The company could've snapped up Maxis and Will Wright's Sim-based phenomenon, but decided against it.
Speaking at the Dice Summit 2010 in Vegas, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick offered a compelling history of the company's origins and detailed some of its biggest misses through the years.
"All my life I was the rebel flying the Millennium Falcon and suddenly I wake up and I'm on board the Death Star," joked Kotick, whose inspired keynote took audience members back to his early days when he attempted to acquire Mediagenic, "... which was the name given to Activision after they no longer wanted to be a game company."
"So here I was in 1990 and I was wondering who the fu** would call a company Mediagenic when you have the name Activision?" he said.
TNS: "inZOI has been recently released in Early Access and surprisingly, The Sims welcomed it with open arms and a fruitcake to boot."
The Sims Legacy has been such a mess you just wanna scream "Groble!"
Unfortunately in order to run them properly on modern windows you have to tinker with ini files and mod em. Should've been a remaster, these games are much better than SIMS 4.
Celebrate The Sims' 25th anniversary with legacy editions of The Sims 1 and 2, including all expansion packs and a Sims 4 themed bonus!
Yes. Been downhill since. And Sims 3 is stll better than 4 even after all these years.
These games deserve a remaster tbh, and a console release. I already had em installed on my Deck but I as I've said before, OG SIMS on the Switch would be a match made in heaven.
How could you pass up one of the biggest money making gaming franchises in the world.
Lol. At least they have COD.
Lotta successful businessmen on N4G, I never knew. :)