Newbie family

The Newbie family is the family used for the tutorial in The Sims. The tutorial home, located at 7 Sim Lane in Neighborhood 1, includes Bob Newbie and Betty Newbie, and can be played as usual after the tutorial is complete.

Bob and Betty do not appear as playable Sims within a neighbourhood in The Sims 2 family of games apart from The Sims 2: Pets (console). As former residents of Pleasantview, the now-deceased Bob and Betty appear in the family tree view as mother and father of the playable Sim Brandi Broke, and as the grandparents of her two sons.

In The Sims 3, the family lives in Riverview, and consists of teenage Bob and his parents Robert and Mags. Their house is small but expensively and fashionably decorated, and they own a middle-range car. However, they only have §2,000 in their household funds and neither Robert nor Mags earns much money. Their first bill payment will usually cost more than half of the money they have, suggesting that they may be living beyond their means. This may be the reason why the Newbies are poor later in the series chronology.

Glitches

 * In The Sims, the player can start the tutorial at 7 Sim Lane and end it before the introduction of Betty Newbie so that life goes on for Bob without her. Bob can be played as a normal Sim character then, free to marry another Sim.
 * If one rushed through the tutorial too quickly, the player can encounter the section about finding a job before the papergirl arrives which causes the tutorial to end on an error.