the horror.
No word of a lie, I still play this game fairly frequently on my ps2. It's a classic and so bizarre. I can't seem to let it go even after nearly 18 years when I just need to turn my brain off and make money making sushi.
I love how all the aesthetics and trends portrayed in the game were super stereotypical and cheesy, and the Black Eyed Peas where ingrained in the whole game.
Yes lol … feeling cool as hell for being the first one among your peers to possess this game, but also weird as hell knowing you’re the only one and will always be the only one because everyone else doesn’t know what you’re talking about when you bring it up and wish you’d stop.
This game seems like a load of absolute brain dead button mashing so simple that a carrot could play it and speed run it faster than the speed of light... And i really wanna get it now, thank you
@@ambiguousamphibian The YTer Civvie did something similar for an April Fools (or Halloween?) video, a full video about a retro boomer-shooter that never existed. Dedication to the cause
Years ago, I was a child at the post office with my mom. I found a gameboy cartridge on the ground with no title. Like the outside was completely blank. No sticker, no cover, just cartridge. I took it home and after my mom was convinced that the thing I picked up off the ground was safe for children, I played it. It was the Urbz and that was my first sims game 😭
The funny thing is it could have been one of those haunted creepy pasta games and you probably couldn’t tell the difference because sims is already cursed (in a great way)
reminds me of a semi-similar experience i had when i was a kid. ive had two nintendo DSs in the past - both pink, both easily snapped at the hinges, makin em useless. my sibling had another pink one and a red one, both suffered the same snapped-hinge fate. was walking to school one day when i just found a silver DS lying on the ground, AFTER it had been raining. no cartridge, no GBA protective slot thing, and i dont remember if there was an owner's name in the settings. i swear to god, im clumsy as hell and ive dropped that thing a million times, but it still functions FLAWLESSLY. i still use it to this day to play DS and GBA games. it may be cursed, but if it is, then damn, this demon is saving me some repair bills
@@AShatteredDragonsSpirit I once had a gameboy that I found on the beach that lasted a couple years, it had Yoshi’s Island on it and that was my first Nintendo game
The GBA version sums up my childhood. Child-me had absolutely no idea how to play the game and somehow still managed to earn a fuckton of money, basically spent 24/7 renovating my home and cruising through the city with my trusty totally-not-a-harley-davidson motorbike. Good times.
Loved this game. Me and my cousins laughed so freakin' hard at the one vending machine where if you try and use it while you're in a bad mood it'll pop out some ghost hands and choke you out.
I've played VERY LITTLE of this game, but Neon East's theme and rummaging through their trash cans for cool stuff are things that stuck with me. I thank you for bringing this incredible game back to light.
Have you ever played the DS version of The Sims 2? You crash your car in Strangetown and then take over the hotel there, and eventually oust a mob boss, befriend a mummy, and dress up as a rat to fight a cyborg monkey.
I absolutely loved this game way back when. I almost didn’t even realize it was an actual sims game when I played it. Given, I was also very young at the time.
Could you imagine if they did a newer Sims Urbz with some ideas taken from the Sims 3 Late Night expansion pack? I think there's a lot of potential there.
*I fucking loved The Urbz!* I still remember when I won the game the first time around, and the "Let's get it started" music started playing. It was so _deeply_ entertaining in a way that games just aren't today! And I'm not even gonna lie, I honestly think The Urbz made me a more open minded person, because if how it showcased so many wacky places and people. *I love this game.* I should play it again soon!
I think we're about the same age and this video was a huge nostalgia trip for me. I spent so many hours in this game, skating and tickling... The industrial hipster district was deffo the worst though, did not care for that subculture as a kid.
You have no idea how much I relate to this comment. I literally destroyed a PS2 console to get my Urbz game out because it was stuck! I _still_ absolutely *love* this game, and I can't help but think it shaped my perception of myself and others. I think it literally made me a more open minded person!
I remember when I was younger there was a sims game on playstation, 2 I think. I loved it for the simple fact that you directly controlled your sim. You'd walk around yourself instead of just telling them to do things. I always kind of wished all sims games were like that or had the option to be like that.
I remember playing this game sooo much as a kid. I think I spent way more time in Neon East than anywhere else. There's also Sims Castaway too, another fun classic!
