The Sims and The Sims 2 bundles are getting rereleased

It’s official: EA is rereleasing The Sims and The Sims 2 (and various respective expansion packs) just in time for the franchise’s 25th anniversary.

The Sims Legacy Collection will include the base Sims game, along with the Livin’ Large, House Party, Hot Date, Vacation, Unleashed, Superstar, and Makin’ Magic expansion packs (and The Sims 4’s Throwback Fit Kit, in case you wanted that too).

The Sims 2: Legacy Collection will include The Sims 2, along with University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Bon Voyage, Seasons, FreeTime, Apartment Life, Holiday Party Pack, Family Fun Stuff, Glamour Life Stuff, Happy Holiday Stuff, Celebration! Stuff, H&M Fashion Stuff, Teen Style Stuff, Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff, and Mansion & Garden Stuff, with The Sims 4: Grunge Revival also tacked on there.

Unfortunately for all LACK side table fans, the IKEA Home Stuff pack is missing from The Sims 2 bundle. Both legacy collections are available together via The Sims: 25th Birthday Bundle.

The original Sims debuted in 2000, with The Sims 2 following in 2004. While the first game hasn’t been rereleased before, EA previously bundled The Sims 2 packs in The Ultimate Collection, available via Origin from 2014 to 2018. At one point, you could get it for free if you proved that you had an existing disc (which led to a fun phone call in college where I had an EA rep on one line and my mother back home in my bedroom on the other).

Even if you own one of the early generations of Sims games, getting it to run on a modern computer has been increasingly difficult. Hopefully these rereleases will run smoothly on Windows 10 and 11 without the dreaded black boxes and pink soup graphical issues.