How do you minimize fullscreen applications?

Hi everyone,
I was playing The Sims 2 earlier and I wanted to look something up on the internet at the same time. Being that I recently converted to Mac, I naturally pressed Alt+Tab (or Command+Tab) and nothing happened. So anyway, is it possible to minimize fullscreen applications in OS X?
Thanks

Well, The Sims is not a game you want to play in "Window" mode. It's a full-screen one that you could minimise on Windows OS. I am a Mac convert and absolutely love my mac, and I have eventually got used to not doing things the Windows way, which has worked fine so far. But with some things, like minimising the game, it's just annoying not being able to do it yet! (I bet there must be a solution). I've tried fn F12 to minimise the window, as well as combo of cmd + tab, cmd + alt + tab, etc etc etc. Nothing seems to work. In any case, it has to be aspyr or EA games the ones who make a key compatibility in order for OS X users to be able to do this!!!
Anyone else?? Any answers??

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