I can't get though 10 seconds of this without trying to emulate your magnificent patter and cadence. You're basically living out your childhood fantasies of actually completing games
The DS version was actually pretty entertaining, but it was disappointing that they were so resistant to putting a proper Sims style game on handheld. Would it have really been so hard to replicate a basic version of Sims on DS?? It had a touchscreen FFS.
This is easily one of my favorite games. I revisit it every few years. My brother and I would play this for hours non-stop in co-op mode. Which in its own right was more tedious than most of this game combined because your social circles wouldn't often mesh. You'd go from the biker's grotto to the richie rich heights and just start fights non-stop. Thanks for making content on these nostalgic classics.
One of the hardest times I ever laughed was with my friend when we decided to play this. We made the most ghetto character we could, and ended up going to a party that Fergie was at. Our character walked up on Fergie and slapped the shit out of her. We had no idea that was even possible but once we found out we slapped her about 100 times in a row and pissed ourselves when they began to have an actual brawl at the party.
This is where the sims was best lol, outrageous shit went down and hilarious interactions! In the sims 4 I barely ever bother with other sims unless I want something from them :')
I remember when I was a kid I bought the PS2 version of Sims Bustin Out since I loved the GBA version, and my mom made me return it because it said "Suggestive Themes" on the rating pfft.
This game is so lit, it was one of my absolute faves. I also remember reading the Urbz comic on their website long ago. Such good times with this game.
I hate to say it, but these games would flop big time if they were released today. Society can’t handle this kind of balls to the wall insanity anymore
@@loadbearingskull Thats cause reality is balls to the sandpaper insanity now just not fun insanity more depressing want to stab yourself with a fork insanity.
Me and my little sister used to love this game so much back when all we had was this and Spiderman on our original Xbox. She would just try and get to the hottub as fast as possible while I would do Mafia RP and hang out at Darius's penthouse and feel epic
God I remember playing this with my sister too. I also remember getting mad that she got famous while I was the one making all the money while we played splitscreen co-op on a small ass t.v. Good times.
I love how siblings end up doing similar things. Me and my sister would burn down whatever we could get our hands on. She'd perfected burning down houses in Sims busting out at 11
God, the Urbz for the DS still goes down as one of the games I've ever played. Wonderful game. Great damn soundtrack too. Would love to see you play them sometime!
This video was such an amazing blast from the past. I played the Urbz a lot, and it's so cool to see content for it. Your Sims challenge run got me into your channel, really happy to see you make more
Love seeing you play these older Sims games. I can only play Sims 4 now as my laptop can't handle 1-3 and I don't have a console. Your commentary and the trip down memory lane is great. I'd love to see more. Someone else mentioned it but Sims Medieval is one of my favorites, if you ever decide to do a playthrough thst would be incredible!
I'd recommend trying to emulate the GBA, DS, and PSP games. Emulating those shouldn't be too hard if you can run Sims 4. Mainly Sims Bustin out on GBA, Urbz on DS, and Sims 2 on GBA, DS, and PSP as they are all different.
There is something very relaxing with your videos. I really enjoy watching them, especially when I feel down. It might sound weird, but I have a condition that makes me have severe migraines that last days (few times a year only, fortunately) and I always come back to your channel when I recover from one. Thank you for you videos
I never played this game, but I distinctively remember seeing it on sale and wanting to play it. You never forget a cover with an orange background and a bare chested guy covered in tattoos.
My parents bought this for me in hopes I would stop buying Sims expansion packs before our family computer became a dedicated Sims machine and nothing else. In that endeavor, they failed.
Thank you for this video! I knew about the existence of this game back in the day, but never-ever saw even a single pixel of it, even though I was curious at the time. This video reminded me of that curiousity and it took care of it in only 20 seconds!
This was a blast from the past. I remember Urbz being one of my favorite games back in the mid 2000s. I played this on the PS2 and for years I'd keep going back to it- new saves, new half baked adventures. No other sims game has really captured the atmosphere and whimsy that was Urbz; even with Sims 4's city living expansion it doesn't give the same vibe and it makes me long for Urbz once more. Thanks for this video
I've been loving your return to the sims, but never did i expect you to pick the game that had such a stranglehold on my childhood. I feel like i spent most of this in a nostalgic haze, thank you for reminding me of this
Man this game was what brought the sims to my attention when I was a kid playing it. Another one I remember playing alongside this was the Sims two on Nintendo DS. Thanks for the nostalgia hit amphibian.
When you find a channel that manages to manifest the exact kind of videos you wish you had the energy to force upon the world. And the best part is that means you don't have to do it yourself now. I've been laughing and smiling all morning at these videos while avoiding doing my shitty pointless job so thanks for that.
