This seems like a sensible take on the subject.

Tbf I think I’d like it more if we had online shopping, cell phones, instant messaging etc but we didn’t have social media as we know it today. Like we stuck with phpbb, Usenet and IRC and didn’t move much more beyond that into Myspace and Facebook

Yeah I managed to get Creatures 3 and Docking Station working fairly recently and really enjoyed my time with them. I was obsessed as a kid.

Yep!

Nope. Great game though

Not sure if they do screen sharing but I’ve seen some buzz around ‘revolt’ recently which is self-hostable.

Digital Lifeforms in Virtual Ecosystem

Oh my bad, I thought one of the guesses was a hint in itself. Brain missed the threading!

Good guess but not what I had in mind

I think you would have to really like it to justify the cost of that. Saying that, people spend more on FIFA players or whatever so maybe it’s a steal?

Infected man with arm swords

True, some of my favourite memories in gaming were YOLO-No-Scoping n00bs in The Sims 3.

They get larger, have more features, content and better graphics but they don’t seem to be getting any more fun to actually play