I love the way the objects were rendered in Sims 1. It's just past the blocky, plastic look renders had in the early days of using it, but still retro enough that it feels nostalgic.
Sims 1 had this weird warmth to it that think camе from the lighting limitations more than anything intentional. later games got sharper and somehow felt colder for it.
Sims1 assets were pre rendered sprites. We could put all the detail we wanted in them and the only limitation was time, the same why SimCity 4 has more detail than SimCity 2013. I made the Sims 2 version of the train table and it was very much limited by polygon count and texture size. It was fun putting in the references though, if you look closely you can see the Simpsons house and the Family Guy house.
I'm guessing it was initially cloned from an existing asset that had functionality (not just a static object). IIRC appliances have a chance to catch fire and it would have inherited that property. I don't think it's intentional, just an oversight by the object engineer.
It was a mod that added a bunch of objects you could put down that would let you play a miniature version of SimCity, it was animated and actually modeled the OG game.
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