I loved the Urbz so much back then. It had a lot of flaws but it was also so crazy and different from the base sims. I liked the concept and I'd love to see a modern version of it.
same! It makes me realldy happy to see that other also now grown-ups still love to play this game! so it wasn‘t only me and my friend playing it for weeks straight and obsessing over it :D
So glad to finally see The Urbz. I had a GameCube and to play it, you needed something like an expanded memory card or whatever. I, being like 8 couldn’t figure it out of find one so I never got to play this treasure which broke my heart as a huge fan of the Sims on the GC.
I have been thinking about this game for YEARS, specially in the past few weeks. Is this a signal to start playing it? I'd say: no, it is a signal to keep posposing it for another year or two. But hey, at least there's video about it, right? Right?
God I remember having the GBA and DS version and the DS version had this weird mini game where you could splice DNA of dinosaurs and you could keep one around as a pet. What a bizarre mess of a game that was on the same token a complete masterpiece.
I don’t care what you say about it being spin off the amount of love and the nostalgia that this game gives me player on the PS2 and it was so outdated I love it
this game was my childhood. so many memories. i was so sad when i found out quite recently that they wanted to make an urbz 2 but didn't because the urbz kinda flopped
Ah yes... One of the PS2 games I still reach for to play at times. I remember I started my first playthrough in Neon East. It's still one of the best areas in my opinion (Skatetail park is pretty cool too).
Didn't know if people would remember this game - if you enjoy it, let me know so I can do one of the GBA ports by Griptonite which were great. minimme has some great stuff on those
For sure, keep the Sims train going
Dude the DS version stole hundreds of hours of my childhood. You should play it on the channel.
Jesus Christ, you gained a lot subscibers over the last 3 years
I subscribed arround the time you started with your roleplaying adventures in kenshi
And everytime you made a video, i snacked a whole bag of chips with cheese sauce
Oddly enough this made me feel awesome and entertained as f**k
Oh btw: you timed your video upload just perfectly for me, because lunch was ready - the best time to enjoy your videos
Keep up the good work!
Bustin' Out and Urbz for the GBA/DS are legendary games. They're somewhat connected in story so you should definitely give a playthrough on both even in your spare time.
I've been loving this Sims trip you've been on. I played this game so much when I was younger. Would love to see you tackle the Sims 2 story mode on console, played it all the time on Xbox
Life did not live up to the expectations this game gave me
Amen brother
Omg 🥲
For real
I absolutely love this broken mess of a game, so many 2000s trends chucked into one train wreck masterpiece.
Yet somehow still less broken than every sims 4 patch.
@@bigjoe980sgamecorner Sims 4 is a Frankenstein of a game
Some people didn't realise that in the Industrial District, where the Forge minigame was, the button mashing game didn't work properly, so you could press anything and still get the best score.
@@jamesferguson1333 So basically at the foundry you could get popular by just being a poser? Awesome.
If urbz is a trainwreck then I wonder what sims 4 is? A war crime? lol
I remember Urbz so strongly because of the "pyromanic". You see, my brother and I would always notice this weird dude in sunglasses next to fires. Obviously, he was the one causing them so we always shooed him off and put the fires out ourselves.
Fast forward to us now in our penthouse, grilling hot dogs for our guests when we caught ourselves on fire. Suddenly the weird dude jumps down from a helicopter, extinguishes us, does a cool pose, then hops back on the helicopter.
And that's how we learned that we were constantly chasing off the firefighter. 😅
😂😂 fucking brilliant 👏🏾
dude this is so fucking funny
Bro I swear I was so braindead that I thought you talked about ur real life events 💀💀
Once you said “you see. “ i was hooked
@@tanja0152 The "fast forward to us now" made me think it was actually irl and I was like "hold up"
This game was a BANGER! +rep
Thanks for the Xizzles, Darius👌👌
Of course kevin is here on a sims video
Bore Ragnarok
You can say it was bussin
Not sure what you should play but you guys need to do a collab of some sort.
"Then, he ascends in surprisingly Christ like fashion" Has got to be one of the funniest lines you've ever written into a video lmfao
That line got me. You can even hear him trying not to laugh as he says it.
AA always comes up with phrases like this, especially in his Torsquad videos
"People all across the city know when Derek Urban arrives, it's tickle time."
