A game where you can taunt your uncle about his divorce and then tickle him...? Wow. Some next-level game writing.

"One false move and I’ll genetically modify your crops."

Just to confirm that Urbz is a sequel to Bustin out, while playing Urbz, there is a chance that Uncle Hayseed will call you and tell you that the farm misses you and hopes that you will come back soon

You know, this review really puts me in the mood for a review of the Sims DS games.

I had the gba version of the Urbz for years. It's among my most beloved handheld titles. I then saved up a bunch of money as a kid to finally buy the console version thinking it'd be the same game but better. Holy shit was I disappointed. I can't believe the handheld version had more fun and heart than the actual game. You also forgot to mention that you could challenge Satan to a fiddle battle in the swamp.

The Sims Bustin’ Out, the original Stardew Valley.

Thanos: "I'm the greatest antagonist in multiseries franchise." Daddy Bigbucks: "Sup."

Please talk about Sims 2 for the DS. The one where you run a hotel. I have so much nostalgia for it.

The Sims: Busting Out, AKA Poverty: The Game

The Sims 2 for the DS is my favorite story driven Sims game, its bloody awesome, you become a rat version of batman

Simpsons Bustin Out is actually a masterpiece, especially when you have to look for all of the chickens and never find the last one only to find out a week later that it was in your room

I played the heck out of Sims 2 GBA. Strangetown and the characters really started to grow on me. And the walk around music was so chill and suitable.

You should definitely cover the DS Sims games next! They’re all really different from one another (especially in quality), so it would be interesting to watch you compare them

managed to get a social life, a stable love life and got a job before this came out. 10/10, would wait for a minimme video again.

The Sim's Bustin' Out is honestly one of my favorite GameBoy Advance games of all time. I'm upset you didn't mention the Moped, it makes travel so much easier.

I actually LOVED the GBA versions way more than the pc versions. From the weird story missions, to waking up early and completing jobs to earn cash everyday, to choosing different houses and decorating them and the 50+ mario party like mini games. Knowing that in the URBz for instance when you get to the Bayou, you only realistically had a limited number of time to find food and had to use grills only before you ran out and died so you tried to complete all the quests there very very quickly.

I actually loved Urbz so much I imported the DS version from Japan. I couldn't find the GBA cartridge anywhere and then I saw the DS had a release of the exact same game. Hellll yeah.

So in a nutshell Sims Bustin - Fun but a chore. Sims Urbz - The Best one Sims 2 - Strange Sims 2 Pets - The worst one

I didn't know how KZfaq knew that I wanted my opinion on sims on the gba validated but here I am

Im crying, finally someone talks about this jewels i replay yearly

I have played Sims Bustin' Out for GBA dozens of times over the years. I think it's brilliant.

Hot tip: Getting old physical strategy guides for these games makes them significantly more enjoyable.

"They're your main source of income." Me, selling wooden statues and paintings because I was too lazy to play the minigames:

The Sims: Urbz in the City GBA was my go-to on my GBA SP for years. It was a quality game.

Urbz is by far the best one I played imo.

"At one point, I pissed myself in the street, got arrested and put in prison for it, then I couldn't afford my bail, so my bed got repossessed. And I had to start sleeping on the hospital emergency room couch. I can't say anything like that has happened to me in any other game." -Minimme, Sims GBA

FYI: in Bustin Out (all of these games, actually) there wasn’t a mechanism to speed time up, but you could just sleep, during which time will speed by quickly. Also in URBZ, you can unlock secret hideouts around town (like that trash can, or the broken down bus) by having a level 100 relationship with certain characters. Giuseppi tells you about the bus, and Phoebe tells you about the trash can, for example. I think there are four or five different ones

“In my professional opinion, you’re not worth talking to.” Why did this leave me snorting and wheezing in amusement for a good minute

I haven’t played any of the others, but I really liked the urbz. Had that quirky sims feel that makes the series so iconic

I honestly thought Bustin’ Out was a fever dream

I absolutely love Busted Out, that really does need a remaster, I would love to 100% the game again

I remember the sims bustin gba. I remember having my ass kicked by that damn evil rooster/chicken when i was gonna buy a mansion and because i got bullied by the chicken i had to spend time at the gym to build up my athletics/fighting skills.

