Roomies household (The Sims)
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- Not to be confused with Roomies household (Sunset Valley) or Roomies household (console).
The Roomies household consists of Melissa Smith and Chris Jones (both are also recognized as Melissa and Chris Roomies). They were in both the PC/Mac and console versions of The Sims, but did not appear in The Sims 2.
In the console version they live at 3 Sim Avenue, an empty house with a big garden outside. In The Sims they are in the family bin, ready to be moved into a vacant house or onto an empty residential lot.
In the console version, they are known as Melissa Smith and Chris Jones, but the PC/Mac version does not allow Sims living in the same house to have different last names.
Onomatology
Roomies: Roommates. Also stating that they're the very first roommates in The Sims series.
Chris Roomies: Christina or Christine, as in Christian.
Melissa Roomies: Greek for honeybee, perhaps a reference to her beehive-like hairstyle.
Smith and Jones: likely chosen simply because they are the two most common surnames in most English speaking countries. They are, respectively, the 1st and 2nd most common in the UK; in the USA, 'Johnson', a variant on 'Jones', is actually the 2nd most common.
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