Now, finally, your Sims can have cannabis, thanks to the Basemental mod, created by a modder called Filip. And just like real life consumer culture, these Sims can get more and more new stuff with downloadable mods created by other users.

It has millions of users building virtual houses, filling them up with virtual furniture, plants, animals, and other stuff, and controlling the lives of the billions of simulated, or 'Sim,' people who live there. Over the past eighteen years, The Sims has become one of the most successful computer games of all time.