I think it happens if you kill somebody, and after a while other characters will eventually kneel down by them and eat their corpse.
It's just something dark and funny I remember hearing Will mention in passing once, but I never saw it documented anywhere or tried it out myself. Maybe he was joking, but that's just the kind of easter egg he would lay.
Determining if it's true would be a fun software archeology task! ;) You could disassemble the behavior tree code (it used a predecessor to the SimAntics visual programming language in The Sims, which is well documented online), or you could just go around killing people and watching what happened.
And as you probably discovered, the easiest way to kill someone was with your helicopter blades. And then the game rewards you by paying you to bring their mangled bodies to the hospital.
That was especially problematic when the himbo easter egg was active, since there were so many hundreds of himbos swarming around your helicopter, it was practically impossible not to slaughter many of them.
>SimCopterX - Windows 10 + High Resolution (26 May 2019):
SimCopterX is a standalone program which patches SimCopter (various versions supported) so it can run natively on Windows 10 and prior. Additionally you can run SimCopter in higher resolutions and modern aspect ratios such as 16:9 and 16:10, the original "vanilla" game is still supported. SimCopterX is NOT a CPU Killer or an emulator of any sort. This video just shows off some of my actual gameplay using SimCopterX Version 3 on SimCopter Classics edition.
And on the topic of easter eggs, cut, pre-release testing, and unreleased content, here's a long illustrated thread on "Sims 1 Beta discussion/Pre-Release Sims Footage Pics" (4 pages):
>I think it happens if you kill somebody, and after a while other characters will eventually kneel down by them and eat their corpse.
It's just something dark and funny I remember hearing Will mention in passing once, but I never saw it documented anywhere or tried it out myself. Maybe he was joking, but that's just the kind of easter egg he would lay.
My childhood memories are a bit fuzzy, but I think I remember this. The chewing sound in particular was very.. distinctive.
Then again, memory is susceptible to the power of suggestion. If only there was a game about that..
> In fact SimCopter even had some officially sanctioned cannibalistic behaviors
I own Sim Copter (bought it in the 90s) and I certainly never noticed this, and can't see it mentioned anywhere else on the Internet.