Imagine being a richie hanging around downtown Minneapolis and tripping over some random Uranium bar. -This meme was made by the Artsies gang.

Aww man, these games are what got me into the Sims. Despite the grindier aspects (Casually getting the lifeguard to hate you to progress the story sticks out in my mind), I can still go back and play them with a smile on my face. Finding Heidi Shadows without looking up her location was a big highlight as a kid (Pro Tip: Heidi is a character who sells you cheat codes. She appears on Mondays from 11:00PM to 12:00AM. Buy all of her items from her before it hits 12, then wait until your clock hits 12 exactly to buy all her stock again before she leaves. Since she's technically a shopkeeper, the new day rollaround restocks her cheats, allowing you to buy them twice.) I went out and bought a GameCube version of Bustin' Out to unlock everything. You can even import your Sims character from the GC version, level up their stats at the library and max them out on the GBA, then port them back into your GC save as a Sim God. And if anyone else is ever interested in playing Bustin' Out on the GBA, another tip: Always keep an item in your inventory! When you speak with characters, there are certain phrases that always increase their friendship, but since the phrases are random there's a high chance you won't see them. Instead of backing out of the conversation and talking to them again, you can select "I've got something for you!" and enter your inventory. Back out of that, and the phrases are randomized again. Alright, enough rambling. This was a great vid as always minimme! P.S. Griptonite Games also made the incredible Diablo-esque Lord of the Rings GBA games. You should definitely check them out, particularly the Return of the King!

Finally someone talked about these,i use to think they were just a thing i imagined in my head or dreamt about for years..Apprently not..

Thank you so so much for covering this. These were such a large part of my childhood and I usually replay Urbz and Bustin Out once a year. SO GOOD.

13:19 Local alien hits disabled person in a wheelchair with a motorcycle

harry potter and the chamber of secrets GBC was better than the GBA version

Ah, yes. Those goofy sims humor. They stopped existing since they released sims 3. Now we have boring sims games. I wonder why

My grandma used to play Sims Urbz all the time on her GameBoy Advanced SP. Rest in Peace Grandma

Sims is fun because you can do things that you can't in real life, like getting a social life... Kill me...

I grew up with all of them except for The Sims 2 Pets. It's funny because i unknowingly played them all in chronological order and I absolutely loved them and finished them all on my own, this meant long play sessions with my GBA plugged into the charger while playing from morning til bed time. Good memories and great vid! Btw the answers to your questions are at Area 51, join the raid...

I have to be honest, that ring menu in Sims 2 Pets has put me off any game with a ring menu ever since. By far, my favorite of these games is Urbz. It’s not a game I ever truly want to ‘complete’, though I have done a few times. It’s a world I like living in for an hour or so at a time, and if I want to accomplish something, either a goal from the game itself or one I decided on, I can do it and save, then go on with my life, satisfied. I will admit though that I like Bustin’ Out because in spite of everything, I suck at small talk. Playing that game gives me ideas about what to say and how to say it, and using those ideas carried me a good distance in the real world.

It's only a grind if you never find the secrets... there's a ninja in urbz that sells instant stat up juices everyday

Please, play the DS The Sims, I ate genetically modified corn from uncle. I won't last.

Will we find Daddy Bigbucks if we raid Area 51 though?

Ngl I really like Sims 2 on GBA. It's so weird and insane, it's amazing. People in game literally don't care about aliens and meteorite, Bigbucks hires real aliens bc it's cheaper, he also blows up a NUCLEAR PLANT for his show. It's hilarious

Please do the DS games next! Sims 2 was actually good but I remember The Sims 2 pets was especially crusty

Huh. The Sims 2 for DS is different than Sims 2 for GBA funnily enough.