@@matthewloscar2893 awful try at a joke, nobody that lives in a first world country or is over 13 thinks racism is funny. I’m sorry you don’t have a lot and need to take out that struggle on strangers.
@@matthewloscar2893 h.p. lovecraft is that you?
@@ayTesz you're white
@@MONKEY_BEAM no
@@matthewloscar2893 is that really you in the short on your channel? Yikes.
This was my first real introduction to The Sims. Mid-2000's was a bizarre time for gaming, but it sure beats the microtransaction-filled online-only hellscape we're in right now.
Whatta first Sims game. I kinda envy you. My first Dragon Age game was the second one - I couldn't understand what all the criticism was, I was blown away by it. lol Sometimes no expectations leads to greater rewards.
My first Sims game was The Sims 2 on the ds 😂. I just remember using a vacuum thing and being in a hotel (??)
@@Missmay123p sims 2 on the ds was fire 🔥
@@fuzzydunlop7928 my first dragon age was inquisition. Loved it, then played origins and 2 and loved both of those. Can't bring myself back to inquisition. I don't have high hopes for 4 at this point.
@@Missmay123p AND HARVESTING ALIEN ORGANS omg I wanna play that again now that game was wild.
The Urbz is absolutely FANTASTICALLY UNHINGED it’s so good
Edgy!
It’s such a good offshoot
Fancy seeing you here! Then again, I imagine you're anywhere and everywhere an old Sims game is mentioned 😂
Which is your favorite? Personally, I'd go with the second handheld game.
Your username read like Plumbarta and I thought you were an enjoyer of roman war darts. My dissappointment is immeasurable
To this day, Urbz is still my all time favorite Sims game.
Yess this!
Same
100% agree
Same here. I will always defend this weird game.
Same, I'd say I'd give anything for them to make a new one but for them to butcher it with aggressive microtransactions I'd rather just have this one to hold special.
Ah man I absolutely love The Urbz. Back then I kinda saw it as EA dipping their toes into a more urban style of sims where they're in the city doing cool stuff and out of the suburbs where after a while it gets boring just going to your job with your maxed out skills and the same family over and over again. I remember my 11 year old brain thought that this was how adult life was going to be and how excited I was to have my own apartment and group of friends where we're out late at night and chugging redbull and doing cool stuff. Course the only accurate part of this game was the energy drink addiction I picked up but eh. What a great video. This was such a blast from the past!
Don't forget the urban bullies who commit to economic warfare and in-grouping policies.
and listening to The Black Eyed Peas all the time lmao
I wonder how many people in middle school thought tickling and rapping were totally normal social interactions lol
Wow, how accurate that last part is lmao.
I saw a distinctly human arm at the start
That is a very ambiguous amphibian
chemicals.
@@Zombiphobia they’re putting chemicals in the water that give the frogs arms!!!!
Morally ambigous, as the amphibian clearly engages in theft and grafting of living appendages.
Nah that was just his slave *cough* I mean pet human.
Holy cow, the DS version is SO different. That was my jam, so inagine my surprise to see that in the console version there was no time travel, no overthrowing capitalism, no fiddling with the devil in a bayou, no resurrecting ancient beasts from DNA trapped in amber to make them participate in a pageant...
Excuse me what
The DS/GBA game was so awesome. One of my favorites ever. Under appreciated gem
@@OpasgegenLinks The DS Sims games really just went off the rails.
Sims 2 was a game about managing a hotel... and in the process you fight off alien invasions, get wrapped up with the mafia, accidentally introduce a cult, and prevent the robot uprising.
DS Urbz is... well, everything I said above.
They're a time.
I am so glad someone else remembers that version. It was WONDERFUL.
I wouldn't say you overthrew Capitalism, but you sure as heck made the richest man ever broke and destitute by winning at the game he rigged for himself
When this game came out I was a pretty young kid and I thought this was the greatest game ever released. I probably logged more hours on URBZ than Elden ring. Oh the horror.
No word of a lie, I still play this game fairly frequently on my ps2. It's a classic and so bizarre. I can't seem to let it go even after nearly 18 years when I just need to turn my brain off and make money making sushi.
🔥 its fire
Ahh I wish I still had my ps2 copy, game was so fun to mess around in
This game single-handedly made me feel like one of the cool kids whilst simultaneously decidedly made me one of the weird ones.
I love how all the aesthetics and trends portrayed in the game were super stereotypical and cheesy, and the Black Eyed Peas where ingrained in the whole game.
