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  • čas přidán 1. 06. 2022
  • The Urbz: Sims in the City (2004) was an unforgettable game. I tried to make it back to the top of Urbania/Miniopolis/Simcity/whatever city it is.
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    The Sims, The Sims 2, Simcity 4, The Sims: Bustin Out, and The Urbz: Sims in the City, and SimCity SNES Soundtracks (by Maxis and Griptonite and EA)
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    Portrait of George Washington (1796) by Gilbert Stuart
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  • @ambiguousamphibian
    @ambiguousamphibian  Před 2 lety +3966

    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

    • @pranavarora9976
      @pranavarora9976 Před 2 lety +31

      For sure, keep the Sims train going

    • @SkylorBeck
      @SkylorBeck Před 2 lety +62

      Dude the DS version stole hundreds of hours of my childhood. You should play it on the channel.

    • @icebread9335
      @icebread9335 Před 2 lety +4

      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!

    • @ChocoOffline
      @ChocoOffline Před 2 lety +30

      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.

    • @WingDingMcKing
      @WingDingMcKing Před 2 lety +3

      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

  • @BudgetBuildsOfficial
    @BudgetBuildsOfficial Před 2 lety +6742

    I absolutely love this broken mess of a game, so many 2000s trends chucked into one train wreck masterpiece.

    • @bigjoe980sgamecorner
      @bigjoe980sgamecorner Před 2 lety +193

      Yet somehow still less broken than every sims 4 patch.

    • @alessiobenvenuto5159
      @alessiobenvenuto5159 Před 2 lety +96

      @@bigjoe980sgamecorner Sims 4 is a Frankenstein of a game

    • @jamesferguson1333
      @jamesferguson1333 Před 2 lety +82

      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.

    • @KarlSnarks
      @KarlSnarks Před 2 lety +74

      @@jamesferguson1333 So basically at the foundry you could get popular by just being a poser? Awesome.

    • @PriestessofGenbu
      @PriestessofGenbu Před 2 lety +53

      If urbz is a trainwreck then I wonder what sims 4 is? A war crime? lol

  • @SuperVoodude
    @SuperVoodude Před 2 lety +3307

    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. 😅

    • @MissSimone02
      @MissSimone02 Před 2 lety +199

      😂😂 fucking brilliant 👏🏾

    • @skullglaze8755
      @skullglaze8755 Před 2 lety +186

      dude this is so fucking funny

    • @tanja0152
      @tanja0152 Před 2 lety +243

      Bro I swear I was so braindead that I thought you talked about ur real life events 💀💀

    • @Chilling_Charizard
      @Chilling_Charizard Před rokem +32

      Once you said “you see. “ i was hooked

    • @paulakerner7923
      @paulakerner7923 Před rokem +70

      @@tanja0152 The "fast forward to us now" made me think it was actually irl and I was like "hold up"

  • @jackieboyborden
    @jackieboyborden Před rokem +917

    Life did not live up to the expectations this game gave me

  • @CallMeKevin
    @CallMeKevin Před 2 lety +2166

    This game was a BANGER! +rep

    • @ambiguousamphibian
      @ambiguousamphibian  Před 2 lety +249

      Thanks for the Xizzles, Darius👌👌

    • @kidgquiff
      @kidgquiff Před 2 lety +90

      Of course kevin is here on a sims video

    • @LutherannoG
      @LutherannoG Před 2 lety +67

      Bore Ragnarok

    • @maad1670
      @maad1670 Před 2 lety +19

      You can say it was bussin

    • @Skenjin
      @Skenjin Před rokem +23

      Not sure what you should play but you guys need to do a collab of some sort.

  • @socksforfrogs
    @socksforfrogs Před 2 lety +1794

    "People all across the city know when Derek Urban arrives, it's tickle time."

    • @0diee
      @0diee Před 2 lety +28

      @@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.

    • @MONKEY_BEAM
      @MONKEY_BEAM Před 2 lety +7

      @@matthewloscar2893 h.p. lovecraft is that you?

