5. The Sims
In 1962 a comic strip entitled The Numskulls appeared in The Beezer ultimately landing in The Beano in the 90s and it was about the lives of little people living in someone's head. A cross-section of the head often showed them going about their day, and it was an amusing look into the lives of tiny people inhabiting a bigger person's world. Whilst this synopsis sounds a bit like The Sims, it was Little Computer People released in 1985 that started the voyeuristic tiny-folk game trend. In LCP's bisected house lived a wee man who would function fully autonomously but could be interacted with as the player saw fit. It was one of the first games where there wasn't really any point; a visual zen garden comprising of a person in his house and you as an onlooker who could entertain the little man or be entertained by him but not actually achieve anything substantial. LCP was an ambitious project that players embraced and relaxed with during a time when many games were little more than noisy side-scrollers, shooters and beat 'em ups.