Yes lol … feeling cool as hell for being the first one among your peers to possess this game, but also weird as hell knowing you’re the only one and will always be the only one because everyone else doesn’t know what you’re talking about when you bring it up and wish you’d stop.
This game seems like a load of absolute brain dead button mashing so simple that a carrot could play it and speed run it faster than the speed of light...
And i really wanna get it now, thank you
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This game is so bizzare, I wouldn't be surprised if you had entirely made it up and faked all the footage, just as a stupid joke.
Lol all achieved using the world's most advanced video editing tutorial
@@ambiguousamphibian The YTer Civvie did something similar for an April Fools (or Halloween?) video, a full video about a retro boomer-shooter that never existed. Dedication to the cause
He paid me half a ham sandwich to make this with my 30 minutes of prior experience with photoshop.
I just realized the way taran speaks is similar to aa
The game was greenlighted entirely on the strength of the 'Sims in the City' subtitle
The amount of customization is actually insane! Nowadays game wouldn't let you do the piercing and stuff by default.
Halo Infinite has entered the chat lol
Huh?
"Wherever they move, everyone gets priced out of the neighbourhood" AA dropping truth bombs 😂
Years ago, I was a child at the post office with my mom. I found a gameboy cartridge on the ground with no title. Like the outside was completely blank. No sticker, no cover, just cartridge. I took it home and after my mom was convinced that the thing I picked up off the ground was safe for children, I played it. It was the Urbz and that was my first sims game 😭
The funny thing is it could have been one of those haunted creepy pasta games and you probably couldn’t tell the difference because sims is already cursed (in a great way)
reminds me of a semi-similar experience i had when i was a kid. ive had two nintendo DSs in the past - both pink, both easily snapped at the hinges, makin em useless. my sibling had another pink one and a red one, both suffered the same snapped-hinge fate.
was walking to school one day when i just found a silver DS lying on the ground, AFTER it had been raining. no cartridge, no GBA protective slot thing, and i dont remember if there was an owner's name in the settings.
i swear to god, im clumsy as hell and ive dropped that thing a million times, but it still functions FLAWLESSLY. i still use it to this day to play DS and GBA games. it may be cursed, but if it is, then damn, this demon is saving me some repair bills
@@AShatteredDragonsSpirit I once had a gameboy that I found on the beach that lasted a couple years, it had Yoshi’s Island on it and that was my first Nintendo game
Cursed nintendo products are quickly becoming my favorite stories
"It's not long before the game is crashed and I'm back at the menu" is the real nostalgia.
The Sims Medieval: The only Sims that can directly kill any Sims with many way. It's more like half RPG half life sim game thought
Absolutely love Sims Medieval!
Patching required. Last I heard it just won't run on modern OS
@@SR-mm2ru Runs fine on my Windows 10
I'll have to try again if only to beat back the ever encroaching threat of the chinchilla
I like how, instead of implicitly being a god of the sims, these sims explicitly worshiped their interpretations of you.
The GBA version sums up my childhood. Child-me had absolutely no idea how to play the game and somehow still managed to earn a fuckton of money, basically spent 24/7 renovating my home and cruising through the city with my trusty totally-not-a-harley-davidson motorbike. Good times.
The soundtrack is incredible. And not just because of the simlish Black Eyed Peas songs during the loading screens.
Loved this game. Me and my cousins laughed so freakin' hard at the one vending machine where if you try and use it while you're in a bad mood it'll pop out some ghost hands and choke you out.
u get vibe checked by the vending machine? lmfao that's so cool
This is probably the Sims game I ended up playing the most. I can’t believe it wasn’t a childhood fever dream.
This along side Tony Hawk'ses, SSX3, Amped 3 and NfS U2 encapsulates early 00s to the "historical source" point. We can't go back, can we?
You just read off my whole collection lol
Hearing Poor Leno in SSX3 gives me nostalgia shivers
cant forget about the 007 games! those were a staple back in the day. ughhh to be young and dumb again, instead of old tired and dumb lol
I remember spending countless hours with this game on PS2 as a child. Thank you for the nostalgia.
I've played VERY LITTLE of this game, but Neon East's theme and rummaging through their trash cans for cool stuff are things that stuck with me. I thank you for bringing this incredible game back to light.
OBJECTIVELY, the best sims game. only second to the GBA version that is WIDELY a different game.