It's really amazing seeing somebody finally do these games justice (the first three at least), my favourite will always be Sims 2 GBA and while I feel like there was more depth you didn't touch on, the video was already getting pretty long so it's no big deal. About your view that the writers seemed to always be having fun though: I really think you should check out the cut content for Sims 2 gba, there was a cut mission parodying Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" but with penguins, an episode where you would play as Dusty Hogg with the entire joke being that the show was jumping the shark (which was an event Dusty would literally perform) and in the data there is even an episode called "We Never Finished This Episode", with the description being "The lost episode." These developers REALLY loved their time with this series.

Are we not going to talk about how he ran over a person in a wheelchair at 13:21?

i loved the urbz! i played the game a bunch as a kid and a teen. i never knew how closely related it was to busting out, maybe i do have to hunt that down eventually. they are definitely cames that you slowly chip away on instead of trying to binge through them but im glad people appreciate the story still

I'm so happy you talked about the gba game the ds version in similar yet very different, the hotel you are given is actually owned by Daddy Bigbucks as shown by some dialogues hidden in the game files

You should check out some of the "Nights" series of mobile games for java, it was developed by gameloft and they're pretty well made, they're very similar to The Sims but ona way smaller scale, while a bit repetitive every one of the has a unique setting ranging form Las Vegas to Paris. It's a handful of games and they're sort of short but they were the ultimate time killers back in the age of the Sony Ericsson and Nokia java games. There's two games that belong to the Nights series that are difficult to play because of some limitations like the bad frame rate on emulators with "Crazy Campus" and the foreign language of "Tokio Nights". Either way, they're pretty neat and the pixelart is very pleasing in some iterations, the best and largest one is Miami Nights 2, try playing it with a java emulator for android or pc, tho it is the wisest if you play them in the highest resolution available for some of them (240x320) to better appreciate the art. The games are the following: -Crazy Campus -Miami Nights -Miami Nights 2 -New York Nights 1 and 2 (the second one is a remake of the first for 240x320 res mobile devices) -My Life in New York (the most confusing one of them all) -Paris Nights -Las Vegas Nights -Tokio Nights (It's all in japanese) These are all very easy to find and download as they were wildly popular in the noughties.

I really loved these games when I still had my gba. They were really charming and helped me cope with everything happening in my childhood

The Sims 2 for PSP is my favorite. I used to play it all the time. Such a fun game. I even started writing a film script based on the game when I was a kid.

I wish they still made games like bustin out and stick rpg

9:50 “I have to go, my home planet needs me” Poochie died on the way back to his home planet

For some reason, I keep rewatching this video all the time. Bustin Out and The Urbz were huge part of my childhood catalogue!

The urbz was my favorite man. I did absolutely everything. The penthouse suite , the guy in the swamp all the crazy stuff lol. Such a good game as a kid

It's worth making a video on the DS version, as well. It has most of the characters from the GBA version, which means it has a number of characters from the earlier games, like Dusty and Giuseppe. And, luckily for you, the format has changed, as it's now no longer isometric, and the goal of the game is sort of just to improve a hotel that you take control of at the beginning. It continues to carry the silly writing and stories, and it's cozy to play, with pretty minimal focus on your characters needs, letting you just go around doing what you want, whether that be something like using a metal detector to find treasure, playing several different little arcade games, or just blowing your money on scratch tickets. There's also a number of other goofy surprises that I won't spoil for you. I haven't played the PSP game, but I've heard its story is kinda weird too. I don't have any idea if there's any returning characters or anything like that, but it might be worth looking into.

"We might not be as big as SimCity™ but we've got twice the character!" I like to imagine that your Uncle Hayseed actually wrote in the little trademark symbol in the letter for legal reasons. Even he knows how sue happy EA is.

