What If You Took A Videogame And Made It Into Reality TV?

What if you took a video game with an obsessively cultish following and made it the basis for a reality TV show? 

 

That’s what Electronic Arts, the video game publishing behemoth, recently did with one of its most popular titles, The Sims, a game that first became a phenomenon over 20 years ago when it gave players the ability to build and personalize worlds and populate them with characters who act and behave much like we do.