    • @matthewloscar2893
      @matthewloscar2893 Před 2 lety

      @@0diee you're white

    • @matthewloscar2893
      @matthewloscar2893 Před 2 lety +2

      @@MONKEY_BEAM no

    • @addyourname5570
      @addyourname5570 Před 2 lety +6

      @@matthewloscar2893 is that really you in the short on your channel? Yikes.

  • @HumanPerson_final
    @HumanPerson_final Před 2 lety +786

    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.

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 Před 2 lety +27

      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.

    • @ellianagrant6294
      @ellianagrant6294 Před 2 lety +21

      My first Sims game was The Sims 2 on the ds 😂. I just remember using a vacuum thing and being in a hotel (??)

    • @feelinglostinthepeople
      @feelinglostinthepeople Před 2 lety +8

      @@ellianagrant6294 sims 2 on the ds was fire 🔥

    • @eimhinlynch1517
      @eimhinlynch1517 Před 2 lety +5

      @@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.

    • @keyofpop
      @keyofpop Před 2 lety +5

      @@ellianagrant6294 AND HARVESTING ALIEN ORGANS omg I wanna play that again now that game was wild.

  • @dmra1929
    @dmra1929 Před rokem +373

    "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

    • @creepygal800
      @creepygal800 Před rokem +10

      That line got me. You can even hear him trying not to laugh as he says it.

  • @LittleMissDeath
    @LittleMissDeath Před rokem +349

    To this day, Urbz is still my all time favorite Sims game.

  • @UpIsNotJump
    @UpIsNotJump Před 2 lety +2050

    I saw a distinctly human arm at the start
    That is a very ambiguous amphibian

    • @Zombiphobia
      @Zombiphobia Před 2 lety +49

      chemicals.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L Před 2 lety

      @@Zombiphobia they’re putting chemicals in the water that give the frogs arms!!!!

    • @beingsactual
      @beingsactual Před 2 lety +71

      Morally ambigous, as the amphibian clearly engages in theft and grafting of living appendages.

    • @halogeek6
      @halogeek6 Před 2 lety +8

      Nah that was just his slave *cough* I mean pet human.

  • @Nigiwa
    @Nigiwa Před 2 lety +492

    This game single-handedly made me feel like one of the cool kids whilst simultaneously decidedly made me one of the weird ones.

    • @KarlSnarks
      @KarlSnarks Před 2 lety +36

      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.

    • @TwoBs
      @TwoBs Před rokem +6

      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.

  • @angelframe
    @angelframe Před 2 lety +756

    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!

    • @Crabbadabba
      @Crabbadabba Před rokem

      Don't forget the urban bullies who commit to economic warfare and in-grouping policies.

    • @lavenderllamamusic
      @lavenderllamamusic Před rokem +45

      and listening to The Black Eyed Peas all the time lmao

    • @LTPottenger
      @LTPottenger Před rokem +19

      I wonder how many people in middle school thought tickling and rapping were totally normal social interactions lol

    • @bllasae
      @bllasae Před rokem +1

      Wow, how accurate that last part is lmao.

  • @Micscope
    @Micscope Před 2 lety +222

    The amount of customization is actually insane! Nowadays game wouldn't let you do the piercing and stuff by default.

  • @TheDarkFiddler
    @TheDarkFiddler Před 2 lety +2020

    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...

    • @PaulPinguin
      @PaulPinguin Před 2 lety +408

      Excuse me what

    • @Hadkek
      @Hadkek Před 2 lety +256

      The DS/GBA game was so awesome. One of my favorites ever. Under appreciated gem

    • @TheDarkFiddler
      @TheDarkFiddler Před 2 lety +446

      @@PaulPinguin 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.

    • @katherinebarlow6446
      @katherinebarlow6446 Před 2 lety +91

      I am so glad someone else remembers that version. It was WONDERFUL.

    • @markhirsch6301
      @markhirsch6301 Před 2 lety +108

      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

  • @Plumbella
    @Plumbella Před 2 lety +1991

    The Urbz is absolutely FANTASTICALLY UNHINGED it’s so good

    • @ambiguousamphibian
      @ambiguousamphibian  Před 2 lety +120

      Edgy!