The Urbz is my favorite in the Sims GBA series, great to see you in my notification feed again!

I played the DS version of the Sims 2. Even though I loved it very much. I was kinda bummed out that the only areas were the hotel and strange town was tiny. And I knew all the functions the GBA version had. The town was bigger and it looked like so much more fleshed out and fun then the DS version

Was not expecting this to start off with a Law and Order parody but I already like this video Also The Urbz spinoff games are amazing

Unironically "The Sims 2" in PSP offers an interesting conclusion of sorts to a theoretical shared handheld universe. (Spoiler warnings if you havent played the sims 2 for PSP [and I think DS]) Towards the end of the PSP games its revealed that one of the sims realised that it's all just a game. Perchance Mr. Bigbucks has realised this as well? It would explain his recurrence and ability to organize the TV Show. Seemingly at random, and its proven in the final moments of Sims 2 PSP that the sims can construct tools to essentially become players. (Amazingly shown through a boss fight I was too dumb to understand.) Bigbucks created the time machine first. A seeming impossibility, yet it changed the game's world. I dont know, I put like five minutes of thought into this. Seems like an interesting rabbit hole though.

It's like a zoomed in, modern, and non-apocalyptic version of the original Fallout.

Loved Bustin Out and Urbz to death. Nice Video, brought up lots of Memories

Sims 2 GBA was one of my favorite games as a kid lol. Probably the second game I ever played to completion.

Griptonite put a lot of heart into their Sims games, that pets one looks... Depressing in comparison.

Thanks for covering these. The first 2 games are surprisingly good! Interesting quests, many fun characters and a fairly “open world” for you to explore. A lot of personality even given the limits of the GBA. I often wish there would be a modern reimagining of these, but I don’t think it would ever happen. The 3rd game is much worse with a smaller game world and bizzare story involving aliens and reality TV that dumps the realistic story of the first 2.

I spent so many hours of my childhood playing these games. The Velocirooster always scared me to death, though.

I loved the Sims GBA ports, I'm glad to find someone talking about them! I only discovered Sims 2 Pets this year after playing the other 3 a lot when I was younger but I really struggled learning how to play it. I couldn't even figure out how to make money to buy food for my pet. Learning that it's by a different company makes a lot of sense.

I love both bustin' out and the urbz, lol. Weirdly enough more than the everyday sims game. The fast paced-ness felt good. The story is great, the character though there's a LOT of them, better than nothing, right? Over time i love how you win each and everyone of them. The mini game though it gets repetitive and easier overtime is actually a great and unique way to get money. I wish the sims series would make the 'work' more tangible like this. I just see that this is such a good idea for the sims world, i wish this would get a remake and i need more game likw this. Of course you can't do the things you did in the usual sims here, it's not comparable. I just think this is such a great idea that having small side game like this wouldn't hurt, yes?

I have good memories of those games, the dialogue options were hilarious. I palyed the spanish version and the names were also puns relatred to each stereotype, Dusty Hoggs was called Jhony Melavo, that in spanish sounds like "I don't even clean myself".

Ahh, this gives me nostalgia. No wonder I’m such a disturbed adult when I played these all my childhood.

The sims *awesome* gba ports. There, fixed the title for you. Those games are wonderful sims games. Maxis studios was at their peak of creativity, and bustin out for gba is honeslty their magnum opus.

U gotta do sims 2 for the psp. Its just as crazy as the gba one

The GBA and DS sims games have a very special place in my heart. I remember coming home from elementary school and busting out (heh) my game boy to play these. I beat Busting Out and Urbz but I never beat 2 unfortunately. Who knows maybe I’ll dust off my game boy and try it out again now that I’m watching this lol.

Gosh, this was a blast from the past. You should cover the DS versions, too! The DS Urbz had a minigame where you'd extract creature DNA from amber and got to keep things like dragons and unicorns as pets. And the sims 2 (or 3? I legit can't remember) on DS was like...heavily themed around abduction. Also had rad gambling minigames.

