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Neopets is a free-to-play virtual pet website. First launched in 1999, the website 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.
Pou (video game) Pou. (video game) Pou ( / puː / or / poʊ /) is a 2012 virtual pet mobile game for BlackBerry 10, iOS and Android developed by Lebanese designer Paul Salameh and published under the name Zakeh Limited to the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. The game plays similarly to Tamagotchi, a fad game that requires caring for a ...
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.
Tamagotchi ( Japanese: たまごっち, IPA: [tamaɡotꜜtɕi], "Egg Watch") is a brand of handheld digital pets that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. [ 1] It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996 in Japan and in the United States on May 1, 1997, [ 2][ 3] quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of ...
Development. Petz ( Dogz, Catz, et al.) 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. The original Petz games — Dogz: Your Computer Pet and Catz: Your Computer Pet — were developed by PF.Magic. Dogz was released in 1995 and Catz was released in ...
When my kids have asked me to participate in their games in the past, I tell them, “Grown-ups don’t always play the way kids do — that is for you to do on your own. But, if you want, we can ...
Kerpoof was a children's entertainment and educational website produced by Disney Online Kerpoof Studios, part of Disney Interactive Media Group. Users create cartoon avatars and earn Kerpoof Koins by making, sharing, and voting on virtual artwork. Based in Boulder, CO, Kerpoof was launched in 2007 and has grown to support a large community of ...
Subgenres. History. v. t. e. A virtual pet (also known as a digital pet, artificial pet, [ 1] or pet-raising simulation) is a type of artificial human companion. They are usually kept for companionship or enjoyment, or as an alternative to a real pet . Digital pets have no concrete physical form other than the hardware they run on.