Trip back in time: my very first petz from Dogz 1 & Catz 1!

[Thor]

Mar 7, 2022 7:32:51 GMT -5 blackbird said:

I might be able to find back up discs of petz from my parents though. For some reason they backed up THEIR petz on cds >.>

Hahaha well it was them that was paying for the CDs and the floppydiscs :P they gave themselves the better media

[powerwave]

Wow...this really took me back. Nostalgia hit me instantly. I too went for Bootz, and I now remember I also had a "homebody" cat at some point. Like you, these games really filled a space in my life during troubling times as a kid. What a great time capsule you've got here!

[blackbird]

Mar 7, 2022 14:29:14 GMT -5 Thor said:

Mar 7, 2022 7:32:51 GMT -5 blackbird said:

I might be able to find back up discs of petz from my parents though. For some reason they backed up THEIR petz on cds >.>

Hahaha well it was them that was paying for the CDs and the floppydiscs they gave themselves the better media

I think floppydisks were mine because I had no internet on the pc I was using wheras their pc had a cd burner (I only started backing up my petz myself once I got my own windows 98 when I was like 10 or something)

[Lady Kika ♥]

What an incredible story! RKC and those first big sites were my first introduction into the petz community. I'm so blessed to have found this game and this forum when I did. Thank you, Ratqueen , for providing so many of us as kids with an amazing, safe space to grow up in. <3 I'm 30 now and couldn't be more blessed for the chance to have joined RKC as a child. It really did change my life. And, now, 20ish years later, my children are finding joy in the same game I did when I was young. It's pretty incredible that RKC could help support multiple generations of children/teens as they grow and learn about this game, petz forums, and the amazing community behind them.

You're kind of a hero, Ratqueen. ♥

[Ratqueen]

So nice to read this, Lady Kika ♥ ! It's crazy to think that so much time has passed and now your own kids are playing the game! I'm glad you found RKC to be a fun place to make memories

[Kieran @ Fractal]

This was so fun to read! As someone who was born in 1999 & thus has only been playing petz for ~17? yrs it's so interesting to hear about how others have been doing it for so much longer.

[Melissa @ Elfland Woods]

Fun story! B&W Shorthair was my first Catz too, that I adopted on Catz 1. I kept the name Pouncer and I loved him so much. Unfortunately Pouncer is long gone as my brother one day decided to test out whether a file was truly gone from the computer once you emptied the recycle bin...and he used Pouncer to test it! Didn't think to back up the file. Couldn't have made a scribble in Paint and tested that? I was soooo mad at him and I think I might have even deleted the catz he adopted in revenge (it was my game anyway).

Of course I also no longer have most of my P2 petz anymore either, partly due to the gap between getting P2 and P4 (never had P3). I do have three P2 catz that I imported into P4 (I also named a couple of my P4 petz after P2 ones I'd had). And, as of a couple of days ago, I can now play with my P2 Cunny hex again, in P4!