#dogz

[never-obsolete]

Petz 5 (2002) Haunted Mansion

#petz #dogz #catz #pc games #video games #2000s

[petz4]

#petz #dogz #catz #old web #gif #my petz #petz 4 #petz 5

[rabidcanid]

Petz (Dogz and Catz) 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.

#petz #catz #dogz #nostalgia #webcore #2000s nostalgia #y2k #pc games #virtual pet #put some dogz on your blogz #i recommend these games i have been playing for..................... a while

[oldwindowsicons]

Petz II - Dog file

#petz #dogz #games #file

[heckyeahponyscans]

Oh, I forgot to mention the G2 MLP computer game. If we're talking about weirdness, that definitely qualifies. The MLPs are fully sapient, intelligent species in other media, but in the computer game they're basically dumb beasts that can't fend for themselves.

This gameplay decision makes sense, though, in the context of the late 90s when pet sim computer games were super popular. In particular I'm thinking of Dogz and Catz.

I had twin siamese kittens in Catz and I loved them so much. But then vacation mode didn't work and they ran away because I had gone too long without tending to them.

#catz #dogz #MLP #G2 #my little pony #computer games

[cb-reblog]

#memes #meme #dog memes #memez #art #lol #funny stuff #funny meme haha #funny #best memes #dank memes #dankest memes #fresh memes #funny memes #hilarious memes #lol memes #new memes #relatable memes #stolen memes #dogs #dog #dog training #dogz #dogs are the best #artwork

[nostalgicfun]

Petz 5 🐾

#I want to go to there #petz #petz 5 #catz #dogz #pc games #computer games #games #nostalgia #nostalgic #mine #original

[magnetictapedatastorage]

Claims to be A-Life... dies anyway

it's wild when you look at old A-Life games that were at times so ridiculously, comically advanced that they barely ran. Artificial life games weren't even particularly aimed at mega nerds! No, they were also aimed at kids who wanted a puppy!

or... some kind of alien thing.

The PC game series of Creatures 1, 2, and 3, Petz 1-4 (unrelated to the later console games series) are prime examples of this genre. Creatures leans more heavily on the science element, but still had a meticulously crafted art style of cute huge googly eyes and big smiles that used pre-rendered sprites. Petz used a very unique 'slap together orbs until you've got a dog' art style.

It's absolutely wild that that genre has withered away. Sure there are tiny indie games that have some similarities, modern petri-dish style games like Gridworld don't quite hit the mark, and it's obvious why:

It's missing the mass appeal. It's missing the googly eyes. This is never in a million years going to pass muster to a kid who asked for a puppy for christmas. This isn't to disparage on the Gridworld dev (singular), it's just a bit odd that the mass-marketed type of A-Life disappeared from the mainstream.

The shallowest argument would be that the dominant art style changed, or that 2D games are no longer popular, but that's not an argument, because it would be possible to make a similarly cartoony animal system in 3D (Spore! Spore has that! but NOTHING EVOLVES IN THAT DISAPPOINTMENT-), and because there are plenty of 2D games still.

I dunno man. Both Creatures and Petz have small, scarily dedicated fanbases wringing absolute miracles out of decades old engines. But what happened to the zietgiest of A-Life? Why, when AI is on the upswing stronger than ever before, is nobody saying "put that shit in a cartoon cat... we'll all be millionaires!" like they used to?

#Alife #artificial life #ai #retro gaming #pc gaming #creatures 3/ds #petz #catz #dogz

[thorplayspetz]

Cocoa Pup tries to bad a toy from the case but he’s too short.

#petz #petz 4 #animations #cocoa pup #petz animations #dogz

[pepperspoppies]

Dogz Gameboy advance gifs (Jisuto edits)

#cute #kawaii #anime #2000s #cyworld #sayclub #2000s web #sayclub dolls #pixel gif #pixel aesthetic #cute pixels #pixel sprite #pixel illustration #pixelated #pixel animation #pixel graphics #pixel art #dogz #game boy advance #gameboy #gameboy game #2000s kid #2000s games

[never-obsolete]

Petz 5 (2002) Wild West

#petz #catz #dogz #pc games #video games #2000s

[petz4]

hexed off one of my new favorite bases to use <3

#petz 4 #petz 5 #old web #dogz #rainbow

[rabidcanid]

petz

#witness my digital sons #petz #catz #dogz #petz 5 #petz 4 #pc games #2000s nostalgia #psst there are ways to obtain these games via tumblr

[oldwindowsicons]

Petz II

#petz #dogz #catz #games

[theo-caine]

After playing both The Dog Island and Petz Dogz/Catz 2, I can safely say-

I'm sorry. It was still really good. But.. TDG is just inferior and misses so many quality of life features that PDC2 has. Y'all saying they're equal LIED. The soundtracks worse, the translations worse, the story's worse, there's less to collect

It was fun but I'm sorry!!!

The only thing TDG has on PDC2 is Beyond the Sky and beetles... I do wish they kept beetles in PDC2. But other than that-

#petzdogz2 #petz dogz 2 #dogz #dogz 2 #catz 2 #catz #petz catz 2 #petzcatz2 #the dog island #thedogisland #minoes rambles #yukes #puppy and the magic hat #kitten and the magic hat

[bye2k]

#kawaii koinu wonderful #dogz #video games #pixel art #animals #dogs #cute #gifs