| abstract | - The Sims Stories (originally known as The Sims 2 Stories) is a product line of the laptop-friendly versions of the The Sims 2. There were 3 titles prepared for The Sims Stories product line, they are The Sims Life Stories, The Sims Pet Stories and The Sims Castaway Stories. It is (along with The Sims 2) the last game to support Mac OS X 10.3/10.4 and PowerPC (But not PowerPC G3 Macs as The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories do not support them) Macs as The Sims 3 and The Sims Medieval only runs on Intel-based Macs. The Windows version can be run on Windows 7 (Not officially supported however) and on an Intel-based Mac, it is possible to use Bootcamp to run the game. Like other games on Windows and Mac OS X, the games are not region locked and can be played on any computer regardless of what country the game, Windows/Mac OS X copies or computer came from. As of 2012, Electronic Arts discontinued distribution of The Sims Stories and stopped selling it. Searching The Sims Stories on Origin or the Origin application will not generate any results of Life Stories, Pet Stories or Castaway Stories. Similarly, no titles in the series prior to The Sims 3 are sold on Origin anymore. However, in December 2015, Aspyr Media revived the series for Mac OS X by releasing updated ports of the games, retooled for Mac OS X Mavericks or later.
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