I *loved* the GBA version, though I was too young to get into many of the deeper aspects of it.
Even the GBA version was perfect... One of the best games of gba
Have you ever played the DS version of The Sims 2? You crash your car in Strangetown and then take over the hotel there, and eventually oust a mob boss, befriend a mummy, and dress up as a rat to fight a cyborg monkey.
The Nintendo DS version was objectively better.
I prefer Bustin' Out, but the Urbz was enjoyable.
I absolutely loved this game way back when. I almost didn’t even realize it was an actual sims game when I played it. Given, I was also very young at the time.
Could you imagine if they did a newer Sims Urbz with some ideas taken from the Sims 3 Late Night expansion pack? I think there's a lot of potential there.
@@AbandonedVoid such a game would never work in todays day and age ^^' one shitstorm after another :)
@@siriuswinter1065 I don't believe that for a minute
Bro, PLEASE keep it up with nostalgia. I am loving this trend
*I fucking loved The Urbz!*
I still remember when I won the game the first time around, and the "Let's get it started" music started playing.
It was so _deeply_ entertaining in a way that games just aren't today!
And I'm not even gonna lie, I honestly think The Urbz made me a more open minded person, because if how it showcased so many wacky places and people.
*I love this game.*
I should play it again soon!
I love this game because all of the fashions and styles are given equal love. All of them are weird, silly, and that is great!
yes u do love the urbz lol, does anyone in the comments see that pun
Dude, I absolutely loved this game as a kid... And I distinctly remember that Neon East was by far my favorite district.
Thanks for the nostalgia, AA!
I miss the sims being goal driven, loved playing bustin out! Might just get this game.
It's such a roller-coaster and I'd say it's totally worth buying :') so unlike usual sims games
*BUSTIN' OUT IS IN MY TOP 2 SIMS GAMES, WITH THE URBZ!*
Literally felt my soul leave my body when I heard the GBA Urbz night time sound in the intro of the video. The only Sims game I’ve played thoroughly.
I think we're about the same age and this video was a huge nostalgia trip for me. I spent so many hours in this game, skating and tickling...
The industrial hipster district was deffo the worst though, did not care for that subculture as a kid.
You have no idea how much I relate to this comment.
I literally destroyed a PS2 console to get my Urbz game out because it was stuck!
I _still_ absolutely *love* this game, and I can't help but think it shaped my perception of myself and others.
I think it literally made me a more open minded person!
@@Zeverinsen oh yeah I feel that! Games definitely made me more open-minded as I grew up. I reckon Fable contributed to my moral compass :')
I love how this guy talks about the game like he's narrating a documentary.
The music makes me wanna smile and cry from deep nostalgia
I remember when I was younger there was a sims game on playstation, 2 I think. I loved it for the simple fact that you directly controlled your sim. You'd walk around yourself instead of just telling them to do things. I always kind of wished all sims games were like that or had the option to be like that.
I remember playing this game sooo much as a kid. I think I spent way more time in Neon East than anywhere else. There's also Sims Castaway too, another fun classic!
I absolutely obsessed over Sims Castaway, as a child.
Something about it always made me want to play more.
Me too! I guess it explains why I'm so into that stuff still.
I can't get though 10 seconds of this without trying to emulate your magnificent patter and cadence. You're basically living out your childhood fantasies of actually completing games
This game was already of it's time. Basically a zoomer influencer fever dream.
The DS version was actually pretty entertaining, but it was disappointing that they were so resistant to putting a proper Sims style game on handheld. Would it have really been so hard to replicate a basic version of Sims on DS?? It had a touchscreen FFS.
I think The Sims 3 on 3DS was the closest thing to the actual Sims gameplay on a Nintendo handheld.
This is easily one of my favorite games. I revisit it every few years.
My brother and I would play this for hours non-stop in co-op mode. Which in its own right was more tedious than most of this game combined because your social circles wouldn't often mesh. You'd go from the biker's grotto to the richie rich heights and just start fights non-stop. Thanks for making content on these nostalgic classics.
One of the hardest times I ever laughed was with my friend when we decided to play this. We made the most ghetto character we could, and ended up going to a party that Fergie was at. Our character walked up on Fergie and slapped the shit out of her. We had no idea that was even possible but once we found out we slapped her about 100 times in a row and pissed ourselves when they began to have an actual brawl at the party.
