Sims 1 prank calls
Additionally, some custom content creators made "phone plugins", which added features to the phone. With the introduction of community areas and community lots in Hot Date, Sims became able to use the phone to call a taxicab and go somewhere else for a while. Hot Date gave Sims the ability to talk on the phone instead of simply inviting other Sims over, though players had no control over what the Sims would talk about. Starting with Unleashed, the phonebook became a dialog box which listed families on the left, and known members of the selected family on the right. Until Unleashed, a Sim's phonebook used the standard pie menu, and players would often have to press the Tab key to page through the menu in order to find the family they wanted the Sim to call.
Later expansions changed the phone menu multiple times, and added various features. They could sometimes result in cash rewards, but they could also be prank calls.
Random calls would often take place throughout the day (and night). Friends would often call the house as a warning to the player that a friendship was about to end (the relationship score was dropping too low) these calls always took place at 4:00 pm. Phones could be used to hire service workers such as maids or gardeners, or to call the police or firefighter in case of an emergency. The original phone could make outgoing calls, but doing so would only result in the option to invite a Sim over - Sims could not have a conversation with another Sim over the phone. Phones in The Sims are very simplistic compared to phones in later games or expansions.