same. for me it was September-November 2012 when they dropped Supernatural and Seasons, the best expansions ever. literally core childhood memory, that was around the time I started playing it
also a tip for anyone still playing the sims 3 or trying to get into it: one of the absolute best features in the game for me is the achievement badges you can collect on www.thesims3.com (you have to be logged into your account in-game)
I've spent the whole summers 2019-2021 trying to get all of them and it has been the most fun I ever had, I've had like a whole list and plan of households and sims I'll use to unlock the badges, there's like 300+ badges that give you tasks you have to complete in game in order to unlock them. Even after years I still haven't managed to unlock every single one of them because some are SO much work (like "have 30 grandchildren" lol gurl i-) The greatest thing about them is that some badges required me to do things I didn't even know were possible in the sims 3 (like the one in the pic below prompting you to clone sims), so I had to google them to discover how it's done. Which tells you how amazing sims 3 is, that even after 10 years of playing there are some new things to discover that I've never tried before. Literally a masterpiece of a game
some of these badges are so funny and iconic like this one:
anyways I'm obsessed with these badges and can't wait til I have them all
Sims 4 also has them on PlayStation so collecting them was the only fun I ever had with sims 4, but they don't have this feature on PC. even though sims 4 is the biggest flop ever, if they introduced this feature, I'd play the shit out of it until I get all of the badges lol