    • @wander561444
      @wander561444 Před 2 lety +13

      It’s such a good offshoot

    • @amidnightblue
      @amidnightblue Před 2 lety +24

      Fancy seeing you here! Then again, I imagine you're anywhere and everywhere an old Sims game is mentioned 😂

    • @mmm1217
      @mmm1217 Před 2 lety

      Which is your favorite? Personally, I'd go with the second handheld game.

    • @Alexander-hx2bi
      @Alexander-hx2bi Před 2 lety +11

      Your username read like Plumbarta and I thought you were an enjoyer of roman war darts. My dissappointment is immeasurable

  • @CthulhuBlend
    @CthulhuBlend Před 2 lety +201

    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.

  • @xKT
    @xKT Před rokem +81

    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.

    • @jakyrick740
      @jakyrick740 Před rokem +3

      🔥 its fire

    • @wasteplace1705
      @wasteplace1705 Před rokem

      Ahh I wish I still had my ps2 copy, game was so fun to mess around in

    • @tdenzel101
      @tdenzel101 Před 8 měsíci

      @@wasteplace1705 i play it on dolphin right along with sonic heroes the good old days i love sims urbz soundtrack.

  • @lokiraven-claw3233
    @lokiraven-claw3233 Před 2 lety +744

    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

  • @dbz9393
    @dbz9393 Před 2 lety +95

    "Wherever they move, everyone gets priced out of the neighbourhood" AA dropping truth bombs 😂

  • @jamilex6155
    @jamilex6155 Před 2 lety +17

    The soundtrack is incredible. And not just because of the simlish Black Eyed Peas songs during the loading screens.

  • @ashleytyraisaacs
    @ashleytyraisaacs Před 2 lety +173

    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 😭

    • @llcdrdndgrbd
      @llcdrdndgrbd Před rokem +44

      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)

    • @AShatteredDragonsSpirit
      @AShatteredDragonsSpirit Před rokem +7

      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

    • @londyngray3659
      @londyngray3659 Před rokem +5

      @@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

    • @ashleytyraisaacs
      @ashleytyraisaacs Před rokem +7

      Cursed nintendo products are quickly becoming my favorite stories

    • @gbeach85
      @gbeach85 Před rokem +2

      This is literally how I first discovered the Wu Tang Clan

  • @tprimmers9360
    @tprimmers9360 Před 2 lety +310

    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

    • @barkergirl33
      @barkergirl33 Před 2 lety +23

      Absolutely love Sims Medieval!

    • @SR-mm2ru
      @SR-mm2ru Před 2 lety +6

      Patching required. Last I heard it just won't run on modern OS

    • @leerylynx
      @leerylynx Před 2 lety +24

      @@SR-mm2ru Runs fine on my Windows 10

    • @SR-mm2ru
      @SR-mm2ru Před 2 lety +10

      I'll have to try again if only to beat back the ever encroaching threat of the chinchilla

    • @KarlSnarks
      @KarlSnarks Před 2 lety +32

      I like how, instead of implicitly being a god of the sims, these sims explicitly worshiped their interpretations of you.

  • @Zeverinsen
    @Zeverinsen Před 2 lety +52

    *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!

    • @carlycrays2831
      @carlycrays2831 Před rokem +10

      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!

    • @Smo2i
      @Smo2i Před rokem

      yes u do love the urbz lol, does anyone in the comments see that pun

  • @Xielent
    @Xielent Před 2 lety +33

    I remember spending countless hours with this game on PS2 as a child. Thank you for the nostalgia.

  • @Slothydactyl
    @Slothydactyl Před 2 lety +129

    This is probably the Sims game I ended up playing the most. I can’t believe it wasn’t a childhood fever dream.

  • @bigfoot9405
    @bigfoot9405 Před 2 lety +439

    OBJECTIVELY, the best sims game. only second to the GBA version that is WIDELY a different game.

    • @DarkWestern
      @DarkWestern Před 2 lety +32

      I *loved* the GBA version, though I was too young to get into many of the deeper aspects of it.

