Sim 66, prologue

 The year is 1966

It is a time of a-changin'.  At the mid point of the Sixties things were starting to kick into gear...gone were the stiff, formal 50s.  Jack, Jackie and Camelot were also history by now.  Things were now entering the Swinging Sixties phase.  It was a youthful time where young people were gathering in Carnaby Street, London and Haight Ashbury, San Francisco.  

In music The Beatles still reigned supreme but hot on their heels were The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Beach Boys were now entering their most creative era.  The pop and rock music of the era was getting more experimental, there's an increasing emphasis on musical ability and loudness.

Fashion was entering a whole, new phase.  For men the sharp, mod suit competed with the more psychedelic shirt patterns, velvet flares and turtleneck sweaters.  For women the biggest fashion revolution had just hit the scene: The mini skirt.  Introduced at the tail end of 1964, by the end of 1965 it had proved a hit with young women and by the start of 1966 it was worn everywhere.  With the introduction of so short a skirt, other items of fashion had to alter as well; shoes, hosiery and underwear.

Society was changing, but not in so radical ways as popular history would have you believe.  Yes, a large section of the youth were protesting war and civil rights but the real social revolution was The Pill.  There was one thing on the mind of the young in 1966 and that was how to score with someone of the opposite sex?

Around the world there was still war and conflict...the United States had committed itself formally to a war in Vietnam in 1965.  Elsewhere the United Kingdom had to deal with conflicts in Borneo and Aden and, ever present, was the Cold War with the Soviets and the People's Republic of China.

And technology was changing fast as well.  The space programme led to many innovations in electronics for the household as a byproduct.  Most people had a television and stereo.  Life had never been better for millions of people in the whole of history beforehand and the world was on the threshold of going to the Moon.

But what of the folk of Sim City in 1966?  We follow the lives of some of them and their stories will be related here.

Sim 66 is a simlit series that is based upon actual gameplay of The Sims 4.  A 1960s world has been created in the game and all events written up here are expanded and extrapolated from what happens in it.  The stories flow from the game interactions and actions of the characters.

So without further ado, let's enter the world of Sim 66.