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Where do you buy the "$2,000 game" etc games from?  IIRC buying a pinball machine doesn't satisfy that want.. nor does buying the video games.

Sugar @@@s to the first person who answers with a (valid) answer  ;D

You have to go into the games queue instead of the electronics queue.  It's the same menu where you buy a chess board.

Kind of annoying when you get the $3000 game want, because the only thing that satisfies that is the $5500 bowling alley.  (Although when you get the $3000 and $5000 game wants, the bowling alley fulfills both.  Too bad there's rarely ever a non-ridiculous place on a lot to put it.

Thank you!  I really don't want a bowling alley in my sims' house.. bad enough in real life having 2 pinball machines in my kitchen!  Thankfully there isn't room for the shuffle bowl.. but it will fit in our new house so now I'll have one more thing to walk into (I'm very clumsy).

~misty

I think someone on MTS2 made a §6000 dartbord. Great for those kind of wants! I have it in my game, and no residental lot will ever get a bowling alley again. Although I did put one in a family mausoleum once...how can the dead R.I.P with people bowling right next to them?

Why? I have in each sim house a bowling alley, card table, and pool table. The sims like them  very much. I put all of them in the yard. The bowling alley is good to gain body tranining points, and even prenant females can play it too.

Here is the link for the expensive dartboard (http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=110130)

I never have bowling allleys in my sims houses, cos they take up too much room! I can't stand stuff littered about in the yard-I make fairly big garages and put all the aspiration and career rewards, and assorted other junk that my fortune sims want, but I don't want to put them in my houses. I can't stand basements-they are too hard to navigate. This dartboard is great though :) I usually have a games room with the board and pool table.

If you always buy 5x5 lot, there is plenty of space for everything.

5x5 is too big for my poor little computer :( The biggest I ever go is 4x3...I like sending my simmies off to the bowling alley! I have one in my neighbourhood I made myself.
The only 'residential' lot I have the alley on is my greek house.

Here is 4x3 lot, with the bowling alley and pool table. Two rooms, options to build a second story too.

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c230/gali123/4x3lot.jpg)

How can you stand to have items just stuck in the yard like that? :D I need to have 'rooms' for everything.

Stuck??? Emma, they are very very happy with this construction...:). I build it mostly for students and elder couples. Except at the Dart Board, I never saw the sims whinning about the rest game objects...:).

Edit:  Forgot to notice - the Environment rate is FULL GREEN at this yard.

Aside from that, just like in sim-land, it don't rain in Israel ;D

Just kidding, as Ephraim Kishon so fittingly put it: "I can make it rain in Tel Aviv, all we have to do is hang the laundry out to dry."

LOL, true! Each time I hang a laundry to dry - the rain comes...:). This year all the weather is upside down! Hot, no rain, no nothing - and we are in December! In the Internet I read that the almond trees, which bloom usually in March, began to bloom in December - even they are confused...:).

I practically never bother buying all this useless junk anymore. Why bother with pool tables and bowling alleys? One interaction ultimately proves itself as the superior source of fun (sims have no variety in this regard and never develop individualized preferences), and that interaction, at the moment, is the SPORT OF KINGS. Who'd have thought that a lowly $12 flamingo could blow away every single fun object in the game....

Hehe I am the same way.  I used to just stick things outside but couldn't tolerate it.  Now my sims (especially fortune sims) get a lot of add on rooms to their house so I can fit everything.

I make houses with foundations for unused basements, don't even add stairs or anything, just a big room and stick all the ghastly wanted objects there and sell them after a few days so they don't get upset when I sell them right away. Why keep a bowling alley for use if the guitar just adds hours of fun to the sim while the bowling alley just makes my sims stop playing after 3 turns :D Totally useless at home I think.

Bowling alleys add body points.

I know, but my adult sims just roll the ball 2-3 times and stop, I have to make them do it again. Same goes in the downtown area, but I think it's when somebody tries to join the game and changes his/her mind.

 And I got one of my kids to the highest body point in 2 days of nearly nonstop play before his birthday, but he was still fat when he grew up, does it just add body points and not affect the body shape because he's a child?

Bowling doesn't seem to affect fitness.

One of my teens rolled the stupid expensive game want. I bought him a bowling alley, but it stays in his inventory. Even though I have room for it, it doesn't exactly match the decor...

One time I bought them the bowling alley, but I had no room for it anywhere, so I stuck it on the lawn next to the house.  They played it for awhile (actually, wouldn't ever leave the damn thing alone is more like it...much like Myshuno which I won't buy them anymore), and then I sold it.  My Sims tend to have too much money after a couple of generations anyway, so I generally don't mind the depreciation.

A few of my older houses have bowling alleys. I stuck a whole room on the back, complete with bar.

I always just have flamingos too, but you are missing the point. The sims pull up wants to buy this stuff.  That's the only reason to buy them. 

We need someone to clone the flamingo and make it into a bush or something.  Nice, pretty yards look stupid with flamingos in them.

Maybe we need a really EXPENSIVE flamingo. Like a gold-plated flamingo-game-thing. Perhaps one that never jams or falls over. The Flamingo of Kings.

Maybe?

That would be officially awesome!

My bowling alley killed my vampire.
I stuck it outside, next to the garage, and whenever she returned from work she'd rather bowl than go sleep in her coffin.

I can't stand having bowling allerys on residential lots.

You can get an expensive dart board on MTS 2 as well as an expensive boom box.

Interesting configuration...lol.

I'm beyond anal when it comes to my sim residences. My sims (the rich ones at least) always live in highly stylized residences, and b/c additions in most cases ruin the "look" of the house, I rarely add them. When my sims need to trade up, I move them. My sims get schlepped around quite a bit.

Oh, I'm quite the opposite. My sims build on, unless the lot gets seriously glitched up. Ad my simshave a lot of furniture scattered around the lawn.

I only do that because my graphic card doesn't like big houses. It gets awfully cluttered after a while.  :o

I just do it 'cuz I'm lazy.