    • @bernardonunes2085
      @bernardonunes2085 Před 2 lety +27

      Even the GBA version was perfect... One of the best games of gba

    • @realGeorgelucas18563
      @realGeorgelucas18563 Před 2 lety

      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.

    • @actually5004
      @actually5004 Před 2 lety +27

      The Nintendo DS version was objectively better.

    • @The_Azure_
      @The_Azure_ Před 2 lety +16

      I prefer Bustin' Out, but the Urbz was enjoyable.

  • @hekin334
    @hekin334 Před 2 lety +91

    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.

  • @discipulaaeterna4389
    @discipulaaeterna4389 Před rokem +10

    The music makes me wanna smile and cry from deep nostalgia

  • @Marlfox70
    @Marlfox70 Před 2 lety +273

    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.

    • @franny6221
      @franny6221 Před 2 lety +33

      u get vibe checked by the vending machine? lmfao that's so cool

  • @Eddyforshort
    @Eddyforshort Před 2 lety +85

    "It's not long before the game is crashed and I'm back at the menu" is the real nostalgia.

  • @Vok250
    @Vok250 Před 2 lety +87

    This game was already of it's time. Basically a zoomer influencer fever dream.

  • @BetaNights
    @BetaNights Před 10 měsíci +5

    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!

    • @tdenzel101
      @tdenzel101 Před 8 měsíci

      lol true and diamond heights was something else lmfao.

  • @victim2077
    @victim2077 Před 2 lety +138

    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?

    • @ambiguousamphibian
      @ambiguousamphibian  Před 2 lety +29

      You just read off my whole collection lol

    • @desudesudesudesudesudesu
      @desudesudesudesudesudesu Před 2 lety

      Hearing Poor Leno in SSX3 gives me nostalgia shivers

    • @dopeywednesday7590
      @dopeywednesday7590 Před 2 lety +2

      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

  • @TaranVH
    @TaranVH Před 2 lety +1613

    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.

    • @ambiguousamphibian
      @ambiguousamphibian  Před 2 lety +271

      Lol all achieved using the world's most advanced video editing tutorial

    • @sanmarino6816
      @sanmarino6816 Před 2 lety +37

      @@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

    • @simonwyzik8661
      @simonwyzik8661 Před 2 lety +10

      He paid me half a ham sandwich to make this with my 30 minutes of prior experience with photoshop.

    • @naufalap
      @naufalap Před 2 lety +3

      I just realized the way taran speaks is similar to aa

    • @lachlank.8270
      @lachlank.8270 Před rokem +1

      The game was greenlighted entirely on the strength of the 'Sims in the City' subtitle

  • @arcanacapra9792
    @arcanacapra9792 Před 2 lety +21

    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.

  • @JarthenGreenmeadow
    @JarthenGreenmeadow Před 2 lety +6

    8:00 The subway being a blimp was a twist I had not anticipated.

  • @DoggyDisk
    @DoggyDisk Před 2 lety +208

    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.

    • @AbandonedVoid
      @AbandonedVoid Před 2 lety +5

      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.

    • @siriuswinter1065
      @siriuswinter1065 Před 2 lety +1

      @@AbandonedVoid such a game would never work in todays day and age ^^' one shitstorm after another :)

    • @AbandonedVoid
      @AbandonedVoid Před 2 lety +1

      @@siriuswinter1065 I don't believe that for a minute

  • @epicepicburrito2066
    @epicepicburrito2066 Před 2 lety +81

    I miss the sims being goal driven, loved playing bustin out! Might just get this game.

    • @LexxiKitty
      @LexxiKitty Před 2 lety

      It's such a roller-coaster and I'd say it's totally worth buying :') so unlike usual sims games

    • @Zeverinsen
      @Zeverinsen Před 2 lety +5

      *BUSTIN' OUT IS IN MY TOP 2 SIMS GAMES, WITH THE URBZ!*

  • @PrincessSunbutt
    @PrincessSunbutt Před 2 lety +19

    Honestly every time I think of The Sims I always remember Urbz. I had a lot of fun with it, but it has been so long.

  • @tomboyraider1015
    @tomboyraider1015 Před 2 lety +15

    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.

  • @RedLilyCat
    @RedLilyCat Před 2 lety +51

    Bro, PLEASE keep it up with nostalgia. I am loving this trend

  • @BIGESTblade
    @BIGESTblade Před 2 lety +122

    This game needs a remaster. Honestly, I am sick of living in suburbia for the 4th game in a row.

    • @kateherr2893
      @kateherr2893 Před 2 lety +7

      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.

    • @phieee8352
      @phieee8352 Před 2 lety +16

      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

    • @vaultdweller1386
      @vaultdweller1386 Před 2 lety

      @@phieee8352 Thats cause reality is balls to the sandpaper insanity now just not fun insanity more depressing want to stab yourself with a fork insanity.

    • @kateherr2893
      @kateherr2893 Před 2 lety +5

      "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.

    • @talpatv512
      @talpatv512 Před 2 lety +1

      @@phieee8352 nahh, ill will be fine, postal is still a thing... somehoq

  • @DustinOffAClassic
    @DustinOffAClassic Před 2 lety +63

    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.

    • @marcoslopez_
      @marcoslopez_ Před rokem +2

      I think The Sims 3 on 3DS was the closest thing to the actual Sims gameplay on a Nintendo handheld.

  • @terrybernadino3385
    @terrybernadino3385 Před 6 měsíci +3

    I love how this guy talks about the game like he's narrating a documentary.

  • @JoseTorres-mg3mx
    @JoseTorres-mg3mx Před 2 lety +50

    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.

  • @thenotoriousT.E.D.
    @thenotoriousT.E.D. Před 2 lety +153

    The validation I feel having found one more person who knows of this quirky nightmare is immeasurable

  • @NomadJedi
    @NomadJedi Před rokem +11

    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.

  • @seaofflowers.
    @seaofflowers. Před rokem +3

    this is a True nostalgia gem, like something out of a time capsule, exhumed with love - never cringe.

    • @Brandmelder_in
      @Brandmelder_in Před rokem +1

      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

  • @rhyslikesthis416
    @rhyslikesthis416 Před 2 lety +95

    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.

    • @Zeverinsen
      @Zeverinsen Před 2 lety +2

      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!

    • @rhyslikesthis416
      @rhyslikesthis416 Před 2 lety +4

      @@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 :')

  • @de245733
    @de245733 Před 2 lety +4

    It really weirded me out at 0:44 how my man had human hands and everything and not just some frog paws.

  • @morganakira2045
    @morganakira2045 Před 2 lety +2

    AA: Sees something nostalgic
    Also AA: **nyeeeeeh**

  • @MiloKuroshiro
    @MiloKuroshiro Před 2 lety +15

    The Sims RPGs are so zanny. They're really underrated. I really like the Griptonite ones on GBA and the Castaway on PSP

  • @mintchocolatechip2412
    @mintchocolatechip2412 Před 2 lety +32

    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!

    • @scarletbard6511
      @scarletbard6511 Před 2 lety +3

      I absolutely obsessed over Sims Castaway, as a child.
      Something about it always made me want to play more.

    • @Zeverinsen
      @Zeverinsen Před 2 lety

      Me too! I guess it explains why I'm so into that stuff still.

  • @lullabysorrow5746
    @lullabysorrow5746 Před rokem +6

    They need to bring back this game. It was hilarious. And fun to play with friends

  • @rusty9508
    @rusty9508 Před rokem +5

    Those who had the honor of playing this game know how weirdly fun and addictive it was.

    • @ZombiePepperoni
      @ZombiePepperoni Před rokem

      I still think of it every now and then. But knowing what it looks like now, I feel so old.

  • @TommyLikeTom
    @TommyLikeTom Před 2 lety +27

    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

  • @spaman7716
    @spaman7716 Před 2 lety +47

    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

    • @matthewhearn9497
      @matthewhearn9497 Před 2 lety +10

      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.

    • @cloroxusthestainlessone4324
      @cloroxusthestainlessone4324 Před 2 lety +6

      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

  • @ZephrynaLunatari
    @ZephrynaLunatari Před 2 lety +5

    Many years after I still play this game. I love it so much. Happy to see other people still think about itA

    • @Brandmelder_in
      @Brandmelder_in Před rokem

      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

  • @dopeywednesday7590
    @dopeywednesday7590 Před 2 lety +13

    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

  • @YTHandlesAreDumb
    @YTHandlesAreDumb Před 2 lety +161

    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.

    • @dizzythakidd7350
      @dizzythakidd7350 Před 2 lety

      cap

    • @LexxiKitty
      @LexxiKitty Před 2 lety +10

      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 :')

  • @jayst
    @jayst Před 2 lety +40

    Wow you just brought a serious wave of nostalgia to me when you mentioned “Sims Bustin Out”. I remember that commercial was really risqué

    • @Mooncubus
      @Mooncubus Před 2 lety

      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.

    • @Zeverinsen
      @Zeverinsen Před 2 lety +2

      @@Mooncubus I'm so sorry for your loss.
      I love that game!

  • @keiyangoshin3650
    @keiyangoshin3650 Před 2 lety +6

    I remember this game. I even played it! It wasn’t a bad game honestly. It was basically a game where you needed to be cool. Somehow lol The music was good. Thank you Black Eyed Peas. 😉

  • @JayfromtheSun
    @JayfromtheSun Před 2 lety +5

    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.

    • @themudpit621
      @themudpit621 Před 2 lety +1

      wish I could avoid my shitty pointless job...

  • @GizmozEye
    @GizmozEye Před 2 lety +50

    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!

  • @bengu4680
    @bengu4680 Před 2 lety +18

    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.

  • @TheGregcawthorne
    @TheGregcawthorne Před rokem +1

    There was a PSP Sims game where you played a detective and solved murders that completely broke from the normal Sims formula. Blew my mind when I was younger!

  • @xkristixx
    @xkristixx Před 2 lety +6

    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).

  • @AtomicBoom227
    @AtomicBoom227 Před 2 lety +13

    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!

  • @GeometryPolska
    @GeometryPolska Před 2 lety +10

    When I bought my used PS2, this was one of the included games. It definitely is one of the games of all time.

  • @jasmine-ruff-puff9951
    @jasmine-ruff-puff9951 Před rokem +8

    I've always loved Urbz. In fact, I could go for a playthrough right now.

  • @Dead_Hitori
    @Dead_Hitori Před rokem +3

    00's kids had all these different kinds of sims games, today kids only has sims 4

  • @CharlieApples
    @CharlieApples Před 2 lety +12

    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.

  • @shaihulud2977
    @shaihulud2977 Před 2 lety +38

    KEEP UP THE SIMS CONTENT PLEASE, I LOVE IT

  • @PoopSockles
    @PoopSockles Před 2 lety +4

    I'm sure you probably know this by now but your commentary absolutely solidifies your videos. I don't know if you write scripts or just go off on a tangent but it's so enjoyable the way you just describe.. anything.

  • @2crazyvideomonkeys
    @2crazyvideomonkeys Před 2 lety +112

    Oh man, I LOVED the Urbz, I can still hear the racially-motivated sound your sim makes as you make sushi 😌

  • @barkergirl33
    @barkergirl33 Před 2 lety +18

    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!

    • @Mooncubus
      @Mooncubus Před 2 lety +4

      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.

