Time machine

The Time Machine is an object in The Sims 3: Ambitions. It is created with the Inventing skill. It will be about the fifteenth invention of your Sim and it requires inventing level 9.

The exterior look of the time machine is most likely based on the one seen in Blackadder: Back and Forth. The Time Machine is a rabbit hole similar to the Mausoleum. A Sim can return with various items including a caveman gnome, much as the original Mysterious Mr. Gnome is discovered in the Mausoleum.

It's possible for Sims to meet their previous selves and/or previous companions, and tell them to stop fighting and focus on love and family. If this happens, a Sim may suddenly have a child, but the child will only have one parent. When a Sim travels to the past, he or she can accidentally knock over a job board. If that happens, when the Sim returns, one of his or her housemates will have switched careers. Occasionally, traveling to the past will result in a message about the Sim using the machine having saved a child in front of his or her past self. This results in a new child being added to the household.

The time machine also makes a quick reference to Mass Effect when it says that the Sim was passing a crowd, listening about a shepherd (Commander Shepard, the main protagonist), saving the Galaxy from an ancient god threat (the Reapers). Additionally, the futuristic outfits that can be gained by going into the future highly resemble the Spectre Armors that can be acquired in Mass Effect.

It is thought that the time machine will feature in the console versions of The Sims 3: Pets.

Well, I must say about the effect of time travel. I am a big fan of the sims 3 but i think that it is worth bringing another child into the sim world but even living a sim week in the pastwould of been great. So.... thats my review......

Trivia
Time travel has previously been featured in the mishap that brought Don Lothario to Riverview, and the time machine is available for use in The Sims 2 for Nintendo DS.

It also appeared in The Urbz: Sims in the City for Nintendo DS and Gameboy Advance as a strange machine. The player should go in 5 different times, each having a different area. One of the outfits from the future resemble the clothing from Tron.