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The MOPy fish is a freeware cyberpet, released in October 1997 for Microsoft Windows by The Global Beach Group on behalf of Hewlett-Packard. [1] It had been downloaded more than 10 million times as of the year 2000. Based on the blood parrot cichlid fish, the MOPy fish has a complex behavior pattern.
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.
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]
Oddballz is a virtual pet game created by PF.Magic in 1996 [8] as an alternative to their Dogz and Catz titles. The game had 13 creatures that could be cared for. Along with the creatures, the game has various objects ('toyz') that the player and Oddballz can manipulate. Toyz have different uses ranging from playing to disciplining.
Fantastic Pets is a virtual-pet life simulation video game developed by Blitz Games Studios and published by THQ Inc. The game was released on April 12, 2011, in North America, April 14, 2011, in Australia, and on April 15, 2011, in Europe.
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.
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Petz: Dogz 2 and Petz: Catz 2 on DS is a virtual pet game in some ways, but unlike the other platform versions, these versions are quite different. They are released in the US under those titles, whereas they're called Dogz 2 and Catz 2 in the UK. In the dog version, the player can choose one of 11 breeds per game, but cannot give the pet an ...