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My Talking Tom is a virtual pet game released by Slovenian studio Outfit7 on November 11, 2013. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is similar to Pou and the fourteenth game of the Talking Tom & Friends series overall. It was the first Outfit7 game to feature the smoother animation, and to feature Talking Tom's current design.
A pet-raising simulation (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 original Talking Tom Cat game was launched in 2010 for iOS, followed by Talking Tom 2 in 2011. In 2013, the My Talking Tom game was released, followed by the My Talking Tom 2 game in 2018. Talking Angela (also called Angela) – Tom's girlfriend, a white cat with a love for travel, singing, fashion and dancing.
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.
Petz is a series of single-player video games dating back to 1995, in which the player can adopt, raise, care for and breed their own virtual pets. Developed by PF.Magic, original Petz (Dogz and Catz) has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. [3] The series has grown to over 22 million copies as of 2011 since coming under Ubisoft. [4]
The original focus of the game was a role-play wherein players pretended to be either a parent adopting a child, or a child getting adopted, but as the game was developed, its focus shifted to adopting and caring for virtual pets, which can be traded with other players. [3]
Neopets is a free-to-play virtual pet browser game. First launched in 1999, the game allows users to own virtual pets ("Neopets") and explore a virtual world called "Neopia." Players can earn one of two virtual currencies. One currency, called Neopoints, can be obtained for free through on-site features like games, events, and contests.
In September 2017, developer Hit-Point announced Neko Atsume VR, a virtual reality version of the game available for the PlayStation 4 video game console. It supports the PlayStation VR headset and was released in Japan on May 31, 2018 with an international release following in August 2021.