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Dogz: Your Computer Pet and Catz: Your Computer Petz are a pair of virtual pet simulation software developed by PF.Magic, and released in 1995 and 1996 respectively. Developed for Windows and Mac OS , they were the first games in the Petz series, and were followed by Oddballz .
A pet simulator (sometimes called virtual pets or digital pets [1]) is a video game that focuses on the care, raising, breeding or exhibition of simulated animals. These games are software implementations of digital pets. Such games are described as a sub-class of life simulation game.
The PC-8801 was a Japanese home computer released by NEC in 1981 - and original PC-8801 games (as opposed to titles from later revisions of the platform) started to be made available through Project EGG on November 24, 2001. There have been 184 original PC-8801 titles available on Project EGG, 25 of which are no longer available for purchase:
Upon activating the pet, an egg appears on the screen. After setting the clock on the device, the egg will wiggle for several minutes, and then hatch into a small pet. In later versions, inputting the player's name and birthday is also required when setting the clock, and at birth, the player can name the pet and learn of its family group and ...
The first-known virtual pet was a screen-cursor chasing cat called Neko. It was rather called a "desktop pet" since at that time the term "virtual pet" did not exist. PF.Magic released the first widely popular virtual pets in 1995 with Dogz, [5] followed by Catz in the spring of 1996, eventually becoming a franchise known as Petz.
Tax Heaven 3000, abbreviated as TH3K, is a Japanese-styled dating simulator game released by American art collective MSCHF which helps the player prepare their federal income taxes. The game was released in March 2023 in preparation for the 2022 tax deadline by making the player go on dates with the protagonist in which they input personal ...
The Sims Pet Stories is the second game released in The Sims Stories series, released for Microsoft Windows in June 2007, and for Mac OS X by Aspyr Media on September 9, 2007. [26] Aspyr released another port of The Sims Pet Stories for macOS on December 17, 2015, to the Mac App Store. [27]
The series is named for its main character, an anthropomorphic egg, called Dizzy for the way he somersaults and rolls around the landscape. The games are set in various fairytale-like locations and typically involve Dizzy trying to save his friends and family, the Yolkfolk, often from the schemes of his nemesis, the evil wizard Zaks.