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This is where the sims was best lol, outrageous shit went down and hilarious interactions! In the sims 4 I barely ever bother with other sims unless I want something from them :')
Wow you just brought a serious wave of nostalgia to me when you mentioned “Sims Bustin Out”. I remember that commercial was really risqué
I remember when I was a kid I bought the PS2 version of Sims Bustin Out since I loved the GBA version, and my mom made me return it because it said "Suggestive Themes" on the rating pfft.
@@Mooncubus I'm so sorry for your loss.
I love that game!
Dawg, the dialog.
Plus I loved this game when I was 14,
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This game is so lit, it was one of my absolute faves. I also remember reading the Urbz comic on their website long ago. Such good times with this game.
This game needs a remaster. Honestly, I am sick of living in suburbia for the 4th game in a row.
I used to live in a small hippy town betwixt the woods and ocean. I feel like the Sims would be a good way to share that with the world.
I hate to say it, but these games would flop big time if they were released today. Society can’t handle this kind of balls to the wall insanity anymore
@@loadbearingskull Thats cause reality is balls to the sandpaper insanity now just not fun insanity more depressing want to stab yourself with a fork insanity.
"Real Life" has too much "balls to the walls insanity" to make it worth it in a game. ;) That's why we all just want farming simulators.
@@loadbearingskull nahh, ill will be fine, postal is still a thing... somehoq
Me and my little sister used to love this game so much back when all we had was this and Spiderman on our original Xbox. She would just try and get to the hottub as fast as possible while I would do Mafia RP and hang out at Darius's penthouse and feel epic
God I remember playing this with my sister too. I also remember getting mad that she got famous while I was the one making all the money while we played splitscreen co-op on a small ass t.v. Good times.
I love how siblings end up doing similar things. Me and my sister would burn down whatever we could get our hands on. She'd perfected burning down houses in Sims busting out at 11
The way this video is formatted and edited, it makes it so entertaining 😭. I can’t imagine the amount of time put into this, good job on the video!
4:11 Holy moly, do y'all see how big that guy is to the left? Mannn if he was a playable sim he could lift couches and heavy stuff with no problem 😮
Even if my have no interest in the game, your voice and narration makes the video worth watching. I could listen to you narrate a game of minesweeper.
God, the Urbz for the DS still goes down as one of the games I've ever played. Wonderful game. Great damn soundtrack too. Would love to see you play them sometime!
This video was such an amazing blast from the past. I played the Urbz a lot, and it's so cool to see content for it.
Your Sims challenge run got me into your channel, really happy to see you make more
Love seeing you play these older Sims games. I can only play Sims 4 now as my laptop can't handle 1-3 and I don't have a console. Your commentary and the trip down memory lane is great. I'd love to see more. Someone else mentioned it but Sims Medieval is one of my favorites, if you ever decide to do a playthrough thst would be incredible!
I'd recommend trying to emulate the GBA, DS, and PSP games. Emulating those shouldn't be too hard if you can run Sims 4.
Mainly Sims Bustin out on GBA, Urbz on DS, and Sims 2 on GBA, DS, and PSP as they are all different.
@@Mooncubus Thank you for the advice, I'll definitely try. :)
this is a True nostalgia gem, like something out of a time capsule, exhumed with love - never cringe.
to me it‘s as nostalgia inducing as polly pockets that I had when I was a kid. Like touching a very well made object out of plastic from the ninetees
There is something very relaxing with your videos. I really enjoy watching them, especially when I feel down.
It might sound weird, but I have a condition that makes me have severe migraines that last days (few times a year only, fortunately) and I always come back to your channel when I recover from one.
Thank you for you videos
And, yes, at the time I'm writing these comments, I am recovering from one lol
It really weirded me out at 0:44 how my man had human hands and everything and not just some frog paws.
KEEP UP THE SIMS CONTENT PLEASE, I LOVE IT
When I bought my used PS2, this was one of the included games. It definitely is one of the games of all time.
I never played this game, but I distinctively remember seeing it on sale and wanting to play it. You never forget a cover with an orange background and a bare chested guy covered in tattoos.
My parents bought this for me in hopes I would stop buying Sims expansion packs before our family computer became a dedicated Sims machine and nothing else. In that endeavor, they failed.
Thank you for this video! I knew about the existence of this game back in the day, but never-ever saw even a single pixel of it, even though I was curious at the time. This video reminded me of that curiousity and it took care of it in only 20 seconds!
