Amazon has a limited-time deal on Goliath's officially licensed board game adaptation of The Sims. Normally $23, The Sims Board Game is discounted to only $16.19. This is an Amazon Lightning Deal with limited quantities. The budget-friendly strategy game would make a great gift for fans of Maxis and EA's wildly popular life-sim series. The Sims Board Game was designed as a replayable experience for up to five players ages 12 and up.
In 1999, a programmer named Patrick Barrett joined the video game studio Maxis to help develop the video game that would become The Sims. Working from an out-of-date design handbook, he coded the game to allow for same-sex relationships-even though the studio initially decided not to include queer relationships for fear of backlash. The game was demoed to press with a wedding scene at E3 1999, and during the demo two female Sims kissed.