One of the first downloadable objects for The Sims 1 was a pet guinea pig, which literally had a downloadable computer virus.
If you neglected to feed and care for your guinea pig properly, it would bite you and give you a deadly contagious virus, which you could spread to other Sims by not following proper hygiene and getting enough rest, and even die from.
Kids who downloaded the binary Sims object from the internet and installed in their game were horrified that their beloved Sims dropped dead unexpectedly, but they learned a useful lesson.
Now deadly infectious guinea pigs are a tradition continued in later versions of The Sims!
>You can download this guinea pig object, and if you don’t care for it it will make this secret hidden virus object that gives you a cold, and has with it the animations and sounds of coughing and going (cough cough).
>Every once in a while it will just interrupt what you do and cough, and it will be bad for your health. And if you don’t get enough sleep, you have to get sleep to get rid of it.
This little program is literally a virus that runs and lives in your household and in your characters, and your characters can spread them to the neighbors, and they’ll bring them home to their families.
>Programmable Plug-In Objects
>Anyway, there’s quite a lot of interesting potential for what new plug-ins additions can do because of this programming languages.
>SimAntics Visual Programming Language
>There’s a built-in visual programming language called SimAntics, that is a control flow decision tree type of language. So the “Come and See” object, we’ll look at that.
A powerful boss in World of Warcraft could afflict the player with a plague called "Corrupted Blood", which rapidly drained your HP and could spread to nearby allies. The negative status effect was supposed to apply only in its zone of origin, but due to the way it was implemented, a player accidentally spread it outside its containment zone by dismissing and then re-summoning a pet with the effect, allowing it to spread. All hell broke loose on Azeroth, as entire cities would be contaminated with Corrupted Blood, and were subsequently abandoned or avoided by the remaining healthy players. Some players with healer-class characters would heal their allies and random strangers until the affliction passed. Others deliberately spread the affliction as a form of griefing. It was bananas, and epidemiologists used it as a model for possible human behavior in a real-life plague.
If you neglected to feed and care for your guinea pig properly, it would bite you and give you a deadly contagious virus, which you could spread to other Sims by not following proper hygiene and getting enough rest, and even die from.
Kids who downloaded the binary Sims object from the internet and installed in their game were horrified that their beloved Sims dropped dead unexpectedly, but they learned a useful lesson.
Now deadly infectious guinea pigs are a tradition continued in later versions of The Sims!
The Sims Pie Menus
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-sims-pie-menus-49ca02a74d...
>Viruses
>You can download this guinea pig object, and if you don’t care for it it will make this secret hidden virus object that gives you a cold, and has with it the animations and sounds of coughing and going (cough cough).
>Every once in a while it will just interrupt what you do and cough, and it will be bad for your health. And if you don’t get enough sleep, you have to get sleep to get rid of it. This little program is literally a virus that runs and lives in your household and in your characters, and your characters can spread them to the neighbors, and they’ll bring them home to their families.
>Programmable Plug-In Objects
>Anyway, there’s quite a lot of interesting potential for what new plug-ins additions can do because of this programming languages.
>SimAntics Visual Programming Language
>There’s a built-in visual programming language called SimAntics, that is a control flow decision tree type of language. So the “Come and See” object, we’ll look at that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-exdu4ETscs&t=12m23s
Something Is Killing the Sims, and It's No Accident. By John Markoff, April 27, 2000.
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/27/technology/something-is-k...
Lethal guinea pig kills virtual people
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/746700.stm
The Sims 1: Guinea Pig Disease
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O5cgXuqhnA
The Sims / Illness / Guinea Pig Disease
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Illness
How to Get and Treat Guinea Pig Disease
https://sims-online.com/how-to-get-treat-guinea-pig-disease/
The Sims 4 My First Pet: SimGuruGraham Talks “Guinea Pig” Disease
https://simsvip.com/2018/03/07/the-sims-4-my-first-pet-simgu...