The Sims is becoming a movie: 8 sadistic and funny things every Noughties kid did in the PC game

For most Noughties kids, The Sims was an essential part of everyday life; after rushing home from school and throwing your rucksack off, it was officially time to pull up a seat in the office and stay on the computer until your parents forced you to go to bed.

As well as allowing young gamers to channel their artistic and creative skills through the mediums of interior design and architecture, the PC game enabled users to control every last aspect of their characters' lives.

Naturally, with great power comes great responsibility... not that kids cared. Relishing their influence on these virtual dolls, many exerted their power in the most terrifyingly sadistic ways, developing God complexes in the process.

With the news that The Sims is being adapted into a film by Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment, here we take a look some of the most sadistic and funny things every Noughties kid did in the PC game.

1) Trapping your Sims characters in a room before setting fire to the place

Practically a rite of passage for teenagers in the Noughties, it was a widely accepted move to trap your Sims character in a room by deleting the doorway.

For good measure, why not set the place alight with the help of a dodgy oven, and torture your virtual pal until they perish? Yikes.

2) Getting your Sims character to go swimming before taking the pool steps away

Likewise, another “fond” past-time was to encourage your Sim to go swimming, before psychotically removing the steps and letting them drown.

3) *Presses Ctrl + Shift + C and types 'Rosebud' 5,000,000 times*

Part of the game's allure was to build the biggest and best mansion on your block, so naturally, any cheat that boosted your bank balance was key.

The rosebud cheat became a firm favourite among gamers – despite the fact it took an age to get to the desired amount.

4) Starving your Sim for absolutely no reason

Most Noughties kids not only played The Sims, but also owned a Tamagotchi – the goal of which was to look after your creature and ensure it was happy at all times (it literally took over our lives).

While the Tamagotchis were treated like living, breathing kittens, keeping our Sims characters fed was, perplexingly, less than an afterthought.

5) Creating your dream house and judging all your friends' poor taste and lack of interior design skills

"Ugh, as if she chose an item from the miscellaneous list!" *eye roll*

6) Completing lots of beautiful houses...but never actually playing the game

Hands up if you only ever played half the game...

7) Inviting your pals over to "play Sims"...but dominating the keyboard and mouse the entire time

For its many, many positives, the original Sims wasn't exactly a multiplayer game.

8) Discovering terrible sides of yourself

In a Reddit thread, the question "What is the worst thing you've ever done in The Sims series?" was posed.

One of the weirdest responses included: "I once broke up with a guy then invited him over and drowned him, just to keep his tombstone for our illegitimate child. It sounds so much worse when its put bluntly like that."