What is The Sims: Vacation?

It's hard to argue with more of a good thing. And in our book, you can never have enough hard drive space, fried food, chocolate, bad TV, or options for your Sims.

The Sims Vacation expansion pack takes off where Hot Date... left off — it lets you and your Sims get outta the house and out on the town. Only this time, you're headed for the beach, the campground, and the mountains.

You take a cab to one of eight fabulous locations (you can also build your own resort by bulldozing one of the current vacation spots) where you can participate in fun activities like snowboarding, playing volleyball and carnival games, buying postcards, and winning prizes to bring home.

Of course, Vacation also includes other requisite expansion-pack featurettes, including more cool objects, more interests (Sims now take an interest in exercise, food, and Hollywood, among other worldsaving topics), and new floors and walls.

Running Vacation on our 350MHz G4 was how we'd imagine it’d be to watch John Goodman run the last mile of a marathon. Start. Stop. Skip. Lumber, lumber. Choke. Actually, the regular part of the game ran OK, but venturing out to vacation areas bogged down the game. Speaking of less-than-ideal behavior, the game is prone to crashing in general.

You can certainly live without The Sims Vacation, but why would you want to? While it doesn’t run spectacularly, it’s nevertheless an essential part of any Sims collection.

Lu, Cathy. (January 2003). The Sims Vacation. MacAddict. (pg. 45).

Download The Sims: Vacation for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver