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Post by mandymom on Aug 2, 2015 14:55:18 GMT -5
You remember what he looks like?
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Post by CatCreature on Aug 2, 2015 14:58:19 GMT -5
Yeah, and I found a picture online to compare, even if I didn't, so it should work! My only issue is his colors are gonna be a little funky to work with. xP Yay...
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Post by Sasha on Aug 4, 2015 4:43:11 GMT -5
My petz story? Well it started a long time ago, I really don't remember. XD so I was at a friend's house and we were playing in the room with the computer in it. All of a sudden I heard a 'miaow' sound. I turned around to find cats running around on the computer screen! My friend smiled and explained it was her screen saver, then she continued to show me the game. I loved it, I had always adored cats and even though I had a cat I wanted a virtual one. Her father was so kind to copy the game for me. (don't worry proboards, I bought all the games now) So I installed the game, or got someone to install it, I do not remember. I do know I had figured out soon enough that installing was clicking: next next next next next finished. XD And I adopted a siamese, named Tali. And to anyone who saw my post in the purebred siamese wanted thread, 2009 Tali is not the original but a new Tali I adopted after a computer switch or two. I really want to find the original though, I have the harddrive of the original computer somewhere. I also remember saving up for Catz 5 and Dogz 5, I loved Catz 5! My favorite thing to do was to breed Tali to his wife. His purebred siamese kittens were so adorable! But I never once discovered a mutation, haha. After that I kept rediscovering the game every now and then. The most important 'rediscovery' was in 2012, when I first discovered the mutations and the download websites. I remember breeding a chocolate point siamese, something I had really wanted years ago. If it wasn't for then I would have been bored with the game in 2014 and not have 'rediscovered' it again. Thank goodness for that because that's when I found the PC. Petz 5 is still my favorite, but I am so happy I have Petz 4 now. I am happy to share with the community. My family bought me both Catz 4 and Dogz 4 because they heard me talking about how Petz 5 is not backwards compatible and the Petz 4 download gave my computer spyware. I'm really grateful for that. Oh and I got a Catz 1 disc from ebay, so yeah proboards, all the games I own are legal. ^^
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Post by Arie on Aug 4, 2015 6:51:30 GMT -5
I'm not sure when I first discovered petz - mostly because I was just a wee youngin'. It was way back when the original Dogz and Catz were the only games in the franchise, so I think it must've been mid/late 90s. Anyways, one time I was having a sleepover with my two best friends at the time, and the one whose house we were at had Catz on her parents' computer. My other friend and I kept nagging her to play with it all evening and she objected because the cat would get tired and we wouldn't be able to play with her tomorrow!! But we played in the evening anyways haha. Apparently I was a pretty crafty child because the next thing I remember is having my own copy at home. So I must have made a point of memorizing the name of the game and subsequently getting my parents to buy it for me.
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Post by Stormbringer on Aug 10, 2015 2:09:57 GMT -5
Oh, man, my Petz story is a doozy.
So I was a really nervous kid, and I cried my eyes out every day when my mom dropped me off at preschool. There was this classroom aid with short, dark hair, who used to try to help me calm down, but pretty much nothing helped. Until - I remember this so vividly - I noticed she had a cat on her computer, a tabby. This was 1998, she was still running Catz 1, and she used to let me play with Tabby for a few minutes to calm down when my mom dropped me off.
Quite a few years later, when I was in fifth grade, I found an old copy of Petz II at a garage sale, felt a whole lot of nostalgia, and bought it. Allowance well spent! My sister and I played Petz constantly, and after a few months, I found downloads online and got my first lesson in computers figuring out how to install them. I wasn't part of the PC yet, but I was downloading like mad, sneaking out of bed to get on the computer and search for new breeds and toys. But by then it was 2005 and Petz II was old news. That's how I found out even more versions had come out, and decided I needed Petz 5. My plan was foolproof - I asked literally every single one of my relatives, on both sides of the family, for Petz 5 for Christmas. I guess my parents intervened, though, because I only ended up with one copy (probably for the best, in hindsight).