This was a blast from the past. I remember Urbz being one of my favorite games back in the mid 2000s. I played this on the PS2 and for years I'd keep going back to it- new saves, new half baked adventures. No other sims game has really captured the atmosphere and whimsy that was Urbz; even with Sims 4's city living expansion it doesn't give the same vibe and it makes me long for Urbz once more. Thanks for this video
8:00 The subway being a blimp was a twist I had not anticipated.
I've been loving your return to the sims, but never did i expect you to pick the game that had such a stranglehold on my childhood. I feel like i spent most of this in a nostalgic haze, thank you for reminding me of this
this was my jam back in the day.....always loving the content and random philosophical advice lol
Man this game was what brought the sims to my attention when I was a kid playing it. Another one I remember playing alongside this was the Sims two on Nintendo DS. Thanks for the nostalgia hit amphibian.
for as many years as I've played and loved this game, I never knew it had an ending. NOW I gotta finish it.
When you find a channel that manages to manifest the exact kind of videos you wish you had the energy to force upon the world. And the best part is that means you don't have to do it yourself now.
I've been laughing and smiling all morning at these videos while avoiding doing my shitty pointless job so thanks for that.
wish I could avoid my shitty pointless job...
The Sims RPGs are so zanny. They're really underrated. I really like the Griptonite ones on GBA and the Castaway on PSP
Definetly remember this one. But my preferred was castaway. That was one of my first wilderness survival games. Truly awesome stuff
So the ancient Sims Urbz website had a bunch of comics for each zone of the game, do any of yall remember that?
No
Yes!! The art style was great. I used to go online to read the comics and read the character descriptions
I loved the Urbz so much back then. It had a lot of flaws but it was also so crazy and different from the base sims. I liked the concept and I'd love to see a modern version of it.
I LOVVVEDD this game when I was a kid. I've wanted to revisit it for a loong time, thank you for doing it for me. this was nostalgia at its finest
Many years after I still play this game. I love it so much. Happy to see other people still think about itA
same! It makes me realldy happy to see that other also now grown-ups still love to play this game! so it wasn‘t only me and my friend playing it for weeks straight and obsessing over it :D
The sheer amount of nostalgic sounds slammed into the first two minutes is insane
So glad to finally see The Urbz. I had a GameCube and to play it, you needed something like an expanded memory card or whatever. I, being like 8 couldn’t figure it out of find one so I never got to play this treasure which broke my heart as a huge fan of the Sims on the GC.
I remember this game looking almost too real and being blown away by the graphics
The dude at 8:59 may be the most odd yet realistic fictional character I’ve ever seen
I love this game so much. I still have my copy and replay it for game cube - the best.
I have been thinking about this game for YEARS, specially in the past few weeks. Is this a signal to start playing it? I'd say: no, it is a signal to keep posposing it for another year or two. But hey, at least there's video about it, right? Right?
You definitely should.
I think I might play it again.
If you guys get it I'll get it for my PS2 😌😌😌
Oh man, I LOVED the Urbz, I can still hear the racially-motivated sound your sim makes as you make sushi 😌
One of my favourite games as a kid, thanks for playing it.
They need to bring back this game. It was hilarious. And fun to play with friends
AA: Sees something nostalgic
Also AA: **nyeeeeeh**
God I remember having the GBA and DS version and the DS version had this weird mini game where you could splice DNA of dinosaurs and you could keep one around as a pet. What a bizarre mess of a game that was on the same token a complete masterpiece.
The SimCity Snes music popping in occasionally is pure bliss. Love that game, purest form of nostalgia for me.
I love your writing style and I love the sims! I’m loving all the sims content 😁
I don’t care what you say about it being spin off the amount of love and the nostalgia that this game gives me player on the PS2 and it was so outdated I love it
I've always loved Urbz. In fact, I could go for a playthrough right now.
this game was my childhood. so many memories. i was so sad when i found out quite recently that they wanted to make an urbz 2 but didn't because the urbz kinda flopped
How dare you assume us English majors can even afford a house let alone gentrify an entire neighborhood!?
Actually that's fair
As an “urban person” this Sims was my absolute favorite
Is it true you greet other people by tickling and then rapping at them?
What button do you guys mash to get smarter?
Ah yes... One of the PS2 games I still reach for to play at times. I remember I started my first playthrough in Neon East. It's still one of the best areas in my opinion (Skatetail park is pretty cool too).
I LOVE the fact that somebody still cares about this game besides me
Bro keeps hitting me with all the sounds of nostalgia