My favourite EP was Superstar. I always loved how you could go to the movie theatres and that.
My least favourite EP was Hot Date. I just thought that it was an uneccessary expansion

Hot Date was BIG when it first came out because it meant leaving your home for the first time. That was so exciting! We had spent months playing in our own little homes or seeing some of our Sims come over to neighbor's houses if we played the neighbors. What freedom to pick up a phone and go someplace else and with someone, if we chose! AND, we could chose new bathing suits and pajamas! The only disappointment was that children couldn't visit the new downtown.

There were so many other cool things that came with Hot Date, such as some wonderfully new interactions and the opportunity to shape Sim's interests through magazines. Plus, Maxis hit it again with the humor of the violin player and the various types of characters at the stores and restaurants.

Perhaps you have to have a sense of Sim history to really appreciate this expansion.

Plus, you know, dates! Dates were great! Still are.

I liked Vacation because I had a weird obsession with building big hotels and I liked that it added quite a bit of variety to the game. And I had such a love/hate relationship with Makin' Magic - my brother and I spent such a long long LONG time saving up a bunch of Magic Coins (was that what they were called???) to finally get our houses in the magic neighbourhood and it just kind of seemed like the journey was much funner than the destination. I really did like that minigame where you had to touch the coloured mushrooms though...

Definitely Makin' Magic. The Tim Burton-esque charm of that expansion cannot be denied.

Right, "accidently". I'm pretty sure it was always on purpose. At least it was purposely for them. For the caretakers, it was their mistake.
I always had dragons running away. I would have to say my favorite was Pyritie. Burnie burned too much stuff, Torch was too high-maintenance for me, so Pyritie was the perfect choice. (Burnie was the red one, Torch was the purple one, and Pyritie was the golden one.)

I'd have to say my favorite. Along with House Party and Unleashed. I probably would only say House Party due to me only playing it for a few minutes at a time before I couldn't play it anymore. Makin Magic I loved the music, the magic system, (Except the ingredients, most of the time I only got the basic spells.) the nectar press, (Only because of the mix of ingredients that would cause your sim to become a ghost temporarily, since the shed your skin charm never worked for me.)

Unleashed, I LOVED how it added more space. I mean, ten lots gets boring after a while. Plus, having more than two families to play is fun. I'm no good at building.

The only other game I played was Livin' Large, but I can't remember many of the features.

Yes! I completely forgot about how Pets added the new and improved big neighbourhoods. And I was really glad to have the Goth family continued on in the form of the Goth Snrs. because the Goths were my favourite (and still are).

Not Pets, it's Unleashed.

It also made my game run extremely slow when I decided to take my sims on dates.

Presumably because you'd overloaded your machine's capacity. It's not the EP's fault you didn't check system specs.

Yeah, I agree.
I struggled to run downtown areas, so I made a lot specially where everything was outside, there were no buildings except one just big enough to house 3 toilets. That lot ran brilliantly on that poor computer, but I built my first ever self built computer during that EP, partly because I desperately wanted to run it properly and partly because I knew I'd need it for future EP's. There's nothing more terrifying than fitting the processor and clamping the fan down that very first time, I still think of that every time I build a new one and it always reminds me of the Hot Date EP

My favourite TS1 expansion packs are Superstar, Vacation and Makin' Magic. They all add a whole new style of gameplay to the game, new lots, new interactions and lots of new items. I so enjoyed playing them, but now my PC is running out of disk space and I think I'll have to ...delete The Sims 1.
But yeah, I enjoyed those 3 the most and I didn't have any problems with them.

I did check the system specs. It had good specs when I originally installed the EP. I'm not sure why it made my computer slow. I probably had a virus of some sort in my computer

Houseparty (clothes and objects) and Hotdate (for the beautiful subhood).

Makin' Magic. Love the crafts like spinning and making butter, the spells and the fact that there is finally a way to grow kids up.

At the time they came out, I loved Hot Date the best. One thing I miss from TS1 that the other two Sims games have had trouble with is crowds. TS1 Lots were always crammed full of random townies and gave a real city feeling to the area. You need lots of help from mods to get TS2 anywhere near that way and you still don't get sims milling about and all doing different things that you saw in TS1. TS3 is the worst of the three -- you can use mods to get a lot full of sims but they can just stand there for hours and not do a THING except wet themselves all day long.

Hot Date was pretty much the best. I loved the atmosphere of that first downtown. I enjoyed editing the lots into exactly what I wanted. The townies and npcs were entertaining to just watch.

Gonna give Unleashed some love too. I never played much with pets in any version of the game, but Unleashed expanded the home neighborhood and added those nice community lots. It made the neighborhood feel like a place people lived rather than just a random collection of houses. And loved the themed items, the trolley and the zydeco music.

It's so hard to chose. All of the Expansions were created very well for the game. Now if only TS3's EPs were created with the same level of quality..

As much as I like Unleashed and Superstar myself, I'm going to have to choose Hot Date.

Oh gosh, it's hard for me to pick. My most memorable ones are:
- Makin' Magic
- Superstars
- Vacation
- Pets

If I had to choose one...I'd probably choose Makin' Magic. I like it because of the magic town and the spells. And those magic baking machines...yeah.

I only ever had 1 EP and that was vacation
I was so young and I spent months doing chores to earn the £25 I needed to buy vacation, then we had to drive for about an hour to some random shop that sold the expansions for mac (and the guy had specially ordered the game in for me).

Oh how times have changed..

I love The Sims Superstar & Sims Unleashed I miss playing it ..

Hands down - Hot Date. I loved downtown. I even used several hacks/mods to keep Sims in town. I built all sorts of places that had beds above the restaurants...etc.

Superstar. I loved that EP so much, though I don't think I ever had a successful celebrity Sim in that one. It was hard as hell to make them become famous.

Another Hot Date fan here. Taking a date to a restaurant and actually have a waiter serve you is the one thing I wish TS3 had that it doesn't

pets, superstar, and makin magic.