With Petz 5 and breeding, I managed to find my way into the PC at last, becoming a semi-regular on Sara's Petz Forum until its eventual death. I loved making friends in the PC, watching hexers hard at work, and keeping tabs on show results and breeding projects. I never made much progress myself, though, seeing as I was about eleven and had no patience, but middle school was tough and lonely, and the PC always felt like an accepting home for me.
After SPF went down, I had no community to support my interest and it fizzled pretty quickly. I occasionally dredged up my old P5 game, petted my original petz, and indulged in nostalgia. Towards the end of high school my basement computer succumbed to a virus, and I quietly mourned the loss of all those orginial petz, brought up from Petz II through all those years.
College came, I got nostalgic, and tried to check in on the PC, assuming it'd be dead. Imagine my surprise to find all you people, still passionate! I'm not as active as I sometimes wish, but I'm running P4 on my laptop and making slow progress fulfilling my childhood dream of a completely-from-scratch tamsin line, so I can't really complain. And of course, first thing I did when I got P4 on here was head to the adoption center and get myself a Tabby, for old time's sake.
All that aside, I've really enjoyed reading all of your stories - it's amazing the little coincidences that brought this community together!
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Post by mandymom on Aug 10, 2015 13:49:24 GMT -5
I don't know why Petz brings a sense of déjà vu to me, like I had heard of it before I found Petz 5 videos. Maybe because like Creatures, it's simple on the surface but complicated once you manage to go deeper.
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Post by KeyGlyph on Jan 6, 2019 15:31:16 GMT -5
I checked the forum rules to see if reviving old threads was a no-no, but I didn't see anything about it. Hope we're good! If not, apologies in advance. And wow, I loved reading everyone's stories.
I saw my first Petz game at a friend's house when I was in middle school, somewhere around 1999 or 2000. As a kid who loved and collected different virtual pets like Tamagotchi and tried every browser-based pet available (Neopets, anyone?), Petz looked like a dream come true. It had a level of complexity that I'd longed for and had never found elsewhere.
At that time, most virtual pets I'd had were one of two types: successfully raise your pet from baby to adult, the end (Giga Pet), or raise your pet "well" to be rewarded with the "best" adult (Tamagotchi). The one outlier of all these, and my personal favorite, had been the RakuRaku Dinokun (Dinky Dino), which removed the "raise it well" goal and instead gave you an end result based on what types of food you fed your baby dinosaur. I loved this, because it added a feeling of personality and element of chance.
Petz already had much more complex interactions and personality features than these hand-held toys, but when I discovered that there was a genetics system at work, I was blown away. This wasn't just a petting/feeding simulator. This was science! This was surprise! My main involvement with the game has always been finding interesting and loving mates for my Petz and marveling at their offspring.
I've gone through waves of play over the years. In middle school and high school, it was all solo stuff on our old Hewlett-Packard desktop. When I discovered PetzA in college I installed Dogz 4 on my XP laptop and got some friends briefly back into the game, even creating a short-lived forum for all of us. Flash forward to graduate school in 2014, when to my amazement I first discovered all of you! And now in 2019, I'm suddenly back into it again.
I do feel as though Petz is always in its players' brains, even if they step away for many years at a time.
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Post by Cookiedough on Jan 6, 2019 16:25:04 GMT -5
I got petz 3 for christmas when I was 6. I always loved dogs so I loved this game. When my petz bred for the first time I was so excited they were 2 dachshunds and their puppy was so tiny and cute. I couldnt stop picking it up. One day the game got corrupted and wouldnt open. I wasnt happy at all. I got petz 2 after that put I wasnt keen on that game. Because you couldnt breed. My mum eventually reinstalled petz 3 and ive been playing it on and off since then. I spent hours on it when I found out you could download hexed items for petz. I didnt know there was still an active petz community until a couple of years ago. My favourite version is petz 4. I like the litters in petz 5 but its too glitchy (especially that clone glitch when the babies are seperated from the mum. Its so flaming annoying!) and you cant adopt out petz 5 petz very easily. I hope the community do make an update for petz. It would be amazing.
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