    • @barkergirl33
      @barkergirl33 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Mooncubus Thank you for the advice, I'll definitely try. :)

  • @cesarsilva408
    @cesarsilva408 Před 2 lety +13

    Definetly remember this one. But my preferred was castaway. That was one of my first wilderness survival games. Truly awesome stuff

  • @cozyg.1035
    @cozyg.1035 Před 2 lety +2

    I had this game on my ds. I literally had no clue how to play it. I would play the terrible basketball mini game over and over because that’s all I could figure out. Thanks for bringing back that crazy old memory 😂

  • @7HatimF16
    @7HatimF16 Před rokem +1

    This game has all the 2000s you can think of it’s amazing and nostalgic

  • @mattfick5502
    @mattfick5502 Před 2 lety +11

    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

  • @8feetNSFW
    @8feetNSFW Před 2 lety +17

    I always wished we got a sequel

  • @Dream7Wolf
    @Dream7Wolf Před rokem +1

    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

    • @Dream7Wolf
      @Dream7Wolf Před rokem

      And, yes, at the time I'm writing these comments, I am recovering from one lol

  • @wynaphine8875
    @wynaphine8875 Před 2 lety +5

    The only sims urbz I knew of was the gba/ds version and I absolutely LOVED those dumpster fires. I wish EA would do more of those spin offs

  • @as1tis
    @as1tis Před 2 lety +7

    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!

  • @MistressPandora93
    @MistressPandora93 Před 2 lety +9

    for as many years as I've played and loved this game, I never knew it had an ending. NOW I gotta finish it.

  • @BtHacha
    @BtHacha Před 2 lety +51

    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?

    • @Zeverinsen
      @Zeverinsen Před 2 lety +5

      You definitely should.
      I think I might play it again.

    • @RoxasLov3r4Ev3r
      @RoxasLov3r4Ev3r Před rokem +3

      If you guys get it I'll get it for my PS2 😌😌😌

  • @adrianjsf
    @adrianjsf Před 2 lety +3

    The GBA Urbs was amazing I love most of the Sims spinoffs the Sims had

  • @SuperTom0111
    @SuperTom0111 Před 2 lety +26

    I remember this game looking almost too real and being blown away by the graphics

  • @noobievids
    @noobievids Před 2 lety +5

    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.

  • @tomboyraider1015
    @tomboyraider1015 Před měsícem

    Can't believe this video got recommended to me again a year after watching and commenting on it. Nostalgia trips are amazing.

  • @GrimGrenadine
    @GrimGrenadine Před 2 lety +3

    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

  • @Richmondstein
    @Richmondstein Před 2 lety +53

    As an “urban person” this Sims was my absolute favorite

    • @CrispyGFX
      @CrispyGFX Před 2 lety +11

      Is it true you greet other people by tickling and then rapping at them?

    • @uncle1886
      @uncle1886 Před 2 lety +2

      What button do you guys mash to get smarter?

  • @SefMfMcWeavis
    @SefMfMcWeavis Před 2 lety +44

    this was my jam back in the day.....always loving the content and random philosophical advice lol

  • @dracticarchive
    @dracticarchive Před rokem +1

    5:12
    “with a collider for a hat im off to fabricate piercings”
    is absolutely a lyric im somehow incorporating into a song lmfao

  • @jamilex6155
    @jamilex6155 Před 2 lety +2

    This game was huge for me as a child. Although the game had stereotypical groups, it exposed me to so many cool styles. I also played the GBA version on my DS. Loved this hidden gem of a game.

  • @wil4me
    @wil4me Před 2 lety +4

    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.

  • @fuzzydunlop7928
    @fuzzydunlop7928 Před 2 lety +3

    I remember being a poor child and reading the game box back-to-front repeatedly because I knew I could never buy this game.
    My youthful aspirations of potential revelry have been affirmed by this video. I definitely missed out big time. I have no clue why they made this puzzling game, but I'm glad it exists - as a time capsule, if nothing else.

    • @treetheenderhyena1880
      @treetheenderhyena1880 Před 2 lety

      Yoooo, same. I would always sit around Best Buy while my dad looked for stuff and just stare at the videogames boxes, reading them from front to back.

  • @remindmel8ter534
    @remindmel8ter534 Před rokem +1

    I love this game so much. I still have my copy and replay it for game cube - the best.

  • @ensignd.crexote5350
    @ensignd.crexote5350 Před rokem +1

    Dawg, the dialog.
    Plus I loved this game when I was 14,
    Subscribed

  • @evanthienes661
    @evanthienes661 Před 2 lety +5

    The sheer amount of nostalgic sounds slammed into the first two minutes is insane