The Urbz GBA and NDS version are amazing games

I can't wait for you to cover the sims 2 PSP game Oh man, the hours I've spent in that is shameful. I've more or less 100% it with unlocking every secret for every character, mastering every minigame, completing every mission etc It's story is also wonderfully stupid and retains its sims charm I still think of Beezlebeef whenever I hear Beelzebub being referenced

Bustin Out was ADDICTIVE as a kid. To be able to free-rom that goofy world and the sheer novelty of the detail on a handheld system was incredible.

Going back here to watch this once more. This video made my 2020 very nostalgic, i remember during lockdown i binged watch your channel and found this. I Absolutely love this video specifically.

Nice thing about GBA games now is how easily you can play them on your android phone, Like as soon as I saw this video I downloaded the Sims bustin out ROM which was like 10MB and started playing it.

Oh my. Seeing urbz again makes me want to play it a dozen times

Bro first video I've seen of yours. I'm in love! Great flow, fantastic voice, funny and man it's nice to see fellow Aussies out here! Keep it up

I had the urbz on ds. I fucking loved it and sometimes wish I still had it. Really preferred it to the pc sims games because there were objectives and story

These games and the Harry Potter game you mentioned were a big part of my childhood :D

The GBA urbz game is one of my favorites of all time on gba. I played it as a tiny kid back in '05 and it stuck with me since. I havve beat it probably close to 20 times by now and made customization codes to change my character's hair style and gender and skin/hair colors at any time since once you go into the ame wiha character the hairstyle and gender are stuck. I also made one for Bustin out but they only work on emus. The Urbz one should be up on SUPERCHEATS (Only; elsewhere is rippin) in the next 24hrs but the BustinOut one is already up. I only finished my Urbz one just now because I saw how many views this video had and figured I'd give any newcommers or old fans who dreamed of such things some of that extra little goody since customization in these games suck. The Console version of those games failed to hold my interest. I just like the gamelay and missinos for the gba versions farrrmore.

These games were just the best! It’s one big story btw. Bigbucks actually mentions in the sims 2 gba that there used to be some drama between your character and him. The sims 2 ds and sims 2 psp also likely tie into this ‘sims handheld saga’ story. Basically your character ends up as a superhero. And in the psp version they conclude that an evil mind controlling entity is causing all the mayhem: the plumbob (it’s you. The player. And they actually put THAT in the story xD)

These games were so trippy, I love them

Let’s see: The main thread of these games is that the main character is an alien living on a farm with a middle aged man. Along the way he meets a bigshot corporate guy who has a bald Grandson with Luthor in his name. Can someone say Elseworld Superman?

In some countries, its considered polite to review all the Sims DS games

13:20 jesus christ that slam into the dude in the wheelchair lmao

Sims Bustin Out - The one that started it all. Sims Urbz - The best one. Sims 2 - The last one Sims pets - pretend it never exists...

i absolutely loved these games, replayed them years later and they were still so good

I played this game so much as a kid but could never remembered what it was called! Thank you for this nostalgia trip!

this just came up in my recommendations and WOW! what a throwback! i’m 21 and i loved these games (not the sims pets never picked it up, looks lame lol) but i remember playing these games for hours and hours. i know this video is four months old and you won’t see this but i guess i’ll write out a long comment, hopefully it bumps the videos so more people see it :) i played the sims bustin out for the gameboy when i was younger and while i didn’t understand most of the game and i didn’t get far in the game, i really loved it! my dad loved that game so maybe that’s why i loved it too. now... the sims urbz. holy smokey boy. THATS MY GAME!! i remember being in school and dreaming about going home and playing the game. i see you mentioned the grinding, but that’s actually the best part to be honest. i loved just playing mini games, making money, shopping, finding new homes, and then doing my game challenges. it is still my favorite sims game for any handheld system

Man, those animations are so finely done. Those animators deserve major props.