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'They may be new in town, but they feel like they've found the place they were destined to live. Will their son stay and make his life in Riverview? Or will he find somewhere more... pleasant?'
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 for 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.
Newbie: "a newcomer or novice, an inexperienced user of computers in general." A reference to the fact they are the tutorial family in several games. Bob: Short for Robert, meaning "bright fame." Betty: Short for Elizabeth, meaning "my god is oath." Brandi: May refer to brandy, the alcoholic drink; possibly a feminine version of Brandon, which originates from the English place name. Mags: Short for Margaret, meaning "pearl". Buddy: Means "companion", and is therefore a popular name for dogs.
The Newbie family is the one used in The Sims by "novice and inexperienced" players. When the player first begins the game, they are prompted to go to the Newbie household. Bob's name suits him, seeing as he is famous in the sense that all Sims players are aware of him.
Pat Newbie(the default name in The Sims Bustin' Out in CAS)
Chris Newbie(the default name in The Sims 2 for consoles in CAS)
Gallery
The Newbies move in
The Newbies' daily lives
The Newbies kissing each other.
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.
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