It had become an icon of the video game universe and a champion in world rally racing before it was finally introduced here, a decade after it went on sale abroad.
But that hasn't stopped the audiovisual duo Recent Arts (Tobias Freund and Valentina Berthelon) from using these two universal principles as inspiration for their new experimental video, Static Universe.
In a video game universe dominated by living room consoles, the Sims has remained a more intimate experience on office and bedroom PCs.
There may be, in fact, a tension in the video game universe: technological powers are courted for their possibilities and resisted for their fetishistic demands.
In January, Disney announced Infinity, a new video game universe, which allows children to buy a range of action figures from classic movies such as Toy Story and Cars, then put these toys onto a special base, uploading them into the game.
To those on the other side of the divide, the Porsche appears an expensive bauble, associated with a certain Mr. Seinfeld, Cayennes at the mall, and the coming four-door Panamera, while the GT-R is a modern supercar descended straight from a video game universe.
I think it's also really tied with the video game universe.
